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QuoteYou do realize Mario is joking, right? Any time Mario posts numbers his dissenting commentary is in jest. You know Nintendo being doomed and all....
Originally posted by: Aussiedude
I wish you would STFU, this crap is getting borring
QuoteWell both the "Vacuum" and your gun kill your valor score. But in the Challage stages where it tells you to get "X" amount of points you don't get any end of stage bonuses so it doesn't matter how much you use the "Vacuum" or spam your gun. It's, now that I figured it out, how well you can clear the waves without using your alt-fire sub-weapon. edit #2: It goes without saying then that challeges that tell you get "X" amount of Valor, don't care about your on stage score at all, it tests how well you can dodge ships, bullets, and clear the stage with ever shooting your gun (aside from your smart missiles at no pentalty). Of course, if you don't take out the boss real fast you'll quickly kill off your valor, so alt fire away.
Originally posted by: Myxtika1 Azn
Edit: Now that I think about it, it wasn't the shoot button, but the "vacuum" button... the L-button? I don't remember what it's called. It's the one that pulls the coins to you.
QuoteWell, I figured I was doing something wrong... i'm not getting any "XX x 500" multiplier after the first 6 waves. So I googled '+nanostray +"point challenge" ' and found out you can't use your b-button subweapon or the count dies. This I didn't know about ... kinda annoying, but now i'm sure I can get more then the 250k i've been getting...
Originally posted by: darknight06
The Wave x "X" variable only shows how many enemies were in that group. What you should be more concerned about is that "XX" x 500 number after collecting the blue coin. At the end of the stage if you see something like 45 x 500 when you get the last coin on the last part of the stage you should be good. I completed this particular challenge just now with 65,000 points.
QuoteDo they have any copies of Phoenix Wright?
Originally posted by: animecyberrat
they have plenty of copies at Game Stop I just never got around to buying it.
QuoteWell, the "Wave x #" varies over the level, i've seen it as high as x6, but then without dying or missing a bad guy it will drop down to x3 or x4. At the end of the level where i'm just spazzing off the lightning lazer field sub weapon it doesn't move above x3, again not missing any ships.
Originally posted by: darknight06
One thing I should say is beware of the offscreen wave glitch where killing a group offscreen doesn't net a blue coin. This becomes a real pain in the 6th stage score challenge where pretty much EVERYTHING has to go down in order to have a chance. What was your wave count at the end of the stage anyway?
QuoteI hate to say this, but good luck finding Nanostray anywhere these days. It was hard to comeby even in its initial weeks of release... I had to travel 20 miles for my copy of it, a GameStop that had only 1 copy. ... Perhaps I spoke too soon, looks like EB has it for sale on their website, better snatch it up before someone else does.
Originally posted by: animecyberratI use it mostly for Sonic Rusha dn to play the few GBA games I have. BUT Ihave been wanting to get Nanostray for sometiem and Elcetroplankton and will get Tetris day one its released.
QuoteNifty. Thanks, both of you, i'll try it again.
Originally posted by: IceColdI was making progress through them, but then a tide of DS games I wanted came in, so I stopped for a while. But darknight's right; waves and coins are very, very important. I was afraid of spamming too, but you just have to sometimes.
QuoteHas anyone actually actually completed any of the challenges? I've tryed over and over and over to unlock the Sunahara Desert soundtrack, but the closet i've got to the 500,000 point goal is like 325,000. That's without dying once, spaming my gun very minimally, and next to no use of the R-button.
Originally posted by: IceCold
Oh wow, I completely forgot about Nanostray! I simply loved it; hmm, this makes me feel like playing it again..
QuoteWell, it's your personal opinion that you hated them, I can't very well contest that. That said, it's very natural for myself and a hell of a lot less awkward for me then the "standard fare" of dual analoge or Dpad + face buttons to look around. Whats awkward about both for me is that in a fire fight I have to choose a pitch angle thats a proximatly at the angle of the player, zombie, monster, (whatever), that I need to shoot at. Then since the combat is fast and the opponet is both shooting at me and moving around, all the adjustments to pitch angle need to be done by moving forward, backwards, or side to side. It is highly inaccurate and frustrating for me and the reason I don't like console FPS games (except those that impliment some kind of auto aim). The stylus + touch screen, gives me back the aiming accuracy so that it is basicly WADS + mouse. And now I can pride myself on aiming once again.
Originally posted by: Infernal Monkey
I hated all of the touch screen aiming options in the demo. Stylus, thumbstrap, whatever, they were all awkward as hell after a few minutes. And resting it on a table while hunching over to see the screen sounds about as fun as sticking toothpicks under my fingernails. Dpad + face buttons for the win.
QuoteThere was a forum member (site owner actually) at EvilAvatar.com who said way back in the begining, before the DS or PSP were even released, that "the DS doesn't have anything, at all, anyone would want" (Yes, he is a heavy PSP fan.) Needless to say i've had fun being able to poke fun at him for that comment. And we still have the launch of Ice Blue and Enamal Navy to weather....
Originally posted by: Brandogg
According to IGN, Nintendo is shipping 450,000 DS Lites to Japan this week, and 100,000 standard DS systems. I'm guessing sell-through for the week will be in the range of...550,000 units.
QuoteOk Ian, we get it, you need to have your ego stroked by your console and sissy remotes or stylii just don't stroke you, perhaps they even anti-stroke you. You don't like it and want Nintendo to throw millions into the dick sizing contest. But Nintendo won't and instead goes after markets where the competition is not so cut-throat, like non-gamers. So you're frustrated. We get it Ian, everyone gets it. But it isn't what Nintendo wants to do and you're not going to convince them otherwise so get over it. Nintendo should certainly know whats best for themself, better then you. If you don't like that, well too bad.
Originally posted by: Ian Sane
"HD is not gameplay altering like online play is."
I agree and it's not that big of a deal on its own. It's a problem in that it represents Nintendo continuing to skimp on features and make excuses and tell us what we should think is important.
QuoteUhm... I would assume over heating and such. They've got a lot of high power / high performance electronics in a very small space.
Originally posted by: Ian Sane
They've made a big deal about the size and power efficiency of the system. What the hell do you need efficient energy consumption on something plugging into the wall?
QuoteI'm quite sure Nintendo had the actors in the video purposefuly exaggerate their motions to demonstrate the controller. Short small motions will probably work just as well as broad sweeping motions.
The only problem with that is that the remote is designed in such a way that you really couldn't use it on the go. [...] Motion control the way Nintendo demonstrated in that Rev video requires space to move around which would limit things to the home.
QuoteHow about, "Fun Brick"
Originally posted by: Ian Sane
NCL: "Everyone likes rainbows so we're going to call it the Rainbow Dream Machine!"
NOA: "No you're not."
QuoteIn Soviet Russia, Score mods you!
Originally posted by: Strell
Score: -1, Not Funny
QuoteThats not to say i'm opposed to VoIP, TV tuners, mp3 players, or web browsers, I just wouldn't expect them. The DS is first and formost a game system.
Originally posted by: norebonomis
yes but nothing i say ever makes sense anyway so why argue? besides we are at least getting a freakin browswer for the DS... we should all me dancing in a circle arms linked singing kum by ya
QuoteWell, if you want to get technical there are also, Feel the Magic, Warioware, Electroplankton, Mario Kart, Phoenix Wright, Resident Evil, and Metroid Prime Hunters that use the Microphone or Voice Reconition and there probably are a few more games, only released in japan, that i'm just not aware of. So plently of games have made use of it, just don't get hung up on voice recognition as the only use for the microphone.
Originally posted by: norebonomis
one game is alot! i recind my statement!
no seriously. and don't count blowing on the microphone as voice recognition. allthough it sure is an easy implementation of the microphone.
QuoteWhere did you get this idea though... Nintendo has always positioned the DS as a innovative gaming handheld. Only Sony has blown a lot of hot air around saying their system is more then just great games.
Originally posted by: norebonomis
no it seems the purpose all long was to create a console that was for much more than gaming...
QuoteProbably a Japan only release. Lik-sang has it available for purchase, though. It's labeled Perl Pink.
Originally posted by: jasonditz
My question is, where can one get a pink Gameboy Advance SP like everyone's favorite bishonen prosecutor Edgeworth had?
QuoteWell, I was able to pick up a copy of the game for KN and ship it to him back in January. If you want me to i'll call around and see if anyone near me still has a copy. (new or used)
Originally posted by: vudu
Haha. That was awesome. Now I totally feel bad that I can't purchase a copy anywhere. If Capcom doesn't reprint it, I may have to import from Europe.
QuoteIs it the new SP screen? or the Micro's screen? I bought one of the new SPs and I feel it oversaturates, actually. The Micro's screen gets it right though. I hope the DS Lite has Micro type screens vs new SP type screens.
Originally posted by: Smash_Brother
If you want to see what the new DS screen will look like, go to any store and look at the GBA SP "bright" model. The color saturates so well that you'll have a harder time seeing the pixels in the game at all.
QuoteWasn't alot of the data between the disks reduntant as well? The FMV and textures will compress real well (assuming everything was not at all compressed in the first place). If "they" can put Xenosaga 1&2 on DS, then they sure as heck can put FFVII and/or VIII on DS. I'd buy them, since i've never been able to play them before and my friends tell me I need to play either 7 or 8.
Originally posted by: capamerica
Now I'm not saying that compression alone could shrink all 2.07GB of Final Fantasy VII on to one DS card which only currently holds 128MB, BUT just like the GBA carts they could be upgraded in the near future. I see no reason why Final Fantasy VII couldn't get compressed down to fit on a 512MB or even a 1GB DS card in the near future.
