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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Nintendo Press Conference @ L.A. Auto Show!? (11/17)
« on: November 01, 2011, 06:37:54 PM »
From what I understand, NST mostly just does Shop stuff now.
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo's Expansion Ports
« on: November 01, 2011, 12:39:03 PM »
It doesn't matter what they said. The Wii CPU and GPUs are clocked at 1.5x the GC, and the memory was roughly doubled (it's more complicated than that).
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo's Expansion Ports
« on: November 01, 2011, 02:53:20 AM »Would it be possible to write a GCN emulator for the Wii? Is the Wii actually powerful enough for such a thing?No, at 1.5x specs of the GC, the Wii is far too weak to emulate the GC (a rule of thumb used to be that you'd need at least 10x power, and that would be with speed hacks). Instead, you'd need to rewrite the GC BIOS to take into account the additional hardware and emulate the LAN adapter. However, that additional hardware part is non-trivial because you'd have to write drivers for the Wii security and I/O systems, which the GC BIOS doesn't know exist. Going in the other direction, you might be able to run the GC game as Wii software, with hooks patched in memory to deal with the network and any Wii-isms. In either case, it would involve massive architecting that would be hard even if all of the technical information was publicly available.
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo's Expansion Ports
« on: November 01, 2011, 02:28:35 AM »
If by "come up with a hack," you mean "write an operating system..."
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TalkBack / Super Mario 3D Land's 3D Letters
« on: November 01, 2011, 01:39:18 AM »See 10 of 12 unlockable illustrations in 3D on 3DS.
http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/feature/28288
Note: Please do not continue if you are spoiler-sensitive.
From the Tanooki Suit to the game's name itself, Super Mario 3D Land's links to Super Mario Bros. 3 are numerous. In yet another neat throwback, the game includes letters similar to those that you receive from the Princess at the end of each world in Super Mario Bros. 3.
Unlike the original written letters, these letters are actually "photos" of Peach's circumstances during the game, featuring artwork done in the 2D style of the earlier Mario games. The dozen illustrations include stacked 3D layers, which move around and play sound effects when the 3DS is jiggled. Once unlocked, you can save these shots to SD card. We received ten of the pictures from an unnamed source, and you can see the artwork below (the final two likely come from clearing the extra stages). If you view this page in the 3DS web browser, you will be able to view the following images in 3D by tapping and holding on each image.
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo's Expansion Ports
« on: November 01, 2011, 01:24:52 AM »
Now that internet speeds are faster, we should try to get a Double Dash Warp Pipe tournament going.
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TalkBack / Re: Club Nintendo Rewards: Handheld History Cards
« on: November 01, 2011, 01:10:41 AM »
They could benefit. They just choose not to.
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TalkBack / Re: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword Unboxing
« on: October 31, 2011, 11:37:30 PM »
Target and others have it.
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TalkBack / Re: Mario 3D Kart's Newest Characters Revealed
« on: October 31, 2011, 02:20:55 AM »As for Mario Kart. Nintendo should have added Dry Bones Baby Mario for the creepy factor.He's the best racer for the new beach stage.
The one where you jump the shark.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U Must Bring it E3 2012?
« on: October 30, 2011, 01:39:38 PM »
Yeah, but that's what real ones are for 
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TalkBack / Re: Japanese Virtual Console Releases Announced for November
« on: October 30, 2011, 12:25:24 PM »
It's probably not because of the size limit. Arcade games tend to use custom hardware, which means an emulator has to be written for each one (or small sets of them), whereas console versions should work with little to no extra effort.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Wii U Must Bring it E3 2012?
« on: October 30, 2011, 03:23:59 AM »People bought NSMBWii, which was buying the same game twice for everyone who bought the DS game. I think the real problem for Nintendogs on 3DS was that the kind of people who'd buy it weren't willing to spend $250 on a 3DS.NSMBW is a substantially better game than NSMB, has four-player co-op, which was new for Mario, was in a different format (console vs. handheld), and came to an established system. What's the incentive for Nintendogs + cats? The cats? Fur?
I don't think Nintendo needs to bring anything to E3. There isn't a huge need to "win" it. What they do need is to bring it to market.
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Podcast Discussion / Re: Episode 100: Questioning Answers
« on: October 30, 2011, 02:40:36 AM »
You guys really should play Wario's Woods, it's really one of the best action puzzle games, and it's a shame they keep re-releasing relative junk like Dr. Mario, but not this. Some trivia: Wanda, the fairy character who helps you in Wario's Woods is actually also the character you control with the mouse in Mario & Wario.
Minor correction on the last bonus question: It's a Metamato, which Kirby thought was a Maxim Tomato.
Minor correction on the last bonus question: It's a Metamato, which Kirby thought was a Maxim Tomato.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: MY WII IS DEAD (Also, Nintendo customer service sucks.)
« on: October 30, 2011, 01:21:21 AM »
You should let them know that they didn't fully fix it... I'd imagine they'd do it again for free.
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo Posts Largest Net Loss in History
« on: October 29, 2011, 03:15:23 PM »Since the Euro is stronger then the dollar, games in Europe don't need to sell as much as they would in America in order to make profit, which would explain why NOE has had no problem releasing more games during this same time.Except that premise isn't true. The euro is not doing well either with respect to the yen, and it hasn't changed significantly against the dollar in the past year (they've both been up and down).
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TalkBack / Re: eShop Adding Demos, DLC, and Internet Functionality
« on: October 28, 2011, 01:11:20 PM »blood sampleVitality Sensor Plus
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo's Expansion Ports
« on: October 28, 2011, 11:53:27 AM »
It's also what let people mod them into awesome VGA cables. The Wii was truly a downgrade in that sense.
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TalkBack / Re: eShop Adding Demos, DLC, and Internet Functionality
« on: October 27, 2011, 11:56:25 PM »
This is huge, if they can get it out there quickly.
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TalkBack / Electronic Entertainment Expo 2012
« on: October 27, 2011, 10:49:06 PM »E3 2012 will feature the re-unveiling of Wii U and another wave of 3DS games.
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Nintendo Gaming / Re: Mario 3D Kart
« on: October 27, 2011, 11:17:36 AM »
You can use both simultaneously (but you can't do Circle Pad by itself).
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo to Post Major Financial Loss
« on: October 27, 2011, 01:56:57 AM »Nintendo's got lots of money everywhere.That's my point. The euro hasn't tanked especially compared to the dollar, so I don't understand why they specifically said that unless it's just because of the general Eurozone financial crisis that's been a focus of the press lately.
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NWR Forums Discord / Site searches
« on: October 27, 2011, 01:43:08 AM »
Ever since Google Realtime Analytics launched, I've been able to see what people (in general) are doing live on the site.
One trend I've noticed is fairly frequent searches for "unclebob's man nipple"
One trend I've noticed is fairly frequent searches for "unclebob's man nipple"
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo to Post Major Financial Loss
« on: October 27, 2011, 01:26:47 AM »I had read that they had a bunch of holding in US Dollars a while back.Right. What's confusing me is that this report specifically says Euro. I'm trying to figure out why that's relevant now.
That could be the reason for the major losses as the dollar is almost toilet paper at this point.
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TalkBack / Re: Nintendo to Post Major Financial Loss
« on: October 27, 2011, 12:37:46 AM »
So in previous results, it was the Yen vs. the Dollar that caused their losses. Did they recently convert a bunch of holdings into Euros?
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