Topic: PODCAST: Radio Free Nintendo: Episode 118

[Jonnyboy117]

The RFN crew bathes in Nintendo news for an entire, full-length episode.
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 Choose your tapping game!  



 Episode 118: Let's Tap and Let's Tap (Children's Chorus)    

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It's not every day that Nintendo announces new hardware, a storage "solution", and over a dozen cool new games.  We abandoned the traditional episode format to bring you tons and tons of news analysis from Nintendo's Fall Media Summit.  In fact, there's so much info that we had to break it up into two segments.  Hear us rant about the upgraded DSi handheld, SD card storage, Club Nintendo, Punch-Out, Sin & Punishment 2, Cave Story, GameCube remakes for Wii, and the weird new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles.  We're also totally in love with Let's Tap... or at least its theme song.    

Be sure to listen for next week's show, when we bring in "the other Briton" for TGS talk!    

Credits:    

This podcast was edited by James Jones.    

Music for this episode of Radio Free Nintendo is used with permission from Jason Ricci & New Blood. You can purchase their new album, Rocket Number 9, directly from the record label, or download it from iTunes, or call your local record store and ask for it!

[Crimm]

This podcast was blowed up.

[Smakian]

You rock, I was -just- about to shut down my computer for the trip. As always, Virginia boys get it done.

[TheYoungerPlumber]

I don't mean to be a jerk by saying this, because I know James busts his hump for RFN, but there was too much talking over each other in this episode. Frankly, it gave me a headache at places.

[Yoshidious]

Especially for you TYP, I can personally guarantee you will not hear me talk over anyone at anytime in the next RFN.

[AV]

Lets tap !

[Schadenfreude]

I really want Let's Tap to be localized here as Tap That.

[DAaaMan64]

Couldn't Jungle Beat use the Let's Tap controls?

[Jonnyboy117]

Couldn't Jungle Beat use the Let's Tap controls?

Maybe if you used two different Remote/box setups, one for left and one for right.  You'd still need some way to handle the clapping input, but I wouldn't consider that a deal breaker.  Clapping is the worst part of DKJB anyway.

[Schadenfreude]

Would Nintendo be willing to package it with a cardboard box?

They would if they thought they could charge $50 for it then.

[DAaaMan64]

Couldn't Jungle Beat use the Let's Tap controls?

Maybe if you used two different Remote/box setups, one for left and one for right.  You'd still need some way to handle the clapping input, but I wouldn't consider that a deal breaker.  Clapping is the worst part of DKJB anyway.

I would imagine most people have at least two wiimotes. And I though Let's Tap could sense left and right hands?

[TheYoungerPlumber]

Couldn't Jungle Beat use the Let's Tap controls?

Maybe if you used two different Remote/box setups, one for left and one for right.  You'd still need some way to handle the clapping input, but I wouldn't consider that a deal breaker.  Clapping is the worst part of DKJB anyway.

WiiSpeak Microphone, mayhaps?

[ShyGuy]

CHOOSE YOUR TAPPING GAME

[Jonnyboy117]

I would imagine most people have at least two wiimotes. And I though Let's Tap could sense left and right hands?

How would it do that exactly?  No, Let's Tap knows if you're tapping or not tapping, and how fast.  That's all.

Schadenfreude, it looks like Sega is providing a specially made box for it in Japan, so we'll probably get the same... if it ever comes out here.

TYP, nice idea!  That would really limit the market, though, and DKJB has already had sales problems related to peripherals.

[Serialcode]

Everyone was talking over each other and going too fast.

Relax guys, we don't mind if you have to skip some stuff that didn't get discussed because of the last weeks issues.

(On a lighter note, I sometimes notice Jonny exhales very loudly during the podcast [usually when James butts in]. He sounds like he wants to kill someone. I like it.)

[NWR_insanolord]

I'm glad I listened to this, I hadn't paid enough attention to the DS announcements and hadn't heard about the new Wario Ware and Picross 3D, both of which sound amazing.

On a side note, James' Apple bashing has made it so I no longer have any sympathy for how hard it is for him to do the podcast, no matter how many problems there are or how many limbs he loses.

[NWR_Lindy]

I felt pretty time-pressured in this one.  I was trying to say everything I could in a small amount of time.

[Pale]

So you guys talk about the "storage solution" going no farther than letting people save their purchases directly to the SD card.

I was still holding out hope that they were going to speed up the process of getting them on the system memory in some form...


If all this is is the ability to buy games and put them on your SD card and THAT'S IT... then I DISAGREE with Jonny completely on being "happy" they are doing something.  That's total **** and can't be called a solution.  I've already taught myself to check the game size online before going to the store to make sure I get the space cleared out.  All that would do is make it so I could do that step after purchasing it instead of before.  It doesn't save me ANY time.  It's no freaking different...

Argh.. now I'm all pissed off.

[GoldenPhoenix]

Pale, none of us really know what exactly it entails. Nintendo really did not clarify much beyond it being a faster process and downloading directly to the SD card. For all we know it could be something similar to what Guitar Hero utilizes.

[Pale]

I was worried I missed some confirmation.. they way they seemed so sure of themselves.... unless I misheard them.

[GoldenPhoenix]

I was worried I missed some confirmation.. they way they seemed so sure of themselves.... unless I misheard them.

Nintendo is just being Nintendo, in that we can never be sure how something will work until they release it.

[Schadenfreude]

And sometimes not even then!

[GoldenPhoenix]

Hey guys, what is the name of the game you were mentioning that is like Endless Ocean but for PS3?

[Jonnyboy117]

It's called Aquanaut's Holiday and is a sequel to a PSone game by Iida, who also did Tail of the Sun and Doshin the Giant.

[GoldenPhoenix]

It's called Aquanaut's Holiday and is a sequel to a PSone game by Iida, who also did Tail of the Sun and Doshin the Giant.

Thanks.

Figures that Afrika and now this which are HIGH on my must get list may never come here!