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Nintendo Downloads - February 2010
- Thread starter Cosmonaut X
- Start date
Zero-Crescent
Member
Romancing Saga 2 is the big release for the month (From what I've heard, it does Phantasy Star III's multiple generations idea right), but Siliconera pointed out something interesting with Sutte Hakkun, it was the first game developed by IndiesZero, the developers of Game Center CX: Arino no Chousenjou/Retro Game Challenge (DS). It's also a title that was originally released for the Satellaview. At first, this tidbit made me excited at the thought of Nintendo emulating a Satellaview title... Until I read the game's surprisingly detailed Wikipedia page.Capndrake said:
Basically, it was the most popular game on Satellaview, so Nintendo re-released it in their Nintendo Power kiosks, then they finally re-released the NP version as a normal Super Famicom cartridge in 1999.
Caesar III said:I second that !
It's so much fun for 2 bucks. Especially the birds reaction when he hits himself
SPOTTO!
You have to rescue the Duck Presidents daughter from ghosts! How could you not want it?!
I actually chuckled for like 5 minutes at the 'so this is their haunt' bit >_< hehe, haunt.
nincompoop
Banned
New platformer announced for Wiiware called Robox, has very pretty 2D graphics: http://wiiware.nintendolife.com/news/2010/02/dreambox_games_unveils_its_debut_title
Can't wait to see how it looks in motion.
Can't wait to see how it looks in motion.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Capndrake said:
What BS is this one?
I only remember Baseball Stars 2 AES/MVS (pretty awesome).
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
I meant to post this in here instead of Castlevania's thread:
Fuck off Konami, kindly, will ya?
Once again Rebirth games are deliberately not published in Italy.
No Gradius, no Contra and... no Castlevania.
WHY WHYYYYYYYYY?!
Damn, I remember to have gotten Rebirth through changing my region to Switzerland but I honestly don't remember if I risk loosing my Nintendo Points or whatever in doing so (I have 600 points left). Fuck.
If some Australian folk can help me out, maybe someone changed their region to swith to UK/EU (since TG16 games weren't released at the time in AUS iirc).
Maybe Capndrake or someone at Nintendo Life could try to get Konami to comment on the matter, why these games are not published in selected regions?
Just to rub it in I can even see the title being advertised on the Wii Shop's "This week" column! >_<
Fuck off Konami, kindly, will ya?
Once again Rebirth games are deliberately not published in Italy.
No Gradius, no Contra and... no Castlevania.
WHY WHYYYYYYYYY?!
Damn, I remember to have gotten Rebirth through changing my region to Switzerland but I honestly don't remember if I risk loosing my Nintendo Points or whatever in doing so (I have 600 points left). Fuck.
If some Australian folk can help me out, maybe someone changed their region to swith to UK/EU (since TG16 games weren't released at the time in AUS iirc).
Maybe Capndrake or someone at Nintendo Life could try to get Konami to comment on the matter, why these games are not published in selected regions?
Just to rub it in I can even see the title being advertised on the Wii Shop's "This week" column! >_<
Infernal Monkey
Member
Dash Kappei said:
Ouch. =[ I was surprised to see Castlevania Rebirth on the Australian shop yesterday, since we didn't get Contra Rebirth.
But yeah, you still lose all your Wii Points if you switch over to another region. Sucks.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Infernal Monkey said:
Ouch indeed.
Luckily I remember that the other time I changed the Wii's region from Italy > Switzerland, all my points remained intact, probably because of the italian Switzerland area (Cantonticino and all), I dunno. But I'd still prefer to be sure the game is up on the Swiss shop before doing the switch.
Are there any Swiss-GAFfers?
edit: or maybe you don't lose your stored points just because the currency (Euro) is the same? Maybe you actually reset your account only if you switch between Australian dollars, pound sterlings and Euro, so it doesn't really concern the region but only the currency.
Shin'en (Nanostray, Art of Balance, Fun! Fun! Minigolf) seems to be working on some F-Zero/ Wipeout clone thing for WiiWare right now. There was a small photo in a German magazine recently, and it looks pretty damn good as far as I can tell. Well, it's Shin'en, so that's to be expected...
Starwolf_UK
Member
I didn't notice this mentioned in the thread yet (if anything it not being mentioned demonstrates yet another problem with the Wii Shop service or at least the PR*).
Over at Gamefaqs I coincidently stumbled on the fact that Gradius rebirth got the update in America on Feb 8th (or at least it was noticed then). From what I am aware this news has gone fairly unreported on the internet (well the big Nintendo sites who talk about everything are silent on this).
Apparently Europe also has the update.
For those of you who don't remember why this update was important. It adds the following to the game:
Enjoy, Gradius Rebirth fans.
Come to think of this noticing this right before the months end probably wasn't the best timing on my part.
*-If the PR doesn't tell the only other way you can find is to check the Wii by checking downloaded games and noticing it saying update and honestly, how many people will do that?
Over at Gamefaqs I coincidently stumbled on the fact that Gradius rebirth got the update in America on Feb 8th (or at least it was noticed then). From what I am aware this news has gone fairly unreported on the internet (well the big Nintendo sites who talk about everything are silent on this).
Apparently Europe also has the update.
For those of you who don't remember why this update was important. It adds the following to the game:
Enjoy, Gradius Rebirth fans.
Come to think of this noticing this right before the months end probably wasn't the best timing on my part.
*-If the PR doesn't tell the only other way you can find is to check the Wii by checking downloaded games and noticing it saying update and honestly, how many people will do that?
Stumpokapow
listen to the mad man
Starwolf_UK said:
All three systems do a pretty bad job of this.
The PS3 and 360 get it right in that if you launch the game, they check for a patch and auto-patch the game... but they never tell you what the patch actually does.
The Wii gives you absolutely no sign that your games have been updated except when it's posted on the internet that your games have been updated. As you said, virtually no one goes through their own purchase history looking for patched games. That doesn't even make sense as a use case.
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Tyrant_Onion said:
Cheers mate
I was thinking, maybe I didn't lose my stored points just because the currency (Euro) is the same? Maybe you actually reset your account only if you switch, say, between australian dollars, pound sterlings and Euro, so that it doesn't really concern the country you're switching from but only its currency and that of the country you're switching to.
What do you guys think?
Dash Kappei said:Cheers mate
I was thinking, maybe I didn't lose my stored points just because the currency (Euro) is the same? Maybe you actually reset your account only if you switch, say, between australian dollars, pound sterlings and Euro, so that it doesn't really concern the country you're switching from but only its currency and that of the country you're switching to.
What do you guys think?
I have no clues if you loose your points by switching the country but Switzerland isn't part of the EU and we still have another currency.
AlphaTwo00
Member
Not sure if this was covered, but I might as well do it here:
Light Trax (remake of Dotstream from bit Generation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-l5YTCzHjY
Rotozoa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCXSxs2G-WA
Light Trax (remake of Dotstream from bit Generation)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2-l5YTCzHjY
Rotozoa:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCXSxs2G-WA
Cosmonaut X
Member
OP updated again - can't believe I've been doing this for nearly a year!
Starwolf_UK
Member
From what I'm aware the only region change that had points deletion implemented was (to and from) Australia (in any case it is only reported and known one). I would guess the reason is to do with accounting (I believe Nintendo of Australia and Nintendo of Europe are independent subsidiaries despite them sharing their Wii Shop and Wii games), picture something like: user buys 1000 points in $AU then goes to Europe to spend them to buy an 1000 point title. Since the 1000 point title is bought in Europe that is €10 on the accounts (35% to Nintendo, the rest to the publisher) but if the points cost less than €10 to start with that leaves Nintendo out of pocket in net terms (once you take everything back to NCL but this happens to some extent naturally due to currency rate variations etc) but as far as subsidiaries go NoE basically lose €10 while NoAU are up however much 1000 points is in $AU.Dash Kappei said:
I don't know if it was ever done is large enough numbers to make an impact on the accounting books (is it cancelled out by unspent points in people accounts and what about the loss made on physical point cards as those have retailer margins and production costs, how do these effect things) but I'm all ears for anything more plausible.
MichaelEM3
Banned
Just wanted to say Aura-Aura Climber is absolutely amazing.
Best bang for your points I've encountered since I bought my DSi at launch. Highly, highly recommend it.
Best bang for your points I've encountered since I bought my DSi at launch. Highly, highly recommend it.
TheUnknownForce
Member
So, is anyone going to make an Official thread for Mega Man 10? I mean, it comes out tomorrow and all.
TheGreatMightyPoo
Banned
I don't follow all the restrictions and company going ons usually so is there any way that WWF No Mercy and Intenational Superstar Soccer 64 won't be able to be VC games???
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
Starwolf_UK said:
Ohhh... kewl.
Also, you're explanation seems much more plausible than mine, so I'll go with yours
And LOL at me thinking Switzerland was part of EU, I think I actually remember now that years ago the people voted the EU off and it was a pretty big deal since the result was close to a landslide. Or maybe I'm mistaking things once again :lol
DrAndonuts
Member
Holy shit, go buy Aura Aura Climber. So, so good.
Cosmonaut X
Member
New thread is up - just waiting for the PR...