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Nintendo Downloads - May 2009 (VC / WiiWare / DSiWare)
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TurboLibre
Member
Shoogoo said:
That's probably my biggest problem with the Wii. I'm reluctant to buy games like Excitebots or Madworld without trying them first and as for the VC games, I haven't played most of them so I have no idea if they're good or not. I have about 20 dollars in wii points right now and don't know what to spend them on.
Legjend said:
Its a terrible abomination isn't it?
I kind of regret getting Zelda 1 on VC, I didn't play it as a kid and it just seems so... alienating? I don't have any idea how to play it.
Crystal Defenders R1 is pretty fun, although once you get a thief it becomes TOO easy
Double Dragon on VC you can NEVER go wrong with either!
flamesofchaos
Member
Adventure Island for WiiWare (US version) has one huge glaring flaw; when played in 4:3 mode the game fills up on the screen fine, except it's a little stretched out running on a widescreen TV. When played in 16:9 mode there are boarders that take up about HALF of the screen. Is anyone experiencing this same exact issue??
ballerusk said:
Earthbound is never coming, ever.
So yeah, I have mixed feelings about the new Adenture Island.
It's pretty ugly to look at, but that's okay. It plays pretty smoothly.
But why does Master Higgins not run in place when he's standing still? WTF Hudson!
Why is the game so piss easy? Higgins used to be a one shot kill, now he can take hits and it barely scratches his meter.
Why the hell do they keep using the first Adventure Island as a base, and continue to ignore the amazing sequel that was II?
They seem to have added a lot more weapons at least.
tetrisgrammaton
Member
i feel sorry for those of you that bought adventure island, that game looks terrible
nincompoop
Banned
I'm really enjoying AI through the first world, sure it's not much to look at but it plays nice and smooth and the levels are packed with tons of secrets/bonus challenges/hidden content. Well worth the 8 bucks.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
So I've been playing American Popstar: Road to Celebrity for a few hours. On Chapter 13 of... I don't know how many.
The game scared me at first. It's clearly going for a bit of a different target audience than us. :lol Once I got into the game (which forgets to capitalize the C in the DSi Menu), it starts up with the bad pop music which gets old pretty fast. Seems like there are 3 or 4 songs total, which they then reuse for different types of rhythm minigames at different difficulty levels.
The meat of the game is interacting with people. When you're near them a scrolling bar at the bottom says what they like, so you know which topics to choose to discuss to raise your friendship level. There are some pretty funny options that are among the random ones shown sometimes, like "Is Pluto a planet?" or "Did the Juice do it?" There are also clearly mean things to say and options like "Scare" them, but since it never told what the advantage to that is I haven't messed with it yet. The story-based jerk characters don't tend to let you interact with them in the normal ways anyway.
Walk around in a pleasant-looking sprite-based world interacting with people or things with either button or stylus control to raise your charisma, fame, and skills at various types of entertainment. Sometimes this just involves a several-second animation of them practicing with others, sometimes this involves going into one of the minigames. They're not exactly Ouendan, but mostly pretty harmless. The only one I have a problem with is the singing minigame. Bent lines meant to represent the sound waves show on screen, and then a vertical bar goes across the screen. You're supposed to trace the lines as the bar is going through them, but I have a hell of a time doing that. Trying to B on one song is the only thing I've had to repeat several times.
The chapters are pretty short and tend to involve some story-based task. Like one chapter is just you getting up and getting ready to go to school as the mom character acts as the beginning tutorial. Another is sneaking out of the dorm once you're on the American Popstar TV show.
I think the game has been toned down for this DS release. Well, either that or I have yet to get to the point where they allow certain actions. The IGN review of the mobile version says "The game also gives you enough leeway to experiment with different things and see what happens if you push boundaries. (Go ahead and kiss your mom on the mouth, pervert.)", but I have yet to see choices under Affection other than gifts or "Kiss on the cheek".
Not great, but some harmless fun so far. Already the most full-of-content DSiWare game I've played, and going by the IGN review (and areas on the map yet to be unlocked) it seems there's quite a bit more.
The game scared me at first. It's clearly going for a bit of a different target audience than us. :lol Once I got into the game (which forgets to capitalize the C in the DSi Menu), it starts up with the bad pop music which gets old pretty fast. Seems like there are 3 or 4 songs total, which they then reuse for different types of rhythm minigames at different difficulty levels.
The meat of the game is interacting with people. When you're near them a scrolling bar at the bottom says what they like, so you know which topics to choose to discuss to raise your friendship level. There are some pretty funny options that are among the random ones shown sometimes, like "Is Pluto a planet?" or "Did the Juice do it?" There are also clearly mean things to say and options like "Scare" them, but since it never told what the advantage to that is I haven't messed with it yet. The story-based jerk characters don't tend to let you interact with them in the normal ways anyway.
Walk around in a pleasant-looking sprite-based world interacting with people or things with either button or stylus control to raise your charisma, fame, and skills at various types of entertainment. Sometimes this just involves a several-second animation of them practicing with others, sometimes this involves going into one of the minigames. They're not exactly Ouendan, but mostly pretty harmless. The only one I have a problem with is the singing minigame. Bent lines meant to represent the sound waves show on screen, and then a vertical bar goes across the screen. You're supposed to trace the lines as the bar is going through them, but I have a hell of a time doing that. Trying to B on one song is the only thing I've had to repeat several times.
The chapters are pretty short and tend to involve some story-based task. Like one chapter is just you getting up and getting ready to go to school as the mom character acts as the beginning tutorial. Another is sneaking out of the dorm once you're on the American Popstar TV show.
I think the game has been toned down for this DS release. Well, either that or I have yet to get to the point where they allow certain actions. The IGN review of the mobile version says "The game also gives you enough leeway to experiment with different things and see what happens if you push boundaries. (Go ahead and kiss your mom on the mouth, pervert.)", but I have yet to see choices under Affection other than gifts or "Kiss on the cheek".
Not great, but some harmless fun so far. Already the most full-of-content DSiWare game I've played, and going by the IGN review (and areas on the map yet to be unlocked) it seems there's quite a bit more.
Crystal Defenders R2 gets quite tougher, since there are usually two entrances and exits. I've been putting a lot of time into this last unlockable stage, which has four corner areas--all acting as an entrance and an exit.lsslave said:
Throwaway123456789
Member
Legjend said:
Get either Bit.Trip Beat (600p) or Swords & Soldiers (1000p). They are both good games.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
That sucks, I was hoping for a flood of arcade games. :-(Shig said:
Clay Fighter is cool, I guess, but where's Earthworm Jim 2?
flamesofchaos
Member
bryehn said:
Is your Wii set up on 4:3 or 16:9? If your Wii is set on 16:9 Adventure Island for WiiWare has HUGE boarders.
VGChampion
Member
Shoogoo said:
No no no, I didn't mean it anyway like that. Maybe it's just me though. I just really only trust my judgment when it comes to games most of the time. Even if someone recommended a game to me, I'd be pretty hesitant just because I have an idea if I'd like it or not.
Demos would be a godsend though. Hopefully the next online service has them because I just couldn't see them implementing them on their current service.
twinturbo2
butthurt Heat fan
If you throw a lot of parties, Target Toss Pro: Bags is quite fun.Legjend said:
VGChampion said:No no no, I didn't mean it anyway like that. Maybe it's just me though. I just really only trust my judgment when it comes to games most of the time. Even if someone recommended a game to me, I'd be pretty hesitant just because I have an idea if I'd like it or not.
Demos would be a godsend though. Hopefully the next online service has them because I just couldn't see them implementing them on their current service.
Ok
but it's kind of hard to judge a game based on reviews. Talking of reviews I always check giantbomb, Edge, Gamekult and Metacritic. But what definitely sells the game is the demo. It's obviously one of the best thing this gen and without a demo you'll always see me lurking around to ask people's advice. I guess I need another source than just reviews from the web :lol .Shoogoo said:
Got several hours out of it myself. I think I'm finally winding down now because I'm not really getting good enough to tackle some of the higher-level dark challenges. I did have a ton of fun getting all the Starmen on the light levels. I would like to at least unlock that last track on the soundtrack's "+" remix, then I think I'll leave it be. (Shame there's no endless mode, actually!)
Easily worth the 500, and I personally waited till last Friday to review it, because I thought it needed to be played through.
Clayfighter's a great game but not worth the double dip when I have the cart of the superior (SNES) version. I wish they would release the 63 1/3 Blockbuster edition on the VC that had the 4 characters that weren't in the retail release cart.
Any impression for Bubble Bobble Plus, and would ya recommend it to someone who hasn't played any Bubble Bobble game?
Any impression for Bubble Bobble Plus, and would ya recommend it to someone who hasn't played any Bubble Bobble game?
New ESRB Ratings:
SUDOKU MASTER
Platform: Nintendo DSi
Rating: Everyone
Content descriptors: No Descriptors
Rating summary: "This is a puzzle game in which players assign numbers to a grid to solve various mathematical sequences. The game includes a tutorial mode that instructs players and provides strategies on how to solve the puzzles. "
SUDOKU STUDENT
Platform: Nintendo DSi
Rating: Everyone
Content descriptors: No Descriptors
Rating summary: "This is a puzzle game in which players assign numbers to a grid to solve various mathematical sequences. The game includes a tutorial mode that instructs players and provides strategies on how to solve the puzzles. "
SUDOKU MASTER
Platform: Nintendo DSi
Rating: Everyone
Content descriptors: No Descriptors
Rating summary: "This is a puzzle game in which players assign numbers to a grid to solve various mathematical sequences. The game includes a tutorial mode that instructs players and provides strategies on how to solve the puzzles. "
SUDOKU STUDENT
Platform: Nintendo DSi
Rating: Everyone
Content descriptors: No Descriptors
Rating summary: "This is a puzzle game in which players assign numbers to a grid to solve various mathematical sequences. The game includes a tutorial mode that instructs players and provides strategies on how to solve the puzzles. "
Japan got the "Demae Channel" for download (Demae can be roughly translated into "catering" or "meal delivery service").
http://www.paidcontent.co.uk/entry/...-mobile-3g-boom-nokia-launches-app-store-con/
Go! Go! Rescue Squad coming to WiiWare.
Go! Go! Rescue Squad coming to WiiWare.
Shard said:
Hudson, eh? I wonder if it's based off the Sudoku Gridmaster engine. That's not a bad thing, but I was really hoping Nintendo in all their reselling-parts-of-existing-games wisdom would realize that a really awesome thing to do would be to take the Sudoku engine out of Brain Age and sell puzzle packs for 200 points or something. I would so be there (provided they weren't the same puzzle packs as Brain Age came with, of course.)
Somnid said:
Ah, I really hadn't been following Japan's releases religiously, so I didn't know this. But yeah, it seems like they've got both Nintendo's (500 points for 200 puzzles) and Hudson's ("Student" probably 200 for 50 and "Master" likely 500 for 150). And the Hudson release does look Gridmaster-y.
I'll hold off for the Nintendo release, I think.
Mockingbird said:
As someone who almost always used the alarm on the regular DS, I think I'm finally getting why Nintendo is releasing clocks on DSiWare: Nintendo broke the alarm on the DSi.
On the DS, you could touch the screen as a snooze button for five minutes at a time up to one hour. On the DSi, touching the screen turns off the alarm. This is a terrible change for obvious reasons.
Has anyone downloaded this, the AC clock, or any other clock on the DSi and can describe how its snooze function works. Can you just touch the screen to snooze like on the DS? Thanks.
Edit:
Okay, I confirmed that you can touch the screen to activate the snooze function. Does the alarm still go off if the DSi is closed to put it into sleep mode?
GotchaForce
Member
Tried setting my japanese wii for internet but got a 73411 message code. Crossing my fingers Muscle March is released over here!
donny2112 said:
Yes and in fact it has its own volume control, so you can have the volume of the DSi turned off and you will still hear the AC clock alarm. I am really glad I got the AC alarm clock. It has 3 programmable alarms, has its own time zone offset, and allows you to make your own wake up song. Reviewers slammed it saying we already had a free alarm clock, but I think this one is much better.
DiscoJason said:
Great! This'll be my next DSi purchase.
DiscoJason said:
The one built-in to the DSi is broken, in my opinion. This essentially is paying to add back in the functionality that the original DS already had but with an AC theme or personal pitures. Since they give us 1000 points to start with, I'm okay with it, though. Thanks for answering my question.
donny2112 said:This essentially is paying to add back in the functionality that the original DS already had but with an AC theme or personal pitures. Since they give us 1000 points to start with, I'm okay with it, though. Thanks for answering my question.
Yeah, but I think they actually give more functionality than even the DS alarm clock (time zone offset, volume control, etc.).
Cosmonaut X
Member
Updated the OP:
Thanks Shard et al.
- Added the Demae Channel
- Added the new ESRB ratings
- Added Toribash under WiiWare announcements (I know it's a bit old!)
- Added Go! Go! Rescue Squad under WiiWare announcements
- Added Ghostwire to DSiWare announcements
- Added Manic Monkey Mayhem to WiiWare/DSiWare announcements
Thanks Shard et al.
cooljeanius
Member
I went back and played some more LostWinds the other day and finally found all the little collectible statues. And I didn't get anything for it. Which was lame.
nincompoop
Banned
IGN's Adventure Island review: http://wii.ign.com/articles/986/986237p1.html
I thought they were a little harsh on it, they were right that the presentation could have used more effort but the gameplay is still extremely solid. I'd give it at least an 8, it's a much better effort than Bubble Bobble Plus based on what I've played of it.
I thought they were a little harsh on it, they were right that the presentation could have used more effort but the gameplay is still extremely solid. I'd give it at least an 8, it's a much better effort than Bubble Bobble Plus based on what I've played of it.
EmCeeGramr
Member
Dash Kappei
Not actually that important
EmCeeGramr said:
awesome!
online fights, chat messages... HAIR! :lol
Hopefully it'll stay in the 500/600 points range.
Balb said:
No I think that's incorrect. Re4 Wii, Naruto and various Phoenix Wright codes worked just fine :/
Anyway, I have two Mario Kart DS and 2 Zelda TP codes and you can only register one game of each, so if anybody of you has two codes, I'd be glad to trade them. PM me if interested
Capndrake said:
A few of the GC games worked, that's why I'm lost :/ . Maybe Naruto is a very late game and thus the code is still working? I don't know, that game isn't mine.
Thanks for the info though, how can something virtual perish is beyond me. And my brother told me that stars can perish too?
Fish'em All!
Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS
Please download videos and screenshots from www.fishemall.com
Art work and other stuff can be downloaded from www.gamespress.com
Abylight is pleased to announce the release of its game Fish'em All! next Friday 29th, for the European zone.
American release is to be announced.
Fish'em All! , an arcade game with real coin-op flavour!
Alone or with your friends, you will have a great time catching these little fish... they're crazy! Beat your own high scores, take on challenges and solve fun puzzles in a range of amazing stages full of colour and fantasy. Watch out for the dragon, the ninja rat and the sumo toad!
Do you think it looks easy?
This arcade game will bring all the excitement of the great classics to your Wii console.
Features:
Nine colourful scenarios.
Three game modes: Arcade, Challenge, Fishtris.
One or two players.
Arcade
Can you beat the high score? Play a game in Arcade mode to see how long you can last. Catch as many fish as you can within a time limit. Watch the fish meter. The more points you score catching fish, the faster it will fill up. Each time you manage to fill a whole fish on the meter, you will receive extra time. If you manage to fill them all, you will move on to the next stage.
Challenge
Complete the challenges to unlock stages. You can then select any unlocked stage to play in two player mode.
Each challenge sets you a target. Note how many fish of each colour you need to catch. Sometimes, it will tell you which items you need to avoid or set a time limit.
Fishtris
Even more difficult!
Every time you catch a fish, it will fall into the tube. If the tube fills up, the game will end. To keep on playing, match three or more fish of the same colour to make them disappear.
When you match three or more fish of the same colour, the fish meter will be slightly filled. When you manage to fill a whole fish on the meter, you will receive extra time. If you manage to fill them all, you will move on to the next stage. If things get tough, try and catch the Anglerfish.
It will eat all the fish in the tube.
Press Release PROVIDED BY GAMES PRESS
Please download videos and screenshots from www.fishemall.com
Art work and other stuff can be downloaded from www.gamespress.com
Abylight is pleased to announce the release of its game Fish'em All! next Friday 29th, for the European zone.
American release is to be announced.
Fish'em All! , an arcade game with real coin-op flavour!
Alone or with your friends, you will have a great time catching these little fish... they're crazy! Beat your own high scores, take on challenges and solve fun puzzles in a range of amazing stages full of colour and fantasy. Watch out for the dragon, the ninja rat and the sumo toad!
Do you think it looks easy?
This arcade game will bring all the excitement of the great classics to your Wii console.
Features:
Nine colourful scenarios.
Three game modes: Arcade, Challenge, Fishtris.
One or two players.
Arcade
Can you beat the high score? Play a game in Arcade mode to see how long you can last. Catch as many fish as you can within a time limit. Watch the fish meter. The more points you score catching fish, the faster it will fill up. Each time you manage to fill a whole fish on the meter, you will receive extra time. If you manage to fill them all, you will move on to the next stage.
Challenge
Complete the challenges to unlock stages. You can then select any unlocked stage to play in two player mode.
Each challenge sets you a target. Note how many fish of each colour you need to catch. Sometimes, it will tell you which items you need to avoid or set a time limit.
Fishtris
Even more difficult!
Every time you catch a fish, it will fall into the tube. If the tube fills up, the game will end. To keep on playing, match three or more fish of the same colour to make them disappear.
When you match three or more fish of the same colour, the fish meter will be slightly filled. When you manage to fill a whole fish on the meter, you will receive extra time. If you manage to fill them all, you will move on to the next stage. If things get tough, try and catch the Anglerfish.
It will eat all the fish in the tube.
OnPoint said:
Being held for a "OH AND IT'S AVAILABLE NOW!" E3 reveal?
I posted some screens and info for Sudoku Master and Student.