Christberg
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watership said:
OK. I think that clears that up quite nicely. Thanks for letting me know.
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Official bitching about Hudson abandoning VC support. [VC/WiiWare = lost cause]
- Thread starter Kobun Heat
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OK. I think that clears that up quite nicely. Thanks for letting me know.
Zerodoppler
Member
The download screen with mario collecting coins was pretty cool. Oh, and I actually prefer to play it in stretch mode, so yay me!
AndoCalrissian
Member
I love how people are still surprised by the price of VC games. :lol
Just remember, you could be paying $20 a piece to play them on a handheld, rather than $5-10 to play them on a console.
Just remember, you could be paying $20 a piece to play them on a handheld, rather than $5-10 to play them on a console.
Newzboyz99
Losers! My wife has me on lock!
:lol um...can we let the console launch first.
Ninja Scooter
Member
thats all Nintendo could manage to launch with after 2 years of pimping the VC download service as one of their bigger features?
AndoCalrissian
Member
1.5 years. Still disappointing, but the service will still be amazing.Ninja Scooter said:
This isn't fair:
I have yet to encounter a widescreen set smart(?) enough to assume that the user wants to view 4:3 content in a 4:3 window and not scaled to 16:9. This is common across a lot of devices, and it's certainly not on Nintendo to somehow figure out a solution, more likely it's on TV manufacturers.
Kobun Heat said:
I have yet to encounter a widescreen set smart(?) enough to assume that the user wants to view 4:3 content in a 4:3 window and not scaled to 16:9. This is common across a lot of devices, and it's certainly not on Nintendo to somehow figure out a solution, more likely it's on TV manufacturers.
JonathanEx
Member
I think the VC update has made a very minor change to the Wii Menu design: it now says Wii Menu on it.
Kobun Heat
Member
I didn't say it was the TV's fault, I said it was Nintendo's for not rendering VC games in a windowsd 16:9 to begin with, like XBLA does.xsarien said:
Shitty video of me downloading and playing Zelda up now. http://blog.wired.com/games/2006/11/wii_servers_go_.html
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
I got all excited that it would be easy to reload a save state but something tells me it won't be as easy to save before a tough part and reload quickly. Maybe I could finally beat adventure island.SuperPac said:
Ninja Scooter
Member
Snaku said:
i wasn't expecting every Zelda, Mario and Metroid on day 1, but that list is just pathetic. Most of it is the same old, boring old games Nintendo has been re-releasing for years. I guess with the way Nintendo was touting it as a feature (and to behonest, it was probably what i was most excited about the Wii/Revolution for from the beginning) they would make a little more effort. Go to some 3rd parties to try and get some niche games available. Have a more varied lineup.
Zoramon089
Banned
I can't believe some of you seriously thought the games would go for $1 a piece! There's no way Nintendo would release them that cheap and it'd just be a stupid business move. Sure the games are old, so what? There really not that expensive. $8 for an SNES game isn't that expensive. I mean if you have money for actual Wii games, $10 max shouldn't be a problem
So wait, you can save actual GAMES to SD cards, not just your saves? Does that mean that I can buy a game, then save it to my SD card and give my friend a copy to play for free on his Wii? I would imagine Nintendo would find a way to disallow this but ya never know..
Also... when the hell is the internet going to be working?
Really sad that it might not be ready to use tonight.
Also... when the hell is the internet going to be working?
Really sad that it might not be ready to use tonight.Cosmonaut X
Member
MrCheez said:
No. Each download is locked to a particular Wii so you can dump the games to your SD card then play them later on your system, but you can't take them off the system and give them to a friend.
Oneiroscope
Member
Yeah, Wii Opera isn't done yet. Early next year.MrCheez said:Also... when the hell is the internet going to be working?
andthebeatgoeson
Junior Member
I agree that they should have more games. There's no reason to not have 30+ games. Give us some variety in types of games and series. Tecmobowl should be up there, Bionic Commando, StarFox 64, some of the obscure 64 games. They have all these programmers and you couldn't get 5 people to pound out a game a day? They are probably trying to test the entire game on the emulator so it doesn't **** up.
Community Forum
Member
What? No Internet browser at launch?
come on
come on
Grampa Simpson
Banned
xsarien said:
It would have been nice if the NTSC had added a flag to the NTSC signal to say what type of format the video should be in. Or maybe they did, and nobody adheres to it.
Cosmonaut X
Member
maynerd said:
You can buy them in cards of 2000 initially, IIRC, with other numbers available later (I think cards with 5000 points have been mentioned). I don't believe you can buy a certain number of points, though - it's either 2000pt cards or paying per download.
Cosmonaut X
Member
Oneiroscope said:
Uh, when was this confirmed? Any source?
Oneiroscope
Member
Don't think it's been confirmed? Source is Opera.Cosmonaut X said:
Cosmonaut X
Member
maynerd said:
Ah, sorry - no, I think you can just pay per game.
Yeah, you're right enough - I've just been across to the Opera forums and it has been confirmed. No word on availability yet - just that details will be released shortly. Hopefully any delay is a matter of a week or two & everything is in place for the Euro launch in December.
The Faceless Master
Member
it's obvious why Nintendo is doing it this way...
they want more suckers to microtransact games they normally wouldn't...
some people just feel ... OBLIGATED ... to waste their money every week...
so every monday, they will buy something...
stop microtransacting folks.
they want more suckers to microtransact games they normally wouldn't...
some people just feel ... OBLIGATED ... to waste their money every week...
so every monday, they will buy something...
stop microtransacting folks.
Rukes
The front page still gets no respect
xsarien said:
TV's just display what they are told. Usually it's the hardware that has to have the changes.
For example, my DVD player (the Oppo OPDV971H), you can set the display to Widescreen Squeeze. That will display all widescreen content in widescreen, and display all fullscreen content as 4:3 in the widescreen area.
I also have Dish Network, and the ViP 622 HD box has 4:3 #1 and 4:3 #2. One of them stretches, the other does not.
EphemeralDream
Member
Hopefully they can create some sort of vote system where every so often, a list is released with a bunch of games (a few obscure, a few big names) and you vote for which one you want to see the most.
BTW Iwata's vision was to have every Nintendo game released on consoles available for play. So even though VC has had a pretty bad start, I have faith that in the end they'll satisfy the fans.
BTW Iwata's vision was to have every Nintendo game released on consoles available for play. So even though VC has had a pretty bad start, I have faith that in the end they'll satisfy the fans.
Zerodoppler
Member
I just know some asshole will download Urban Champion or Altered Beast to my console when I'm not looking.
BlueTsunami
there is joy in sucking dick
Starting up the VC games (or Zelda at least) took a noticeable amount of time. Its not overly long but long enough to ask yourself why the games aren't starting up faster (especially a NES game). It will probably become quicker with future updates (if its even seen as an issue).
Fortunately changing the aspect ratio on my HDTV's is just the click of a button on my remotes. They have a button to switch up the aspect ratio, instead of going into the menu.
You sure you don't have a button like that on your Samsung remote Kobun? You've probably checked already.
Fortunately changing the aspect ratio on my HDTV's is just the click of a button on my remotes. They have a button to switch up the aspect ratio, instead of going into the menu.
You sure you don't have a button like that on your Samsung remote Kobun? You've probably checked already.
Cosmonaut X
Member
BlueTsunami said:
Depends how they're running the games. If - as seems likely - they're using some kind of proprietary emulation, then starting the emulator would probably cause a couple of seconds delay. I'd be interested to see what kind of startup time there is on SM64, though.
Kobun Heat
Member
Actually you type your CC country name in.jarosh said:kobun
the thoroughbred
Member
I don't get all the drama about the VC. Yes it ain't much, but think about it. The problem with the GC was the long droughts. The first 2 years weren't all that bad especially in the Western world. With loads of AAA titles left, they can make small re-launches all the time. In a years time peeple will be like "OMG I can get this game and that game again". I think its a good thing. Or I'd want a lot of them right of the bat. This way every month we can get excited about a particular re-release of something. It will be great I am already looking forward to it. And if the Wii is as popluar as they say they're hoping then this really will help it with a steady release of good nostalgicc games. Its also a bigger investment, to do when you haven't actually earnt anything from the actual product. So starting from a small one, then investing with what you earn from the actual venture is amuch smarter business plan.
In conclusion I am for it in every aspect. I am also one of those who is happy with the pricing strategy, as long as it doesn't convert into direct £. e.g. $5=£5, it should be like $5=£3.
In conclusion I am for it in every aspect. I am also one of those who is happy with the pricing strategy, as long as it doesn't convert into direct £. e.g. $5=£5, it should be like $5=£3.
Instead of a progress bar, Mario runs across the screen collecting coins. He hits one of three question blocks every so often.
The downloads are really quick. As they should be.
The stretch is a bummer. Nice classic-themed side bars like the Namco XBLA games would have been a nice touch.
The downloads are really quick. As they should be.
The stretch is a bummer. Nice classic-themed side bars like the Namco XBLA games would have been a nice touch.