Agent Unknown
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Envious of EU VC fans with their spiffy Arcade launch.
Agreed, it's definitely a good thing.
borghe said:
Agreed, it's definitely a good thing.
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Official Worldwide VC, WiiWare, & DSiWare Thread
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Agent Unknown
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pakkit said:
It does a single temp file equal to any game or channel you load no matter the size. It's actually a plus and at worst a minor thing for folks to keep an eye on for VC/WW purchase days if they still occasionally download larger games to the front page.
I still have three WW titles (Dr. Mario, Gradius Rebirth, MM9) and a bunch of VC games on my main channel screens but with the update I now have 534 blocks free.
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
I have a question on gifting VC/WW games.
Does the recipient party get a blue light to let them know they have a present or am I going to have to tell them to check?
Does the recipient party get a blue light to let them know they have a present or am I going to have to tell them to check?
They receive a mail on the Wii, but whether or not they'd know about the mail itself is always in question since they'd either need WiiConnect24 and the standby connection both turned on or they'd have to take their Wii online for some other reason.Princess Skittles said:
Edit: Example, I gifted someone Fantasy Zone and waited for ten to twelve days before finally realizing I'd have to send a PM since she sure wasn't checking herself.
Agent Unknown
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One thing I've always wondered is if the Shop channel alerts you if it's a title they already have?
Princess Skittles
Prince's's 'Skittle's
Oh, okay, thanks. <3Jiggy said:They receive a mail on the Wii, but whether or not they'd know about the mail itself is always in question since they'd either need WiiConnect24 and the standby connection both turned on or they'd have to take their Wii online for some other reason.
Edit: Example, I gifted someone Fantasy Zone and waited for ten to twelve days before finally realizing I'd have to send a PM since she sure wasn't checking herself.
He's technically sound, I'd imagine he has all that on.
Yes. It won't let you send if they already have the title, are in a different region, or have removed you from their friend list.Agent Unknown said:
Edit: Though the US and Canada, at least, can circumvent the region thing with each other, and probably only with each other, by switching countries in the Wii settings and re-agreeing to their terms. (I don't recommend this for any other countries since I'm not certain if it works or if you lose Wii Points in the conversion from North America to Europe or Japan, or what happens. I can only speak for the US and Canada.)
Nuclear Muffin
Banned
Man God said:
Same here, I've deleted all of my games from the internal memory and just have the channels on it now. Feels so good to have the Check Mii Out channel back
WiiRevolution1 said:
Aww, no sign of Virtual Handheld
Come on Nintendo, bring the goods!
Actually, does anyone know if the DSi update allows you to run games from SD Card like the Wii does now?
Agent Unknown
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Thanks for the gift info, Jiggy. I need to get into one those gifting pools sometime.
DSi Shop hub looks nice. Not happy that you can't share points from your Wii account though. Also for the DSi owners here, does the DSi Opera browser have any improvements? ie: Can you view flash sites like youtube unlike the old card version?
DSi Shop hub looks nice. Not happy that you can't share points from your Wii account though. Also for the DSi owners here, does the DSi Opera browser have any improvements? ie: Can you view flash sites like youtube unlike the old card version?
Agent Unknown
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Sweet, I didn't realize the update added the arcade games into the Shop. I thought it was for the EU shop for some reason.
I already have Mappy and Druaga on my PSP Namco Collection and Gaplus looks too much like Galaxian (it's Galaga or nothing). Starfighter looks pretty good but I have enough shooters. Still, very nice extra for the day. Bring on the Nintendo arcade titles!
I already have Mappy and Druaga on my PSP Namco Collection and Gaplus looks too much like Galaxian (it's Galaga or nothing). Starfighter looks pretty good but I have enough shooters. Still, very nice extra for the day. Bring on the Nintendo arcade titles!
Conrad Link
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Ok just woke up...
All I can say is...
WOW!
Also:
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! *runs off to do update and download some more stuff*
:lol actually physically smiling over this, we've dreamed so long, can't believe it was actually GOOD.
Thank you Nintendo! *faints*
All I can say is...
WOW!
Also:
YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES! *runs off to do update and download some more stuff*
:lol actually physically smiling over this, we've dreamed so long, can't believe it was actually GOOD.
Thank you Nintendo! *faints*
GotchaForce
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Been re-dling for the last hour or so. I've got like over 70 game it turns out:lol Glad I got a 2gig stick from Gamestop the other day, was like 13 bucks.
Caesar III
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same hereMan God said:
I'm thinking about putting these channels on the SD card too because I have only 600 blocks left with only the art style games installed :/Monkeylord
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Just been downloading all my VC/WW again and noticed that the Wii-Speak channel has an update too. Now it says "Wii Speak 2.0" when I hover over it on the main menu. Anyone know what the update did? Only thing I noticed that I don't remember seeing before is a "show pictures from SD card" option in the speech lobby, but that may just be because I haven't looked at the channel in a while.
Agent Unknown
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Ok someone in Amirox's WW/VC game recommendation thread said Space Invaders Get Even's hefty 300+ blocks worth of DLC can't be run from SD. That really stinks. Also, in light of this, can both MLAAK and its DLC be launched from the card? And how big is MLAAK's content? Could DLC in general keep the fridge partly alive? :\
edit: At about 9:45pm central here I FINALLY got the system alert mail regarding the update. Ha. Wow. It also has the info on how the update effects the photo and Wii Speak channel that Monkeylord mentioned.
edit: At about 9:45pm central here I FINALLY got the system alert mail regarding the update. Ha. Wow. It also has the info on how the update effects the photo and Wii Speak channel that Monkeylord mentioned.
Monkeylord
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Just found out that you can only copy or move WW/VC saves if the SD card channel is deleted (the dummy file that is, the one appears in the list of Wii channels in Data Management after booting a game from the SD card).
neo2046
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Nintendo just announces 2 new wiiware titles (in Japan)
you and me and 3D (kimi to boku to rittai)
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/wiiware/wkbj/index.html
http://wii.com/jp/articles/kimitobokutorittai/
introduction movie
http://wii.com/jp/movies/kimitobokutorittai-movie1/
http://wii.com/jp/movies/kimitobokutorittai-movie2/
tobida sugoroku
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/wiiware/wetj/index.html
http://wii.com/jp/articles/tobidasugoroku/
introduction movie
http://wii.com/jp/movies/tobidasugoroku-movie1/
VC the Arcade page
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/vca.html
http://vc.sega.jp/vca_harrier/
http://www.bngi-channel.jp/virtual_consolearcade/
you and me and 3D (kimi to boku to rittai)
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/wiiware/wkbj/index.html
http://wii.com/jp/articles/kimitobokutorittai/
introduction movie
http://wii.com/jp/movies/kimitobokutorittai-movie1/
http://wii.com/jp/movies/kimitobokutorittai-movie2/
tobida sugoroku
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/wiiware/wetj/index.html
http://wii.com/jp/articles/tobidasugoroku/
introduction movie
http://wii.com/jp/movies/tobidasugoroku-movie1/
VC the Arcade page
http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/vc/vca.html
http://vc.sega.jp/vca_harrier/
http://www.bngi-channel.jp/virtual_consolearcade/
Monkeylord
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Agent Unknown said:
Andy how're they affected? No sign of the mail yet here, and I don't see me gtting it till sometime tomorrow (03:30am so I'm off to bed in a min)
Windu said:
The Lost Winds developer was very happy with the returns they saw on their game, we heard from Capcom that Mega Man 9 sold best on Wii Ware (out of any WiiWare game), just this week The World of Goo developers said 60% of their total sales came from the Wii Ware edition, Hudson has been extremely happy and has a full slate of WiiWare games including a Adventure Island 3-D remake, and today Square announced a few more WiiWare titles.
So I think things are going great for companies other than Nintendo
Agent Unknown
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Monkeylord said:
Just basically in that they can utilize SDHC cards which I guess is OK for the handful of folks who use a lot of photos or for some reason would want loads of AAC tracks in the photo channel? Also, the update mail says that Wiispeak users who have't upgraded won't be able to communicate with friends who have already downloaded the update.
nincompoop
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Looks pretty hot, especially the second one.neo2046 said:
TheUnknownForce
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neo2046 said:
For the curious, this game is developed by fyto, From Yellow to Orange.
That's right, the development team headed by Kenji Eno.
nincompoop
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Well now that I actually watched the trailers I'm not as interested in the second one, seems like a board game of sorts? Really liked the style though. First game looks like you have to balance people on cubes or something.
Are these out now in Japan? "Transmission target date March 26" according to Babelfish
Are these out now in Japan? "Transmission target date March 26" according to Babelfish
The second WiiWare game looks like Paper Mario aesthetics plus Mario Party. Definitely a wise move by Nintendo, as it's the only way I'd ever purchase a party game.
The first game looks a LOT more interesting though, seeing as I have no idea what the fuck is going on, and Nintendo's puzzle games are some of the best in the industry.
The first game looks a LOT more interesting though, seeing as I have no idea what the fuck is going on, and Nintendo's puzzle games are some of the best in the industry.
borghe said:
It is painfully slow. Took me about two hours to get through half my 100-strong catalog. I wish there was an option to just download everything at once.
To celebrate the Storage Solution I bought Bit Trip Beats. Hopefully developers are going to see increased sales...I know I'll be buying more and playing more now on my Wii.
Nuclear Muffin
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neo2046 said:
Wow these look pretty cool! The first game looks a bit like an Art Style game and the other one seems to look like a Mario Party esc game with Paper Mario meets Wind Waker style visuals! (The 2nd game also seems to credit Nintendo as developer, no other company is listed. Could this be Nintendo's first internally developed Wii Ware game?)
Also how does Datana Twinbee TGCD compare to the arcade version? Would I be better off waiting for a Virtual Console Arcade release or is the TGCD version the way to go?
Agent Unknown
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Nuclear Muffin: "Also how does Datana Twinbee TGCD compare to the arcade version? Would I be better off waiting for a Virtual Console Arcade release or is the TGCD version the way to go?"
It's actually a Hucard game not a CDROM title. It's a remake of the arcade game specifically tailored for the PC-Engine and is quite close visually given its limitations.
It's actually a Hucard game not a CDROM title. It's a remake of the arcade game specifically tailored for the PC-Engine and is quite close visually given its limitations.
I bought Bit Trip Beats as well.... I LOVE WiiWare... you see original game styles on the other services as well (NobyNoby, Braid, etc) but you definitely have more of these types of games on Wii. Give a developer limited space (40MB), limited hardware, and the biggest install base of the generation and I guess you'll begin to see truly revolutionary game styles emerge.Yes Boss! said:
I will say though... the game is ridiculously hard. If "core" gamers can get past the simplistic graphics of it, this is really the "high score challenge" of the year.
Diomedeskun
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I randomly bought a 2GB sd card at Target last week, because it ws going for $10. Looks like perfect timing.
I was pleased to discover that my old neglected 2GB Kingston SD card from the Wii launch timeframe works great after the new update. Even after the system update that improved transfer speeds, I was getting very very slow transfers. Transfers are still quite slow (maybe 30 seconds for 250-300 blocks?), but game starts from the SD card are pretty snappy - 10 seconds or less for N64 games and WW games I've tried. Looks like I don't need to buy a new card after all.
Nuclear Muffin
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Agent Unknown said:
So are the levels significantly different or is it just a port. If so wouldn't the arcade version be the way to go if it has better visuals/sound/gameplay?
radioheadrule83
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I know this is probably a really old issue but why is the special component mode in VC games (Operations Manual > Z + A + 2) so badly documented?
I was freaking out the other night because it seemed I had to get up and change the cables whenever I wanted to play Super Metroid or something... then after considerable google searching, I found that out.
They should rework the emus in the VC channels to just detect a component connection or something. The Wii System Menu manages it!
I was freaking out the other night because it seemed I had to get up and change the cables whenever I wanted to play Super Metroid or something... then after considerable google searching, I found that out.
They should rework the emus in the VC channels to just detect a component connection or something. The Wii System Menu manages it!
huh? are you referring to turning 480p off? Just curious. all of my VC games start up in 480p without requiring me to do anything.radioheadrule83 said:I know this is probably a really old issue but why is the special component mode in VC games (Operations Manual > Z + A + 2) so badly documented?
I was freaking out the other night because it seemed I had to get up and change the cables whenever I wanted to play Super Metroid or something... then after considerable google searching, I found that out.
They should rework the emus in the VC channels to just detect a component connection or something. The Wii System Menu manages it!
He's referring to a problem that occurs on some televisions with Component cables. The TV basically loses sync or something like that and the video signal won't display. I have the issue with Neo Geo games on Virtual Console. I have to invoke that button combination to be able to play Baseball Stars 2. Of course when it's invoked, it messes up all my other VC games.
I don't think it's a universal problem though. It only occurs on certain TVs.
I don't think it's a universal problem though. It only occurs on certain TVs.
Monkeylord
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It's a problem mainly in PAL regions.
I still have a few games I can't play without swapping cables because of it. I'm still waiting for updates to:
Excitebike
Gradius
Kid Icarus
R-Type III: The Third Lightning
Super Ghouls and Ghosts.
All new games seem to be compatible, but there's still a few of the older titles out there that still need patching. Simply switching to 576i doesn't make any difference.
I still have a few games I can't play without swapping cables because of it. I'm still waiting for updates to:
Excitebike
Gradius
Kid Icarus
R-Type III: The Third Lightning
Super Ghouls and Ghosts.
All new games seem to be compatible, but there's still a few of the older titles out there that still need patching. Simply switching to 576i doesn't make any difference.
Regulus Tera
Romanes Eunt Domus
All right, you twisted my arm.
That's right fuckers, Konami now has seven whole dollars of my hard-earned money and I hold you lot responsible. I downloaded Detana! Twinbee without knowing shit about the game and I'm like completely hooked in with it. Just like ten minutes in I was like shit dude this is the easiest piss-poor game ever and then the game's difficulty suddenly ramps up? I'm like losing my men every single five minutes and it never feels like it was because the game cheats on me, but rather because I'm a lousy fucker who cannot dodge fast enough.
As if it were not bad enough that I actually paid real money for Konami product, the goddamn thing actually turns out to be enjoyable?
Humbug and Damned to the lot of you!
That's right fuckers, Konami now has seven whole dollars of my hard-earned money and I hold you lot responsible. I downloaded Detana! Twinbee without knowing shit about the game and I'm like completely hooked in with it. Just like ten minutes in I was like shit dude this is the easiest piss-poor game ever and then the game's difficulty suddenly ramps up? I'm like losing my men every single five minutes and it never feels like it was because the game cheats on me, but rather because I'm a lousy fucker who cannot dodge fast enough.
As if it were not bad enough that I actually paid real money for Konami product, the goddamn thing actually turns out to be enjoyable?
Humbug and Damned to the lot of you!
JoshuaJSlone
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Wow, nice. The arcade games (at least Gaplus) have the sort of menu options we wish all VC games would have. The ability to switch between 4:3 and 16:9 and modify controls are pretty killer. Well, in theory; with a single action button there's not a lot of remapping to do.
There's not even an NES emulator hiding in there. Each download is completely independent and contains whatever necessary emulator files.Agent Unknown said:
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