Power-Up leaked to the Internets! Oh teh nos

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Kobun Heat

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With all this hype for the leaks of Halo 2 and GTA, I figured I'd jump on the bandwagon and leak a chapter of Power-Up to the world wide internets. Okay, that's a lie, but Brady Games' parent company Pearson Education DID put up a link to a sample chapter. It's the one about Miyamoto!

In any case, if you're still on the fence about Power-Up or if you've decided that you won't buy it, you can still read some of it for free. No strings attached. No BS. Just a direct link to a PDF download. So, go nuts.

(In the future, I promise to refrain from posting this sort of thread forever, or at least until our super-secret, super-awesome Power-Up contest goes live on the website.)

http://www.informit.com/promotion/1743
 
Shameless self promotion...





I'd do the same :P


I would buy your book if i had money Kobun, if it's any consolation i will read the excerpt you provided :)
 
Some fact edits, Kobun Heat:

GC launched three days after Xbox, not a week prior
Panasonic Q launched late 2001, not 2002
 
CVXFREAK said:
Some fact edits, Kobun Heat:

GC launched three days after Xbox, not a week prior
Panasonic Q launched late 2001, not 2002
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Fuck!

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Stop the presses!!! :(
 
Here are some of the other mistakes I came across. I hope the rest of the book is better :-/

Page 5 grammatical error:
"In 1907, Yamauchi began the manufacture of toranpu, making Nintendo and Nintendo became the first Japanese company to do so."

Page 33:
"And when they thought about what sort of place would have that kind of labyrinthine subterranean network of sewage pipes, New York immediately came to mind."
Is this documented somewhere? AFAIK New York was not mentioned until the cartoon series, and may not have been determined by Miyamoto (especially looking at the SMW2 backstory).

Page 33:
"Super Mario Bros. was so complicated that an extra processor chip called the MMC-1 had to be included on the game cartridge."
SMB did not use MMC-1 or any other mapper chip. It almost completely packed the memory available on the mapper-less cartridge fwiw.

Page 34:
"And drawing on Star Trek, Miyamoto created secret “warp zones” that would allow players to instantly skip ahead to the game’s final levels."
I'm not sure what this has to do with Star Trek other than the word "warp." Did he actually say that?

Page 40:
"Mario Clash, a 3-D version of the first Mario Bros., launched with Nintendo’s ill-fated 3-D platform, the Virtual Boy, in 1995."
Mario Clash came out on 9/28 whereas the Virtual Boy came out on 7/21. Mario Tennis was the included launch game.

Page 42:
"There were two ways to produce more complex games on the Famicom: add extra memory to the cartridge ROMs, or add a coprocessor chip into the cartridge. Super Mario Bros. 3 did both.*"
The MMC-3 is hardly a co-processor. It's just a memory mapper (switcher).

There might have been some others, but it's after 3AM, so I'll look at it again another day.
 
Megabyte better change your avatar before you're either banned or have it changed for you.

Personally I think Junior Members that don't abide by the TOS needs a ban... for not reading the TOS.
 
Well if you look at my avatar
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it's less than the ToS dimensions, and it's the board that's resizing it to be too big, but I will change it anyway.
 
Hey what's with skipping Yoshi's Island in the Mario series? If Miyamoto & Tezuka consider it part of the main line, why can't you? And where's Link's Awakening?
 
Sho Nuff: :lol

MegaByte: Yeah, we've found a few of these already - page 5 and the MMC1 thing, to be exact. As for the rest of it - the New York thing is documented, as is Star Trek, and the Mario Clash discrepancy can be chalked up to our personal definitions of "launched." Referring to the MMC chips as "coprocessors", you're probably right on that. Noted.
 
Kobun, how are sales going overall? I still need to order a copy... my father got a book puvlished last year, so I'm a bit familiar with the whole "anxiously wait for a check and book sales information" bit.
 
DavidDayton said:
Kobun, how are sales going overall?
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Sales dropped off dramatically after Sho Nuff's parody.

EDIT: Oh, you wanted an actual answer. I'm not sure. I'll have to wait until Brady tells me. And I'm not gonna get too worked up over it until after the holiday season and all that.
 
Another thing... Go is not the same game as Othello! They look alike superficially, but Go is a great deal more complex and demanding.
 
I like the first sentence the best, because I just finished reading Real Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book.

FortNinety, check your PMs.
 
Kobun Heat said:
Referring to the MMC chips as "coprocessors", you're probably right on that. Noted.
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Just looking at the mapper documentation, it seems like some of the later MMCs do have some processor like functionality; I imagine if the Super NES was delayed longer an MMC+processor package would have been inevitable (and as we saw later, ROM bound processors like the SuperFX or C3 were included in select SNES titles later...)
 
Kobun Heat said:
I like the first sentence the best, because I just finished reading Real Ultimate Power: The Official Ninja Book.

FortNinety, check your PMs.
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Hahaha I love the chapter were the hot babe goes to the Ninja's hacienda... (page 103/4)

"And instead of plates, we used diapers, which is romantic, if you ask me. During dinner the ninja had amazing things to say about back flips and video games -- I was flabbergasted. And when coins from my pocket fell between the couch, I didn't even care, because I was falling in love. Out of nowhere, we started making out, hard. Then I woke up in a ditch. It was great. I'll never forget it."
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The sensitive Ninjas journal is great too, haven't finished it yet.

I'm getting your book on the 29th Kobun!
 
If you can syphen any funds off to start a charity with the goal of getting Kensuke Tanabe working on Zelda scripts again, I'll buy TWO copies!

He's producing Prime 2 btw! I am freakin pumped and wailing on the guitar as we speak!
 
I just received it in the mail 2 days ago. It's small enough to carry in between classes, unlike The Ultimate History.



Also, did you need any sort of permission in order to use the Super Mario World mushroom for the cover?
 
Date of Lies said:
Also, did you need any sort of permission in order to use the Super Mario World mushroom for the cover?
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That was all Brady Games' doings, I actually had very little to do with the cover design.
 
"the New York thing is documented, as is Star Trek"
Good to hear, though I'd love to see the actual sources... I've seen these claims on the internet, but never the actual source. I don't mean to sound negative and I really enjoyed the section on the history of Nintendo. The only reason I questioned these parts is because after seeing certain other horrible inaccuracies in other video game history books *coughThe Ultimate History of Video Gamescough* make their way onto websites like IGN as fact, I didn't want to see more disinformation spread.

This brings me to another question. It's obvious that you copied screenshots right off of various websites. There even appear to be watermarks on some of the pics on Page 34. In particular, there were some screenshots copied from The Mushroom Kingdom. How do I know this? Because I myself made at least one of the screenshots back in 1998! Some examples are:
Page 41, right column, left taken from: http://patpend.net/reviews/smb2j_ss.gif also found at http://www.classicgaming.com/tmk/images/ss/ss_smb2j.gif
Figure 4-8 taken from: http://www.classicgaming.com/tmk/images/j-e/smb3_peach.gif
etc.

So our question is, was credit given to the websites where credit was due? Permission was never asked, but that's fine as long as we got proper credit. If not, we would be very disappointed. Deezer tried to find a copy today to check, but wasn't able to find one. And so we also ask, how many free copies do we get?
 
After reading The First Quarter, I actually had a long list of errata that I emailed to Steve Kent. Obviously, I swore up and down to myself that there wouldn't be any errors whatsoever in my final manuscript. Ultimately, this has been a lesson that this is not an easy task.

As for the rest of your post, I sent you a PM.
 
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