[Wii] Official Nintendo Wii thread

Thanks! I might try that.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Ah, so I had my first encounter right now with an update for a Virtual Console game. Specifically, Military Madness. Fairly simple, and I got a new "Mario and Luigi swimming" download progress screen that I hadn't seen before.

If any of you have Military Madness (which you should), I would recommend downloading the update. It fixes the slowdown that happens when you scroll across maps.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Found this over @ Fileplanet - it's from Fargo's blog:

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February 20, 2007
True Tales of Buying a Wii

I'm also a cartoon in real life. Ladies and gentlemen, gather 'round the Internet. Turn down the lights and put the children to bed, because this is scary, scary stuff... and it's 100% true.

Months after the release of the console, it's still hard to find a Wii in stores. A friend of mine -- we'll call him Bob -- decided it was time to get his hands on one. So he starts calling around. And calling around. He was coming up empty. Couldn't even find so much as a controller. In frustration he asks one store: "Do you know who might have one?" And he gets the tip: "Try the K-Mart." The K-Mart in the sketchy part of town.

So he calls the K-Mart in the sketchy part of town, then asks the guy in the electronics department. Bob waits on hold. And then the K-Mart guy picks up from another line and whispers into the phone: "Yeah, we got one left. Come up to the counter and ask for me, then ask for 'The Package.' How fast can you be here?"

The answer to that question is twenty minutes. So there Bob is, walking into the K-Mart in the sketchy part of town, asking for the dude at the electronics counter, and then -- honestly this story is true -- he asks for "The Package." The electronics guy lifts up his head in a kind of conspiracy nod, then disappears into the back. He returns with an unmarked brown paper bag and hides it under the counter while ringing up the sale. He barely even opens it to scan the barcode.

Bob begins to get suspicious. 'Hold on a second,' he thinks. 'This guy could be selling me a bag of bricks.' He asks to see it, and the guy behind the counter looks around, then brings the bag up over the counter and opens it just a little bit, so that Bob can verify it's actually a Wii box.

Suspicion now turns to paranoia: why all the secrecy? Now Bob looks around and sees all these people milling around the electronics department, who are all looking at him. The electronics guy hands Bob his receipt. "Head straight for the door," he says. Bob starts walking for the exit... and three of four of the people milling around the electronics department start to follow him. They follow him into the parking lot.

Bob is fumbling with his keys, doing what he called the "Willy Wonka walk" to his car. He hurls himself into his car, slamming and locking the door. People are still looking at him. He tears off for home.

Once he gets into his apartment -- again I'm not making any of this up -- he's so worried he might have been followed that he hides the Wii under his couch while he and his girlfriend went out for dinner. Only later that night does he feel comfortable enough to bust open the package and enjoy the delicious Wii action.

There you have it kids. Remember: when buying your Wii, be sure to call ahead. And wear a disguise.

FELIPE NO

I was really surprised at how well the Wii plays. Trauma Center is a blast.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

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Wii's GameCube region lock busted
No Freeloader required for region free backward compatibility!

Sometimes, fiddling with your new toy can be useful. And it seems that by fiddling with their PAL Wii, some clever chaps have achieved something not thought possible with an un-modified console. A user of a certain forum (that we won't name because of some questionable activities, legally speaking) who goes by the handle 'dolqube' apparently decided to experiment with his Wii console's GameCube boot function. And he found that it's actually possible to run original NTSC GameCube discs on a PAL Wii console without modification, and without the use of Datel's Freeloader software.

The method goes like this: Pop a PAL GameCube disc into the Wii, and head to the 'Disc Channel'. A GameCube logo should be up on the screen. Point the Wii Remote's cursor over the 'Start' option so it's highlighted, and while keeping your hand steady, press the eject button on the Wii. For about one second, the 'Start' option will remain active. In this window of time, hit the A button on the Wii Remote and then swap out your ejected PAL GCN disc with an NTSC (Japanese or USA) disc, which the Wii will accept into the drive.

If you get it right, the Wii should boot up in GameCube mode and run your NTSC game! We've tried it with several different games from both the USA and Japan, and after learning the timing, we got every game running on our PAL Wii first time.

What's great about this trick is that unlike many 'disc swap' import tricks in the past (such as those that worked on the Sega Saturn and the original PlayStation) this one doesn't require any physical modification of your console, and probably won't even harm it since the Wii is simply using its own disc loading mechanism the whole time. Apparently the reason it works is that the Wii takes a couple of seconds to power itself down to GameCube mode, but for the sake of brevity it tells the disc to boot before the transformation is complete. It is the window between the two that allows this trick to work.

Just tried it earlier, got my NTSC copies of Four Swords Adventure and Tales of Symphonia to work. Haven't tried the others yet. You have to be REALLY quick when swapping, like Clark Kent in the phone booth.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

...Oh

My god.

Yeah I just tried this and it WORKED. The one PAL cube game I have (Resident Evil) is a gateway to very yes.

I'll probably stick with my freeloader all the same though. Hasslesaved.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Ugh, for a minute there I thought this was actually useful. It'd be useful if it REMOVED the region lock permanently, but it's basically the same as using a freeloader.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Yeah but it saved me $30 for a new Freeloader so but Nintendo will probably fix it in the next firmware update because they're shit.

Spoiler:

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Originally Posted by Infernal Monkey

Yeah but it saved me $30 for a new Freeloader so but Nintendo will probably fix it in the next firmware update because they're shit.

Spoiler:

Not that it really matters to me, but would that make PAL games playable on an NTSC system?

Are there any games worth anything that were only released in PAL regions? o=

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by IdleChill

Are there any games worth anything that were only released in PAL regions? o=

Of course! http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/ma...wii-games.html















What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Score 1 point for Europe.

I want my Japanese imports to work!

FELIPE NO

It seems like many games that are not first-party titles are being developed/published by Ubisoft. The release schedule for Wii is fairly sparse at this time, as we would expect for a newly-launched console. Which developers are in the Wii's corner, so-to-speak? For example, we know that Hideo is going to make another MGS game for PS3, and that Squeenix is working on future FF games for PS3. So far, besides ports, what we have seen for the Wii is mostly first-party original titles. The biggest anticipated games (Super Mario Galaxy, the new Paper Mario title, the new Super Smash Bros. title) are all first-party games.

Now that Nintendo's console has launched successfully, what's the word on developer support for the Wii?

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

GDC is just days away, and although there are fears that there isn't going to be the big push for "Okay, we're doing online play. Here's the deal...." much less any other *big* news, we should expect to hear SOMETHING from SOMEONE this week at GDC.

EDIT: RIP Smash Brothers thread.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

As soon as the world decides to start restocking Wiis I will be getting one. What I'd like to know is about the nunchuck vs. Wiimote. If I get a Wiimote should I go ahead and get a chuck, or what? They seem like they're supposed to go together yet they're sold seperately.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The Wii remote comes with a nunchuck when you buy the console, you know.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Elixir

The Wii remote comes with a nunchuck when you buy the console, you know.

Yes because no one would ever want to buy extras to play with people, no sir.

How ya doing, buddy?

Nothing's stopping you from buying extras, no sir.

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by IdleChill

Not that it really matters to me, but would that make PAL games playable on an NTSC system?

Are there any games worth anything that were only released in PAL regions? o=

Nah, it only works on PAL machines. You're not missing much though. According to Wiki, here's a list of PAL GC games that didn't make it to America;

- Asterix & Obelix XXL
- Butt Ugly Martians: Zoom or Doom
- Cocoto Funfair (more like unfunfair)
- Cocoto Kart Racer
- Cocoto Platform Jumper
- Conan: The Dark Axe
- Doshin the Giant
- Gadget Racers (this made it to America via PS2, it's a half arsed toy car racer/adventure game)
- International Superstar Soccer 2
- International Superstar Soccer 3
- Largo Winch: Empire Under Threat (hilariously awful ahoy!)
- MaxPlay Classic Games Volume 1 (unlicensed game containing rip off versions of Asteroids, Centipede and stuff like that. I bought this cheap years back and the GC didn't even recognize the disc, quality!)
- Neighbours from Hell (?)
- UEFA Champions League 2004-2005
- V-Rally 3

Look at all that excitement! Whoa!

Originally Posted by Hobotu

As soon as the world decides to start restocking Wiis I will be getting one. What I'd like to know is about the nunchuck vs. Wiimote. If I get a Wiimote should I go ahead and get a chuck, or what? They seem like they're supposed to go together yet they're sold seperately.

You'd best get another Nunchuck. I mean, a lot of games only need the Wiimote by itself, but some require the Nunchuck. Like Boxing in Wii Sports.

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And the Nunchuck makes the Tank game on WiiPlay a HELL of ALOT EASIER

FELIPE NO

Floggin' all this info from GAF. Cing (Another Code, Hotel Dusk), MMV (Harvest Moon, Rune Factory) and TownFactory (?) are teaming up for a new Wii game called Project O. Interesting scan ahoy.


Yeah fuck Ruliweb! Woo! Fuck!

Originally Posted by duckroll@GAF

Involved in the project from Townfactory is Kimura Shourou who worked on a few Lovedelic games like moon and LOL, and more recently a PS2 game called Chulip.

- Also involved is Hideo Minaba, the ex-Square-Enix art director who's now working on ASH character designs with Mistwalker.

- Another talent involved is Kazuyuki Kurashima, who is a graphic artist that did monster and art designs for Super Mario RPG and more recently animation for the Tingle RPG. He was also involved with moon and LOL.

It's supposed to be a 'whole new' type of game. Who cares, Cing's there. It'll be rad.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

What the....?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by SOLDIER

What the....?

I like how we got the minimalistic controler we have now, these prototypes are just god awful.

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That frisbee controller is so much cooler than the Wii remote. Oh hey, New Mario Galaxy screens. :]









And trailer~

YouTube Video

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Fucking Epic.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

in b4 the bitching of the jaggies on the second pic but I dont care, the gameplay looks crazy .

I was speaking idiomatically.