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Posted: Sep 01 2008 03:44 pm

I've just downloaded my 42nd game onto my Wii, Super Mario RPG: Legend Of The Seven Stars. Good thing my birthday's this month, or I'd be in for a long wait for an SD card so I can download a certain two games I'm--we're--inexplicably still waiting for.

Joined: Sep 17 2007 Location: The Opium Trail Posts: 3475

I was actually just checking to see if somebody's made a thread about this already, so allow me to hijack.

Ahem...

HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THEY PUT SUPER MARIO RPG ON THE VC! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THEY PUT SUPER MARIO RPG ON THE VC! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THEY PUT SUPER MARIO RPG ON THE VC! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THEY PUT SUPER MARIO RPG ON THE VC! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THEY PUT SUPER MARIO RPG ON THE VC! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THEY PUT SUPER MARIO RPG ON THE VC! HOLY FUCKING SHIT! THEY PUT SUPER MARIO RPG ON THE VC!

Step the fuck aside Chrono Trigger DS and Final Fantasy IV. You are about to be shown how the fuck its done. (double and triple techs aside)

Posted: Sep 01 2008 08:13 pm

Yah, I am definatley getting this.

Posted: Sep 02 2008 03:02 am

Mario RPG used to seem like the longest game ever when I was a kid, but playing through it again recently really showed me how short it was. Furthermore I had more trouble beating Jinx this time than I did Culex for fuck's sake. I remember him being easy as fuck before.

I still love the Beetle minigame, goddamn I have the best score ever on there. Something like 5 billion WITHOUT AUTOFIRE.

As a side note, Double and Triple techs in Chrono Trigger are gay and useless, just use luminaire and melee.

Posted: Sep 02 2008 07:19 am

An SD card is useless in terms of storage. You can move games on to it, but you can't play them from it, so there's no real advantage to moving it to an SD card over, say, deleting it and redownloading when you want to play it again. Game data is saved separately, so deleting a game doesn't delete your save files.

Posted: Sep 02 2008 11:22 am

As long as I keep one channel free, I can just move games on and off the card.

Joined: Sep 17 2007 Location: The Opium Trail Posts: 3475

Murdar Machene wrote:

Mario RPG used to seem like the longest game ever when I was a kid, but playing through it again recently really showed me how short it was. Furthermore I had more trouble beating Jinx this time than I did Culex for fuck's sake. I remember him being easy as fuck before.

I still love the Beetle minigame, goddamn I have the best score ever on there. Something like 5 billion WITHOUT AUTOFIRE.

As a side note, Double and Triple techs in Chrono Trigger are gay and useless, just use luminaire and melee.

except you don't get Luminare until what 3/4 way through the game?

Posted: Oct 01 2008 11:28 pm

Quote:

What They Play posted a well-considered article today speculating that Nintendo intends to unleash an HD successor to the Wii by 2011. Citing game developer and publisher sources, the story specifically calls the new hardware said to be in development "next generation" and a "true successor to the Wii." Those sources declined to detail any specifications but did describe the capabilities as including high definition video output, emphasis on digitally distributed content -- with the storage solution to make that viable -- and continued backward compatibility.
Along with the anonymous sources, What They Play examined recent Nintendo financial reports. From these they found the company to have dramatically accelerated its research and development (R&D) spending in the past few years. Putting more pieces of the puzzle together, the story further notes that the joint development agreement between IBM and AMD that in part resulted in the Wii hardware internals expires at the end of 2011. If backward compatibility is a priority that could provide a good bit of incentive to get the next machine together.

At the same time, the current hot rumor is that Nintendo intends to unveil a new DS handheld at any moment. With hinted at specification like a camera and music player taking it ever closer to that of the iPhone, you have to start wondering whether slowly but surely Nintendo is positioning itself to make a play for more than just your gaming dollar. Considering the high aspirations the company once held for connectivity between the GBA and GameCube, it's not that difficult to imagine the new DS as first link of a new tandem.

Regardless, for anyone who enjoys conspiracy theory-like speculation, it's worth popping over for a full read.

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3170266

Posted: Oct 03 2008 10:00 pm

Good luck, kid. I've downloaded more Virtual Console games than the Wii has channels in its main menu. I've been at capacity forever:

Donkey Kong - NES
The Legend of Zelda - NES
Wario's Woods - NES
Mario Bros. - NES
Bonk's Adventure - TurboGrafx-16
Bomberman '93 - TurboGrafx-16
F-ZERO - SNES
Ecco The Dolphin - Sega Genesis
Altered Beast - Sega Genesis
Super Mario Bros. - SNES
Ristar - Sega Genesis
Gunstar Heroes - Sega Genesis
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past - SNES
Urban Champion - NES
Ice Hockey - NES
Donkey Kong Jr. - NES
Kirby's Adventure - NES
Kid Icarus - NES
Super Mario World - SNES
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time - N64
Splatterhouse - TurboGrafx-16
ExciteBike - NES
Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - NES
Starfox 64 - N64
Galaga - NES
Bonk's Revenge - TurboGrafx-16
Punch Out! - NES
Virtua Fighter 2 - Sega Genesis
Final Fight - SNES
Castlevania - NES
Kid Chameleon - Sega Genesis
Paper Mario - N64
Metroid - NES
Super Metroid - SNES
Dynamite Headdy - Sega Genesis
Super Mario Bros.: The Lost Levels (Import) - NES
Sin & Punishment (Import) - N64
World Heroes - Neo Geo
Ninja JaJaMaru-Kun (Import) - NES
Alien Soldier (Import) - Sega Genesis
Super Mario Bros. 3 - NES
Blue's Journey - Neo Geo
Bubble Bobble - NES
Light Crusader - Sega Genesis
Kirby 64: The Crystal Shards - N64
Wave Race 64 - N64
DoReMi Fantasy: Milon no Doki Doki Daibouken (Import) - SNES
Puyo Puyo 2: Tsuu (Import) - Sega Genesis
Wonder Boy - Sega Master System
Yoshi's Cookie - NES
Fantasy Zone - Sega Master System
River City Ransom - NES
Dig Dug (Import) - NES
BIO MIRACLE BOKUTTE UPA (Import) - NES
Metal Slug - Neo Geo
Super Fantasy Zone (Import) - Sega Genesis
Gley Lancer (Import) - Sega Genesis
Alex Kidd in Miracle World - Sega Master System
Splatterhouse 2 - Sega Genesis
Star Parodier (Import) - TurboGrafx-16
Break In (Import) - TurboGrafx-16
Mega Man - NES
Super Mario RPG - SNES
Final Soldier (Import) - Turbografx-16
Cho Aniki (Import) - Turbografx-16
Mega Man 2 - NES

Posted: Oct 03 2008 11:03 pm

I've been at capacity for longer than you guys. Downloading every N64 game will do that.

Nintendo announced they're finally going to let you play games directly off an SD card... in Spring 2009. This is completely unacceptable. It's a fucking firmware update, and it should have been ready months ago. Give it to us now, goddamit. I swear to fucking God, Nintendo is retarded sometimes. The Wii version of Rock Band 2 is supposed to DLC, and that comes out in November. They're really going to make us wait 5 months after the game comes out for DLC? Gaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

Posted: Oct 04 2008 02:18 am

I have been at capacity for a while, I have Mario 64 and Sin and Punishment as far as VC 64 games go. I am also nearing the end of my fourth page of VC titles. Did you hear about th new storage solution at TGS?? apparently they are going to make it much easier and practical to save memory to an SD card,

Joined: Sep 02 2007 Posts: 79

Syd Lexia wrote:

Nintendo announced they're finally going to let you play games directly off an SD card... in Spring 2009. This is completely unacceptable. It's a fucking firmware update, and it should have been ready months ago. Give it to us now, goddamit. I swear to fucking God, Nintendo is retarded sometimes. The Wii version of Rock Band 2 is supposed to DLC, and that comes out in November. They're really going to make us wait 5 months after the game comes out for DLC? Gaaaaaaaaaaaaay.

I'm not sure where you heard that. It's my understanding that next spring we will be able to download games directly to an SD card...but we still won't be able to actually play them from an SD card.

Posted: Oct 06 2008 12:06 pm

It was Kotaku.

Direct DL to SD doesn't even make sense without being able to load off the card.

Joined: Sep 02 2007 Posts: 79

After doing some research, it seems like this was mis-reported by several sites.

http://www.vc-reviews.com/news/2008/10/virtual_console_games_to_be_directly_downloadable_to_sd_cards

lol@Nintendo

Posted: Oct 07 2008 03:05 pm

God dammit, what the hell is wrong with them?

Posted: Oct 14 2008 03:20 am

JRA wrote:

except you don't get Luminare until what 3/4 way through the game?

You get them at the very start of the game, since you're playing a New Game+ on the SNES cartridge you've owned since 1995, because you're NOT a loser. Right?