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Cool stuff, I already got them yesterday. GOG is great!

Hi there! I'm still on a dry spell, again I only managed buying two Wii games since the last report. At least my shopping list didn't grow anymore either. And the year should end better again, with christmas just around the corner The list of games I'm done with: Wii Sports, Zelda TP, Excite Truck, Metal Slug Anthology, Geometry Wars, Bully , Eledees, Zack & Wiki , SMG, Death Jr., Battalion Wars 2, Disaster , MP 3 , Fire Emblem , Boom Blox, de Blob, Opoona, Lego Indiana Jones, Okami, No More Heros , MadWorld, Tunguska, Deadly Creatures, Force Unleashed, Wario Land, RE4, RE:UC, Tenchu 4, Another Code , Conduit New entries in my Wii collection: Anno (Dawn of Discovery) => I assisted my wife about halfway through the campaign, but we both lost interest in this pretty fast. Cursed Mountain => I've already been raving about this one in the Wii Forum. In short, it's another must have in my book. A very high quality, spooky adventure game, with a gripping storyline and a very unique setting. Top game all around! Metroid Prime Trilogy => Well, I _know_ it's already hidden in the house somewhere... ========================================== My current shopping list: Little Kings Story => Such a lovely gem, I definitely must have this! Overlord Dark Legend => A Pikmin for goths, yay! Mini Ninjas => The best Ninja game ever? At least on Wii I bet! Muramasa The Demon Blade => Such a beautiful art direction in this one, I hope the gameplay follows along. Rabbids Go Home! => I know it's just an average game underneath, but the kids love them rabbids Dead Space Extraction => Since Umbrella Chronicles already broke the ice, why not? Darkside Chronicles => Since Umbrella Chronicles already broke the ice, why not? Firefighter => Always giving the underdog a chance! ========================================== My future Hopelist: Monster Hunter 3 => Well, I'm usually no fan of Online games, but maybe this one changes everything? Tatsunoko vs. Capcom => Not my favourite genre, but so totally over the top and from Capcom? I'll have a look! Fragile => I love the setting and the art style and the atmosphere and it is confirmed for Europe! Yay! Samurai Heroes 3 => Hehe, Thank heavens Capcom Japan starts delivering again, putting an end to all the trash releases that the hopeless American office was cranking out... Silent Hill => Most likely too scary for me, but I'm interested. Nurse! Tales of Graces => Being a mothership title of a major series, this should finally end the RPG draught on the Wii, shouldn't it? Greetings, Manuel

Hm...hm... before going to bed I found some in the internet as well, but I couldn't load them successfully with the CD version. I'll need to install the disk version and see if the saves work with that one at least... ========== Phew... thank heavens I got those saves working - even if with the disk version only It's inredible to *hear* the difference between the two versions. The CD version just sounds so perfectly like the TV series, that the disk version feels almost broken in comparison Meanwhile, against all odds, I managed to complete the first six episodes of the game. So far I liked the Klingon one best, albeit the one with Harry Mudd was the funniest. I must say I found the adventure parts are very difficult to solve. There hasn't been one episode I could figure out completely on my own, I had to look up at least one detail on gameFAQs for every single one of them...

Uihjah, way too many options for me, considering that I only played 6 or 7 of the 2009 games so far So here's what I went with: Best WiiWare Game of 2009: I don't give a damn about downloads, but I did check out the demos. From these "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord" looked best. Best Wii Music Game of 2009: I don't give a damn about music games, but I prefer the Beatles over Metallica. Best Wii Shooter of 2009: Of the list I only played The Conduit, so I went with Darkside Chronicles, which is still on my shopping list. Best Wii Sports Game of 2009 I don't give a damn about sport games. I went with Tiger Woods, since from what I've been reading it's pushing the sports genre the most. Best Wii RPG or Strategy Game of 2009 Of the list I only played Dawn of Discovery, so I went with Little King's Story, which is still on my shopping list. Best Wii Platformer of 2009 I don't give a damn about platformers, so I just went with the obvious, NSMBW Best Wii Action Adventure of 2009 Of the list I played Deadly Creatures, Tenchu and MadWorld. None of them excited me, so I went with Overlord: Dark Legend, which is still on my shopping list. Best Wii Horror Game of 2009 I've only played Cursed Mountain of these and it's brilliant. The others are all on my shopping list except Overkill. It is not available in Germany and I don't bother importing it, especially since I can get Darkside Chronicles and Dead Space instead. Best Wii Racing Game of 2009 I don't care much about racing games. I liked Excite Truck though, so I went with its sequel. Best Wii Other Game of 2009 Another Code R. My second 2009 must have, besides Cursed Mountain. BTW: Is there any reason why you omitted Mini Ninjas and Muramasa? (Besides forgetting them I mean )

Oh Yeah!

Do you per chance have still any save games for 25th Anniversary? I somehow managed to kill my only save game tonight by saving in a dead end situation...

Apparently they just did that http://www.nintendoeverything.com/29578/#more-29578

A new trailer for the U.S. release: (Still waiting for a European publisher...)

Hi there! After the first screenshots I've been waiting impatiently for this one to arrive. Here's finally the first trailer for the new game from superior Wii developer Headstrong! Greetings, Manuel

Hi there! Interplaying Star Trek 25th Anniversary (1992): While the first three entries in this series were all about Interplays great early RPGs, we see them utilizing their Star Trek license in totally different genres here. ST25A is actually a hybrid between a Space Combat Simulator and an Adventure game. They were totally covering the look, feel and flow of the classic Star Trek series here, presenting 7 brandnew epsiodes with the original crew, which you can play through on your own this time! You'd usually start out in space, discovering some phenomenon somehwere in the galaxy, do some space fighting to get there and then beam down a planet and examine it. Those parts then happen to be little adventure game sequences of 6-8 screens. I've been playing one and a half episode tonight already, spending almost an hour configuring DOSBox instead of playing. It's been a bit tricky, since I didn't know how to mount a CD-ROM drive properly. Accessing the CD to retrieve all the speech samples still seems to have occasional hickups, so I'm thinking of trying to find a CD crack tomorrow. Version Played: Original CD ROM, from "Star Trek Federation Compilation". How to Run: Once you get there, it's running fine in DOSBox on 6000 cycles. IP Status: Paramount recently started releasing Star Trek games on their own. Greetings, Manuel

It's very good. It took maybe 1-2 hours to adjust and get into it, but then I couldn't put it down until it was done. Even though it's ultimately not as scary as say REmake or Haunting Ground, it has a totally unique and fresh setting and a great atmosphere to it throughout. Also there's none of the trademark RE issues like tank controls or item management. And I actually liked the slow pacing. It really fits with the theme BTW: It has over 200 people listed in the credits, there's probably only very few Wii games made on such a budget. And it really shows.

Just for the record, that's all ingame graphics, except maybe 3 seconds. I've just completed it and it looks that good. The parts with the crosshair are just the ghost-combat scenes. The third person mountain climbing and village exploration is the normal view. This is such a great game, I like it even better than some of the later RE games, e.g. Zero and Nemesis.

And tonight I beat Cursed Mountain! Top game!

Metroid Prime Trilogy all the way. If you're looking for something less violent, you might might also try Firefighter.

Brilliant! This is exactly the kind of info I'm looking for, thank you very much! That's the plan, indeed! I have a 4 week vacation starting the Christmas week and I want to spend some of the time with NES programming. Since I figured the NES is a bit too underpowered for what I had in mind with my Apocalypse Engine, I've started toying with the idea of a Warcraft demake The project I choose for this vacation is learning how scrolling works on the NES and well, I intend to scroll Warcraft maps for the start Way cool offer, thanks! I'm sure I'll bump into some more questions, e.g. regarding tile data and such, but you already jump-started me with some good pointers for preliminary research

Hi there! I was pretty uncertain where to post this, since it doesn't seem to fit anywhere. In the end this forum won What I'm looking for, is detailed info on Warcraft maps and the format they're stored in. Has this been reverse-engineered or documented somewhere? Are there any editors, unpackers, extractors or other hacking tools available? Does anyone know anything about this or least can someone give me a pointer where to start looking for this kind of info? Greetings, Manuel

It took two more hours, but I really managed to beat the game as planned The end of the game has two pretty tricky dungeons, full of teleporters and switches. The first I figured on my own, the second with the help of gamefaqs once again The game ends like it begins, with a handful of screens telling the story. Pretty rewarding: Well, overall I think this is a small step up from the first half a dozen Ultima games, but still far being from a really good game Some future day the "Playing..." series may see its quasi sequel "Bad Blood", but first it'll continue with something else.

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Some very good advice I found in the comments for the game on Lemon64! Someone there suggested to make an extra trip to a town called Treela in order to get some magic boots. And really, they make you move twice as fast! Not only does this greatly reduce traveling times, they also let you outrun every enemy in the game! So for the rest of the night, I was going through the story considerably fast - in essence it's a simple scavenger hunt. A quest will usually send you to the other end of the map, getting an item or fighting someone... Last thing I found on my way was a very powerful magic axe, so I think I'm ready to finish this game tomorrow!

Hi there! I always wanted to try this one, it's the game Chris Roberts did before Wing Commander: I've often seen this one filed under RPG, but it's none in my book. Well okay, you're running around on a giant Ultima style map, there's towns with inns to save and people to talk to and it's from Origin, so on a casual glance it can easily be confused with an RPG. After sinking a good three hours into it tonight I know better though. No experience points and no character development - no RPG, simple as that. If anything, I'd consider it a Gauntlet clone with a story Ah well, the first two quests I did were also very simple. Basically they were "Fight from the middle of the map to the north end and get object A" and "Fight from the middle of the map to the south end and get object B" It's been two very slow missions, since you're attacked every three meters, by one or two randomly picked enemies out of ~5 different types. That's just as tiresome as it sounds, I really hope it gets more interesting tomorrow Graphics and music/fx get the job reasonably done, but there's nothing outstanding about them. The good thing is that the game resides completely in the memory, so at least there's no loading times. Greetings, Manuel

That's Ivory Coast in English. It's located in west Africa on the southern border, between Liberia and Ghana, south of Burkina Faso

86% from IGN for Silent Hill! => http://uk.wii.ign.com/articles/105/1050951p1.html

What's a U.S.? England won't even win their group?

Hi there! Just look here, how the final rounds will happen according to my calculations: Tough, tough tournament! Our guys will eliminate Argentina and Brasil along the road, before destroying England in the penalties! This is going to be the best WC ever! Greetings, Manuel

Hi there! And here comes another 3 part multiload C64 game, this time from Firebird: And this time the individual stages are so radically different from each other, that you really wonder if developer Probe Software didn't just tie three totally unrelated games together with some silly background story The start kinda makes sense. You're a mighty sidescrolling Barbarian, hacking'n'slashing through a scenery of castle walls. In the second part you're zipping Space Harrieresque over a plane, avoiding green statues while shooting skulls and ghosts. Finally you're controlling an eagle(?!?), flying it through an 8 ways scrolling castle. You're supposed to collect 4 pieces of treasure here, which is supposed to let you pass through a gate at the end. Unfortunately that didn't work for me! I tried three different cracks (Fairlight, Ikari & The Dominators) but in none of them I was able to get past the gate - and I definitely did collect all 4 treasures! Well, for a conclusion: Three average games still only make an average package The music is outstanding though and it's definitely a step up from Probes other game I was playing, Trantor Some future day the "Playing..." series may see another Probe game in the form of "Dan Dare III", but first it'll continue with something else. Greetings, Manuel