figgler
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This sounds pretty cool to me, even if the game is shallow, which you know it will be. Simple fun a la Wii Play with a Zelda theme.
There is a really cool sequence you might remember from ocarina of Time, where Link rides Epona and takes out targets with his bow while riding to earn a heart container. It was a pretty good time and something similar here would be welcomed, especially considering I wasn't expecting the Zapper to come with anything at all.
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I am pretty sure that when you register games in Japan you get points. Here you get a 3 month NP subsrciption, there it's like AirMiles that you can cash in for exclusive games, styluses, toys and stuff like that.
Regarding that Tingle game, I thought that was a regular release. I remember about a year ago filling out a survey for Nintendo that focused on whether Tingle should be brought to North America. I was still holding out hope that it might...
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Wait. It's called PSP 2000? Does that make this brand new system sound like it's already 7 years old to anyone else?
I like that idea of feeding it straight to the TV though. I always wished that GameBoy did that without having to buy a peripheral for another system
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I go with "Wet Ones" pretty much all the time. Little residue, no label damage and they get off everything but stickers and marker. For those you'd want to use lighter fluid or alcohol respectively.
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I get out and look when I can. Once a week or more. It's difficult to quanitfy thrifting success though as sometimes I will find nothing for a month at a time. It all just depends on luck really.
The only thing that you can count on with thrifting is that if you don't look, you don't find anything.
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I wonder if Japan has these retarded naming and labelling conventions and if they constantly bicker online about who the real gamers are and how they must be defined.
As for Dones - there's an old school-idiot-fanboy-casual/hardcore-online/offline-gamer if I ever saw one. (i.e. Dones sucks)
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Hardcore gamers rejoice? See what I mean, you guys are ridiculous.You guys are ridiculous? No personal offense of course, but this is about the stupidest thread I've ever clicked on.
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Picked this up and played it most of the weekend and I must say my findings are positive. An entertaining game that's proving to have a minor addictive quality. Not all the games are well done, but a lot of them require real skill and seem impossible to master. This game is not easy, but there is a lot to have fun with play for.
I've read complaints about the control here and in another thread, and while there are a few games that have controls I don't like, they all seem to work. The remote seems very sensitive to me though, like it picks up subtleties more than I'm used to.
Good game though so far. Multiplayer is good and single player has prozes to win and use. My character looks like a monkey shriner from space now
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Greetings and welcome to my fall trading post and sale!
Some great items today from my personal collection spanning 30 years of gaming. Please have a look and feel free to PM with any deals for NES or funds.
Cheers
Coleco Telstar Alpha w/ box
Believe me when I tell you this system looks like it's brand new. I can't remember if I've tested it before though and the adapter is missing. 4 games in 1!
GameBoy Micro 20th Anniversary Famicom version + bonus faceplate
Complete and very well taken care of by me. I also have here a replacement Famicom faceplate that was not included with the system, you had to order them from Nintendo.
Atari Lynx Pouch
Brand new in box and very cool.
Mega Man 2 Nintendo Power 1989
An old favourite and probably the best NP issue. This one is well-used but complete and the Super Mario tip book is included
Official Nintendo Passwords and Zelda LTTP guides
Used but intact. The Top Secret Passwords book has tonnes of codes for NES, SNES and GameBoy
NES games loose
A good cross section of games here; POW, T&C, Temple of Doom, PinBot, Wizards & Warriors, and Klax
NES games w/ box and book
Ironsword and Batman. Good times.
GameCube Cubivore
I found this used years ago, but still in very good shape. Maybe the rarest good GCN game
Thanks
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There's a surprisingly great version of Metal Gear Solid for GBC. I owned it once, unloaded it and regretted it since. It's a great marriage of Metal Gear NES and Solid.
One thing I always wanted for GameBoy / Colour was Punch-Out!!. But alas.
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Yeah Hunters sucked. But, the reason it sucked in my mind was because it was a FPS in the most cliche way. Explore hallway, shoot things, collect key card, backtrack to door, use key card, repeat.
All other Metroids are so much more than that and in truth I prefer the term First Person Adventure/Quest to describe them. The shooting should be and is incidental.
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I think he means, why is the lock-out chip suddenly a problem? The answer is the lock-out chip isn't the problem; it just makes a symptom of the problem more apparent.Right, thanks.
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Really? Hmmm I guess I just always assumed it was mega popular. Every time a Metroid game gets released it seems like that’s all you hear about for months.I wonder if this is because Metroid is friggin awesome. The people that support this franchise know that it's always been of the highest quality, look forward to it with wagging tongues and typically want to chat about it constantly. How many Metroid threads has Room34 started over the years?
I kind of always thought that Metroid was too "hardcore" for a lot of people. It's very demanding, often difficult and certainly not something you can pick up and play for 15 minutes at a time once a week.
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Otherwise, The Electric Quarter sells replacement connectors, and I've had good experience buying from them in the past.I haven't. Screw Electric Quarter. You're better off shopping elsewhere or finding someone on eBay with really good feedback.
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If it blinks, it's ALWAYS involving the lockout chip.It may be that the lockout chip is really finicky about it's connection and the connector isn't giving it a clean enough signal, but it's the lockout chip that's resetting the system once every 2 seconds. Disable that, and the blink WILL go away.
Why would this suddenly become a problem? That chip is just sitting there doing its thing. Nothing ever touches it and it's not a moving part that would erode. I mean if it's finnicky, wouldn't it have most likely been like that forever?
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I've never been a huge Metroid fan but I was always under the impression that it was one of Nintendo's bigger franchise and very popular. You have set me straight tho. I now know that Metroid Prime 3 is a shovelware title.It's popular, but yeah let's not overestimate it. It's not Mario, Zelda, Pokemon, Brain Age, or even Nintendogs or Animal Crossing.
Figgler's comparison, I think, was pointing out that although the Wii's target market doesn't like FPSers, Prime is selling adaquately, while we shouldn't be surprised a FPS is doing well on a console largely selling to FPS fanatics. It's like being surprised a 2D fighter sold out on the Neo Geo. I don't think that detracts from the sales of either system, as it shows that they are both largely selling to the markets they targeted.That's it exactly. It's all about target markets. While Bio Shock on the surface looks like a game no one ever heard of, in reality every shooter fan who owns a 360 saw it coming and likely bought their 360 for games just like this. They're eating it up as expected and good for them.
The Wii market is going to be tougher to crack for this game type. Japan won't care about it and FPS freaks already have a 360. Throw in the fact that MP2 by all accounts underperformed and we shouldn't be expecting sales records to be breaking on MP3.
Its goal is to provide Metroid fans the sequel they wanted, bring a "serious" game to Wii, get a few FPS-heads to take a look and make some money along the way.
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Millions of Wii's are sold for sure, but the folks buying them seem to have no use for a Metroid type game. Altho to be honest, I don't know how popular Amazon is or if it's a good indication of sales, it was just something that caught me eye...Stuff like this typically moves through much heavier volumes in retail stores as opposed to online - particularly around the launch. People want to play "right away" not wait for Amazon to send (which, IMO, has gotten worse in the last year).
I don't know how Metroid is doing compared to other SKUs in the channel, but perhaps NPD data will tell us next week?
Well whatever. We all like Metroid of course, but it's not exactly Nintendo's sales juggernaught and never has been. Plus, there isn't much hype (is there even a TV commercial?) so comparing it to Halo 3 preorders or BioShock isn't really fair or telling.
What is interesting is that Metroid's been out of stock at amazon.ca for a good while now, but it's still on the top 10 hourly Wii sales at #6 right now. So people do want the game and are buying it.
Look at it this way if you feel that a comparison across systems is essential;
Is Metroid on Wii (the highest profile "shooter" on the "fun" system) outperforming the highest profile "fun" game on the "shooter" system? The answer is most likely yes I'd think and really more telling than any Metroid vs. BioShock comparisons.
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Jess I had no idea that you were in Toronto too. AA is a small world.
Your link isn't working
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PM coming
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Now I've never owned a TG and honestly don't intend to.
Via Wii tho, I've played more than a couple pretty great games. My experience is limited to less than a year of downloading this stuff but New Adventure Island and Bomberman 93 are musts for any fans of the series' and I just had the time of my adventure gaming life playing Dragon's Curse.
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I would buy this if it costs as much as the PS3.So did you grab it?
Did anyone? I haven't seen this game around much and unfortunately I am thinking that it's not becasue it's consistently selling out. People seemed pretty tuned up for this game though and I hope the intellectual void that is IGN wasn't enough to scare people away
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Okay who's managed to beat Star Wars for NES (the JVC one)?
Talk about difficult. The level right after you defeat the dianoga in the trash compactor has me wishing death on the designers. Not to mention it takes half an evening to get to that point.
Luckily this is one of those games where skill and memorisation really pay off, and it's a fun action game that keeps me coming back. I just hope I don't have to kill somebody as a result of frustration.
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There is a pin on one of the chips on the motherboards that is part of the NES' 'lockout' chip. Snip the pin, and you should be good to go. A buddy of mine who sells on ebay does this all the time and never has a problem getting the decks to work again. I forget the exact pin, but google it. It's pretty easy.Actually I don't see this doing much unless the games he's having trouble with are imports or Camerica games. Whethter the console blinks or not rarely has anything to do with the lockout chip. Most likely it's going to be the pin connector
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It's hard to find any info on this game out there.
i wasn't able to find a review or a game list. 1up had some footage that I watched. From what I can gather though there are about 20 games and a whack of unlockable games to work toward
I ordered it from Amazon last night since it's an easy sell for me. I still play Wii Play sometimes and this looks more cohesive and varied.
There had better be those super-enormous 10 ft stuffed snakes with felt tongues to win or I'll be pissed.
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Posted · Edited by figgler
It sure was a different game. I didn't actually click on the link in the original post at the time. The game I was thinking of is something about Tingle collecting gems and everything he does cost money, including jumping. Sounded cool and I'm still hoping it comes over here.