Sega to continue 3D Classics series on 3DS, US release depends on sales

December 1st, 2013, 22:34 Posted By: wraggster

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YouTube, dancing cats now available on 3DS

December 1st, 2013, 22:42 Posted By: wraggster

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Walmart CyberMonday $99 2DS Deal

December 1st, 2013, 23:21 Posted By: wraggster

Walmart Black Friday 2013 Deals!Grab the Nintendo 2DS for only $99 at Walmart.com!This will not last!Check it out:

• Walmart - Nintendo 2DS (Electric Blue)
• Walmart - 2DS (Crimson Red)

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Walmart Cyber Monday 2013 Deals LIVE!

December 1st, 2013, 23:32 Posted By: wraggster

Walmart has kicked off their Cyber Monday Deals today!
Highlights include:

• 3DS XL Holiday Bundle with 2 Games - $219
• 3DS Starter Bundle with Game/Accessorie - $179
• HDTV deals
• PLUS MORE...

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Dolphin v4.0.2

December 2nd, 2013, 00:04 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.aep-emu.de/

A new version of the Nintendo GameCube, Nintendo Wii and Triforce emulator Dolphin has been been released.

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One month after the 4.0.1 release we´re releasing the maintenance release 4.0.2. It turned out that some critical regressions had slipped into the 4.0 release due to the major changes linked to the wii-network branch and the global user directory changes.

In particular, one of the fixed issues was related to incorrect usage of wxWidgets and caused various problems with general Dolphin usage on Windows systems with Unicode characters in their user name (e.g. "François" or "あいうえお").

Some rather technical issues caused multiple games to stop booting or to freeze randomly. We´ve had multipleissuereports on this bug, so it´s great to see that we were able to fix this properly.

As for the binary release packages, we unfortunately can only provide Windows builds at the moment. As usual, OS X and Linux users can compile the source themselves by checking out the source from the 4.0.2 git tag. The Windows installers can be found on our downloads page, https://dolphin-emu.org/download/. We hope to be able to provide binaries for other systems in the future, though.

If you´re a Windows user and still were using Dolphin 4.0.0, you should uninstall Dolphin before installing the update due to some changes to the installer which happened in the 4.0.1 release. All future Dolphin versions will be installed into "Program Files/Dolphin", whereas the 4.0.0 release still used "Program Files/Dolphin 4.0". Your settings and game saves will survive a deinstallation, so you don´t need to worry about having to back them up. If your currently installed Dolphin version is already 4.0.1, you can safely ignore this notice.

Of course, if you want to test the most recent improvements which are happening in Dolphin, you can also use the development versions. They are distributed as plain .7z archives, so you test them safely without damaging an existing installation of a stable release. Keep in mind that they´re less simple to install and might have little flaws every now and then. However, we will do our best to make the Dolphin experience for the next stable release even more awesome than it is currently, of course!


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nemulator v3.2

December 2nd, 2013, 00:05 Posted By: wraggster

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An update of the NES emulator nemulator has been released.

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• Controller reading fixes for Paperboy and other Mindscape games
• Added support for the following mappers:
  • 64 (RAMBO-1) - Klax, Skull & Crossbones, Rolling Thunder
  • MC-ACC - The Incredible Crash Test Dummies
  
  
  
• Option to stretch game to fit widescreen display (app.stretch_to_fit in nemulator.ini)
• Option to suspend computer from quit menu (show_suspend in nemulator.ini)
• Unofficial opcode support - fixes Streemerz (and other games using the MUSE sound engine) and Double Action Blaster Guys
• New, higher quality, audio resampler
• More accurate color palette
• Note: requires updated libraries from Microsoft

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DeSmuME 0.9.10

December 2nd, 2013, 00:07 Posted By: wraggster

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Version 0.9.10 of the Nintendo DS emulator DeSmuME has been released. The new JIT core is intended to improve the performance significantly.

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0.9.9 -> 0.9.10 (r4623-r4908)

In this version, we have focused on trying to clean up some complexities in the user experience and emulator internals. Pretty unglamorous stuff, but some games are newly compatible.

General/Core:

• enh: break savestate back-compatibility
• bug: improve save size autodetection for some games
• bug: cpu: fix many basic jit cpu bugs
• bug: 3d: tweak softrasterizer edge marking
• bug: 3d: fix stale 4x4 texture palettes
• bug: fix some GPU sprite blending scenarios
• bug: fix bios HLE BitUnPack, UnCompHuffman
• enh: modular slot-1 device system, emulate GC bus more faithfully
• enh: support NAND slot-1 device
• enh: auto-detect appropriate slot-1 and slot-2 device
• enh: many revisions to firmware boot process for more authenticity. iQue and FlashME versions function, .dfc rewritten.
• enh: support streaming NDS file from disk (like an ISO, to avoid long initial load time)
• enh: run .dsv directly on disk, to save long flushing times. should speed backup operations.
• enh: spu synch mode and method on commandline

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Mario and Luigi 3DS XL bundle out now for $200

December 2nd, 2013, 21:24 Posted By: wraggster

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Jason Rubin calls Nintendo 'irrelevant'

December 2nd, 2013, 21:42 Posted By: wraggster

Jak and Daxter co-creator also criticises Nintendo’s ‘criminal’ approach to third-party hardware
Naughty Dog co-founder and THQ chief Jason Rubin has called Nintendo “irrelevant” in the games hardware market.

Rubin was commenting on the lacklustre performance of the Wii U in an interview with GameTrailers.

“Nintendo is irrelevant as a hardware manufacturer in the console business right now,” he said, adding the PS4 and Xbox One will do well this generation because “Nintendo has stumbled”.

His main criticism of the Japanese manufacturer was what he saw as a failure to release its celebrated games on third-party platforms, such as Apple’s iOS and Google’s Android. Rubin labelled this a crime.

However, he did praise the company as a “worldwide treasure” for its legacy of consistently fun titles.

Frequently outspoken, at the dawn of the last console race back in 2006 and another interview with GameTrailers, Rubin favoured Nintendo, when Wii mania was just about to break, while he predicted a fall for Sony with its costly PlayStation 3.

http://www.develop-online.net/news/j...levant/0186714

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Prison or penthouse? The cruelty/kindness of Poké Balls

December 2nd, 2013, 21:49 Posted By: wraggster

The old concern is that Pokémon, the cutesy kids game that has become nothing short of a global phenomenon, has a dark heart. Yes, its bevy of monsters have doe eyes and quivering smiles, but strip away the cartoon aesthetic and the fact remains that your character is charged with wounding animals until they are sufficiently weakened to be captured in a tiny ball. Then, having trapped the critter, you send them out to fight other pocket monsters in what must be the world’s most socially acceptable contemporary take on cockfighting (Pokémon X/Y sold four million units in just two days). In this way, Game Freak is teaching postmodern generations how to hunt, trap and battle in a world where the children affluent enough to own a handheld device have little apparent need for such skills.It’s a selective take on Pokémon’s seemingly inexhaustible appeal and yet there’s something to it. Sure, apologists will argue that captured Pokémon fight for you willingly, and that a complicated bond of trust and cooperation is formed through the trainer/monster relationship. But you could read this another way: as a digital introduction to Stockholm Syndrome. After all, no matter how big or small they are – and even the original Pokémon range in height from a mere 30cm (Pidgey) to 8.8m (Onix) and in weight from less than a pound (Ghastly) to nearly a ton (Snorlax) – each monster is kept in a one-size-fits-all cage: a tiny Poké Ball.Pikachu may be Pokémon’s headline monster, but it’s the Poké Ball, a red-and-white sphere about the size of a baseball, which unclasps in the middle and sucks Pokémon into its TARDIS-like interior, that is the visual shorthand for the series. The in-game origins of the Poké Ball are linked to the Johto region, where Apricorns grow. The fruit was hollowed out and then used to catch Pokémon. These antiquated designs (still used in the game by some trainers) were modernised by the still-mysterious Silph Corporation, a company based in the Kanto region, which manufactures and markets essential tools for Pokémon trainers. But outside of the fiction, the Poké Ball has its origin in the simpler tools of childhood bug-catching.As a child, Pokémon’s inventor Satoshi Tajiri (who lends his first name to the lead character we know as Ash in the Japanese versions of the game) was infatuated with collecting insects. In the summer holidays, he would head out from his family home on the outskirts of Tokyo to search the surrounding undergrowth in search of beetles and other insects, carefully studying each one he caught before cataloguing it in a notepad bought for him by his parents. Clearly, Tajiri wouldn’t go so far as to name, train and battle his captured beasts – even if a few did eat each other – but in whatever Perspex prison was used to house the creatures, the Poké Ball was born.
http://www.edge-online.com/features/...of-poke-balls/

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Pokemon Blue Becomes An IDE

December 2nd, 2013, 22:05 Posted By: wraggster


With WiFi, Wonder Trade, and new Pokemon that are freakin’ keys, you’d think the latest generation of everyone’s reason to own a Nintendo portable is where all the action is, right? Apparently not, because Pokemon Blue just became a development tool for the Game Boy.
Despite all notions of sanity, this isn’t the first time we’ve seen someone program a Game Boy from inside a first generation Pokemon game. Around this time last year, [bortreb]posted a tool assisted run that deposited and threw away in-game items to write to the Game Boy’s RAM. Using this method, [bortreb] was able to craft a chiptune version of the My Little Pony theme inside Pokemon Yellow.
A year later, [TheZZAZZGlitch] has gone above and beyond what [bortreb] did. Instead of a tool assisted run, [ZZAZZ]‘s hack can be done manually on a real Game Boy. This trick works by using an underflow glitch to obtain item ’8F’ in the player’s inventory. . With this 8F item, a few items can be tossed and a ‘programming’ mode is activated where code can be written to RAM by walking to an X Y position on the map, using the 8F item, and writing a program byte by byte.
The maximum amount of code that can be written to the Game Boy RAM is 254 bytes, just large enough for [TheZZAZZGlitch] to write a very, very simple version of Akranoid, Breakout, or one-player Pong. Not much, but very, very impressive.
Video of [ZZAZZ] ‘jailbreaking’ his copy of Pokemon Blue available below.

http://hackaday.com/2013/12/02/pokem...ecomes-an-ide/

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EU Nintendo eShop update: Bravely Default, Scribblenauts

December 2nd, 2013, 22:14 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo has released a list of this week's new European eShop content.
The main addition is Bravely Default, the long-awaited Square Enix RPG developed by Final Fantasy alumni.
Joining it is Scribblenauts Unlimited, the Wii U and 3DS game delayed for almost a year for unannounced reasons.
Also notable are the next two games in the Sega 3D Classics collection, with Sonic The Hedgehog and Altered Beast getting the 3D treatment.
Here's the full list of releases:

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YouTube finally arrives on Nintendo 3DS with ironic lack of 3D playback

December 2nd, 2013, 22:33 Posted By: wraggster

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Review of the PSP Lookalike KO G6000 MP5 Console

December 3rd, 2013, 15:39 Posted By: wraggster

Today i had the chance to review the KO G6000 Ultrathin 4.3" Touch Screen MP5 Game Console from the gadget specialists at DealExtreme.com.



This Console is Cheap at £23/$35 and it was a surprise to me, it plays Gameboy, GBA, GBC, Nes, Megadrive and Snes Roms.

Check out the full review over at the DCEmu Blog Here --> http://blog.dcemu.co.uk/ko-g6000-ult...ew-736423.html

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Review of the PSP Lookalike KO G6000 MP5 Console

December 3rd, 2013, 15:39 Posted By: wraggster

Today i had the chance to review the KO G6000 Ultrathin 4.3" Touch Screen MP5 Game Console from the gadget specialists at DealExtreme.com.



This Console is Cheap at £23/$35 and it was a surprise to me, it plays Gameboy, GBA, GBC, Nes, Megadrive and Snes Roms.

Check out the full review over at the DCEmu Blog Here --> http://blog.dcemu.co.uk/ko-g6000-ult...ew-736423.html

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How Zelda’s Lost Woods inspired a forest of puzzling mazes

December 4th, 2013, 00:17 Posted By: wraggster

A Link To The Past codifies a maze that had once been abstract. But it presents another puzzle: to find the Master Sword in a swirling miasma of mist and from among its flimsy decoys.

You could date the underpinnings of the concept back to text-based adventures (“You are in a maze of twisty little passages, all alike”) or to the randomly generated environments of ASCII roguelikes, but the definitive impossible maze appears in the original Legend Of Zelda. Link finds himself contemplating two perpendicular paths that intersect amid impenetrable ranks of brown trees. If he has paid an elderly woman for advice, he’ll know that following the paths north, then west, then south, then west again will deliver him out of the forest and into the graveyard beyond. If he has not, there’s no telling how long he might wander, returning again and again to the same eerily familiar screen. This hellish Groundhog Day scenario was especially daunting in 1986, before the solution lay but a few keystrokes away.The graveyard, where ghosts will harass Link if he bumps into their headstones, is candidly supernatural. But the abutting Lost Woods – as the Forest Of Maze from the shakily translated original Zelda came to be known throughout the series – sit at a threshold between the mundane and the magical, the symbolic and the figurative. Are they a metaphor, a clever way for programmers with limited resources to capture the feeling of being lost in a vast forest without having to render all that vastness? Or are they to be taken literally, implying that the woods are under a space-warping enchantment? Such rich narrative and imaginative roots would inspire several imitations, becoming a staple of fantasy adventure games of the time.As games grew more spatially and narratively complex, the Lost Woods followed suit. In A Link To The Past, they’re more like a straightforward maze, with green tress shrouded in a disorienting fog. Ocarina Of Time’s version returned to something closer to the original puzzle, although this time around they were seeded with hints to aid orienteers. Each screen has some distinguishing feature, and subtle lights inside the tree-trunk tunnels indicate whether a path leads farther into or out of the Woods. The task also started getting papered over by a more robust fiction: anyone who wanders for too long in the Lost Woods turns into a Skull Kid, a Stalfos or, according to Four Swords Adventures, a Deku Scrub. Any ambiguity over whether the Lost Woods were mirror or magic was gradually dispelled, but the goal – to find the true path through confusingly similar terrain – stayed intact.The idea of game space as an Escherian construct that moves in impossible circuits has also played a role in the Mario series, Zelda’s august foil, since its very first game. Several levels in Super Mario Bros force you to guess the correct path branch or warp pipe in order to proceed. And all of the obvious exits in Super Mario World’s Forest Of Illusion are as substantial as its name suggests. Variations on the theme appear in Paper Mario 64’s Forever Forest and Super Mario RPG’s Forest Maze, too. In the latter, you can abandon chasing Geno to follow a series of arcane cardinal directions to find a secret area. Rather than confined spaces, these takes on the Lost Woods are entwined with regular gameplay, and can verge on the point where a fun challenge tilts into a frustrating ordeal.

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"Nintendo steadfastly refuses to consider that Wii U is not interesting to consumers"

December 4th, 2013, 00:42 Posted By: wraggster

Wii U will fail to sell the 9m units Nintendo has predicted for the current financial year, analysts have said.
After sales of just 460k units in the six months ending September and a global install base of below 4m units, this is looking increasingly unlikely.
That Xbox One beat Wii U’s total UK lifetime sales in under two weeks and PS4 in around 24 hours has simply added to the pressure already on Nintendo’s machine.
Bloomberg reports that analysts’ average Wii u sales estimate for the current fiscal year is around 6.2m units.
“They steadfastly refuse to consider that the product is not interesting to consumers,” Wedbush Morgan’s Michael Pachter stated. “They will fail to hit 9m, and they will likely miss their profit goals.”
Pachter told an audience at the London Games Conference last month that the Wii U was “toast”.
SMBC Nikko Securities analyst Eiji Maeda added: “Wii U has become a game console only for Nintendo fans. Wii U needs ground breaking software to draw casual and hardcore gamers.
“It’s going to be difficult for Nintendo to sell 9 million Wii U consoles this fiscal year. Iwata needs to plan what to do next year if the performance this year isn’t good.”
As if things weren’t bad enough for Nintendo, hopes that the release of key IP for the machine would reverse its fortunes also appear to be fading.
Super triple-A critical hit Super Mario 3D World last week debuted to the lowest sales ever for a 3D Mario game in Japan and was yesterday beaten by PS4 launch title and critical flop Knack in the UK charts.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/ninte...sumers/0125227

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The Witcher 3, The Division and 'upcoming Wii U game' confirmed for VGX

December 4th, 2013, 01:10 Posted By: wraggster

Spike TV's VGX event will host new showings of several big games including The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and The Division, it was confirmed today.
Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime will show off an unnamed "upcoming Wii U game", said Spike in an announcement.
Alongside new content from CD Projekt's anticipated RPG, The Witcher 3 and Respawn's debut shooter Titanfall, Spike promises "exclusive new looks" at Quantum Break, South Park: The Stick of Truth, Broken Age, Dying Light, and Tom Clancy's The Division.
It also teases "additional exclusives to be revealed shortly".
Spike VGX host Geoff Keighley confirmed recently that The Division will be shown with new in-game footage. Respawn Entertainment has also previously promised "big Titanfall surprises" for the event.
And Square Enix teased on Monday that its preparing at least two new trailers for unspecified games for the show - enticing fans as rampant speculation of a PS4 Tomb Raider remake does the rounds.
VGX streaming begins Saturday, December 7 at 6pm ET / 3pm PT / 11pm GMT.

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Treasurenauts pushed back to 2014, developer revealing new projects next year

December 4th, 2013, 01:18 Posted By: wraggster

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Monster Hunter 4 shipments rise to 4 million

December 4th, 2013, 21:18 Posted By: wraggster

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Pokemon X/Y 2DS $150 bundles announced, available later this week

December 4th, 2013, 21:19 Posted By: wraggster

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Wii U continues to improve in Japan

December 4th, 2013, 22:59 Posted By: wraggster

The Wii U continued to feel the benefit of Super Mario 3D World's existence, picking up another 7000 sales in Japan to hold on to second place in the hardware chart.
The Wii U showed significant improvement for the second week running, rising from 21,000 to 28,000 units sold. That makes Nintendo's console the second most popular platform in Japan, albeit sandwiched between its sister systems the DS and the 3DS.
The hardware chart is below, with previous week's sales in parantheses:

• 3DS LL - 82,409 (63,709)
• Wii U - 28,518 (21,002)
• 3DS - 25,964 (20,797)
• PlayStation Vita - 20,202 (21,044)
• PlayStation 3 - 13,311 (12,436)
• PlayStation Vita TV - 5,391 (7,868)
• PSP - 4,232 (3,546)
• Wii - 588 (457)
• Xbox 360 - 309 (342)

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Nintendo: fan campaigns "don't affect what we do"

December 5th, 2013, 23:30 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo has some of the most passionate fans of any games company, but even it has admitted that customer petitions hold little sway in business decisions.
Operation Rainfall - the most notable fan campaign in recent years - received the support of thousands of Wii owners who wanted three Japanese Wii titles localised in North America - Xenoblade Chronicles, The Last Story, and Pandora's Tower.All three games were eventually released, but Nintendo of America boss Reggie Fils-Aime has suggested that the campaign's effect should not be overstated."I have to tell you - it doesn't affect what we do," Fils-Aime told Siliconera. "We certainly look at it, and we're certainly aware of it, but it doesn't necessarily affect what we do."I wanted to bring Xenoblade here. The deal was, how much of a localisation effort is it? How many units are we going to sell, are we going to make money? We were literally having this debate while Operation Rainfall was happening, and we were aware that there was interest for the game, but we had to make sure that it was a strong financial proposition."The trio of titles were released some time after Rainfall was founded, yet the fact they arrived at all was seen as a sign of the campaign's success. A number of spin-off petitions followed - some successful, most not."I'm paid to make sure that we're driving the business forward - so we're aware of what's happening, but in the end we've got to do what's best for the company. The thing we know [about petitions] is that 100,000 signatures doesn't mean 100,000 sales," Fils-Aime concluded.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...ect-what-we-do

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US Nintendo eShop update: 3D Sonic, Altered Beast, Donkey Kong 3

December 5th, 2013, 23:37 Posted By: wraggster

Classics of the '90s era lead the way in this week's US Nintendo eShop update.
Sega is releasing two '3D Classics' remakes from its retro back catalogue, 3D Sonic the Hedgehog and 3D Altered Beast.
Meanwhile Nintendo brings NES game Donkey Kong 3 to the 3DS Virtual Console.
Here's the full official list:

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3D puzzler Rush hitting Wii U on December 12

December 5th, 2013, 23:50 Posted By: wraggster

Following the re-release of Toki Tori and Edge, Two Tribes will bring another of its back catalogue titles to Wii U; Rush.
The 3D cube-based puzzler will be released via the Wii U eShop on December 12, the developer has conformed.
Rush is a remake of the original WiiWare game, Rubik's Puzzle Galaxy: RUSH. The Wii U version is based on previously ported PC/Mac versions, which share its shortened name.
NintendoLife reports that the game will go on sale at a discounted price of £1.79 / $1.99 / €1.99 for its opening week, representing a 50 per cent discount on the normal price that'll be applied later.
The Wii U version of the game will support off-screen play with over 70 puzzling levels and a stylus control system.

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This, the year of Luigi, is set to continue!

December 6th, 2013, 00:14 Posted By: wraggster

Luigi’s disregard for the rules is demonstrated not only in his dress sense but also his casual dismissal of the Gregorian calendar.
As every single one of us knows, this is the Year of Luigi. Foolishly many of us had supposed that the Year of Luigi would come to a glorious close at the end of the year, what with this being the Year of Luigi.
But no!
In a glorious exchange with Siliconera, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime has confirmed that the demise of 2013 is not powerful enough a force to bring about the end of the Year of Luigi.


Siliconera: On February 14th of last year, you held a Nintendo Direct that announced the Year of Luigi. I wanted to know if I have to give it up on December 31st or if it’s more of a “fiscal year” of Luigi, and I can celebrate into February?
Reggie: There are some Year of Luigi activities that will continue into 2014 – including some of the special products that we’ve launched (the Luigi remote and the Mario and Luigi 3DS XL) – so there will be some Luigi products to carry the Luigi banner into the next calendar year.

The Era of Luigi?

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/this-...ntinue/0125369

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Pachter: "I don't know why Iwata is still employed"

December 6th, 2013, 00:23 Posted By: wraggster

The analyst scolds Nintendo for not taking advantage of mobile, states that PS4 will top XB1, and makes some bold predictions
Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter spoke at the Game Monetization USA Summit in San Francisco, and once again made some bold predictions about the future of the game industry. He pulled no punches as he evaluated the current state of affairs in the business, and he had some hard advice for a number of companies.
Pachter noted that more people are playing games on more devices than ever before, but he doesn't think the console market will be growing. "I don't think you're ever going to see 500 million consoles out there," Pachter said. For lifetime sales, Pachter expects the Wii U will ultimately sell 30 million "or fewer" units, the PS4 will sell 100 to 120 million units, and the Xbox One will sell 90 to 110 million units.
"The reason Sony beats Microsoft is solely the price," Pachter noted. "Microsoft loses the next generation unless they cut price. If Microsoft drops its price to $399, I expect the sales to be equal to the PS4."
The lifetime sales Pachter predicts compare to current sales of the PS3 and the Xbox 360 at about 80 million units apiece, but it's far below some estimates of hundreds of millions of next-gen consoles. "I don't know where they get those numbers," Pachter said. He feels that at several hundred dollars, with games costing $60 or more, consoles are just too pricey to ever sell hundreds of millions of units.
The Wii U's performance so far Pachter characterized as "underwhelming," but noted it's possible "but unlikely" that exciting new titles will reinvigorate growth. He believes that Nintendo is missing a huge opportunity to bring new gamers into their brands: Nintendo should put old GameBoy Advance content on phones and tablets for free, and charge $3 to $5 for more recent titles from the DS. Pachter feels this would generate enormous revenue for Nintendo and bring millions of new fans into their brands, and give them a strong way to sell newer titles on the 3DS and Wii U that use those brands.
"I don't know why Iwata is still employed," Pachter said, given that he refuses to take advantage of this opportunity while the handheld market continues to shrink and the Wii U has failed so far to catch on in a big way.
Pachter is more positive on the PlayStation 4 - "Sony thrives, Nintendo doesn't" - saying it's impressive as a game playing device. "The graphics are phenomenal, and the huge RAM makes future innovation likely," Pachter pointed out. He noted that the multimedia features remain unclear, but the CPU power of the PS4 allows the potential for huge improvement in the future. As for the Xbox One, Pachter noted it's impressive as a multimedia device, and the added features of Kinect and Skype give it additional value. "We're sticking with our prediction of a built-in TV tuner" for the Xbox One, Pachter said, which would simplify the ability of the Xbox One to control your television viewing.
"The next generation of consoles is probably the last," Pachter said. "We expect frequent model updates instead of new consoles." Moreover, there's going to be renewed interest in the PC, he predicted. "I think the PC is going to make a comeback, the PC will be the hub of all this stuff," he stated. He feels Smart TVs are a dumb idea, noting that you don't have a smart monitor connected to your computer. He envisions there will be a number of screens around the home, perhaps controlled by a tablet, being driven by a supercomputer in your pocket that we call a smartphone.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...still-employed

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Ys 5 fan translation released, full series now available in English

December 6th, 2013, 00:30 Posted By: wraggster

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Bayonetta creator: Building new game worlds is 'my purpose'

December 7th, 2013, 00:14 Posted By: wraggster

Hideki Kamiya is one of the most original, creative game directors in the industry today, yet fans are constantly infuriated by his general refusal to lead sequels to his earlier efforts. He realizes this of course, but as a new interview reveals, Kamiya feels his talents could be better used in building new worlds, rather than revisiting his old ones.

"It's not that I don't want to make sequels - I really do! But considering the nature of my position, I don't really get a chance to," Kamiya told Famitsu (translated by Kotaku). "Somebody needs to offer new entertainment to gamers and do the work of sowing seeds that can later grow to be strong pillars.

"It sounds a little overblown, but I've come to believe that is my purpose. If I had been involved with Devil May Cry 2, then Viewtiful Joe and Okami might never have been made. If I was directing Bayonetta 2, then I wouldn't have been able to make The Wonderful 101," he added.

As Kamiya points out, he is currently working on a new project that has yet to be revealed to the public. If history is any indicator, expect it to be great fun, generate enough money to spawn a sequel, then be unceremoniously handed off to whichever development studio happens to be available.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/06/ba...is-my-purpose/

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Sega's 3D Classics: making old games stand out

December 7th, 2013, 00:21 Posted By: wraggster

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Play.com predicts Wii U dominance this Christmas

December 7th, 2013, 00:47 Posted By: wraggster

Play.com owner Rakuten has claimed that Nintendo’s Wii U has seen a 75 per cent sales spike in October.
The company predicts that Wii U and iPad will be more popular than Xbox One and PS4 amongst children this Christmas.
It adds that a Twitter analysis has revealed that its Wii U and iPad range are “the most talked about presents for children this Christmas”.
Added the site: “The marketplace’s social media analysis surprisingly showed that the brand new PlayStation 4 and Xbox One consoles are trailing in second and third place respectively behind the Wii U and iPad.
“This is despite the fact that both new consoles sold out on Rakuten’s Play.com during Black Friday, which have since been restocked. It appears that those on the hunt for the latest consoles are gamers rather than consumers buying for their loved ones.”
It should be noted though that from what MCV understands about recent Wii U sales numbers, Play.com’s findings don’t seem especially representative of the overall market.

http://www.mcvuk.com/news/read/play-...istmas/0125450

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Call of Duty: Ghosts patched on Wii U, GamePad Scoreboard introduced

December 8th, 2013, 00:01 Posted By: wraggster

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Ubisoft surveys players about non-Assassin's Creed pirate game

December 8th, 2013, 00:12 Posted By: wraggster

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'Wii U and iPad more popular than PS4 and Xbox One this Christmas'

December 8th, 2013, 00:16 Posted By: wraggster

Wii U and iPad will be the most popular presents for kids this Christmas, says Rakuten’s Play.com.
The marketplace’s social media analysis shows that more people have been tweeting about the Wii U and Apple’s iPad range than the PS4 or Xbox One.
Rakuten’s Play.com reports a 75 per cent uplift in sales for the Wii U in October, despite the console launching over a year ago.
The most talked about presents on Twitter for kids this year, according to Ratuken’s Play.com, is as follows:
1. Wii U and iPad (joint first)
2. PS4
3. Xbox One
4. Furby and Lego (joint fourth)

http://www.pcr-online.biz/news/read/...ristmas/032686

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Nintendo in the Firing Line

December 8th, 2013, 00:42 Posted By: wraggster

With the PS4 and Xbox One now both launched in North America and Europe, and solid sales reported by both camps, we can expect something of a change in the whole narrative around games consoles. Certainly, there's going to be the usual tit-for-tat that we expect from a console war, with Microsoft in particular having much to prove in this round of the battle, but one thing that is likely to quieten down is the "consoles are doomed" line of argument - which has been heavily promoted over the past few years by people whose core point may have carried some validity, but who vastly overstated their position because they failed to understand the difference between an entire sector in decline, and a simple slowdown at the end of an exceptionally long hardware cycle.
Of course, the arguments that game consoles are ultimately doomed won't go away - but as 2014 progresses and Sony and Microsoft's devices rack up impressive installed bases of consumers paying high prices for game software, it's going to be pretty hard to defend a position that decries the console market as being on course for economic oblivion. Not to worry, though - the hand-waving prophets of doom aren't going anywhere. They've got a new target - or rather, they've brought back an old target and pinned it back over their rhetorical dartboards. Nintendo's back in the line of fire.
"let's face it, launching Super Mario 3D World against the arrival of the PS4 wasn't bold and brazen, it was myopic and dumb, as a worrying number of the company's decisions in recent years have been"

Yes, no sooner had PS4 hopped off the shelves into the welcoming arms of early adopters than Nintendo's rough time with the Wii U was being lamented by supposedly concerned individuals who could scarcely contain their glee. The next-gen systems, barely a week old, are already exceeding the Wii U's installed base. In the UK, much-derided PS4 launch title Knack outsold the critically acclaimed Super Mario 3D World. Publications around the world - even outside the specialist games press - rushed to publish their musings on Nintendo's future, or lack of same, and the seemingly inevitable demise of the ill-fated Wii U.
I'm no apologist for Nintendo - let's face it, launching Super Mario 3D World against the arrival of the PS4 wasn't bold and brazen, it was myopic and dumb, as a worrying number of the company's decisions in recent years have been - but I do try to put their actions and results into a meaningful context and understand them on their own terms. As I've argued before, Nintendo is a rather different kettle of fish to its rivals. It has no designs on owning the living room or dominating your media experiences. It relies remarkably little on third-party games, tending to work closely with partners on a small number of key third-party titles while largely focusing on first-party software.
As a consequence of these things, Nintendo can continue to act and think like a toy company - a huge installed base is desirable, of course, because it makes the firm more profitable, but a smaller yet still profitable installed base is also fine. If Microsoft fails to get Xbox One into a huge number of households, it'll be a major problem, since part of the reason for the system's existence is to extend Microsoft's dominance in the living room; if Sony can't sell tens of millions of PS4 units pretty rapidly, that'll also be a problem, since Sony (like Microsoft) relies heavily on third-party publishers supporting its console, and they won't develop games for a system without a large addressable market. Yet Nintendo cares little about either of those factors, and could be reasonably satisfied with a "third-place finish" that still makes a handsome profit for the firm.
This is not to say that the Wii U isn't in trouble - it is. The console is still spreading red ink on Nintendo's financials, although assessments of the current situation do need to take into account the remarkable success of the 3DS, which continues to ramp up an impressive installed base thanks to the launch of several huge software titles in the past few months, and should end 2013 on a very high note indeed. One successful product covering for the losses of another product isn't an ideal situation by any means, though, and Nintendo will need to take stock of its situation at some point - but not for a while.
Right now, it's the least successful home console the company has ever launched, but sales are still comparable with the GameCube, a system which eventually limped home to about 25 million sales but continued to be supported pretty robustly by first-party software (and even some third-party classics) right through to the bitter end. Like the Wii U, the Cube also found itself marketed alongside a much more successful handheld - the GBA - and there's even an argument that Nintendo is being consistent in its priorities, with the GBA getting the lion's share of attention in software development terms while the Cube struggled through its early years, similar to the situation now with the Wii U and the 3DS.
In short, we've been here before - or at least, in a very similar place to here - and the notion of Nintendo abandoning ship and letting a home console die off prematurely, as Sega did with the late lamented Dreamcast, simply didn't arise. With Nintendo still incredibly cash-rich, expert at wringing profit from its systems (Wii U probably won't spew red ink for long, even if sales remain slow) and selling 3DS systems and software at a rate of knots, there's little reason to believe that the Wii U faces a Dreamcast-like fate. More likely is that the system will continue to get several major first-party releases every year, bolstered by a stream of third-party games that will improve as the installed base inches towards respectability; then the company will move to launch a replacement console after four or five years, while Microsoft and Sony seek to eke out seven or eight years from their new systems. Not a long and prosperous life for a system, but by no means an ignominious end either, and enough to ensure that Wii U owners don't feel betrayed by Nintendo and wary about buying another new console from the firm.
"It's terribly sad, I think, that people who describe themselves as gamers or who work within or around the games business would take such pleasure in imagining the downfall of a company whose products are so squarely focused on the experience and joy of games"

As for Mario and Knack, I wouldn't lose any sleep over those figures. They make for a great headline in the short term (as did the fact that Final Fantasy XIII: Lightning Returns outsold Mario in Japan during the week when both games launched - a blindingly obvious outcome given the relative installed bases of PS2 and Wii U) but the comparison is apples and oranges. Knack is an apparently rather underwhelming launch title for a new system (I say apparently, as I've only played a brief but rather enjoyable demo, PS4 still being some months off over here); Super Mario 3D World is one of the most critically acclaimed games of the year and, in common with Nintendo's key titles in all systems, will enjoy significant long-tail sales for months and perhaps even years. Come back in three months time and see how sales compare - even given the enormous gulf that will have opened up between PS4 sales and Wii U sales in that time, SM3DW's sales will be impressive by any standards.
It's perhaps odd for me, whose personal tastes veered towards Xbox 360 in the past generation and PS2 in the generation previous, to find myself going to bat for Nintendo - although I do now own a 3DS, and enjoy it hugely - but the motivation I genuinely cannot fathom is that which drives the company's gleeful critics, who seem to dance around with thinly veiled joy at the prospect of this long-standing, hugely creative and entirely game-focused company being in dire straits. To its critics, Nintendo's extraordinary track record of innovation and creativity within the context of its core franchises means nothing, and "ugh, Mario again!" is a rallying cry as commonplace as it is devoid of any meaning or substance.
It's terribly sad, I think, that people who describe themselves as gamers or who work within or around the games business would take such pleasure in imagining the downfall of a company whose products are so squarely focused on the experience and joy of games - even to the extent where they will distort reality and wilfully forget history in order to "prove" the accuracy of their claims. Nintendo and its consoles aren't in the dominant position they enjoyed a few years ago, but they've been here before and they aren't going anywhere; why that fact seems to distress some people so much, I will never quite understand.

http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...he-firing-line

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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze releasing on Feb. 21

December 8th, 2013, 00:47 Posted By: wraggster

Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze will release on Feb. 21, 2014, Nintendo revealed Saturday at VGX.
Nintendo also confirmed that elder ape Cranky Kong will join the game's playable cast, making him the fourth playable character besides Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, and Dixie Kong.
The latest entry in the side-scrolling platforming series has Donkey Kong's living space overrun by Vikings from the North Sea. In order to reclaim it, Donkey Kong and friends set off on an adventure that will take them to five islands.
The game will support two player simultaneous multiplayer with playable characters including Diddy Kong and Dixie Kong.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...ing-on-feb-21/

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The Super Mario Bros. Story

December 8th, 2013, 20:21 Posted By: wraggster

In the climactic scene of the 1989 film The Wizard, a withdrawn kid called Jimmy who's a preternaturally gifted videogame player is competing at a tournament. In the final, he has to play a game he's never played before: Super Mario Bros. 3, then unreleased in the US. For over five minutes of screen time, footage of the game looms large over a screaming audience while Jimmy's brother - suddenly possessed by the spirit of the back of the box - shouts tips and game features from the sidelines.
It's a silly scene in a bad, exploitative movie. It's full of implausibilities, it's badly acted and it's an embarrassingly naked advertisement for Nintendo. But it's also humbling. 20 years ago, the money shot in a major feature film was footage of a game. The game was presented accurately and honestly, discussed in gamers' terms, and the sight of it caused waves of excitement in the audience.
It may have been kids' stuff, but the launch of Super Mario Bros. 3 was also a major cultural event attended by none of the posturing, misunderstanding and self-conscious debate that has recently swirled around the releases of Grand Theft Auto IV or Modern Warfare 2. That's real acceptance. It was what it was, and of course you loved it, how couldn't you? It was Mario.
All this happened just four years after Nintendo had re-invented the home videogame with Super Mario Bros. How on earth did we get there so fast? And where's the warp that gets us back?
[h=2]Minus World[/h]
You know the prehistory: in the beginning was the jump, and the jump was the man.
Jumpman was the fat, comical carpenter in the Nintendo arcade game Donkey Kong. He was called Jumpman because he jumped, and he jumped because that was all there was to do. He wore dungarees so you could see his arms move, a hat because hair was hard to draw in pixels, a moustache to emphasise his large nose. "Noses say a great deal," said his creator, Shigeru Miyamoto.
In his next arcade game, Jumpman acquired a proper name (Mario), a new profession (plumbing), and a brother to enable two-player gaming (Luigi). He didn't acquire any new accessories or abilities, though; he still just jumped. In Mario Bros., he battled a strange menagerie of creatures in the sewers of New York. Barring Donkey Kong retreads, it was the last time Mario would be seen in a setting that was remotely appropriate to him. But that was the point.
[h=2]World 1-1[/h]When Mario came up out of the sewers, it was into a strange new world. You could tell it was mysterious because it was plastered with question marks. The question marks were on boxes, and you never knew quite what would come out of those boxes when you hit them.
There were mushrooms in this world that made Mario grow in size, not to be confused with the mushrooms which were people, all called Toad. There were turtles with wings. There were conventional fantasies too, castles and a princess to be saved. Only the clouds looked like they were from the real world (and that wouldn't last). It was like a dream.
This was Super Mario Bros., released in 1985 for Nintendo's first home console, the Nintendo Entertainment System. Miyamoto's dumpy, goofy everyman was still jumping, but now he was running, too, really going for it, courtesy of a dash button. He could achieve amazing speeds and jump to ridiculous heights, and the player was given an exquisite level of control over him, varying the height and length of the jump, guiding his course in mid-air, feeling his giddy momentum. It was beautiful and exhilarating. In the dreamworld, out of place, the ordinary little man became a graceful superbeing.
http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/th...-story-article

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248 FC Games Classic Video Game System Review

December 9th, 2013, 01:34 Posted By: wraggster



This week DealExtreme.com sent me a 248 FC Games Classic Video Game System w/ 2 Wired Gamepads to review. This Nes/Famicom clone console has 248 games builtin and some all time classics are included such as Pacman, Mario, Contra, Double Dragon and shed loads more

Check out the full review here -- > http://blog.dcemu.co.uk/248-fc-games...ew-742153.html

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A Link to the Past awakens on the Wii U eShop

December 9th, 2013, 21:59 Posted By: wraggster

If playing the recent Zelda, A Link Between Worlds, put you in the mood to revisit a certain classic 1991 Nintendo adventure, you're in luck as A Link to the Past is coming to the Wii U's eShop on 12th December.Priced at £5.49 / €7.99, you can now kick it oldschool in Hyrule back in the day when sprites were sprites and stocking up on potions actually meant something (seriously, why wasn't A Link Between Worlds' harder Hero Mode available from the start?).Elsewhere on the European Wii U eShop, Toki Tori developer Two Tribes is releasing its puzzler Rush, a game ex-EG scribe Kristan Reed spoke highly of upon its PC release. Rush will be priced at £1.79 / €1.99 until 9th January, when it will go up to £3.59 / €3.99.Level-5 has also issued a sale on all of its 3DS offerings, with Attack of the Friday Monsters! A Tokyo Tale, Bugs vs. Tanks!, Crimson Shroud, Liberation Maiden, and The Starship Damrey all discounted to £4.49 / €4.99 until 2nd January. Usually these games all go for £7.19 / €7.99.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...he-wii-u-eshop

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Nintendo eShop down for maintenance until 8 p.m. PST tonight

December 10th, 2013, 00:44 Posted By: wraggster

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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: $34.96!

December 10th, 2013, 01:04 Posted By: wraggster

Grab The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds for $34.96 at Amazon!

Two worlds collide in an all-new adventure set in the world of Super NES classic The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past. In this newly spun tale, Link transforms into a living painting to cross into a dark, parallel dimension mirroring Hyrule. Conquer the puzzles, traps, and hidden rooms of deadly dungeons to save both worlds from certain doom!

Check it out: Amazon - The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds

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Buy One, Get 50% Off Select Nintendo 3DS, Wii U Games!

December 10th, 2013, 01:06 Posted By: wraggster


BestBuy Sunday Ad: Video Game Deals!
Pick from the Nintendo Wii U and 3DS titles below. Choose one, and for a limited time, you can purchase a second game of equal or lesser value for 50% off!
Check it out: BestBuy Nintendo Promo [IMG]http://ad.linksynergy.com/fs-bin/show?id=W*5dQtnjw8M&bids=306591.1&type=10[/IMG]

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Nintendo 3DS XL (Gold) with The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds - $199.99

December 10th, 2013, 01:07 Posted By: wraggster


Grab the Nintendo 3DS XL (Gold) with The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds at BestBuy.com!
Add to cart and select local store to secure the deal!

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higan v093r06a

December 10th, 2013, 12:11 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.aep-emu.de/

byuu has released his beta version of his multi-system (NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance,Nintendo DS) and subsystems (Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo) emulator higan (formally bsnes).

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I´m posting a beta release of higan, in the hopes of getting some feedback on the new library system (pictured below; more info on the forums), and reports of any potential new regressions before an official release.

If you´re willing to test this, and provide feedback on the forum, it´d be appreciated. Thanks!

higan v093r06a-32bit (Windows binary)



EDIT: posted revision A to fix a local path issue.

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MaLa v1.820 beta

December 10th, 2013, 12:12 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.aep-emu.de/

MaLa is a frontend for MAME and other emulators. It supports the windows command line version of MAME with XML ROM info and other emulators like VICE, Kega Fusion, FCE Ultra - NES, VisualBoyAdvance and ZiNc to name a few.

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MaLa 1.820 -
7/12/2013
Mod: Support for .7z files

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puNES v0.74

December 10th, 2013, 12:14 Posted By: wraggster

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The NES emulator puNES for Linux and Windows (SDL) has been updated.

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Changelog:
0.74
Rewrite the GUI for the input configuration that now are more user friendly (at least for me). I´ve eliminated the check on the conflicts and if you want (for some reason) use the same keyboard/joystick configuration for all players, now you can (for me it was very useful to do so). Adde an option to permit "Up+Down" and "Left+Right".
Added the support for 4 players (Famicom and Four Score).
I forgot to add support for the roms with the trainer. Done. Now even the rom "Dragon Ball - Shen Long no Nazo (J) [hM34] [T + Eng1.11_TransBRC]" works.

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Public Beta release of GW 2.0b1

December 10th, 2013, 12:17 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.gateway-3ds.com/

[h=2]Public Beta release of GW 2.0b1[/h]01/12/2013
We thought posting yet another teaser video would anger rather than amaze our patient and loyal customers. So in the spirit of Thanksgiving, we would like to show you all our sincere gratitude for your patience and support, by releasing a public beta early!

GW 2.0b1 enables up to date compatibility, barring only the 2 known NAND based titles (for which support is coming very soon), as well as the long awaited emuNAND feature. Complementing these great advancements is our new GUI menu system accessible by simply holding down the L button when tapping on the DS Profile button on the touchscreen. For this release we have tried to make the plethora of options as automated and intuitive as possible, and we welcome more feedback from our users regarding the menu, settings and other options for in the coming revisions.

So we left a few things out you say ? Well if it was so easy then others would have it already, or might falsely make videos of such claims .. anyway we digress .. Both nand saving, which will officially make us 100% compatible with all known roms, and FAT32 (drag and drop) based multirom support are now close to completion and entering into our internal beta testing. As you can imagine, both these features required a major revamp of our hardware's internal firmware, something we had known and planned for from day one so rest assured, unlike others, GW3DS is a fully featured and FULLY updatable hardware design. Our policy has and will always be to stick by our customers and ensure they get value for their money. We will be calling on our beta testers shortly to help us stress test our next big step !


Release notes:

Booting into Gateway mode will now automatically check for the emuNAND partition and emulate the system NAND using this partition. We have also included an option to boot into Classic mode that enables genuine retail gamecards and the emuNAND functionality, allowing it to run like a regular 3DS on latest firmware.

If the emuNAND partition is not found, we fall back to the system NAND and boot into Gateway mode as in 1.x

WARNING NEVER ATTEMPT TO UPDATE YOUR SYSTEM NAND, MAKE SURE YOU ONLY UPDATE EMUNAND - PLEASE READ THE INSTRUCTIONS BELOW CAREFULLY !

We have gone to great lengths to ensure the stability and reliability of emuNAND, even though emuNAND is not currently required to allow full game compatibility. For those wishing to have the latest system firmware running concurrently with our device, please follow these instructions carefully:

Safety preparation: Please ensure you are either fully charged or plugged in to the charger before beginning. It is also advisable to turn off WiFi, and remove any stored WiFi access settings before proceeding.

1) Launch the Gateway menu and select the "BACKUP SYSTEM NAND" option. Follow on screen instructions to start the backup operation. This requires a minimum of 1GB free space on the Nintendo 3DS SD card, and will take approximately 10 minutes. Every console has a unique NAND image and if you accidentally update the onboard system NAND then there is currently no known way to restore back to 4.5 through software means. The only recovery option is to restore via hardware using the backed up NAND image as a last resort. So please make sure you physically copy the file created by our tool from the SD card to your computers hard drive.

2) Make sure you have backed up any other files you may need from your Nintendo 3DS SD card or use a fresh new SD card to run the Format emuNAND step in the Gateway menu. Once this is done (approximately 5 minutes) and for as long as you use the specific SD card, GW will boot from the specially partitioned SD card and show the "GW3D" label in the system version number in the System Settings application.

Once you have entered into the System Settings application and clearly seeing the "GW3D" version number, enter into WiFi settings and set up a connection.

3) Update your emuNAND partition. Boot into Gateway mode, and enter into the System Settings application. CHECK to make sure you see the letters GW3D before the system version located in the bottom right hand corner of the top screen. If you only see a version number "Ver." please exit and perform step 2 again. With the "GW3D" X.XX.X version number verified proceed to update the console by going to Other Settings and scroll right to the last page and press the System Update button.

IMPORTANT !! .. ONLY ever update through System Settings and ONLY when you have double checked the "GW3D" lettering in front of the system version number !!

Click here to download Public Beta release of GW 2.0b1

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Nintendo declares National StreetPass Weekend on Dec. 14-15

December 11th, 2013, 00:33 Posted By: wraggster

Make sure your Nintendo 3DS is charged up and ready for some passive data-sharing action this Friday and Saturday, as Nintendo has declared December 14 and 15 to be the first-ever National StreetPass Weekend in North America.

Over the weekend, Nintendo will shuffle around relayed StreetPasses at Nintendo Zone locations nationwide, allowing players to meet with faraway StreetPassers from all 50 states. Nintendo previously hosted a National StreetPass Day in the UK, though the North American holiday simply asks 3DS owners to travel to the nearest Starbucks or Best Buy to participate, instead of a centralized meet-up location.

Nintendo added further incentive to try out its StreetPass service with a collection of four StreetPass games released earlier this year, rewarding players with Mii hats and other bonuses for meeting up with fellow 3DS owners in public.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/10/ni...-on-dec-14-15/

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3DS update is live, adds support for Miiverse, combined eShop balances

December 11th, 2013, 00:35 Posted By: wraggster

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Mega Man designer's Kaio: King of Pirates docks in 2014

December 11th, 2013, 00:40 Posted By: wraggster

Bad news, landlubbers: It looks like Keiji Inafune's Kaio: King of Pirates won't hit the 3DS until next year. The game's official website includes both English- and Japanese-language versions of its text, and as you can see at the bottom-right of the page, the game's release window has changed to a firm 2014.

Unfortunately, waiting for Inafune's cutesy pirate adventure is nothing new for fans. We first reported on Kaio: King of Pirates in 2011, at which time it was supposed to hit the 3DS in 2012. Obviously, that never happened, and almost nothing has been said of why the game has been in development for all these years.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/10/me...docks-in-2014/

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higan v093r07

December 11th, 2013, 11:50 Posted By: wraggster

via http://www.aep-emu.de/

byuu has released his beta version of his multi-system (NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance,Nintendo DS) and subsystems (Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo) emulator higan (formally bsnes).

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higan v093r07 released2013-12-09
I´m posting a beta release of higan, in the hopes of getting some feedback on the new library system (pictured below; more info on the forums), and reports of any potential new regressions before an official release.

If you´re willing to test this, and provide feedback on the forum, it´d be appreciated. Thanks!

higan v093r07-32bit (Windows binary)

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GameYob 0.5

December 11th, 2013, 12:07 Posted By: wraggster

via http://emu-russia.net/en/

Nintendo GameBoy emulator for Nintendo DS has been updated. Changes:
- Added Gameboy Printer emulation;
- Added GBS playback feature;
- Added "scale" button;
- Semi-overhauled menu: now colorized, and does not interrupt emulation;
- Improved Super Gameboy emulation;
- Selectable custom borders;
- Reduced autosaving lag (results may vary between flashcards and SD cards);
- Implemented the halt bug (fixes The Smurfs);
- Wram register has unused bits set (fixes Metal Gear Solid);
- More fixes to emulation accuracy, sound, etc;
- Stability fixes (most notably for sleep mode), many other minor bugfixes.
File: Download
News source: https://github.com

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New Hacks Added

December 11th, 2013, 12:13 Posted By: wraggster

The following Hacks have been submitted and approved to the database (in submitted order oldest to newest):

• Super Metroid - PADDLE (Complete)(Super Metroid)(SNES)
• Super Metroid - MX2 (Complete)(Super Metroid)(SNES)
• Super Metroid - Inverted (Complete)(Super Metroid)(SNES)
• NEW Super Mario Bros. 3 Redemption (Complete)(Super Mario Bros. 3)(NES)
• Super Metroid - Snow Crash (Complete)(Super Metroid)(SNES)
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Build Blocks 0.1 released

December 11th, 2013, 12:19 Posted By: wraggster

Build Blocks Wii - simple 3D sandbox game with blocks for Wii. There's no objectives, you can just freely build stuff with blocks on board. Ported from my Nokia S60/Asha version which is available here: Full version and here: Trial version.
There's no gui yet, and you can only place/remove blocks on 8x8x8 board. Up to 4 players on one screen are supported. Standard Wii Remote is required for controlling stuff. 16:9 and 4:3 TVs are supported. Should also work with Wii U on virtual Wii mode, but this is not confirmed yet.
Anyway it's first test build so don't expect too much from it.

http://wiibrew.org/wiki/Build_Blocks

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Wire3D 1.2 released

December 11th, 2013, 12:20 Posted By: wraggster

Wire3D (Wii Independent Rendering Engine 3D) is an open source, object oriented, multiplatform 3D engine written in C++, supporting homebrew Wii and Windows (DirectX). It provides a framework to developers for writing platform agnostic 3D applications (including physics using the Bullet Physics library) that run on Wii and Windows out of the box.

v1.2 Wire:

• added Input System
• added support for multiple vertex streams per mesh
• added layer masks to nodes, lights and cameras
• seperated Image (i.e. buffer) from Texture (i.e. properties)
• seperated handling of vertex declarations from vertex buffers
• added usage type STATIC_DISCARD_ON_BIND for textures
• removed VisibleObject in favour of RenderObject
• removed scene graph dependency from Renderer
• improved drawcall batching of static (sub)meshes
• improved performance of drawing submeshes on PCs with software vertex processing
• added camera node
• added light attenuation
• added blending mode 'BM_ADD' to Material
• (Wii) added support for submeshes to displaylist handling
• (Wii) fixed vertex cache issue
• (Wii) fixed a bug in handling lights
• (DX9) added support for HLSL shaders
• (DX9) added support for multiple render targets

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Mario Kart 8 and Smash Bros Spring date a 'misquotation'

December 12th, 2013, 00:33 Posted By: wraggster

Update: The Nintendo Germany exec who reportedly let slip revealing a 'Spring 2014' release date for Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros. on Wii U was "misquoted", according to a follow-up statement from the firm.
In a statement to CVG, a Nintendo spokesperson said, "We would like to clarify that the speculation about a Spring 2014 launch date for Super Smash Bros. on Wii U was the result of a misquotation in an interview. The original article has since been rectified and we have no further announcements to make at this time."
The interview with Nintendo Germany GM Bernd Fakesch posted on German website Neckar-Chronik, has been edited with the exec's alleged "Spring 2014" stipulation now replaced with a forecasted release date of "next year".
Original report continues:
Fakesch was asked why Nintendo's latest console wasn't able to repeat the successes of the Wii, and replied by saying it aims to drive success through big games, including Smash Bros and Mario Kart.
"At Christmas we now want to inspire with titles like Wii Party U, Wii Sports Club, Wii Fit U and all of course Super Mario 3D World," he said.
"For next spring [we have] two more big license games also announced with Mario Kart 8 and Super Smash Bros."
Mario Kart 8 was originally announced during E3 2013 along with the spring 2014 release window, however, Nintendo has not previously suggested when Smash Bros. will be available. Fakesch's statements seemingly do not indicate when the Nintendo 3DS version of Smash Bros will be available.
Smash Bros. series creator Masahiro Sakurai is serving as producer on the game, which is a Wii U and 3DS crossover being developed in partnership with Namco Bandai.
Nintendo has revealed a number of returning and new characters for the game including Toon Link; Animal Crossing's Villager; Sonic; Captain Olimar from Pikmin and Princess Peach. It has also confirmed a a Pilotwings stage.
In July, a Mario Kart 8 release date was mentioned in a Nintendo Europe newsletter suggesting an April 2014 window for the game.

http://www.computerandvideogames.com...exec-suggests/

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Nintendo offering refurbished Wii Remote Plus and Nunchuk for $20

December 12th, 2013, 01:24 Posted By: wraggster

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Sonic: Lost World update adjusts difficulty, adds extra lives

December 13th, 2013, 00:25 Posted By: wraggster

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Pokémon Bank app launches this month

December 13th, 2013, 20:31 Posted By: wraggster

The Pokémon Bank app, which lets players transfer their adorable little fighters, will launch on the 3DS eShop on 27th December, Nintendo has announced.With Pokémon Bank players will be able to withdraw and manage up to 3000 Pokemon. They'll also be able to transfer their Pokémon between Pokémon X and Pokémon Y on the same 3DS.Additionally, with the Pokémon Bank's linked application Poké Transporter, players will be able to transfer their critters from Pokémon Black, Pokémon White, Pokémon Black 2, and Pokémon White 2 to Pokémon X and Pokémon Y.Using the Pokémon Bank will cost £4.49 / €4.99 / $4.99 per year, but players who sign up between 27th December and 31st January will receive a 30 day free trial.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...hes-this-month

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Mega Man board game funded on Kickstarter

December 13th, 2013, 20:42 Posted By: wraggster

An officially-licensed Mega Man board game has been successfully crowd-funded onKickstarter.Texas-based creator Jasco describes the board game as its "love letter to one of the best video game characters of all time". At the time of publication $149,064 had been pledged - over double its $70,000 goal. The Kickstarter has 37 days to run."Kickstarter funding will allow us to use better materials, offer more extras like miniatures, cards, extra boards, and polish the finalised product, giving fans an even better experience and something that will be worthy of any Mega Man enthusiast's collection," Jasco said.Mega Man the Board Game is a 2-8 player "side-scrolling" board game. Players control their character and Dr. Wily's forces as they impede the progress of other players.The core game includes four pre-constructed player decks (40 cards per deck), four Mega Man game pieces, four Robot Master game pieces and one Dr. Wily game piece, among other bits.Currently Jasco's contract with Capcom limits the board game to sales in North America only, so it cannot ship to the UK. However, if the Kickstarter raises enough funding, Jasco will discuss extending its licensed territory with Capcom.All we need now is a new Mega Man video game. Over to you Capcom.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...on-kickstarter

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Unauthorised Ghosts 'n Goblins Kickstarter shut down

December 13th, 2013, 21:42 Posted By: wraggster

An unauthorised Kickstarter campaign that promised to reboot the Ghosts 'n Goblins franchise whether Capcom approved or not has been shut down by Capcom.
Indie startup Phantasm Studios launched the project on Kickstarter in late October and pledged to make the game whether or not it received the rights to the franchise (thanks,Nintendo Life).Should negotiations with Capcom fail, the studio had a cunning plan - it would make the game anyway and just change the name."In 1980 Shigeru Miyamoto of Nintendo created a Popeye video game but couldn't get the rights from King Features," Phantasm Studios explained. "He transformed Popeye to Mario, Bluto to Donkey Kong, and Olive Oyl to the Princess. This was the birth of Donkey Kong."If we can't secure a developers license we will change King Arthur and the name of the game, but that is all. Thankfully werewolves, demons, skeletons, reapers, ghosts, goblins, etc. are all public domain. The modifications will be so minor, the changes will be easy and will not change our release schedule."A fool-proof plan, surely? Alas, its now-shuttered Kickstarter page suggests not."Ghosts 'N Goblins - Demon World (Canceled) is the subject of an intellectual property dispute and is currently unavailable," the page now reads.The game had been in pre-production for eventual release on the Nintendo eShop, PlayStation Network and Xbox Live Arcade. There's no word as yet from Phantasm on the studio's next move.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...rter-shut-down

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Nintendo 3DS surpasses 10 million sold in NA

December 14th, 2013, 00:20 Posted By: wraggster

Pokemon X and Y crosses 2.35 million units and Wii U sales are up 340 percent month-over-month
[h=3]Nintendo of America[/h]

Following the release of November's NPD report, Nintendo has announced its most recent sales milestones led by the 3DS. The successful portable sold nearly 770,000 units during the month, putting its lifetime total at nearly 10.5 million.
Two recent 3DS titles also joined the system in its forward momentum. Pokemon X and Y each sold more than 225,000 combined physical and digital copies, bringing the life-to-date total of the latest Pokemon to 2.35 million units. This month's release of The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds sold more than 280,000 units across physical and digital formats. The special edition Zelda-themed 3DS XL - which was on sale at Target during Black Friday - adds to that total, bringing A Link Between Worlds to 405,000 units.
Nintendo is also touting that a number of first-party 3DS games had triple-digit sales percentage increases over October's numbers. This includes Donkey Kong Country Returns 3D with a 140 percent increase, Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon with a 105 percent increase, and Paper Mario: Sticker Star with a 280 percent increase. The 3DS's saviors, Mario Kart 7 and Super Mario 3D Land, are still going strong with their 23rd month on the market; those titles had a 130 percent and 235 percent increase respectively.
Unfortunately, the Nintendo Wii U numbers aren't as strong. Nintendo is boasting of a greater than 340 percent increase in Wii U hardware sales over October's numbers, but that puts estimates at around 220,000 units. Super Mario 3D World sold more than 215,000 physical and digital units combined for the month, but ultimately it didn't even reach the Top 10 in the NPD chart.
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/article...ion-sold-in-na

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Pokemon X/Y patch fixes exploits, uses flying type on bugs

December 15th, 2013, 01:27 Posted By: wraggster

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Wii U Virtual Console games added to Club Nintendo Rewards

December 15th, 2013, 01:40 Posted By: wraggster

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What the Lego Hobbit game looks like in action

December 16th, 2013, 23:06 Posted By: wraggster

Hardly unexpected, this tale: a Lego game conversion of the first two Hobbit films. But now there's a trailer for it.We see clips spanning the events of the first Unexpected Journey Hobbit film, but few - if any - clips from The Desolation of Smaug. Let's hope that film doesn't dragon, eh? EH?And that's a joke that scales.The trailer sets a familiar humorous tone, but shows little of actual gameplay. Will this game be open-world like the highly acclaimed The Lord of the Rings Lego game was? Let's hope so.Lego: The Hobbit is due with the daffodils in spring, sprouting on just about every platform out there: 3DS, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. And Vita. Don't forget Vita.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...like-in-action

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Remembering Sega's classics the right way

December 16th, 2013, 23:09 Posted By: wraggster

I finally got to see Abel Gance's Napoleon last weekend, and like pretty much anyone else who's been fortunate enough to witness the six hour silent epic, I've been obsessed with it ever since. It's sadly too rare an occasion to be able to see Kevin Brownlow's restoration of the 1927 visionary masterpiece, thanks partly to some unpleasant business with Francis Ford Coppola, but largely down to its grand Polyvision finale that requires three projectors and three screens.All of which has meant, for much of its life, Napoleon has gone unwatched and unappreciated: its omission from Sight & Sound's top 100 has more to do with the difficulty in watching the film rather than the film itself, which is certainly more than just one of the greats of the silent era.This is pretty much what Diana Ross sees every day.

It'd be a shame to see classics of video game's own brilliant dawn lost or forgotten in similar circumstances, but thankfully we've got some truly talented people working to make sure that they're within easy reach, and that their original brilliance isn't diminished by age or circumstance. Following a string of revivals of Sega classics on the 3DS, it's Tokyo studio M2 whose work has been most notable of late - and since picking a handful of them up last week, they've fast become another obsession.If you've ever dabbled in Sega's back-catalogue before, you may well already be familiar with M2 - it's a studio that's been working wonders ever since it managed to port Treasure's Gunstar Heroes, a slick wedge of action that was already pushing at the boundaries of Sega's Mega Drive, to the Game Gear. In the 20 years since, it's a studio that's quietly made a name for itself through other such feats, whether that's been delivering impeccable cover versions of old standards such as in 2009's WiiWare outing Gradius Rebirth, or retouching classics as it did throughout the PlayStation 2's Sega Ages series.But M2's finest work, to my mind, has been the recently released 3D Sega Classic series. They're restorations that go beyond mere emulation, exploring the context and eccentricities of each game under the spotlight. And the work produced in Sega's golden age that stretched from the mid-80s to the early 90s is certainly not short of some delightful quirks.

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/20...-the-right-way

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Pokémon X & Y update 1.2 released

December 16th, 2013, 23:17 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo has released Pokémon X & Y title update 1.2.
Introducing fixes for the issues listed below, it's a mandatory update for those wanting to make use of the game's online features going forward.

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puNES v0.75

December 16th, 2013, 23:55 Posted By: wraggster

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The NES emulator puNES for Linux and Windows (SDL) has been updated.

Quote:
Changelog:
0.75
Implemented mappers 83, 90, 163, 164, 209, 211, 249.

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higan v093r09

December 16th, 2013, 23:59 Posted By: wraggster

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byuu has released his beta version of his multi-system (NES, SNES, Game Boy, Game Boy Color, Game Boy Advance,Nintendo DS) and subsystems (Super Game Boy, BS-X Satellaview, Sufami Turbo) emulator higan (formally bsnes).

Quote:
higan v093r09 released
I´m posting a beta release of higan, in the hopes of getting some feedback on the new library system (pictured below; more info on the forums), and reports of any potential new regressions before an official release.

Also, as of v093r08, the Game Boy and Game Boy Color PPU are now cycle-based, allowing raster effects such as those used in Prehistorik Man. This is in addition to several major improvements to the Game Boy emulation code.

If you´re willing to test this, and provide feedback on the forum, it´d be appreciated. Thanks!

higan v093r09 (Windows binary + source)

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nintendont source code released

December 17th, 2013, 00:26 Posted By: wraggster

modrobert writes: "Crediar har released the source code to his 'nintendont' project which lets you play Gamecube games in vWii mode on Wii U. Check my previous forum topic for video. Thanks goes to naxil for the heads up."

http://www.eurasia.nu/modules.php?na...ticle&sid=3265

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Hackulation v1.0 # 2

December 17th, 2013, 00:41 Posted By: wraggster

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This is a game I have started based on the hacking minigame in Deus Ex This is a project I hope to full and, since there is nothing on this forum anymore, I Decided to post what I have done. Idea You must begin at the blue sphere and capture folders and other nodes to reach the green sphere. By capturing the green sphere, you win. You must capture other nodes on the way to reach it and Each Time you do, there is a chance That You Will Be detected. When detected, the computer Will begin to hack along the same map to reach you. If your blue sphere is hacked, Then you lose. You can only hack one node at a time. Controls Touch a node with your stylus to select it. The top screen Likely Will show how you are to be detected When you capture it and the nodes level (the higher the level, the Will take it along to capture and the higher the luck of detection.) The X button captures the node When It is selected The B button 'fortified gold Increases the level of a node That You own node is selected When That The Y button uses a 'Nuke' That Instantly captures a node with 0% luck of detection The A button installs a 'Trojan' That was you control node So THAT When the enemy captures the node, it triggers the trap and the enemy is frozen for a Few seconds, ALLOWING you to recapture the node. The L & R buttons use a 'slow worm' That stop the computer from moving for 5 seconds Arrows move your view of the map

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rMMnDS v2.13.7

December 17th, 2013, 00:42 Posted By: wraggster

mincemeatteam offers the 2.13.7 version of " rMMnDS "app for the Nintendo DS to calculate the shortest route from one point to another for Metro Madrid . It also offers Search places by name.

http://www.nintendomax.com/viewtopic...f70ee837249903

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Jewel Warehouse Full

December 17th, 2013, 00:42 Posted By: wraggster

Egotrip password " Jewel Warehouse "in the final version called" Full ", platformer / puzzle very well made ​​for the Nintendo DS.

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Luis Brick Breaker v0.1

December 17th, 2013, 00:43 Posted By: wraggster

luis634 true " Luis Brick Breaker "on Nintendo DS. But what can it consist of?

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DeSmuME SVN r4945

December 17th, 2013, 00:48 Posted By: wraggster

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DeSmuME SVN r4945 is compiled. DeSmuME is an open source Nintendo DS(NDS) emulator for Linux, Mac OS and Windows. DeSmuME supports save states, the ability to increase the size of the screen and it supports filters to improve image quality. DeSmuME also supports microphone use on Windows and Linux ports, as well as direct video and audio recording. The emulator also features a built-in movie recorder.

DeSmuME SVN Changelog:
r4945
speedfix for speedtyporeport
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r4944
add warning when booting homebrew game while using "stream rom from disk" since it doesnt work right now, and it essentially breaks most homebrew apps by default.
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r4943
fix crashy bug in slot2_gbagame and also change it to use EMUFILE while I was at it, like it shouldve been in the first place. but.. i didnt really test it.

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DolphinFX v1.40

December 17th, 2013, 00:49 Posted By: wraggster

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DolphinFX v1.40 is released. DolphinFX is a WIP shader suite for Dolphin's OpenGL backend.

Current effects include:
HQ FXAA (Fast Approximate Anti Aliasing)
NFAA (Normal Filter Anti Aliasing)
High Pass Bloom
Per-Channel Gamma Correction
Scene Tone Mapping
RGB Colour Correction
S-Curve Contrast Enhancement
Texture Sharpening
Toon Shader
Bicubic & Bilinear Filtering
You can enable, or disable each effect from inside the shader file. Everything is customizable. Settings are clearly sectioned, and labeled. Use the documentation comments for instructions on each option.

To Install:
Extract DolphinFX to your Dolphin-> \Sys\Shaders folder. Then enable the shader in the OpenGL graphics options->enhancements->post-processing effect->DolphinFX.

To Edit Settings:
Open DolphinFX.glsl in a text editor. I recommend Notepad++. It will look crazy messy if you use regular notepad to edit. You could also use an IDE to edit it, if you like. You can enable, disable, and customize various options for each effect. The default setup is neutral. Which tries to enhance the game's visuals without changing the overall tone & feel of it. If you're not happy with the default setup, there are plenty of settings to customize everything to your liking.

DolphinFX v1.40 changelog:
FXAA has now been completed.
-FXAA: now has accurate alpha calculations, the algorithm is now based on full alpha-based luma detection. Previously It would only output correctly in Dolphin, using the green component as luma.
-FXAA: added early exit pathing. [luma edge detection, and fullscreen anti aliasing].
-FXAA: due to the above alpha changes, subpixel detection is improved, you are now accurately able to use 0.0 FxaaSubpixMax to achieve a completely edge-only based anti aliasing, with no visible blurring whatsoever.
NFAA: updated & improved NFAA texture tapping, and samples, the settings have slightly altered because of this. (I'm considering just removing NFAA tbh. It's a bit redundant, and inferior to the HQ FXAA in general)
Gaussian Filtering: texture taps have been improved and slightly reworked, with slightly improved offsetting also.
Blended Bloom: slightly improved the bloom blend output.
-Blended Bloom: reworked BloomMixType 3. Mixing coefficients are now based on alpha values instead of the r component. produces better results.
-Blended Bloom: improved the blending power of the bloom glow, it now produces nicer results. new options are [0 or 1].
-Blended Bloom: added the option BloomLift, which adds the option of extra y axis offsetting to the bloom blend. Can increase the prominence of light reflecting on objects.
Texture Sharpening: Updated, and slighly improved the 9-tap sampling, and bias.
-Texture Sharpening: removed the option to use color for edge calculations. It wasn't working as well as I thought, and was inferior to luma detection.
Cel Shading: Toon shading has been completely rewritten, and is now called Cel Shading (not 100% accurate, as I don't have lighting, and depth info, but it's the best I can do with the limitations I have.). Using RGB & YUV luminance calculations with rounded blending of color components.
-Cel Shading: Improved Cel edge calculations, and output.
-Cel Shading: new options are as follows: EdgeStrength, EdgeFilter, EdgeThickness, PaletteType, UseYuvLuma, LumaConversion, ColorRounding. See in-shader documentation commenting for info on each.
Scanlines: updated, and improved scanlines a bit, also reworked, and added some new options.
Fixed some luminance, & clamping issues with various effects.
Removed the f suffix on floating point values.
Reordered the pseudo pass order of the main, for better merging of effects.
Various other small coding improvements.


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M64Py v0.1.7

December 17th, 2013, 00:50 Posted By: wraggster

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M64Py v0.1.7 is released. M64Py is a Qt4 front-end (GUI) for Mupen64Plus 2.0, a cross-platform plugin-based Nintendo 64 emulator. Front-end is written in Python and it provides a user-friendly interface over Mupen64Plus shared library.

M64Py Features:
- ROMs list with preview images
- Input bindings configuration
- Cheats support
- Support gzip, bzip2, zip, rar and 7z archives
- Video extension (experimental)

M64Py v0.1.7 Changelog:
- log viewer dialog
- bug fixes

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BatCat＇s LLE RSP Plugin v6 for Project64

December 17th, 2013, 00:54 Posted By: wraggster

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BatCat＇s LLE RSP Plugin v6 for Project64 is released. It is a plugin for Project64.

BatCat＇s LLE RSP Plugin v6 for Project64 Changelog:
- Upgraded the GNU linker to MinGW binutils 2.23.
- Amended mis-type in ordering unaligned 128-bit quadword store offsets (reported by oddMLan).
- Recovered old faking of cycle-accurate PC mapping to the CPU in order to fix semaphore sync (reported by e2118289).
- Merged in some commits centralized around ABI flexibility, namely for possible 64-bit targets (contributed by ecsv).
- Fixed crashing when configuring the plugin outside the emulation thread in Project64 2.x (reported by oddMLan).
- Small changes to the string pooling for debugger-related things to get the DLL size down a little.





Remember to install the correct DLL to the plugins folder, depending on what you want:

rsp.dll--80.0 KB--Most people will want this file. You need to use both a LLE gfx plugin && a LLE audio plugin.

rsp_free.dll--47.0 KB--Dependency-free resource DLL compiled down for size under Microsoft C++ compiler rules.

rsp_hle.dll--80.5 KB--Use any HLE gfx plugin w/ a HLE audio plugin. The RSP generally never executes on this version, but if it does you will receive a message box telling you about a new/unknown SP task type.

rsp_lle.dll--80.0 KB--Use a LLE gfx plugin (currently, either Jabo's Direct3D8 1.7.x or z64gl by ziggy), with a HLE audio plugin for speed-up. RDP/RSP LLE will be faster because of audio HLE.

rsp_mle.dll--80.0 KB--Use any HLE gfx plugin (almost any video dll). Audio emulation will be low-level along with the entirety of anything else that gets executed on the RSP.

rsp_pj64.dll--80.0 KB--You need this for Gauntlet Legends, Stunt Racer 64, and World Driver Championship. It can ONLY be used on Project64 2.0 because SP task re-start to sync with CPU and SP semaphore corrections did not exist before Project64 1.7.?.

dummyvid.dll--2.0 KB--Just a standard dummy video plugin I coded to remove the intervention of gfx display drawings on the screen while testing audio LLE or other LLE tasks on the RSP.

rsp_dbg.dll--89.0 KB--Undocumented debug version.

Too complicated?


Copy bin\rsp.dll (maybe rsp_pj64.dll) to $emu\plugin, and use Jabo's Direct3D8 1.7+ on Project64 2.0.


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Dolphin Git 4.0-533

December 17th, 2013, 01:00 Posted By: wraggster

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Dolphin Git 4.0-533 is compiled. This is the trunk of Dolphin Project. Dolphin is the first Gamecube emulator able to run commercial games! Dolphin is a Gamecube, Wii and Triforce (the arcade machine based on the Gamecube) emulator which supports many extra features and abilities not present on the original consoles. It has a partial Wii support and plays most Gamecube games.

Dolphin Git changelog:
* [Android] Fix joysticks only capable of right/down movements. Also make it capable of using onscreen joystick even if controller 1 is bound.
* Oops, I left a bit being set when it shouldn't have been.
* Small cleanup in the EGL GLInterface.
* Small cleanup in the EGL GLInterface.
* [Android] Fix gamepad input.
* If we are using OpenGL ES 3, then don't check for OpenGL/GLU
* Fix Cmake failure.
* Add CMakeLists.txt.user to the .gitignore file. Closes issue 6873.

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Swiss SVN r251

December 17th, 2013, 01:06 Posted By: wraggster

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Swiss SVN r251 is compiled. The swiss army knife of gamecube homebrew. Swiss aims to be the ultimate utility Gamecube homebrew application.

Swiss SVN Changelog:
r251
- Fix game settings page item count
- Add protection against overflowing the patch area

http://www.sendspace.com/file/p20w02

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Yet another Nintendo Direct tomorrow

December 18th, 2013, 00:28 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo's let us know there will be another Nintendo Direct mini press conference broadcast tomorrow, Wednesday 18th December, at 2pm GMT.Wii U and 3DS games arriving in spring 2014 will be the topic, somewhat unsurprisingly. That's Mario Kart 8, then, err and Donkey Kong Tropical Bananas or whatever it's called.The Nintendo Direct website will host proceedings, and you'll be able to read coverage of the important bits here on Eurogamer.

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Castlestorm hits Wii U on December 26

December 18th, 2013, 00:38 Posted By: wraggster

Castlestorm will be released for Wii U as an eShop download title on December 26, developer Zen Studios has confirmed.
The Wii U version will be priced at $9.99 in North America and €9.99 in Europe, as were the PS3, Xbox 360 and PC versions that came before it.
Castlestorm is a 2D real-time strategy, tower defense hybrid game that has players battling to take out each others' castle.
The Wii U port will allow for full off-screen play via the Gamepad screen, and a local two-player mode will allow one player to use the TV screen while the other uses the Gamepad screen.

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Mega Man X, Game Boy Mega Man $2 each on eShop through Wednesday

December 18th, 2013, 01:08 Posted By: wraggster

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How to Survive still in the works for Wii U, set for 2014 launch

December 18th, 2013, 01:10 Posted By: wraggster

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Use Pokemon Bank by September 30, get free Celebi

December 18th, 2013, 20:33 Posted By: wraggster

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Yoshi's Island Zone is one of two Sonic: Lost World DLC stages, out now

December 18th, 2013, 20:34 Posted By: wraggster

Sonic: Lost World will receive two pieces of downloadable content on Wii U, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata announced during today's Nintendo Directlivestream. The DLC stages will be based on Nintendo properties, the first being a level pulling inspiration and elements from Yoshi's New Island, Nintendo's 3DS entry in the series due out in spring 2014.

Called Yoshi's Island Zone, the first piece of DLC is available now for free, and has Sonic "speeding through areas filled with pipes, coins, Shy Guys and Piranha Plants." A brief look at the level can be found in the archived Nintendo Direct presentation.

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Kirby: Triple Deluxe includes Kirby Fighters, Dedede's Drum Dash modes

December 18th, 2013, 20:35 Posted By: wraggster

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NES Remix mixes up 16 games, available starting today on Wii U eShop

December 18th, 2013, 20:36 Posted By: wraggster

NES Remix, a mashup encompassing elements from 16 NES games, will be made available today on the Wii U eShop for $14.99, Nintendo revealed during this morning's Nintendo Direct.

The reveal trailer showed stages from Super Mario Bros., Donkey Kong, and Ice Climber that weren't quite the same scenes we saw on the NES years ago. For example, Link was hopping over barrels in DK in place of Mario, while World 1-2 of SMB was mirrored and being played backwards.

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Chibi-Robo returns January 9

December 18th, 2013, 20:37 Posted By: wraggster

Helpful Chibi-Robo with a heart of gold is back and looking for NostalJunk beginning January 9. Revealed during today's Nintendo Direct, the new game,Chibi-Robo Photo Finder, will be exclusive to the Nintendo eShop, where a demo will also launch "soon."

The game tasks players with a real-life photo hunt, as they take photos of objects based on silhouettes with their 3DS, which are then incorporated into the game. NostalJunk Challenges will also be added shortly after launch, along with some insane-looking minigames. No word yet when actual Chibi-Robos will be produced for home use.
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Rosalina, Luma to pummel little ones in Super Smash Bros.

December 18th, 2013, 20:37 Posted By: wraggster

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Dr. Luigi announced for Wii U, hits eShop this month

December 18th, 2013, 20:38 Posted By: wraggster

Dr. Luigi, an other-sibling-themed spin on Dr. Mario, closes out the Year of Luigi with a bang when it hits the Wii U eShop on December 31 in North America - as for Europe, the doctor isn't in until January 15. Dr Luigi features an online mode for 2-player biological warfare, and traditional Dr. Mario-like modes that support online play.

As revealed in this morning's Nintendo Direct, Dr. Luigi plays like the classic 90s puzzler, with players trying to align capsules with color-matching viruses. The most obvious twist is that Dr. Luigi's main mode, Operation L, features L-shaped blocks of two capsules fused together, with at least three matching-color blocks within the block. So, while players have to match four colors together, it's still easier than the original Dr. Mario; as Nintendo chief Satoru Iwata explained during the Direct broadcast, play will be swifter, but less punishing in terms of hitting a Game Over screen.

If players prefer the traditional single-capsule, two-colors-matching mechanics of Dr. Mario, they can take up the Retro Remedy mode, which features button controls, or Germ Buster, which let you position capsules using the touchscreen and stylus.

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Wii Sports Club adds Golf

December 18th, 2013, 20:44 Posted By: wraggster

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State of Play 2013: Embattled Nintendo endures a difficult year

December 18th, 2013, 21:59 Posted By: wraggster

The Wii U had a 12-month headstart on the other next-gen consoles, but both the Xbox One and PS4 broke its entire lifetime sales record in a matter of days.

On the face of it, 2013 would appear to have been something of an annus horribilis for Nintendo – at least in terms of its home console business. Its forecast for 9 million Wii U sales for the fiscal year now looks hopelessly optimistic: with less than four months to go it has currently sold 4.3 million units, while the current rate of sales suggest it won’t come close to that early estimate. From April to June inclusively, the Wii U sold 160,000 units globally. During the same period, it was outsold by its predecessor, a console Nintendo hadn’t released a first-party game for in a year. Currently, it is tracking lower than the second-year sales for the GameCube and Sega’s ill-fated Dreamcast, while in the UK it suffered the ignominy of having its lifetime sales overtaken by the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 within two weeks. A year on from launch, and Nintendo has utterly squandered its head-start.The reasons were simple: confused messaging and poor, or often non-existent, marketing. Updates to expanded audience favourites in the form of Wii Sports Club and Wii Fit U were inexplicably released as download-only software. The latter has since had a physical release, but hasn’t troubled the charts, unlike its successful forerunner, while the low member count of the regional clubs in the former suggest take-up has been worryingly low. Nintendo had high hopes for Super Mario 3D World, but it was embarrassingly outsold by Sony’s mediocre Knack at launch, though it will likely have a much longer tail. And while its disappointing sales could be attributed to underperforming hardware, releasing the game in the same week as the arrival of new consoles demonstrates a troubling naivety – and it was far from Nintendo’s only poor business decision this year.Elsewhere, it seems that almost every month has seen analysts and industry veterans alike line up to stick the boot in, with many suggesting Nintendo should leave the hardware business. Regardless of their somewhat myopic comments – that not only ignore the rise of 3DS, which we’ll come to shortly, but the successes of the previous generation, not to mention Nintendo’s still healthy bank balance – Iwata’s next investor meeting will likely be an uncomfortable one for the under-fire president. Particularly so, given the substantial shortfall between reality and Nintendo’s hopes.The Wii U’s gamepad has been criticised as an often gimmicky addition to games that fails to make up for the Wii U’s chronic lack of third-party titles.

What’s more, third parties are abandoning Wii U in droves. One of the most anticipated third-party releases, Rayman Legends, was delayed so that it could be ported to other formats – much to the chagrin of creator Michael Ancel. And this from Ubisoft, still one of Nintendo’s strongest third-party allies. FIFA 14 marked the first time in over a decade that the series hadn’t launched on a currently available Nintendo console; indeed, EA currently has no games in development for Wii U at all. And while the likes of Deus Ex: Human Revolution arrived in new-and-improved form, it’s hard to imagine anyone buying a console for a slightly enhanced version of a two-year-old game.Nintendo simply doesn’t have the manpower to support Wii U alone. Already it has struggled to keep a steady enough flow of releases, not least because it has only recent encountered the difficulties in producing HD games in a timely fashion, a problem most developers were wrestling with a generation ago. Gunpei Yokoi’s philosophy of “lateral thinking with withered technology” may have served Nintendo well during the Wii and DS era, but the Wii U GamePad is a shaky hook, and no one’s biting. With fickle casual players having long since moved on, it’s now serving an army of Nintendo loyalists, along with families who game regularly, but no one else. It’s not as if the console audience isn’t there anymore – record-breaking starts for both PS4 and Xbone certainly suggest otherwise – but few are even considering Wii U as a second console. It simply doesn’t have enough games.And yet its first-party output has been as strong as ever. In time, Pikmin 3 may well become known as one of Miyamoto’s best-ever games: it’s a beautifully tuned refinement of the first two games, with a delightful, engaging campaign and a compulsively brilliant mission mode that makes it two games in one. Likewise, Wii Sports Club and Wii Fit U are fine adjustments to existing templates. Super Mario 3D World is a front-runner for game of the year, while many were enraptured all over again by the HD remake of The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker. Nintendo could certainly do with some fresh IP, though it could hardly be forgiven for relying on old standards when anything new it attempts struggles for attention. Burdened with a steep learning curve, Platinum’s The Wonderful 101 was nevertheless a bright, hyperactive delight, yet it tanked horribly at retail.

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Chibi-Robo returns with 3DS eShop game Photo Finder

December 18th, 2013, 23:09 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo has announced GameCube platformer star Chibi-Robo will receive a sequel next month on 3DS.
Chibi-Robo: Photo Finder will have the title character running errands for a museum curator looking for photos of real world objects.
Players will be charged with snapping shots of items around their actual surroundings for Chibi-Robo to complete various missions.
The title is set to launch via the 3DS eShop on January 9^th, and will also pack community-driven photo challenges on top of the standard campaign.

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Bravely Default: Flying Fairy to get side-story demo on January 2

December 18th, 2013, 23:12 Posted By: wraggster

A demo for Bravely Default: Flying Fairy will reach the eShop on January 2 and follow a side-story not featured in the game itself, Nintendo announced during their Nintendo Direct event this morning.

The full game will is set to fly on February 7 and is getting a statue-less collector's edition.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/18/br...mo-on-january/

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Yoshi's New Island arriving in spring 2014

December 18th, 2013, 23:12 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo announced that Yoshi's New Island will launch in spring 2014 for 3DS during today's Nintendo Direct livestream. What's more, the series' original creator Takashi Tezuka is working on the project. Yoshi's New Island was first announced in June and was originally expected to launch this holiday season.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata also announced a new Wii U action game known as Hyrule Warriors during the stream.

http://www.joystiq.com/2013/12/18/yo...r-spring-2014/

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'Hyrule Warriors' 3D action game announced for Wii U

December 18th, 2013, 23:13 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo announced Hyrule Warriors during today's Nintendo Directlivestream. Gameplay video for the Wii U action game showed The Legend of Zelda's Link hacking and slashing enemies with an over-the-shoulder camera angle similar to the Dynasty Warriors series.

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata stressed that the game is not a new installment in The Legend of Zelda series, but is a collaborative effort with Tecmo Koei. Hyrule Warriors, which is not the game's final name, will launch in 2014.

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Target's one-week sale shrinks 3DS XL price to $150

December 18th, 2013, 23:14 Posted By: wraggster

If you're looking to buy a handheld during the holidays, you could do much worse than the 3DS XL - particularly now that Target has knocked 25 percent off its standard retail price.

Keep in mind that this is only a limited time offer. Come next week the 3DS XL will return to its normal $200 price point. Further, those of you hoping to pick up a discounted 3DS XL won't be able to order the handheld over the 'net, but must instead head out into the harsh glare of real life to buy one at a Target retail location.

Otherwise there's surprisingly few caveats here. No rebates to send in, no extra bundle items to purchase; it's simply a 25 percent off discount on Nintendo's most popular handheld. If you're in the market for one, now would be a very good time to visit your nearest Target location.

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Rebuilding Nostalgia: Giving new life to Shadowrun SNES

December 18th, 2013, 23:19 Posted By: wraggster

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Yoshi's New Island for 2DS and 3DS in spring 2014

December 18th, 2013, 23:23 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo has just announced a spring 2014 date for Yoshi's New Island on 3DS and 2DS.Nintendo overlord Satoru Iwata also revealed that Takashi "Ten Ten" Tezuka is on board! Who is he! Oh Wikipedia knows! He's joint general manager of Nintendo's famous EAD team! I knew that!Iwata bowed low during the Nintendo Direct broadcast to reveal a new trailer for Yoshi's New Island. This showed a scrumptious-looking 2D platformer and an array of new abilities for the little mountable dinosaur.Yoshi can aim his oversized tongue at objects, for instance, and he can also ingest giant enemies, turning them into giant destructive eggs.

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Zelda spin-off Hyrule Warriors announced

December 18th, 2013, 23:24 Posted By: wraggster

Today's Nintendo Direct delivered the goods straight away this afternoon, with the announcement of Hyrule Warriors, a collaboration between Nintendo and Tecmo Koei that combines the worlds of Zelda and the long-running Warrior series.Due on Wii U in 2014, Nintendo's Satoru Iwata stated that this wasn't the next instalment in the Zelda series, but rather an offshoot. The gameplay was a straight lift of the Warriors series melee combat, with Link smashing through a field swarming with hundreds of moblins. Elsewhere, Link's trademark weapons seemed to be intact, with him retrieving some from a chest with the trademark jingle appearing. The dungeon gameplay, however, likely won't figure.

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Nintendo offers free Mario Bros. Deluxe for UK 3DS owners

December 18th, 2013, 23:59 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo is offering free Super Mario Bros. Deluxe 3DS downloads via its Join Nintendo Network Promotion.
The promotion is aimed at rewarding those who register or link a Nintendo Network ID on the handheld, a feature that was recently introduced via a December 10 system update.
Those who perform the registration process between December 10, 2013 and January 31, 2014, will receive a download code for the Game Boy Color title via e-mail.
Download codes will be sent between February 13 and February 28, 2014 to the email address registered to the owner's Nintendo Network ID, the company said.
Via the version 7.0.0-13U update, 3DS users can sign into existing Nintendo Network IDs and deposit and share digital currency through either the 3DS or Wii U.
Nintendo warned that, if users register the wrong Nintendo Network ID on their 3DS, they will be unable to combine balances with the Wii U.

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New Kirby Triple Deluxe details and screens released

December 19th, 2013, 00:03 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo has released a number of new Kirby Triple Deluxe details, as well as a fresh batch of screenshots.
Announced in October and set for release in 2014, the side-scrolling platformer uses the stereoscopic 3DS screen to let Kirby move from front to back in order to avoid enemies and solve puzzles.
Nintendo says: "Kirby can also use a new Hypernova ability, a temporarily powered-up version of his usual inhale ability. The game includes over 20 different types of copy abilities, four of which are created new for this game.
"Kirby Triple Deluxe also includes two new game modes - Kirby Fighters lets up to four players pick one of ten copy abilities and unleash it in battle against another player's Kirby, and Dedede's Drum Dash is a rhythm game that asks players to press buttons in sync with familiar Kirby tunes while jumping and collecting coins."

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Professor Layton Vs Phoenix Wright dated for Europe

December 19th, 2013, 00:03 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo has announced a Professor Layton Vs Phoenix Wright release date of March 28, 2014 in Europe.
The 3DS crossover from Level 5 and Capcom was announced in October 2010 and released in Japan in November 2012, making its chart debut at No.2.
According to the official blurb: "Two of videogaming's quintessential gentlemen join forces to leave no puzzle unsolved in a new adventure - beginning in London before later shifting to the mysterious city of Labyrinthia. The story opens with a young girl named Espella who is being hunted down by witches and seeks Professor Layton's aid, but having been accused of being a witch herself, is also in need of a good lawyer!"

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Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze release date confirmed for Europe

December 19th, 2013, 00:08 Posted By: wraggster

Nintendo has announced a Donkey Kong Country Tropical Freeze release date of February 21 in Europe.

The game will launch simultaneously in stores and on the eShop, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata during a Nintendo Direct livestream on Wednesday afternoon.

The latest media showcases the game's fourth playable character Cranky Kong. With Cranky now in the thick of the action, the in-game item shop will be manned by Funky Kong, Nintendo notes.

Originally scheduled for release in 2013, the Wii U exclusive game was recently given a February 21 release date in the US too.

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Nintendo targeting Wii U marketing to kids, families

December 19th, 2013, 01:11 Posted By: wraggster

Reggie Fils-Aime lays out holiday plan for latest console, says Nintendo experimenting with mobile experiences
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With the Xbox One and PS4 fighting over the core gaming crowd this holiday season, Nintendo is targeting its Wii U marketing elsewhere. In an interview with Seattle NBC affiliate King-5, Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime said the system is enjoying strong holiday momentum, thanks in part to a renewed and refocused marketing push.
"The marketing has tremendously ramped up," Fils-Aime said. "And really where it comes down to is being crystal clear in who's your target. For us, this holiday with the Wii U, the target is parents and their kids. So if you're watching primetime family entertainment, you're seeing our marketing. If you're a parent watching morning or daytime media, you're seeing our content."
Fils-Aime declined to give specifics about Nintendo's marketing spend, but did expound on the company's overall strategy.
"More than just the dollars, we're putting our product where the consumer can see it, touch it, and feel it," Fils-Aime said. "We're in over 20 malls across the country. We're creating an opportunity for consumers to see the product, because that, for Nintendo, is where the 'wow' happens. It's not when you talk about specs or technology."
Fils-Aime also addressed continued calls for Nintendo to begin making games for smartphones and tablets. While he stressed a corporate philosophy that Nintendo games are best played on Nintendo devices, Fils-Aime said the company has been doing "experimentation" on mobile platforms. However, he cautioned that experimentation is "largely going to be much more marketing activity oriented," and designed to push users to experiences on the 3DS or Wii U rather than serve as stand-alone experiences in themselves.
"What drives us is creating fantastic experiences for consumers that in the end we're able to monetize as a for-profit company," Fils-Aime said. "The issue is that if you have games out there on all of these smart devices for very small amounts of money, it's very difficult to monetize. And if you look at all of these companies who are trying to do it, there aren't many that are doing it long-term, profitably."

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New Nintendo eShop releases: Castlevania, Streets of Rage 3D, Knytt Underground

December 19th, 2013, 23:39 Posted By: wraggster

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3DS sales hit 2m in the UK

December 20th, 2013, 00:28 Posted By: wraggster

2m 3DS consoles have been sold in the UK so far, MCV can reveal.
That number combines sales of 3DS, 3DS XL and the new budget model, 2DS.
It falls short of what the original DS had managed at this stage in its lifecycle, but is still an impressive figure that suggests there is room for a dedicated handheld games console in a market dominated by smartphones.
It’s been an impressive year for 3DS. Nintendo has backed the machine with heavy marketing, particularly for Animal Crossing: New Leaf and Pokémon X and Y. And it has seen a number of fan-favourite releases, such as Fire Emblem: Awakening and The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds.

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Nintendo now selling 'high-capcity' Wii U GamePad battery

December 21st, 2013, 22:32 Posted By: wraggster

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Europeans, whistle for Super Mario Bros. 3 on eShop next week

December 21st, 2013, 23:08 Posted By: wraggster

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Funky Kong returns in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

December 25th, 2013, 20:21 Posted By: wraggster

Following a five-year absence from gaming, Donkey Kong's surfer bro ally Funky Kong will return in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - though it's unclear what exactly he'll be doing.

To date, four cast members have been revealed to be playable in Tropical Freeze: Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong and, as Nintendo revealed at the recent VGX awards show, Cranky Kong. Funky Kong's appearance however, was unceremoniously dumped on Twitter. "Get stoked! Funky Kong makes a radical return in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, coming to #WiiU on 2/21," it reads, making no mention of Funky's role.

Whether Funky is playable, or again appears as the owner of the game's item shop, Tropical Freeze still marks his first appearance in a game since 2008'sMario Super Sluggers.

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Funky Kong returns in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze

December 25th, 2013, 20:28 Posted By: wraggster

Following a five-year absence from gaming, Donkey Kong's surfer bro ally Funky Kong will return in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze - though it's unclear what exactly he'll be doing.

To date, four cast members have been revealed to be playable in Tropical Freeze: Donkey Kong, Diddy Kong, Dixie Kong and, as Nintendo revealed at the recent VGX awards show, Cranky Kong. Funky Kong's appearance however, was unceremoniously dumped on Twitter. "Get stoked! Funky Kong makes a radical return in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze, coming to #WiiU on 2/21," it reads, making no mention of Funky's role.

Whether Funky is playable, or again appears as the owner of the game's item shop, Tropical Freeze still marks his first appearance in a game since 2008'sMario Super Sluggers.

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Princess Zelda, Rainbow Road unwrapped for Super Smash Bros.

December 26th, 2013, 23:17 Posted By: wraggster

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BestBuy offering 20 percent off Nintendo eShop prepaid cards

December 26th, 2013, 23:34 Posted By: wraggster

US retailer BestBuy is offering a 20 percent discount on Nintendo eShop prepaid cards.
Available via stores or its website, the discount is available now until friday, December 27, and applies to all three prepaid card values.
The 20 percent discount means you can get a $20 prepaid card for $16, the $35 card for $28, and the $50 card costs $40.
With most retail games on Wii U and 3DS also released as eShop digital downloads, this effectively means you can get almost any game for the two consoles this Christmas at a 20 percent discount.
New eShop games released last week included Shinobi, Streets of Rage, Castlevania and NES Remix.

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Gatewat 3DS News - 2.02b now available

December 27th, 2013, 00:44 Posted By: wraggster

First of all, thanks to everyone who has been testing our public beta.

We mentioned previously that we would have a solution against accidental updates, but we decided not to release this just yet.
While we did succeed in preventing accidental updates for our test 3DS unit, it took trial and error to get it in that state, and we bricked the unit many times before succeeding.
Ultimately we decided that it was too dangerous for public use right now.

For this release we have accumulated an insane amount of feedback after the initial release of Gateway v2.0b1 and have been hard at work the past weeks to further stabilize some of the new functionality. We are proud to present to you Gateway v2.0b2, the new public beta.


What's new?

* Many stability improvements over previous beta release
* Full support for firmware 7.1 (including saving and emunand GW3D indicator, etc.)

Please note emunand is not essential for latest title compatibility!
For the time being we advise only those with adequate knowledge to attempt to update emunand to latest firmware and make sure you always have at least a hard backup copy of the system nand.

Consider this release as a stop-gap release before the 2.0 final, which will bring exciting new features that are currently being heavily tweaked and optimized.

Merry X-mas from the GATEWAY 3DS Team!

And remember: support the innovators, not the imitators!


Being one of our users’ most common request, we have added a complete video guide to Gateway 3DS in our Download section. This video was created by user iT0uchStuff, who is not part of our team. We would like to warmly thank him for this great video.
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