Jasper

Nice panorramic pciture over here. Feels cut 'n paste because of it's depth. Nice one.

Introducing: DS Download Channel. The Channel that allows you to stream specified games, downloaded through the Wii Shop Channel, to your DS for playing in original form. i've included a DS screenshot, too. I had an idea recently, but it's not easy to explain. I'll give it a go, anyway: A 'Tellii' Channel in wich you can stream live television, but not just television, but television made by Wii users. If you buy the Game 'Telly' you can create television soaps, shows (even live shows) and let them stream to the telly Channel - wich is one every Wii and free to use. Together with some friends, you form a real Television Channel (everybody makes a show per day, and they combine to a network). Using SD cards, you can upload logo's for your telly, programs, upload music and sounds to use in your shows and add movies (if you want news). Using the Wii Microphone (I made that one up) you can speak the voices and so on... Broadcast yourself using your personal Mii's and making shows. You place camera's and design studios, and use the nunchuk to move the camera's and the Z-button on it to switch between them. Use your remote to interact with the world and control the characters in your show. Afterwards, cut the show and broadcast it ('Wiicast'). You can earn Wiipoints with advertiments (you can ask to advertise your shows on networks, but any company can make their ad and send them out in exchange for their Wiipoint, like real advertisements, but payed with Wiipoints). You can trade your Wiipoints for new characters, sets and so on in the shop. Wouldn't that be great?

It doesn't seem to go better than the photoshop your Wii Game thread. Well, still time to post all of you!

Nice. Would have bein great if it was actually included, 'cause it seems like some nifty little extra's to hide extra things in...

Afraid you lose your place in line? Never seen anyone do this before... Ah well, if you want to pork on that spot... :wink:

Wasn't the development of Super paper mario transferred to Wii and canned for GameCube? I thought so...

Or because it's a western town with tipis and torn-down houses that look as if they were build ages ago? They should have named it differently, because this isn't OoT's Kakarike Village anymore. That Kakariko was a nice and lively town. This one is cold and almost dead. The Temple of Time in OoT was more confined, smaller, and therefore more interesting. it was there because it needed it and it looked good. The new one is the - very populair, lately - gignatic sized version that 'just that little bit over the top'. That's what i think. And I would have liked it better if there was no loading time between The Sacred Grove and The Old Temple of Time. That would make the whole experience even better. Nice temple, though. It's not nostalgia why i prefer OoT or Majora's Mask. It's the fact that those games had this magic in the air. The intense feeling of magic. It was a great experience and nothing could cope with it. Zelda is, no doubt, great, but Twilightn Princess isn't the 'faithfull to the old' game. They have all the old location, but they're completely different from what they once were. Don't get me wrong: I didn't want a reworked OoT, but the Temple of Time was small in the Hylian History and needs to remain that. And Zora's Domain was bigger on the inside and behind a waterfall, not accesable to everyone. Oh, and zora's didn't look like men with fish on their heads. They suck. They look wrong. Good game, though. Does anyone know how to restore the western bridge to town (and the flown of hot springwater)? And how you can give hot springwater to the goron in the south of the town? Link always pours it over his feet and doesn't give it to him...

I think he tried that by now. He read that for about six times now, and maybe the problem's with the Nunchuk...

No, not 'macs graphics > Wii', solitanze. A computer is not only a CPU. The Wii is capable of processing these graphics, but because games require much more calculations than an OS or a program like Word - don't forget ht needs to process polygons, new objects and computer-operated objects - the output resolution is still lower than that one of a Mac itself. Don't confuse this. A Mac can output 1024x768 and higher (up to 1240x1080 or 'HD', a fancy term for something computers had a long time ago), because of it's on-board RAM and it's not-so-heavy rendering system (there's no need to render polygons and such). Also, G3 processor were used two generations (two years in Apple's generation, total of four) ago and are now updated to be able to output more. This CPU of the Wii needs to do more and calculate more, so a lower output resolution is the only possibility. The Wii could output HD, but at a framerate of what? 5 frames per second? 2? So, the Wii outputs 720x480 (interlaced or progressive) on a higher, playable framerate. Try to make the equation and you'll see. Macs from long ago didn't support games that were at 1024x768 resolution. Test your own Windows computer, most games are toned-down to the resolution of 800x600, a little like our tv's 765x480.

Let's show you what you're asking, exactly: can you think of any other idea? Can you? Nope, and that's why all those games stick the same formula: because there's no replacement. I've bein trying to think of one for years, but I can't. I don't think there is, either. What I would love to see happening with the series is a story of grief, heartbreak and dying dreams. It should enchant people - like that one moment with Midna dying on your back - and put them to playing the story. Like Majora's Mask did. Tell a story of grief and heartbreak and make people involved themselves. It's so different from any other Zelda story. I think that would be the best way for thee series: become more serious and not disrupt these seriously beautifull moments with a sound like the one midna makes...

I'de go for Excite Truck, if it wasn't simply because it looked awesome on the GameSport launch video. It looked like a great deal of fun. I'm waiting for Mario Galaxy or Metroid Prime 3.

I mostly felt you were being pushed around in this game. You didn't choose where to go next, Midna pushed you. Now, that's too linear. You all know what I thought of the dungeons, well, the overal adventure feels too much 'pushed' in the right direction. I hate that. I defy that. 'Maybe we should see the desert now?', 'Th sages said something about the sky... Why don'tt we find that guy who was talking about sky beings?'. After that you'de get the point on the map where to go. In Ocarina of Time it was less pin-pointed and map-heavy. I find that a lot of the magic ios lost hrough stupid faults that could give that game that little bit extra... Don't take it wrong, I love the game. IKt's just overrated. It's not worth as much as previous Zelda's. So NGamer, your 97% was a little over the top...

They let you toggle in Ocarina of Time, too. I always kept the button down when focuses, but Majora's Mask had it on Hold as a standard. never really noticed...

How the hell does that rapidsharee work anyway? i never get a file downloaded from that site. Mostly because i've 'already reached the limit for free users'. That site doesn't make any sense - at all. If you add me on MSN I'll upload it on my webspace so everyone can easely listen to it. My MSN is [email protected] . I'll send you the link after you send me the file. It would be way easier that way than rapidshare. It's not rapid. At all.

The Wind Waker didn't feel rushed in the end because of lame bosses, but because of a lack of dungeons. They could have easely added five more dungeons and hid the Triforce pieces in there. No, instead, some morron spread the pieces over a flooded hyrule and made maps to find them. Even worse, the game didn't really require you to find Triforce Pieces, it required you to find heaps of money just to pay the map-reader 'Kooloh Limpah!' Tingle. That was a quirky ending. I would have liked it if you could stroll over Hyrule field on the bottom of the ocean and if they had impelemented two or three dungeons down there to find two or three pieces of Triforce. Not that that actually makes more sense, but it wouldn't have felt so rushed. Don't get me wrong, Wind Waker was great, but many of the islands felt as if they were ment to be more then just mere rupee-holders. Why weren't they portals to the world below? Why couldn't we go to the gorons under water? Or the Zora's River? Come on, Nintendo, everybody would have loved to see that. Twilight Princess has got me with that, too. I expected it to be a little more 'switchable' between the twilight and the light world. Making puzzles about the two merging. Instead, there's one world at the time and after you are freed of the curse of the twilight, I didn't see myself using the wolf form anywhere. Except in the last part, but that's when we're in the twilight again. It felt rushed towards the end, certainly the three last dungeons (after the dungeon in the dessert). Don't get me wrong, it was a good experience, but it isn't giving me Ocarina a run for it's money, and it's certainly no Majora' Mask-esque game of the demise of the world. God I loved that game...

Not quite the best list, then. Man, we all know what's the most innovative item this year. It's the new Barbie doll. Forget Wii, Sketchup, the Dual Core and Office. Welcome barbie RV Wagon! Or something like that. It doesn't even matter wich Barbie is the most innovative, as long as it's Barbie. Or Wii. Wii makes a fair good chance.

No, because if it was they wouldn't have worked on it for a full four years. Those guys have improved the details, thrown away any PDF support (I can't even remember it was ever in there) and inserted their 'Metro' support. XML, to be short - wich is inferior to the great Portable Document Format. Wich is why it's an industry standard. Off course, they have bein rescripting the entire thing to work for Vista in the last two years. They improved the look, speed and support. But it's still worthless compared to what the creative suite can do. I hate layout in word - inDesign is far more qualified for this. But off course, Excel doesn't really have anything that comes close to it. Theere's no 'professional' excel avaible. No need for it, either.

When something is new, certainly in the software sector, it's pointed as innovative or revolutionizing. Just like everything in Windows Vista will be new and revolutionizing, while MacOs X had them implemented two years ago. it's just touted as that right now. I know it's silly, but Office isn't at all in the same league as the Wii. You can't compare that and if you place one above another it's based on a personal opinion only. Just like asking someone if he wants a teddybear or a furnace. Moms will say furnace, sons will say teddy bears. That doesn't make any of both better or worse, but a personal preference. That's why we all want Wii on the top.

Totally. And then you'de drop thousand miles down. Who actually makes these temples? They don't make any sense. Why build a Sky Temple with only half-a-floor and sometimes-bridges. Or well you make a floor, or well you don't. it's that simple. No, to make it hard for a hero to free their temple, they just, well, delete half the floor and replace the other half with blocks that don't hold anyone or anything. Now that's plain stupid. And they call themselves a superior ancient race. That's my trouble with temples - they never make any real sense. Why the hell is there a temple of that sky? I loved how they implemented the fourth Dungeon - we all know wich one, the one with the best boss battle - giving it an ancient purpose instead of making a religion for sand or something. And that's why I also loved the Snowhead temple. Because it made some god-damned sense.

So did my wallet when he found out I defended him. He smiles, actually. And then we went for a drink (out of, the fridge, you know) and made a walk. and we laughed. Let's stop talking about my living wallet. I'm not Harry Potter. In fact, I'm not British at all and in no way affiliated to the weirdos at the Twycross' rare offices. So no reason to talk about him and make him staring in his own game, like Mr. Pants.

And the GameCube is an ancient mac is disguise. The GameCube uses a modified G3 processor codenamed 'Gekko'. The Wii uses a modified Gekko processor called 'Broadway'.

I've played Mario Kart: Double Dash!! (those two do look silly in the middle of a sentence) with my niece a while back and I hated it. The controls feel innatural and the controller feels so - how do you say that - fat, lugish and wired. Tacked on, so to say. I didn't like it. I'm happy with the Wiimote, though I don't think the nunchuk should be used more. At least, games to atract new gamers must never use the nunchuk, because it will be to much buttons again, and let's face it, Nintendo didn't want that. Monkey Ball. I've bought it two days ago and hated my first experience. After a level or four I started to get a hang to the controls but still felt it was astonishingly hard. Haven't played it since, but will very soon. I didn't pay the full €60 to drop the game in the 'in-animated objects' bin. Not that I have one.

Thanks for the compliment, but you didn't think my accent isn't exagurated? Don't know where I picked it up (probably those annoying talkinjg dinosaurs in Starfox Adventures. Or not.) but I heard that it sounded a little artificial. So if you guys don't think that, i'm happy. Please say that it isn't over-the-top? Can't help it when I'm speaking English...

Wii actually uses a modified G3 ('Gekko' enhanced to 'Hollywood') processor, not a G5. A G5 would make it possible for the Wii to run HD, but would also need more fans and so on.. That's a little why a computer costs €1000 and a game console a quarter of that. Because it's a stripped-down computer. The next generation will be stuck, that's for sure. Because although Nintendo still can upgrade to HD, the others don't have a nxt nstandard. ultra HD is so real it sickens people when watching it, so, well, there's not much more to do. Yes, the Wii uses a processor previously only seen in macs. So it's probably using the engine from Opera on Mac and can be interpreted for a mac. And to help this discussion ending in an Apple vs. Windows topic: Go Apple! That's why Nintendo is inspired by Apple. Because they are bloody good.

Could perhaps a mod place the thing with the important topics, so that everyone remains involved? Just an idea, though. Flameboy: you're right, it's best to get the forum to a new medium. everyone: I've posted my examplke on the following site. Tell me what you think: My personal Podcast (1:45)