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It's £250,000 for an episode of the Simpsons too, I was hoping C4 would pick up the 24 contract as well as the Simpsons, but they do have Without a Trace kinda fitting that market of viewers.. They are airing enough American TV on C4 at the moment anyway. How did series 3, 4 and 5 compare to 1 and 2?

Late Summer. Not too hot.. nice breeze down t'beach.

Sorry to rebump, but thought the topic could move on to this news from the French. Revolution-Europe news: Just curious what everyone's thoughts are.. this is Nintendo of Europe which is about as low down as we can get on the heirachy of information at Nintendo.. so if this guy is out there with information to spill perhaps it is likely we will see freehand control. We could have the GameCube edition pushed back to fully integrate Revolution control, which would result in 1 edition of the game, that everyone could enjoy. Or we could have a relatively fast Twilight Princess launch with no free hand control exclusively for the cube, and then a Revolution copy with extras like freehand control, someone mentioned improved graphics. Personally I think 1 edition is far better on all consumers, especially those who feel cheated by nothing having the extras that may be included. Sorry to necropost but this seems like the news everyone has been waiting for as far as Revolution and Zelda is concerned.

In the final episode: ***king hell.

Why do I need a day to tell me when I can eat pancakes? I'm having a freaking cheese cake.

Yeah, thinking about it.. my point about classic consoles having a directive on the dev kit is quite crazy.. as we saw on the four swords they can manage it, I just thought it would be good to kinda.. get that classic feel for a game. But honestly, even if they did bring out a new classic style Mario.. i'd still be inundated with so many classic games that I missed out on. It would also decrease potential sales of new Revolution games. My theory is bullshit.

Hapland 1 and 2, the best flash game ever, with no exceptions. It's extremely taxing on your mind and took me 3 days to solve.. it's good fun. Hapland Hapland 2 Have fun, Don't PM me or the creator for hints.. you're only cheating yourselves!!

I have a small developping country in my garage.. Just don't tell the tax man okay? If IGN matt is whoring our threads (as I noted a few Revolution blogs have basically lifted 2 of my posts) maybe we should start making dummy posts Make fools of them. I'm really liking the idea that the Revolution has laser beams with sharks. or mutated sea bass.

"The only safe computer is one in its box unplugged in a dark room"

iPods rock, I'm waiting for built in radio and user replaceable batteries. I don't want to link you to illegal activity but if you search there is a hack for removing DRM from iTunes files in one amazing swoosh, if you know what you're doing quality can be preserved when ripping and burning.. but nothing comes close to CDs. EVER. I mainly rock CDs, and use iTunes music store to pick up a few odds and socks, exotics tunes which are harder to find or just plain not worth buying a whole album for. I use a 256kbps VBR lame encoding MP3 codec which peaks at about 2.1mb per minute, it is as low as I am willing to compromise to have my CDs portable on an mp3 player.. it's almost as good as the real CD but lacks that depth.

Opera ships in 2 packages, 1 for classic DS 1 for the DS lite (presumably in all 3 colours) It will make it for a worldwide launch while the TV tuner is destined for Japan owners only (mainly because their TV networks are broadcasting for small devices already and we're not) Opera will be a full functional browser, it will support java script, but not java or flash.. so it's gonna be a pretty good browser basically. It should be fully featured, I'm hoping for an RSS reader. Basically you access the Opera browser from the DS cart in the main menu, and the browser cache will be stored on a GBA flash card which is being supplied with the system. Hence the need for 2 packages, 1 for DS lite so the cart is flush with the systems edges. Presumably it will store favourites permanently and settings for websites.. but if it doesn't you can always use a service like del.icio.us. Aparently GMail relies heavily on javascript but it should theoretically work.. here's to hoping. Rendering speeds can be difficuilt to tell, the wifi network capacity is pretty big, the rendering speed of the processor (images, etc) will be the limiting factor when viewing a website I expect. Here's to a whole lot of hoping.. Opera have a lot of experience and the video I've seen and the 'full screen' scrolling rendering using the touch pad looks like a great idea. I have faith they'll pull out something that rivals any mobile phone, PDA and the flash and java loss is worth it by not carrying a laptop around. I'm also hoping the flash card can be used for downloading files, including patches to the system.

I just don't think there's space for this self controlled shit. Japanese people have tiny hands on the hole.. Iwata is a small guy. And that controller looked smaller than a good mobile phone in his hands.. I saw one of those torches too, it was a cheap plastic one and the charging thing took up the hole shaft of the torch.

That's what I'm curious about... I have a suspicion that Nintendo will only offer the back catalog, and Revolution support.. there wont be any 'Nintendo wifi arcarde' that offers new small downloads.

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Sorted then, if it's compatible then it's probably definite that the Wavebird peripheral must be plugged in.

Hahaha yeah that was in a movie first, the guy used it so he could watch the sports on ESPN while taking a crap.. obviously was adopted for gamers. Yeah I think it would be reasonable for Nintendo to implement an RFID tracker that is compatible with wavebird and Revolution's free hand controller.

That's another thing I was curious about the other day.. whether people without internet access would be able to buy 'virtual console' games in retail shops, perhaps on CD (they're pretty cheap).. and then upload it to the console that way.. then the DRM technology would handle the rest of it on the virtual console. Nintendo said they want to protect their games with DRM really thoroughly so it may be the case that they rule out people who don't have wifi, and go down the lines of a subscription service where if Revolution doesn't talk to Nintendo wifi within 30 days for example you get locked out of your games.. to ensure you're not hacking or misusing content illegally. Also does the dev kit support the older consoles.. I'm curious whether Nintendo will leave Nintendo's back catalog clean crisp and preserved as Reggie expressed his wishes for. He said he wanted to play his classic games how they used to play.. and no tweaking. Which brings me on to my main point whether there will be new mini games, new releases for SNES and N64 for the smaller developpers as SpinesN pointed out.

That was Miyamoto's inspiration for the Revolution controller. Basically patents are great but at the end of the day.. Hellfire is right I bet 60% of the ideas companies like Microsoft, Apple and Nintendo file never get used.. I might eat my hat at a later date but I pretty much ruled out projection technology in Revolution.. I could be wrong though. We could be here hours debating Nintendo philosophy, Economic experience.. Marketting strategies. But my time can be used better elsewhere. If no other news comes through today I'll read it tonight.

Yeah, if the wired hardware works that means the ports can't have changed radically (like to digital from analog or something) While it wont be pretty, and you might have to have your console angled at the place you're sitting (it's infa red ain't it?) it should work fine. You might get really lucky and find that Nintendo have built the reciever into it for you but that's a big might.

I just dunno if it has the depth to make it worth bothering.. The dual shock 2 was a great piece of kit, it was solid and shed half the weight of the original and added the analog buttons.. I have a suspicion that it's gonna be a nice responsive feeling button. But it's gonna be mono-pusho If any of them do it will be the B button for sure, because our index finger has a great deal of control, we could get that headshot in so much quicker in an FPS. If you think about it though.. we have the wand motions already. If you want to fight harder, you simply swing the controller harder.. if you want to hit the tennis ball lighter in a rally.. you backhand a little lighter. You have that dimension with Revolution that you just don't need in buttons anymore. not to mention the analogue stick which has a lot of middle ground over a D-pad.

I see what you mean Raven, I dug up an interview where he said it will go to PC, but there will be 2 spin offs for handhelds which will be based on parts of the game.. it wont be a port so to speak but it will satisfy his creative intentions. So he said how he could concentrate on making the beast sections of the game as broad as possible. Rumours are out there of 360 releases from the heads at Microsoft, and Revolution from forums and speculation.. I think a cross platform release for all 4 platforms would be quite likely, with the PSP or more likely than the DS getting the spin offs he mentioned.

I played a few of the European indie games made in NET YAROZE and YABASIC, they were all pretty piss poor, someone made a cool game called gravitas or gravitation I think. That was pretty rad. edit. Yeah I was reading about that recently, it's Sony's theory that their absolutely great movie quality on UMD has been inhibitting game sales.. while they acknowledge that they need to catch up in this area they are limiting UMD sales to hopefully boost game sales. They're shooting themselves in the foot if you ask me, they just need to get the good games out ASAP then people will buy them over movies. The new DVD UMD box sets wont help them either.. because they're super cheap I hear.

http://revo-europe.com/forum/showpost.php?p=96424&postcount=28 I'll try to cut down but I just can't help myself.. the foum would be pretty boring if it was just - Thread topic: Speculation #1047410 Replies: Nah [insert proof and examples] Done.

Shelf space will represent console sales and nothing more, well maybe a bit of symmetry in design of the shop too. If there is more of X console out there than Y console, you will find more X games on the shelves.. because statistically there will also be more profit to be made from customers. For example, despite many Nintendo fanboys comments the PSP and DS have been doing about equally in Europe, DS has an edge but it's not monolithic.. in my store there is roughly equal DS/PSP allocation of floor space. I think another factor that has to be taken into consideration is how the shop profits.. half the PSP section is devoted to UMD films because lets face it the games aren't rocking the socks of the PSP owners are they? The shop profits from the movies considerably.. they stock more. Less GameCubes? Less shelf space is what we saw.. and the few places that stock the games have a high price margin to make up for the loss in sales. £40 for Mario Sunshine/Double Dash in some places.

Oh I'm sorry but last time I checked the topic was dead, we concluded that the first party controller will connected by a wire and mad catz are free to do what they want but we expect due to the limitations of the wireless frequencies it may in fact be impossible to have 8 individual wireless devices being co-ordinated all at once. So you can suck my balls if you think I'm going 'off topic' because it's over. It's still related to wireless peripherals.. and if you knew anything about guarana you'd also know that I was being sarcastic.. he's been adopted as the clown of the forum thanks to some of his comments over the last few days. I was merely poking fun at him because he managed to miss his mouth.