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Music is definately something that will keep me hooked into a game. A catchy theme will always keep me coming back. Warioware Smooth Moves has me coming back all the time just so I can hear the odd soundbyte or two over and over again. I loved the music in Blast Corps, that and its tight original game play had me addicted for hours. I wish I could find another game like that.

I did a body test last night after doing 40mins of various exercises and one of the tests was the Walking test in which I managed to score 100%. I was really surprised at this. Then my Wii-Fit age was calculated (I'm 33) and I came in at 26......then a green block smashed that number down to 25. That was a freaky surprise and I was well chuffed with that result. I love little surprises like that. Makes me think there are other little treats instore for me which gives me that incentive to keep coming back.

I have yet to experience using Wii Fit, but from what I can tell it has two pressure sensitve pads on it, one for each foot. Could this mean you could use it for racing games with one pad acting like an accelerator and one pad being the break? It would respond depending on how much pressure you put on it. Thats my two cents.

If this turns out to be true my life will be complete. I wanna whip with the wiimote and hear the crack of it come out of the speaker. Oh yes! Dear God make this happen and be a fully fledged disc based game too with that awesome castlevania music

Hello everyone. I'm not sure if anyone can help with this little problem but I have recently bought a Pioneer LX70 receiver for my home theatre set up. Unfortunately after about 10 - 15 minutes use it locks up on me. By this I mean none of the buttons will operate and I can't change any settings including the input settings, volume or even switch it off. I've looked in the trouble shooting pages and it advises I should switch off at the wall and then switch on again. Even after doing this the power will not return (unless I leave it off at the wall for 5 or more minutes. I've taken the unit back for a replacement and got one but now the replacement unit does exactley the same thing. Upon further reading of the instructions I noticed that it is recommended that I use speakers with a nominal impedence of 8 ohnms or more. My current speakers are 4 ohms (they are Wharfedales). Could this be the cause of the problem? The sales team where I bought it from don't seem to know. Any advice? Cheers

I sometimes feel like I'm going through some sort of gaming puberty and my hormones are all over the place. One minute I feel like having a blast then the next I'm thinking about how it's all such a chore. Nostalgia is messing with my head big time. I keep thinking how great it was when I would buy a new game not knowing a thing about it, just looking at the back and thinking 'this looks cool - lets buy it'. This happened to me when purchasing games such as Super Metroid, Secret of Mana and Goldeneye. Back then I only had access to magazines for any snippets of info, none of this internet business. Nowadays my opinions are clouded with news and reviews from all sorts of avenues. I'm currently having difficulty getting enthused about Zack and Wiki. I have it and have started playing it but I feel that I need to devote hours of time to it and that to me seems daunting when there are so many other responsibilities in life (curse getting older). I'm also playing Tomb Raider and that has lots of little checpionts dotted through out that I can feel less pressured and intimidated by it. My feelings are all over the place right now but I think I'm losing interest which is a sad thing for me. Being a stubborn Nintendo only gamer doesn't help either but I really don't have time to play every good game on 3 different consoles let alone one. Perhaps I should just go back to picking a game off a shelf if I like the look of it and not have any preconceived expectations of it. If it turns out great then cool, if it turns out to be a pile of poo then thats my tough bickies.

Watching my niece and nephew play the dance level on Warioware Smooth Moves. The smiles on their faces nearly bought tears to my eyes. As short as that game is I think it's pure brilliance in terms of fun factor. No other game as managed to make my friends and family laugh so much. The speed at which stuff happens in that game makes me feel happy and alive.

I have also just puchased an HD TV (Pioneer 50" Kuro) and I have to say some games look fantastic while others are not so good. Wario Ware - Smooth Moves is positively chocolate for the eyes. Resident Evil 4 however doesn't look that great. Umbrella Chronicles does look lovely though. Wii Sports has a few jaggies but I'm not worries by that. For some reason I prefer sharp jaggies to smooth blurries. I like to have my Wii display on my TV at 480p. No upscaling for me as it blurrs the image.

Just found out that NZ and Australia are getting the "Black Ash" edition of this game too. No red stuff for us either. Oh well thats poos but then again life is like that. I'm thinking no blood for any PAL version release.

Sorry guys, I didn't realize I was supposed to comment on the above post. My mistake.

I work for a citizenship office here in NZ and we have ceremonies for people who have been appointed new citizens. One applicant who was from Iraq just recieved his certificate of Citizenship and my team leader congratulated him with the following comments, "You must be so pleased to finally be a Kiwi citizen. You can wake up each moring and not worry about having a bomb go off in your back yard" God I just stood there cringing, while the poor applicant just nervously laughed the comment off. It's not the first innapropriate comment she's made during a citizenship ceremony.

To be honest I'm not sure. I've heard the Wii is doing really well in Aussie but here in NZ I get the impression it's a different story. No TV advertising. Mailout brochures have pages and pages dedicated to PSP/PS2/PS3 advertisingwith little or no Nintendo products. Everything is bought to you by Playstation sponsoring. The Sony Brand is mammoth over here. Shop windows are littered with Playstation gear and lastnight I saw a PSP, PS2 and PS3 advert all within 10 minutes of each other on the tele. I'm glad the Wii is doing well in Europe, you guys are lucky to have all the advertising and support this time round. Over here it just feels like the Gamecube all over again. It's quite sad. I feel like a lone Nintendo player.

I wish they would bloody well advertise down here. In the past year I've seen about 4 Wii Adverts and a trillion PS3 adverts. No problem getting a wii here folks, the shops are full of them. The last promotion I saw for the Wii was on the news the other night about a retirement home that had got one to entertain the elderly folks. They like to call it Nantendo. What a brilliant image that portrays in a country where Nintendo is generally hated. I'm bitter about the state of things down here in case you couldn't tell. It's been going on too long.

Quick question. I'm going to get this game next week when it finally arrives and I like to collect everything I can and see as much of the game as I can before fighting the final Boss and finishing the game. Can you do this, can you collect 120 stars before beating Bowser and seeing the end or do you have to beat Bowser after so much and then go back for the rest? Cheers guys

Thank you Illusionary for that link. I should of thought of that site myself as I've been there previously for other guides Silly me.

Well I finally finished this wonderful game and clocked in 28 hours and 33minutes, with a 94% completion rate on normal mode. I have a question regarding an energy cell I can't locate. It's in the hidden courtyard on Bryyo but I cannot for the life of me figure out how to get it. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I sometimes have trouble getting my finger to stay on the Z button, last night I was playing Metroid 3 and got the spider ball upgrade and trying to stay gripped onto some of the rails was a nightmare. My finger was sweating and sliding all over the place. I cursed lots.

One of the best memories was finishing the secret Special Levels in Super Mario World (Gnarley, Awesome, Tubular etc) and seeing "YOU ARE A SUPER PLAYER" spelt out in coins. I was so proud of myself I nearly cried. Then to my surprise the Map screen graphics changed colour and I thought - holy shit the games completely changed and it's all new again!! Sadly that wasn't entirely the case but it was still very cool.

This game just got released over here and I've played it for two and a half hours and clocked up 5% so far. I'm gonna take my sweet time with this, scan everthing that can be scanned and just bask in the environments as so far they are just beautiful. As Galaxy is released on the 29th of Nov I've got plenty of time to spend. Oh Yeah!!!

I sometimes dream about storms and really bad weather like tornadoes and stuff. Those dreams are usually the longest and most vivid. I also have a recurring dream about that spooky looking Amityville house (you know the one with the eyes). I always wake up petrified with my heart racing away.

Anything on Warioware: Smooth Moves. The tunes are short but catchy. I especially love the tune that you have to dance to. Puts a smile on my face. Can't wait to hear the Metroid 3 music, reading lots of positive comments on it. Nov 8th can't come soon enough.

You scream out "I'm the Best" in a high pitched voice at any opputune moment.

I've just read on an EB Games Website(NZ) that MP3 is getting released on the 10th of December over here. Christ on a stick! It's not fair. Just because I live at the arse end of the planet I have to wait over a month more than you guys. God, all I do is whinge. I really hope this is a mistake. Are there any Aussies on this forum who have heard of a similar date for Australia?

I still have mixed feelings about the name. Don't get me wrong I love my Wii but looking back I feel in some respects Nintendo didn't really capitalize on the name as much as they could. Wii - We - Us - You and Me, more than one person. So Why couldn't they have bundled the console with two Wiimotes and nunchucks. It's not like they can't afford it. The console is designed to appeal to everyone afterall. Also I feel some third parties arn't taking the console seriously due to the name - Wii - Wee - Cute - kiddie. Although I'm probably wrong here, at least I hope so. I'd just like more 3rd parties to put their larger more serious games on Nintendo's machine. Mind you the thing is still under a year old so anything is possible yet. I do enjoy telling people how much I enjoy playing with my Wii and they look at me sideways thinking "ok um...kinky" All in all it's a unique name and I think it works in Nintendo's favour.

I finally got this game yesterday and I have to say I am enjoying it apart from the VILE sound effect of the text appearing on screen. That is the most irritating sound ever to grace my ears. The intro was barely watchable due to that irritating sound, other than that I think I'll enjoy this game and look at it as a platformer. The characters don't seen to show much depth so far, certainly not as much as the Thousand Year Doors characters anyway. Also My Wii did a system update when I inserted the disc. I now have Version 2.1E and have noticed subtle differences to the Wii Menu. But best of all when I post a note I don't get that poxy "files corruption" message anymore, things just tick along nicely. SO HAPPY about that.