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Dcubed

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  1. Hi, my new HDTV and my Wii component cables arrived yesterday and it looks like sex! (My TV is the Samsung LE32R74BDX)

     

    I may post some pics later on if I can be bothered but it works great, no scaling lag (even with Game mode turned off!) and PQ even better than RGB Scart on an SDTV! (Everything looks so full and all the colours are nice and inky :grin:)

     

    A word to those looking at the Wii on a HDTV, please for the love of everything that is holy and sacred, PLEASE TURN THE SHARPNESS DOWN! or else the game will look like that pixelated mess you see above. Turning the sharpness down makes it look much better as it smooths out most of the jaggies (I've turned down my sharpness to 30/100 and it still looks sharp, without most of the jaggies)

  2. Import Madness are terrible, I order Animal Crossing from them and they didn't even ship the game! (After about a month of waiting and the game was apparantly in stock)

     

    I got my money back though, so they're not scammers at least... They're just incompitent!

  3. PAL 60 is 60hz. PAL 60 = 640 x 480 (or 852 x 480 for widescreen) at 60hz. This is the same as NTSC, PAL 50 is higher resolution but only runs at 50hz. Since 50hz is crap with games, there's no point even thinking about it since you'll want to run it in PAL 60 anyway.

     

    So that's why we all say it just runs in 480p.

  4. The Wii does 480i/p in 60hz and 576i/p in 50hz. So you get the normal PAL resolution but the game runs slower (So it's no good)

     

    BTW, I've got my eyes set on one of those 32" R7 series Sammy LCDs (Game mode and price appeal to me. I've given up looking for a viable 480p solution so I'm trying to make the best of a bad situation) How are they with upscaling?

     

    BTW if anyone is wondering what this "Game mode" is, it's a mode that turns off most of the processing to cut down on scaling lag.

  5. Well that's just Hudson, will Nintendo be willing to follow suit in regards to NTSC only games? we'll have to wait and see. At least Chrono Trigger is a possibility now! MAKE IT HAPPEN SQUARE-ENIX!

     

    Edit: Hang on there's no Super Mario Bros in that list WTF!!! That's Bullshit!!! No Super Mario World I can kinda understand but not even SMB? Fuck that shit!!!

     

    Good news about Wario Ware though (Same time as US roughly) not so good about Excite Truck :(

  6. SHIT! NOOO!!!!

     

    Interesting that Mikami is continuing to work with Capcom under contract (He just can't seem to bear to give them up) thank goodness he's still there.

     

    This will be a huge blow to Capcom, two major game designers have just left. As far as major talent goes, they still have Mikami and Kenji Inafune there and they don't seem to be going anywhere so that's good.

     

     

    I guess Clover just cost too much to keep running (as their game sales probably didn't cover the costs of running the studio) but a lot of the staff went to Clover because they wanted to get away from the centralisation within Capcom. Now that that lifeline has been cut, they have no choice but to leave.

     

    The question is, where will Hideki Kamiya and Atsushi Inaba go now? Will they start up their own company or will they go with someone else (Imagine if they joined Nintendo!)

  7. It could just be Winning Eleven on the Wii. After all, WE came out on the GCN but they didn't bother making a Pro Evolution for it now did they?

     

    That being said, I think some of these ideas for the Wiimote could be pretty cool (Although I don't know if strapping the Wiimote to your foot is the most practical of solutions!)

  8. I'm importing this time, I regretted going PAL this generation and I've learnt my lesson. With the news that Ninty have region locked the VC meaning that you can't download the likes of Chrono Trigger, Earthbound and Super Mario RPG I now feel even more vindicated in my decision to import this time.

     

    So who's importing the Wii and where from? (I'm probably gonna go with VGPlus, they've never let me down!)

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