Hero-of-Time Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Dont know if this has been posted yet as I have been busy today, if it has just lock and get rid of it. Anyway.......... Nintendo have added a promising feature to the Wii's Virtual Console channel known as "Warp Zone". The feature compliments the classic range by offering a historical look at one of the best video game companies to date. To access the Warp Zone, players must click on a small smiling face on the Virtual Console menu that'll open access to the Warp Zone for all your retro knowledge needs. "This is your secret doorway into another dimension; a portal into the past, if you will." Currently the section is fairly empty but Nintendo promises a collection of facts and trivia on its biggest name characters and franchises; an interactive encyclopedia if you will. Definitely good news for fans of gaming trivia and Nintendo. Hopefully with the Warp Zone in place, it'll be packed full of gaming knowledge for all to see in the future. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
THE ganondorflol Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 cheers, hero! now if only i could get my Datel LAN adapter to work so i could check it out. I envy you so much... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 pretty cool feature hope it gets filled up soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tellyn Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Noticed this the other day. I think it would be better if they actually had an option to go into it like Wii Ware and Virtual Console Games, then you select a game and you read trivia about it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darksnowman Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Yeah, I spied this last weekend. It sounds good and lets hope that theres plenty of fun facts and stuff to be learned through it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 I do believe that this arrive along with when super mario bros. arrived onto the VC console, and it updates every friday. This week it had stuff about OoT from what I saw at a glance, or was that something else? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ShadowV7 Posted February 23, 2007 Share Posted February 23, 2007 Can't say I noticed this. Oh wait Alttp isn't up no wonder I didn't notice and bother going on the Shope Channel:angry: Is a nifty feature though and hope we get weekly updates or something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 It was announced two weeks ago in the smily itself ('It's a secret, but we never thought you'de find it! From now on we'll do something called the Warp Zone over here', a rough translation since I get the Dutch version). Old news, sorry. I was surprised some sites only posted it today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I just thought the smiley was there for the fun of it! I've never clicked on the headlines so never would have found it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rummy Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 It was announced two weeks ago in the smily itself ('It's a secret, but we never thought you'de find it! From now on we'll do something called the Warp Zone over here', a rough translation since I get the Dutch version). Old news, sorry. I was surprised some sites only posted it today. I thought so! I think it's because this week they changed the smilie into a bit more of an evil one, or something, I just remember seeing a > in it and it looking different, so I clicked it and just saw some stuff about OoT. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 I thought so! I think it's because this week they changed the smilie into a bit more of an evil one, or something, I just remember seeing a > in it and it looking different, so I clicked it and just saw some stuff about OoT. Could it be it had something of Mario-games before it? I'm not sure, but I know I read it before. And before the smiley there was a dot: the so called 'secret section' - you know, with no relevant info. I just want Nintendo to speed up the service. Can't they make it load faster? Or be on the fast side of the system? You know, come pre-loaded on it. Would save me time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AshMat Posted February 24, 2007 Share Posted February 24, 2007 http://www.wikipedia.org http://www.google.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flameboy Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 Could it be it had something of Mario-games before it? I'm not sure, but I know I read it before. And before the smiley there was a dot: the so called 'secret section' - you know, with no relevant info. I just want Nintendo to speed up the service. Can't they make it load faster? Or be on the fast side of the system? You know, come pre-loaded on it. Would save me time. I think once the online functions of the Wii are more fleshed out it may be faster, when they have more dedicated Wii servers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kazzahdrane Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 It's nothing to do with the speed of the Wii servers, it's the fact that the Wii can't cache the web pages, unlike Microsoft's Xbox Live Arcade. The difference in usability between the two services is like night and day, Nintendo really need to improve the online experience by the time online games start appearing over here. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jasper Posted February 26, 2007 Share Posted February 26, 2007 How much memory of the Wii would it need to cache all the pages? Ten blocks? Twenty? I'm willing to sacrifice that for speed here. And thanks to WiiConnect24 they can easely update those pages when necessary. Come on, Nintendo. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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