Wiiva la Revolution!! {News Topic}

[Blackjim]

και για να μην ξενερωνουνε οι fans,

να και ενα video στο οποιο το Wii κατεβαζει το NES Zelda μεσα απο το Wii Virtual Console

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87W-x5LAVSM&eurl=

kai poso paei to malli gi auta ta games?

Ena ISS64 tha to katevaza pantws

[Exoskeletor]

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PS ..στην εκθεση γνωρισα και τον Exoskeletor ο οποιος ειναι πολυ καλο παιδι ...και υποσχομαι να μην ξαναμαλωσω μαζι του ....!!!

 

Pote prolabate kai figate,ego eblepa kati kopeles pou pezane kai kolisa.. ti grafika.. oi kopeles

 

Eides telika bgenei kai aplo xeirhsthrio

[apple64]

Μπράβο ρε συ P3tran!!! Από δύο φωτογραφίες έβγαλες το συμπέρασμα ότι το Wii είναι 1,5χGamecube! Μάτια με X-ray και τρελές γνώσεις λιθογραφίας έχεις προφανώς.

 

ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ: Δεν λέω ότι είναι γρηγορότερο. Απλά σχολιάζω τον τρόπο που βγαίνουν τα συμπεράσματα.

[privateer]

[Braveheart1980]

http://www.wewillwii.com/index.php

 

Eβαλα και την αφεντομουτσουναρα μου

Αν θελετε και εχετε και εσεις βιντεακια,please share!

[StavrosD]

Ελπίζω κάποια μέρα να δούμε κάτι αντίστοιχο του USB Extreme ή του HD Advanced και στο Wii

[Braveheart1980]

Failure of playstation 3

 

 

Gamers pay dues for a Wii

 

Pair get paid to camp out for a PlayStation 3, then use money to buy beloved Nintendo

Nov. 19, 2006. 01:00 AM

TIM LAI

STAFF REPORTER

 

For Chelsea Turner and Adam Druzdzeo, it's two cold overnights for two next-generation video game consoles, but love for only one system.

 

Once the Best Buy in Mississauga's Heartland Centre opens at 8 a.m. this morning, the friends will be in possession of the two hottest items for the Christmas rush.

 

Their PlayStation 3s — acquired at a Mississauga Wal-Mart Friday after the Thursday all-nighter — are sitting in their boxes, sealed and untouched.

 

"I don't even want to play it. I don't like Sony," said Druzdzeo, 20, a factory worker.

 

But this morning the two will rush home to play games like The Legend of Zelda on the Nintendo Wii.

 

Despite the cold, rain and wind, Druzdzeo and Turner, 18, waited overnight at the Wal-Mart on Argentia Rd. to buy a PS3 Friday morning. Each was paid $300 by a friend to wait in the line-up to make a purchase. The friend, who also waited in the line with them, planned to resell all three units. Druzdzeo and Turner are using that money to buy the Wii this morning, a system they say is more affordable and fun than its Sony counterpart.

 

"You can take any old-school game from Nintendo and put it on your Wii," said Turner, who works at a fast food outlet.

 

While the line-up at Best Buy started Friday night, it didn't generate the same frenzy as the launch of the PS3. About 50 PS3s were quickly snatched up from the Best Buy Friday, and the same is expected for the store's 100 Wiis. Nintendo's supply of consoles is greater than Sony's delayed machines and the company hopes to ship about four million units by the end of the year.

 

The crowd was younger as well — more real gamers on the handheld Nintendo DSs than the profiteers who waited for the PS3. Pods of eight huddled together to play Mario Kart battles to pass the time.

 

"Nintendo is way more family-oriented," said Turner. "This is more in kids' income (at $279)."

 

But there were still those looking to make a quick buck on those, too. Postings on Toronto's Craigslist were asking between $500 and $800 yesterday afternoon for the Wii.

 

The price is still considerably lower than a PS3. One seller, who did not want to be identified, said prices online have been dropping.

 

He asked for $1,800, but has only received offers around $1,600. He attributed the lower demand to news that more consoles will be shipped next week.

 

However, it's still a hot commodity, as some are still seeking between $2,000 and $3,000. On his posting, the seller said he would meet the buyer in a public place with cameras. News of armed robberies in the U.S. prompted him to be extra safe.

[Braveheart1980]

Red Steel Review

 

Everyone's going to buy Zelda when they get their Wiis. That's obvious. But the game that sits in the number-two slot on most peoples 'games to buy' list is Red Steel.

 

It's come a long way since the first playable showing at E3 earlier this year, which left people a tad disappointed. After a boost to its graphical effects and tweaked controls, it now looks, sounds and plays brilliantly.

 

From the very moment you boot the game up, its emphasised oriental style hits you in the face. The game is full of Japanese visuals and music, working in line with its deep Yakuza-based storyline and part Tokyo setting.

 

During a visit to a Japanese restaurant to meet your girl's Yakuza father, your beloved (and quite fit) is kidnapped in a Yakuza assault. Apparently, the gang is after her father's sword, the Katana Giri, and will go to any lengths to get it.

 

So after pumping some Yakuza full of bullets in the restaurant, you set out to find the kidnappers. This leads you on a brilliant plot that sees you earn the respect of, and become embedded in, a powerful Yakuza clan in Japan as you shoot and slice your way through reams of Japanese gangsters in the fantastic-looking Tokyo.

 

Making great use of the movement-sensitive Wii Remote, you control player movement with the analogue stick on the Nunchuk, and you use the pointer functionality of the Wii Remote to move the look view, and shoot at enemies anywhere on the screen - enhancing the illusion of having a real gun.

 

The game, as you will have no-doubt seen, will also have you waving the Remote around like a sword, as you face off with Yakuza members in sword fights. You can parry attacks with the Nunchuk, block by waving the Nunchuk in the direction of an attack, and strike with the Remote.

 

With these two control systems, Red Steel aims to make you feel like your hands are inside the game, and on the most part, it works great. It's not without issues though.

 

In the shooting parts, you have to aim your crosshairs so far towards the edge of the screen to make the camera move that your aim - and in turn your on-screen hand - takes on a strangely disembodied feel as you swing it from one extreme of the screen to the other just to make small camera adjustments.

 

It's not as fluid as Call of Duty 3 on Wii which, on the other hand, has a much smaller neutral field in the centre of your screen, meaning that you get an immediate response from the camera when you move the crosshair even slightly off the centre of the screen. It's a small alteration to a similar control system that makes all the difference.

 

 

That's not to say Red Steel plays poorly - with the movements of the on-screen arm mimicking your own so accurately, even down to you turning your hand on its side to shoot like a gangsta, offers an intensely satisfying feeling. As do the sword fights which, once you master the advanced techniques and learn new moves later in the game, will have you totally engrossed it the fight.

 

Even with technical limitations of the Wii relative to it's high-def competitors, Red Steel looks great, particularly the levels set in Tokyo. Continuing the oriental theme, the interiors are impressively well decorated with the minor details that bring an environment to life; everyday household objects scattered around rooms, wall decorations, lamps, cupboards, boxes, pot plants and countless other details are everywhere you look.

 

Some of the textures look a bit 'GameCube', but you can forgive that when the Wii's extra grunt has been put to use for gorgeous beam lighting shining through windows, air vents and even bullet holes, slick reflective floors and stunning warping effects used for heat haze or corrugated glass.

 

But again, just like the gameplay, Red Steel's visual effects come with issues that hardcore gamers will pick out immediately. Some glass fish tanks can be shot out - like the one Ubisoft conveniently showed in the trailers - others cannot. Some tables can be kicked over and used as cover, others cannot. There's, no reason why - they just can't. Some doors can't be opened, some can.

 

This patchy quality plagues many areas of the game, and it's a shame because Red Steel has some truly genius moments that make it truly special FPS experience. For example, the ability to slow time momentarily and shoot the weapons out of your enemies' hands - as they put their hands up in surrender, you can signal for them to get down on the ground with a downwards hand gesture. Awesome.

 

These touches make Red Steel brilliant, along with great level design with large rooms full of explosive or breakable scenery making for some really awesome gun battles, and innovative ideas.

 

Red Steel also features a fairly decent multiplayer mode too, with standard deathmatch and team deathmatch modes, and a unique Killer mode. In this mode, each player receives individual mission objectives via the speaker in their Remote, and are awarded points for achieving them.

 

So one player might be told to survive while the other three are told to hunt that player, or they might all be told to find a certain item in the map.

There's no doubt that Red Steel is worth the purchase when you grab your Wii. It's a superb shooter with a great plot, innovative gameplay and some really brilliant moments that will surprise even the most seasoned of gamer. It's a decent length too, with a good 15 hours of play in the main mode.

But some control issues and patchy inconsistencies (mainly in the physics and level design) pull it short of earning that juicy 9 score. Still, of the 27 Wii games that will launch in December, Red Steel is certainly one of the best.

 

Βαθμος 8.0

 

Εξακολουθω να πιστευω οτι θα ειναι ενα καλο παιχνιδι

Οχι ποιοτητας Zelda,αλλα σιγουρα οχι μαπα!

 

 

Wii can play other region GC games with freeloader.

 

By now everyone knows that the Wii is not region free, but fret not. I imported all of the Naruto games on gamecube and had to order a boot disk (Freeloader) to get them to with my gamecube. Got my Wii tonight (I am loving this system so far) and decided to test out my import games. The didnt work using them alone, but I used freeloader and now my import games work on my Wii as if they were on my Gamecube.

 

Word of caution: I inserted the freeloader disk, and selected it from the disc channel, the system read it and restarted. Went back to the disc channel again, selected the freeloader and the system took me to the normal freeloader screen and asked me to swap the disk like normal. I am assuming that the freeloader disc needs to be in the system from the start, or it may restart after the first read. Either way it works, and I will be trading in my gamecube tomorrow.

 

To everyone who got their Wii, Enjoy!!

 

 

Flash-Powered Homebrew Wii Games For Download

 

A homebrew games site has launched a few hours ago. With 20 games available for launch, this site will be hoping to pave the way for more Homebrew games to join the already fast-growing catalogue of Wii Games...

A member of digg.com has called it 'A YouTube for Videogames'... According to the site, each game will work flawlessly with the Wiimote.

Go here to see the site, even though there isn't much there...

 

Worth keeping an eye out for, whether you want to play Flash games on your Wii, or you make Homebrew yourself.

[Daredevil]

AR Method Works on Wii - Partially - The start of a method for Wii Homebrew?

 

A member of the forums has stated that he was able to run GCOS (a homebrew made 'operating sysem' for the GC) on the Nintendo Wii via the AR method. He tried to swap in and boot a back up, but of course he got sent back straight to the Wii menu. Check out his posting here.

[panther_512]

Broken Wii disk slot?

 

Βίντεο από ένα άτυχο παλικάρι, του οποίου το Wii προφανώς έχει χορτάσει ήδη από δισκάκια και δεν θέλει να φάει άλλα...

 

Πάντως δεν έχουν αναφερθεί ακόμα προβλήματα με την κονσόλα.

 

[xrest]

emena m fainetai san na to bazei k na to trabaei kateuthian eksw.mipws k to exei gratzounisei tpt tetoio.entaksei nea konsola einai probs tha iparxoun.den paizei thema me auta.k sto lew gw pou pira 360 sto launch k mou xalase kateuthian..

[heyou]

Μπράβο ρε συ P3tran!!! Από δύο φωτογραφίες έβγαλες το συμπέρασμα ότι το Wii είναι 1,5χGamecube! Μάτια με X-ray και τρελές γνώσεις λιθογραφίας έχεις προφανώς.

 

ΠΡΟΣΟΧΗ: Δεν λέω ότι είναι γρηγορότερο. Απλά σχολιάζω τον τρόπο που βγαίνουν τα συμπεράσματα.

 

Οντως έχεις δίκιο, απο τις φωτό δεν φαίνεται ποιος επεξεργαστής ή τι ακριβώς είναι! Hollywood και Broadway λέει.

 

Το Wii είναι 2 με 3 φορές πιο γρήγορο απο το GC. Tα έχουμε αναφέρει και παλιοτερα, σύμφωνα με τα γνωστά χαρακτηριστικά.

[StavrosD]

Ακόμα και ίδιο επεξεργαστή να έχει, αν έχει καλύτερη GPU θα δείχνει σαφώς καλύτερα.

Αν θυμάμαι καλά, ένας απλός A64 3500+ με μια X1900XT παίζει καλύτερα παιχνίδια από τον γρηγορότερο επεξεργαστή της αγοράς με μια X1300XT.

[heyou]

Ακόμα και ίδιο επεξεργαστή να έχει, αν έχει καλύτερη GPU θα δείχνει σαφώς καλύτερα.

Αν θυμάμαι καλά, ένας απλός A64 3500+ με μια X1900XT παίζει καλύτερα παιχνίδια από τον γρηγορότερο επεξεργαστή της αγοράς με μια X1300XT.

 

Είχα στη δουλειά μου ένα P4 στα 1.2 και 128ΜΒ μνήμη και έπρεπε να το αναβαθμίσω. Του έβαλα αλλη μια μνήμη των 512ΜΒ και πέταγε το μηχάνημα.

 

Δεν πρέπει να κοιτάμε μόνο τα MHz! Η κάρτα γραφικών του Wii απεικονίζει 2.5 φορές παραπάνω mips πολύγωνα, απο εκείνη του GameCube ή δεν γνωρίζουμε τι άλλα επιπλέον κυκλώματα επεξεργασίας γραφικών έχει. Εχει Εχει πολύ παραπάνω μνήμη σε σχέση με το GC (αλλα 64 ΜΒ 1Τ-SRAM).

 

Nα βλέπουμε ολα τα χαρακτηριστικά και οχι να πετάμε ένα 1.5x βάσει MHz και να τελειώνουμε...

[p3tran]

ε? ακομα λετε τα δικα σας ρε σεις?? το αρθρο ειχε σχολια και λινκς! επισης σε beyond3d, maxconsole, κλπ σημεια στο net, αυτη η κουβεντα ειναι τελειωμενη πλεον.

Wii = 1.5 X GAMECUBE +/- some details. (ναι εχει παραπανω μνημη, αλλα εχει και καποιες λειτουργιες στη διαχειρηση της μνημης των γραφικων που ΑΦΑΙΡΕΘΗΚΑΝ απο το gamecube, επειδη συμφωνα με τη nintendo "δεν χρησιμοποιηθηκαν αρκετα")

καλο ειναι να ξερετε τι αγοραζετε.

 

 

 

***ΕΠΙΣΗΣ***

καλο ειναι να προσεχετε την πορωση οταν παιζετε με το wiimote, γιατι accidents happen και μετα θα κλαιτε τα λεφτουδακια σας...

οχι τα 250 που κανει το wii, αυτα να πανε στα κομματια!

look:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: