AndrewTS

No problemo. I know that they had a 120v model on sale there, but for some reason I can't even find a listing saying they're sold out. However, like the one it appears you had, it doesn't take regular NES controllers. Generation NEXT does on the other hand, but's twice as much and also is less than perfect compatibility. And no offense intended Neal--I'd just seen you bringing up burning up copies of games in other threads and thought your response was a smart-alecky response rather than a genuine question. However, I can't really vouch for the durability of any of the Famiclones I know of.

It seemed to be "it has one interesting, albeit non-exclusive game. Why would anyone care?" to me. As I said, look at some release charts. Browse here by genre. There's more official, confirmed Wii titles coming out in the first 6 months that I care about than in the 360's past, present, and near future. It's well worth the money, IMO. I know in about 2-3 years PS3 will have a killer lineup. It doesn't now. The "concrete, announced titles" for the PS3 launch window aren't very interesting. For $500-$600 PS3 is going to have to offer something extremely compelling for me to consider it a "gotta have." Why the hell would I buy it now when the games I care about haven't even begun hard programming and will take 10-12 mo. to hit the market? I don't want a Bluray player that *may* have an exclusive on Assassin's Creed in June 07-ish, but is otherwise worthless to me. However, we're agreed that PS3 has next to nothing to offer now but a BluRay player and some iffy launch games. It's difficult to argue for a launch PS3 unless you're investing in ebay scalping of idiot parents, especially with Sony's track record (not that they're alone; ask Anya about 360 #3. Sony had best realize a 90 day warranty is unacceptable for PS3. PS2's lineup for late 2006/early 2007 appeals to me more than PS3's. Which would be valid if it didn't have a traditional control scheme (it does), and if the Wii's lineup doesn't/won't include traditional games (which it will, just like DS).

This may be a foreign concept to a software pirate like you, but just like there are people who actually buy current-gen games and play the original discs on their systems, there are people who actually still own 8/16-bit cart games and like to play them on a game system rather than on a pc. Plus, the benefit to most of the knockoffs are that they're top loading, while the slot-loading original NES' design made it hard to properly seat cartridges eventually. Anyway--the one I got was this one: http://www.lik-sang.com/info.php?category=...roducts_id=8542 However, that comes with a 220v (European) cable, not the 120v (US). However, if you have a spare NES plug you can just use that instead. It worked very well for most games, but sadly--like all "NES on a chip" famiclones, it doesn't play Castlevania 3. So when I got my NES repaired and working I gave it away to a friend. So far it's holding up well from what I hear. From that picture it doesn't even appear that the system you have has much room to even hold the cart securely (of course I'm aware that's just a sale page pic, not the actual one you have).

)--><div class='quotetop'>QUOTE( @ Aug 13 2006, 11:56 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'><!--quotec--> Is FFXIII PS3 exclusive? That's a tricky question: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_Fantasy_XIII Along with Final Fantasy XIII, Final Fantasy Agito XIII for the mobile phone and Final Fantasy Versus XIII, an action game for the PlayStation 3 made by the Kingdom Hearts team, make up three facets of the overall project known as Fabula Nova Crystallis: Final Fantasy XIII. According to Square Enix, Final Fantasy XIII is neither a prequel or a sequel to Final Fantasy Agito XIII or Final Fantasy Versus XIII. Square Enix has explained that although all three games take place in the same universe, they are not directly related. [4] Square also announced that there will be still other titles in the Fabula Nova Crystallis series, though they have not indicated how many. A diagram was shown with three empty circles around the Fabula Nova Crystallis logo, so it is possible there will be another three titles in the series. So yes and no. Ultimately, the game most people consider the real XIII is currently only scheduled for PS3.

If you're seriously asking that question, you're too lazy to even look at a list of announced titles. By the way, the 3 titles that have totally sold you on PS3 aren't even coming out this year. MGS4 Q1 07 if you're lucky. FFXIII is probably '08.

Not that particular one, no.

I don't consider RPGs that are well-paced and thoroughly playable the entire way through to be "training wheels." I'm really surprised IY likes Chrono Trigger...

The 360 is, in my eyes, an unmitigated disaster. Out for a damn year and there's 2...maybe 3 games worth a damn on it that aren't suck/gussied up ports? And one of those games worth a damn just came out this week. Unacceptable. Then again, 360 has the market cornered on bloated muscle-headed guys with guns killing people in ultraviolent FPSs, so if that gets your rocks off I suppose you'll love it. The BC is a joke and I don't have the right TV to make its games look sensationally next gen anyway. I've always been one for the more odd, distinctly Japanese games....which right now Nintendo has gravitated more so towards than the other folks. Not saying I'll only get a Wii, but only the Wii looks like something I'd want to play at launch. The PS3's lineup is loaded with big-name franchises of games I hated, or don't want to play. MGS4 can rot in hell. Killzone sucks. Warhawk? Pft. Genji was mediocre and even at 10 bucks pawn shops have problems getting rid of it. Sony will have the backing of Capcom, Konami, Namco, and more--so whenever the price of the PS3 drops to significantly less than Arm, Leg, and a few Organs USD I'll likely pick one up. However, over the entire lineup nothing appeals to me but Assassin's Creed, an "exclusive" until Ubi decides to release the 360 one they were working on forever. So if it comes to 5+ launch games for the Wii, with anywhere from another 8-12 between then and the first quarter of 07....vs. maybe one or two on PS3/360 each, that's a complete no brainer. Maybe I'm just not e.

Fair enough, you proud 360 owner. By this point I don't even think about what the companies say. I put on my automatic BS filters and assume that most of their promises are BS. I do want a new Nintendo console, but I know the gameplay styles are going to see more change in them than the actual IPs. Almost all of Sony's 1st party stuff are sequels. However, Nintendo's 1st party stuff are almost all going to play differently. So if you want to boil it down to "just a different controller," so be it. Nobody here has. But the potential here is amazing, and we already have seen demonstrations on how Zelda, Prime 3, etc are going to play. We've seen Smooth Moves and Wii Sports being played and are definitely interested. We know a lot of stuff is going to be gussied up with Mario, though. Brand innovation often is different than gameplay innovation, though. SMB, SMB2, SMB3, Super Mario 64, Mario Party, Paper Mario, Smash Bros--all innovative gameplaywise (some even revolutionary in their design), but have the same central character. If you think Nintendo is betraying their promises by having way more Mario/Samus/Zelda than they do unique new IPs, that's fair--but they never specified that. Of course you're not interested in them anyway. Wii Crystal Chronicles is just a blip on a release chart now. Nobody knows the gameplay for sure. However, the GC game was crippled by the necessity of multiple players, each with GBAs, to make it worthwhile. CC is just a bone tossed to Nintendo by Squeenix, who are saving the "real" FFs for Sony, while using the opportunity to churn out ports of the old FF games. Ironically, the most interesting Squeenix games I'm seeing coming are all on DS--Mario Hoops and the Zelda-riffic Dragon Quest Monsters: Rocket Slime. Some of you might care about the severely-overhauled Final Fantasy IIIj, too. It's not "Dragon Quest" Dragon Quest. It's a Dragon Quest IP. It's not DQIX--that's all but a lock for PS3. Now, that could be a good thing (give me Rocket Slime any day over the archaic, stodgy DQVIII), but don't pretend it is a "real" Dragon Quest if that's what you want. I don't know the gameplay on that one, either.

Excite Truck, Wii Sports, and Red Steel (assuming they're all good) have that covered, nevermind the interesting titles that happen to be sequels of something. How's WARHAWK 2, GENJI 2, and KILLZONE 2 looking, btw? The DS had a horrible launch lineup. Everyone expects Nintendo to trot out their franchises, just with new gameplay. The innovative, quirky titles are best left until it's established.

http://www.nwizard.com/web/index.php?optio...45&Itemid=2 Wii launch title lineup: Avatar: The Last Airbender - THQ Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII - Ubisoft Blitz: The League - Midway Call of Duty 3 - tivision Cars - THQ Dragon Ball Z: Budokai Tenkaichi 2 - Atari Dragon Quest Swords: The Masked Queen and the Tower of Mirrors -Square Enix Elebits - Konami Excite Truck - Nintendo Far Cry - Ubisoft GT Pro Series - Ubisoft Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: The Crystal Bearers - Square Enix The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess - Nintendo Madden NFL 07 - EA Marvel: Ultimate Alliance - Activision Metal Slug Anthology - SNK Metroid Prime 3: Corruption - Nintendo Monster 4x4 World Circuit - Ubisoft Need for Speed: Carbon - EA Open Season - Ubisoft Rayman Raving Rabbids - Ubisoft Red Steel - Ubisoft SpongeBob SquarePants: Creature from the Krusty Krab - THQ Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz - Sega Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam - Activision Trauma Center: Second Opinion - Atlus Wii Sports - Nintendo Metal Slug, Metroid, Zelda, Rayman, maybe one of those SquEnix titles will be good. Ouch in the wallet bigtime.... Per usual, no Smash Bros just yet, though. Although it looks like Wii is going to also get a lot of rushed 3P port jobs.

Mario 64. Wing Cap. Nuff said. Oh--and I'm definitely going to get this if I can't get the cream of the crop on Virtual Console: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152778

Sega Genesis Collection for PS2 and PSP: http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3152778 That's a pretty damn good collection,although since the Smash Pack 2 only came to PC--where the friggin' hell is Kid Chameleon? That trounces Decap Attack. The entire Golden Axe Genesis series? Phantasy Star 4 (worth the price by itself)? Shinobi 3? Hell yes. I have no idea why Virtua Fighter 2 is on the collection, though.

That's true--such as the DS Lite issue that came to light--althought that was minor and very rare. However, there's a difference between the way Nintendo usually handles it...and other companies. ("It's not a defect, it's a feature!" "We are convinced that there is no problem with these models." *sued* "um...we'll fix them anyway...")

From what I heard almost everything is a weapon. You can cosplay as Mega Man and there's a poster for a movie called "Mega Man 2." There is a place in the foodcourt called "Jill's Sandwiches." You can toss cds and records at zombies...which they no-sell...kind of like Shaun of the Dead, whether intentional or not. Servbot heads can be put on zombies, making them harmless. Weapons guide, courtesy of gamevideos and 1up.com: http://www.gamevideos.com/video/id/4893 Yay, the 2nd exclusive game that I'd actually want to play on 360!

While most of these memories are definitely positive, I think we all went through that stage where we realized most licensed games suck. Sometimes it's a brutal, harsh lesson. People who grew up on NES? Those are often some pissed off folk. Those were some horrible, horrible games, most unplayable by today's standards. 16-bit got a lot better. We had Virgin making astoundingly playable games out of licenses--Aladdin, Lion King, Jungle Book fraggin' Cool Spot, Mick n' Mack Global Gladiators (which had the McDonald's license out the BUTT), and Robocop vs. Terminator. Konami gave us some killer cartoon licenses: the Ninja Turtles arcade games, the Tiny Toon games, Animaniacs, the best Batman game ever in Adventures of Batman & Robin on SNES, and more. Capcom gave us like a billion licensed games that were surprisingly good--especially during the NES years, when few licensed games were worth a damn (Ducktales, Darkwing Duck, batman, little nemo, etc.) Acclaim....sure did friggin suck. They sucked hard, they sucked long, they sucked with gusto. They produced some of the worst games of all time and they were run by greedy, irresponsible coke-snorting idiots. But they had Probe. Probe struggled against their incompetent overlords and tried desperately to make things of worth, despite undoubted ridiculous deadlines and bottom-line bean counters egging them to just get something done. Alien 3, The Incredible Hulk, Pagemaster, Stargate, the Genesis ports of MK and MK2 (which, yeah, looked and sounded poor, but they were MK!) and later on Alien Trilogy and Die Hard Trilogy. Pretty much every other development house didn't give a damn at all.

I had that. It was impossible. I also used to rent the special edition or whatever it was called that came out a while after, which was the exact opposite...very easy. I didn't think it was very hard--about acceptable, but the controls were kind of stiff. I beat it as the raptor and Grant both. All I had a problem with was figuring out how to beat the final area where you'd fight grant as the raptor. I think you're thinking of Rampage Edition. With the thick annoying lines around the sprites. Ugh. JP2 on SNES--now that was a hard game.

I have both home versions of Slam Masters. SNES one is boss. The genesis one sucks except for the deathmatch. There's only up to 2P, the sound blows and the a.i. is awful. But the gameplay is really good on both--up there with Wrestlemania TAG as my favorite non-sim wrestling game. While I liked nes zelda and SMB, I never owned an NES back in the day. Genesis was my first console, and my first game that I ever owned was Jurassic Park on Genesis.

No, it won't launch automatically unless you set up your preferences to launch itunes automatically when an iPod is connected. Even if that happens, you'll get a message: This iPod is linked to another iTunes Library. Do you want to change the link to this library and replace all existing songs? If you can read, you can simply select "No." and put the iPod into manual mode, so you want any songs you can click and drag them to the iPod. Of course, if you're an idiot you can say "yes" and lose the music on the iPod already. And use a USB 2.0 port to charge more effectively.

"Distant 3rd" is misleading. Sony's so far ahead, MS and Nintendo are fairly close for a distant 2nd, with MS taking that. For most of late '04 and '05 the xbox was 3rd worldwide. Late Halo 2 purchases and the death of Gamecube 3rd party releases probably turned that tide. Official NPD stats: Sony figures are "shipped" units, not necessarily actual sales. Sony's been extremely protective of any data on how many actual PSP units have been purchased. I think the rest of the figures may be "shipped" figures as well.

The question is--will it sell well outside of Japan? Ubisoft North America confirmed the "rumored" Prince of Persia game on Wii, but there's no other details. So, they're selling one to me.

"Zelda 2 was memorable in a really bad way. That game was horrible, and no one will convince me otherwise." The sole reason I think it doesn't deserve "best series ever." Did Nintendo make a lot more copies of the NES classics Zelda 2 than LoZ, or does it seem that way because NOBODY WANTS THEM?! Castlevania 2 sucks as well.

Not to be outdone (at least as far as absurdity, not quality or anything like that), D3 has put together a game with a bikini-clad ninja cowgirl killing zombies. http://www.destructoid.com/yeehaaw-devil-e...man-on-the-x360

Terrific. HD talk. Let's make it geekier by analogizing. 480i is to as 480p is to . And 720p/1080i/1080p is to... / /

http://www.technophilia.org/2006/07/list-o...-ps3-games.html I wondered why nobody is talking about Frame City anymore.