Tag: nintendo
Guitar Hero on the Nintendo DS to have peripheral, confirmed
Break open the Lambrini, as your wildest Guitar-Hero-on-the-DS dreams have come true. Plenty were dismayed when we heard reports earlier that the DS version of Guitar Hero would be using the stylus as the input device, as I’m sure we were all holding out for a portable mini-guitar. Weeeell…
Mod of the year week: portable NES
We only changed it from the mod of the year to the mod of the week, as history dictates that Ninty fanboys will one day manage to create a personal Shigeru Miyamoto clone, shrunk down to pocket-size, who can guide you through impossible levels like the last castle in New Super Mario Bros., all the while yelling out words of encouragement such as “Itsa me, Mario!”
Whoever modded this NES into a handheld module no doubt has a GBA and even a DS. Heck, I bet he has all of Nintendo’s handhelds…
Eavesdrop on a conversation between the Nintendo President and a Ninty designer
The next best thing to actually having a conversation with the head of Nintendo must be being a fly on the wall, listening to a conversation between the Nintendo Prez Satoru Iwata and Shigesato Itoi (Japanese writer and designer of Nintendo’s Mother RPGs), as they discuss Ninty, and Shigeru Miyamoto in full detail.
Thanks to Itoi, we don’t need to buy expensive spy-microphones to make that dream a reality, as he’s only gone and published the whole conversation on his website! Yup, in English – either he’s brilliant…
Sega collaborates with Japanese newspaper on new Nintendo DS title
I’m suffering from a huge amount of Japanese-envy at the moment, with my best friend arriving home from Tokyo after four months away, an extra suitcase stuffed to the brim with Hello Kitty, Studio Ghibli and other assorted goodies. Someone get me over there, fast!
My latest reason for envying everything Japan has to offer comes courtesy of WiiWii, who have reported that a new DS title will be available over there, full of major Japanese events from the last 135 years….
New OS X iPods rumoured… but is Apple planning a handheld games device?
Well-connected blog AppleInsider has a story claiming that next month will see the launch of Apple’s next-gen iPods, running an embedded version of Mac OS X.
Modders hack the Nintendo Wii to play DVDs
Now, although I’m a firm Wii fangirl, I’m not immune to admitting there were a few discrepancies between the features first mentioned when the Wii was announced, and what consumers were actually left with after the console hit the shelves. Every gaming manufacturer does it, although none quite as drastically as Sony with the PS3, as any avid reader of Gary’s UK Resistance knows all too well during those months when Europe was at war….
Super Mario gets his own Facebook game
This would’ve gone in this week’s Top 5 Facebook applications, but there’s a few user comments about it not working, so I erred on the side of caution. But still, the news that developer Kevin Owocki has turned Super Mario into a Facebook game is worth covering.
Xbox 360 Core drops to same price as Wii in Australia
Those Aussies sure are a strange bunch, I should know, I was born there! The latest What The Hell Were They Thinking?! story comes from WiiWii, who are reporting that the recent price drop in Australia of the Xbox 360 Core model is now the exact same price as the Nintendo Wii. Whoops…
WiiWii review the Japanese Nintendo DS game Otona No DS Kao Training (Face Training)
Hello, cute WiiWii freelancer! It’s hard working at Shiny Media sometimes when we have so many freelancers spread throughout the country, often we have no idea what they look like. Until now, thanks to Chris’s recent review of the new DS game Face Training, which comes with an external camera, allowing THE WHOLE WORLD to view Chris’s bespeckled charm. Sigh.
Otona No DS Kao Training, or Face Training, if you will, was released earlier this month in Japan, but the lucky WiiWii-er managed to snag a copy for review purposes. He claims it probably won’t see a release outside of Japan, which is a shame, as judging by his verdict on the game and external camera, it sounds worth buying…
Hack allows Nintendo DS games to be played on the Sony PSP
Modders have been lifting their game recently – the past week has shown a NES emulator on the iPhone, a 360 mod which allowed the Wiimote to be used when playing Halo 2, and of course the Optimus Prime Transformers PC case mod which pleased me to the point of almost commissioning someone to create one for me. Oh, ok, a Megatron PC case mod, but still….
