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If you get a GC I'd wait for a bit before buying it. The price will be coming down again soon (That's if it hasent already) |
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k...straight from an X-employee of nintendo of america...and pretty much a all around console v-game buff... no. all of the current decent games are on other platforms, and the GC controller is CRAP! all it has going for it is ergonomitry... here's a list of somewhat decent games (IMO) that you'd miss out on for a year till hackers emulate it...and a brief reason WHY NOT TO BUY IT! GAMES: Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker (c'mon nintendo! that's a low blow! rehashing zelda for the "new generation?" you guys are worse then the tobaco industry..."we need to appeal to the new gen of gamers 'cause our gamers are ...uh...dying..." Super Mario Sunshine (you DON"T want this fuckign shelved N FUCKIGN 64 game, re-hashed and graphically re-vamped for the cube) Soul Calibur II (get this for PS2!!!) unless the sight of link makes you grow a big rubbery one... Phantasy Star Online ([employs ,i>in living color's "men on film" voicehated it...) Mario Kart Double Dash (not tooo sure about this one, actually, *shivers from the horrible flashbacks of the N64 release) Resident Evil 0 (k, this is actually a game you'll miss...sorry :) Resident Evil 3 Metroid Prime (While it's probably the BEST game on the current console arena graphically, how many times can you back-track through the same world all in the vain of "getting a new wepon to open the new colored door?" Here's some NOA vocab for you kiddies: *wank*wank*) Final Fantasy: Crystal Chronicles (awwwwww, luuuuk, it's square-enix's attempt to hook the kiddies onto there FF series...how cuuuuute) Metal Gear Solid: The Twin Snakes (yeah, this is actually my fav v-game of all time, and i'm gonna burn for saying this: who the hell wants ANOTHER metal gear expansion?!!!!! goddamn komani!!! you're turning into another capcom over 'ere!!!) unless you have the mental prowess of a 12 yr old, i'd sugest to stay away from the GC untill a bit later...then you can lie to urself and claim you bought the used GC 5 - 10 yrs dwn the line fo |
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it already has - it's now $99 |
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for a stake at re-purchasing your lost "shildhood" when you hit that mid-mid-life crisis, or whatever...or for some pointless nostalgia... now buzz off!!! *turns on his SNES emulator* eh eh eh |
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i used SNES9x - what dost thou use? Been enjoying Clock Tower and Mario RPG quite a bit lately. |
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zsnes, it even has NET support!!! anyone up for some OLD ESKOOL mario kart? |
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I'm buying a SNES again. Gonna get it tomorrow. I miss my old SNES so much! I'm tired of just remembering it, i wanna play with it again :-) And you can get a pretty cheap used one quite easily. The other day i caught myself contemplating wether or not i should buy all those "super mario advance" games, which are basically just the old mario-games. And then it suddenly hit me: I just want to own a SNES again :-p The one i'm buying comes with Super Mario World, Illusion of Time, Legend of Zelda & Kirby's Funpack. + from other sellers i've bought Mario World2, Unirally, Stuntrace FX, Secret of Mana & Super Mario Allstars, all of which should be arriving at my house in the next week. Now i just need to find copies of Mario Kart, Starwing & F-zero and i'll have everything i consider essential. I'm also looking into finding a decent convertor that'll allow me to play american games so i can finally get to play Chrono Trigger. But i remember from when i had a SNES before that alot of those converters were really crap and would only play certain games :-/ Ohwell. I also saw some adds for a Virtual Boy... i'm very intruiged! If i can find one that is affordable i might buy one of those too. Is anyone familiar with it? |
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damn - i would need the mario kart rom - and actually ZNES was the first SNES emulator I went for, but I don't have the latest DirectX so I can't use it - makes me SO angry. |
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on topic: i think if you are a nintendo-fan you should definitly get a gamecube (altough if you were a nintendo-fan, you would have probably gotten it already), just for the chance to play Mario Sunshine, The Wind Waker, Metroid Prime & F-Zero. (& mario kart, & kirby airride, etc etc etc... all the wonderful nintendo-franchises). But if you're just a casual gamer... well, than you can probably live without it. Like alot of people have said before in this thread, there aren't nearly enough games being released for it. Quite dissapointing :-/ "although majora's mask really tried my patience and I didn't get very far. The idea was good in concept but annoying in execution." "i didn't like Majora's Mask though, i even gave up" Nooooo!!! Aaaack! You're all so wrong!! :-p I recently replayed the game, and it was just fantastic! It might just be my favourite zelda-game (altough i think Ocarina, Majora & Wind Waker are all about equally good, it's a very close tie). "i didn't like the ambiance of it, like Ocarina through a weird dream/nightmare..." I kind of agree with that part. It's probably because there wasn't enough time to create an entire new world and graphical engine, so they had to re-use alot of things from OoT. But once i started playing and made it through the whole 3-day-cycle a couple of times, i completely forgot about that, and became totally involved in the game. It's just amazing. All the storylines are so detailed... much more so than in any other zelda-game. There's gonna be another one of those gamecube bonus-discs that will have the two original nes games + OoT + Majoras Mask. So now everyone will finally get a chance to play it :-) Even Ophecks! |
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why can you not have the latest directx? system running low.? try this ..... anyway, I've been planning to buy a GC. the price is $99, nice. looking forward to such games as....: Resident evil 3 + 0, Mario Party 4, Mario Golf, Soul Calibur 2(proly better on PS2), Eternal Darkness, FF: Crystal Chronicles, Animal Crossing...... |
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all good games - thanks for the link! |
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damn man - that's WAY too big - it'd take me a whole day too download that. :-( i'll live though - my emu works just fine. but thanks for the help. =) btw, animal crossing WILL ruin your life. in a good way. |
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Yeah man, GEEZ I need to play Majora's Mask... Uzim said it was like a nightmare version of Ocarina, ''ambience''... that appeals to me. Someday soon. As for emulators, I use SNES9x for SNES, RockNES for NES, VisualBoy Advance for GBA and Gens for Genesis. Gens and SNES9x aren't very flashy, and that's what I like about them. |
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I also use GENS and Snes9x - I enjoy them as well. |
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However, i do have ONE problem with GENS - whenever i try to dump GYM sound, i get all the melody but NO percussion. makes me angry. btw, this is why I wasn't able to get that Shining Force for you, Ophecks. |
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i dont get all you guys who say the gc doesnt have enough games, how many do you need?! i have like 12 games and thats way more than plenty and almost every single one is excellent. whatever. |
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I was thinking about buying a GC, but the cost to get a couple games and 4 controllers and all that.... I would use that to buy a couple ps2 games that are coming out and maybe some music. Hard choice. |
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i think the gamecube is the best of the current consoles because it has fun looking games. of course it is the only current generation system i own and i haven't bought a game in over a year because the video game industry sort of sucks right now, but i still play super smash brother melee quite regularly. playstation 2 really doesn't appeal to me at all (seriously, NONE of its games look any fun to me), and the only thing that looks interesting to me is its mp3 in the game support and that one racing game made by whoever made metropolis street racer for dreamcast (i loved that game!). and who the hell cares if their video game console plays dvds? (well maybe if you don't have a dvd player you would). its just like the cd player built into playstation, did you ever use that? sorry if that sounded too harsh, its just i really really hate the video game industry right now, probably because "they" killed my dreamcast... :( oh and maybe slightly off topic i think n64 deserves much more credit than it gets, it had the biggest good:bad game ratio and the perfect controller design. |
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Murray (and any other uk bods considering getting one) might be intereste in ... |
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the best snes emulator for mac so far is SNES9X Custom i think i'm gonna buy an n64 (they have them at gamestop for like 20 bucks!) and perfect dark thats all you really need |
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sorry dude...hands down, zsens. the zbattlenet util blows everything else outta za water! not to mention all the technical superiority (god...just compare the two read-me files of zsnes and 9x's). |
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Nintendo is going to put out a bonus disc soon, similar to the one you got when you pre-ordered Wind Waker. It's going to have Legend of Zelda, Legend of Zelda 2, Ocarina of Time, and Majora's Mask on it. It still hasn't been revealed how it's going to be distributed. |
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I should have read the whole topic! |
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Mario Party rocks Bo) |
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oh, shit...i didn't catch "for the mac." *psssssh, you windows users think the whole world revovles around you, don't you?!" |
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Metrodi Prime is as beutifull as an very beutifull song =D=D |
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that info on zelda is news to me!! can't fucking wait!! |
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i completely agree - i prefer quality over quantity as well. |
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actually pigeon st, the GC is now $99, plus many of GC's better games have had their price reduced - I know Metroid Prime is only $30 now, and I think a few others have had their prices slashed. btw, when you get a memory card, get a memory card 256, not a 56. the 256 is only 5 bucks more and its five times as big. the wavebird controllers aren't too expensive either considering the highway robbery prices you'd pay for a wireless control on another system. |
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Like you can see in the 1st picture it's gonna be included for free with Gamecube-systems, and it might also come for free with the upcoming Legend of Zelda: The Four Swords for gamecube. I certainly hope so, because i don't wanna have to buy another gamecube to get this disc :-p "i prefer quality over quantity as well." Well i agree, but alot of the big Gamecube titles are also lacking in quantity in my opinion (in other words, the games are too short! Mario Sunshine, The Windwaker, Pikmin, Luigi's Mansion, Wario World... it seems nintendo is determined to make all their games last shorter with less levels from now on :-/ |
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WOAH ! Zelda overload ! I'm still playing Ocarina atm, it sux but I love it =oD |
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The original Adventure of Link is sitting in my nes at the moment as it happens :) |
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"it sux" How can you say that?!? :-p Unless you're stuck in the water temple ofcourse. |
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bingo ! |
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And the battery-save still works?! After all those years??! Wow! |
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:-p In that case: GOOD LUCK! Ooh, how i hated those spikey metal things that lurk in almost every corner of that temple... brrr. |
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It corrupted it a bit, but it's still playable... My Elite battery back up still works though. 5 year lifespan, ha waht do they know! :) |
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Yeah, i'm amazed at how last these batteries can actually last! It's amazing! I bought a bunch of SNES-games today. Including mario world, which was ofcourse a launch-title so one of the oldest SNES games (nintendo 1990-1991 it says on the title screen)... and the save-system works just fine :-) "5 year lifespan, ha waht do they know! :)" Yeah! That guy who wrote all those manuals is full of shit ;-) Still... one day they it is bound to stop working... Have you ever attempted to replace one of those batteries? I found a site that describes how, but it looks kinda complicated. (quote: "Batteries are sometimes soldered in place which doesnt make it any easier."). But i'll probably still try it once one of my batteries run out. I also emailed Nintendo about it, and they said they'd happily replace the batteries for me... for 20 euros per game! :-p Greedy bastards. |
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He he, the only one I'm really worried about losing the data is elite... I can't remember what ranking I'm at, but it's only 2 off elite... damned if I'm playing for another 200+ hours to get this far again :) |
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i want a game thing. |
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Okay, so i don't actually really know a game called Elite i must confess :-p But 200+ hours of gameplay sounds like alot of work... hehe... i hope the batteries will last you long enough! The thing i'm mostly worried about are the games where the batteries actually unlock stuff. Like the 150cc cup in mariokart. Or the last tournament of F-zero. If i remember correctly Stuntrace FX, the first time you play it even starts with some sort of a testcourse before you play the actual game itself! Imagine having to play through that every time you want to drive a few courses :-/ |
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*gasps* You've never heard of "Elite"?! The game that the term 1337 comes from?! It's a classic old game, originally on the bbc, then pc. Space Trading in a huge game universe... Look it up on emulation, David Braben (author) made the rom freeware some years back and according to him (I tend to agree) the Nes version is the best. |
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Yeah... Mario Sunshine doesn't have enough worlds, and the worlds aren't varied enough. The tropical shit can get on my nerves. Windwaker, well... you know how I feel about that. And Wario World is another disapointment, a retarded gibbon could beat that game. Nintendo is sputtering right now, the new Star Fox looks underwhelming and the new Mario Kart has been bashed for being way too slow... thank God Metroid Prime 2 is a go, they're gonna need all the killer aps they can get with Halo 2 and Metal Gear Solid 3 on the horizon. |
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Anyone seen/heard of killer 7? Screen shot : |
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"The tropical shit can get on my nerves." Hm... well i wouldn't mind a tropical theme... but for me the game looks too "modern" and too realistic. Mario in an airplane? That's just not right. And Delphino Plaza with all those realistic buildings... it reminds me of that horrible "mario is missing" game :-/ I won't even mention the hotel-level which i hated! Mario is supposed to wander around in magical fantasy-landscapes :-) Green grassy hills and stuff like that. He seemed so out of place in Mario Sunshine. I still love the windwaker... but it could and should have been at least 2 or 3 times bigger and longer. I love what Nintendo were trying to do, and they succeeded with it for 99% imo... but it just feels unfinished. I can't help but wonder what the game would have been like if they'd spent another year developing it! I haven't even played wario world yet... every review i've read talks about it easiness and shortness :-/ I'll just get a used copy in a few years. Some people say Nintendo is spending most of their time and energy at this moment to secretly already work on new titles for their next console. I actually hope those rumors are true, because i'd hate to see the same thing happening to them that happened to Sega. They need another really succesful console with lots of great and challenging games! |
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yeah that game looks utterly fantastic! I love every screenshot i've seen of it. But i won't get too excited about it before i find out what type of game it actually is :-p I've read it's basically just a "graphical novel", with a few very straighforward shooting-levels thrown in. That'd be so dissapointing! The graphical engine is awesome, i hope they do something nice with it! :-) |
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there's a review of it in Cube magazine but I havent had a chance to read it properly yet. I'll have a scan of it and let you know when I get in Turtles looks pretty cool too =oD Dunno if the whole "Pow!" and "Crash!" effect will get on my nerves though |
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I love cel shading... that new Ninja Turtles game looks great, Turtles in Time is one of my favorite beat 'em ups of all time. XIII is another awesome looking game, comic book style. |
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get one man |
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