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    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Toys R Us is giving away Mew on Saturaday, Sempterber 30th. If you live in the US, and have a GBA with Ruby, Sapphire, Emerald, Fire Red or Leaf Green, you can show up and they will download a Mew onto your game. This is just like a similar event they did back in 1998 for RBY (from which I still have my legit Mew on Silver). Then when the DS games come out, you can transfer it over.

    Hopefully, other countries (hackhackcoughCanadacough) will have the same sort of event in the future. Of course, with the DSs online abilities, we could jsut download such things from our homes, negating the whole hassle of finding a store that is participating.

    See, I managed to put something vaguely DS-releated in there.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I noticed there was a section with snow and I wonder if that weather will have an effect on the battles in that area. For example accuracy could automatically be lowered because of the heavy weather. Certain attacks like fly could also be harder to use and/or less effective. That could get pretty crazy.

    Rain and Sunlight in RSE had effects in battle. Rain would weaken all Fire attacks and cause Solar Beam to charge for three turns instead of hte normal two, while boosting all Water attacks to cause more damage.

    Sunny weather would do the opposite, and make Solar Beam a one-turn powerup and use attack, meaning you could deal out fuckloads of damage over and over.

    Both effects were introduced in the second generation, Gold and Silver, but it may be that in Diamond/Pearl, they will also add Sandstorm and Hail effects too. They normally just cause a small amount of damage to most types at the end of each round for five turns. Maybe they could add similar effects this time.

    Although I doubt it, that snow could mean that every area could be randomly effected by weather depending on it's climate. It would be an interesting feature, but I doubt something like that is being put into place. Perhaps they will have a season system similar to Animal Crossing. When it's fall in your area it's fall in the game. That could be interesting too. Most likely though it will just be that area that's snowy and none of this will ever happen. :P

    I do recall reading on the game directors blog thingy that he had been toying with the idea of making a more realilistic weather system, with changing patterns and locations. But nothing was mentioned on the subject since, and that was months ago. Who knows? They haven't revealed everything yet, and it would be an interesting feature to have.

    The video demonstrated the voice chat. I wonder how they are going to solve language barriers. Maybe they will disable voice chat when playing with someone in another region.

    I's sort of possible. There's a feature in the game that uses a globe to show you where your trading partner is located in the real world (each peron is going to be represented by a little flashing dot showing their approximate position, and the game keeps track of everyone you trade with, so you can see where all of your trades have come from), so the system can tell where you are from. But I suspect that there's an option to just turn chat off.

    We'll see in about six weeks when it comes out in Japan.

    /pokenerd

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    That Pokemon video was orgasmic.

    Like I said, the first time is several years that I've been excited over a new game. Even the awe from Twilight Princess wore off pretty quickly. Diamond/Pearl? It's only been getting stronger.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Hey, it's my right to vomit at Disney-themed games that don't actually add anything to gameplay. Kingdom hearts, at least, was an original story (as original as RPGs get these days) with varied settings. I suspect that Meteos: Disney Edition will simply throw a bunch of Disney faces and logos on everything, leaving it almost exactly the same as the original version.

    Hence, puke.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Sometimes I question the point of the internet, and then something like this comes along and I remember why I find it so useful.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNX6jm8V6Tg

    Thank you, YouTube.com. A three minute long trailer for Diamond/Pearl, with new areas never seen before, new effects, shots of evolution, trading, and other stuff.

    Points of interest:

    • -A ship going under a drawbridge at 0:35
      -Walking under some sort of railway or tracks at 0:36
      -The new "Fly" animation at 0:39
      -A grass effect when entering a battle at 0:45
      -Pokedex features at 1:11
      -The new evolution animation at 1:41
      -Some footage of the new Contest stuff at 1:51 (including some sort of costume change for the player at 1:52... this is strange. When you enter a Contest, you change outfits? That's new. I wonder if it's just for show, or actually does something)
      -The new trading animation at 2:14
      -Verification of online voice chat at 2:26
      -Footage of some giant mansion at 2:46
      -And of course, a Japanese release date and price at 2:55 (September 28th, at 4800 yen

    Looks like that graphical upgrade fans have been asking for the last five or so years has finally come through. And the new areas, wherever they are, look very interesting. I haven't felt excited over a new game in quite a few years.

    Note: if you hear a sound, like a messaging program bleeping, that's from the video. ISomeone recorded this on their computer. It turns out that the original video was only available for viewing in Japan, as the server it was on rejected addresses from outside the country.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    So why is Canvas Course still $34.99? Wasn't that a launch title? I'd like to pick it up along with Meteos, but not for that much.

    Nope, Canvas Curse came out in June of 05, and you know how Nintendo doesn't mark down their games for a looong time. :wink:

    I've seen Pokemon Red (not the GBA remake, the original) in several stores, and they still have their original release price. I thought it was just some stores forgetting to mark them down because of their age. But then I also saw other games from the same time (roughly, maybe a couple of years or so either way) that had lowered prices. And these are pristine, unopened boxes in major chain stores, not some used ones in an EB. The price tage were recent, maybe a year or so old. I have even once asked the people behind the counter why such a high price for such an old game. They said that something along the lines of "we haven't been told to mark it down."

    Now, did he mean Nintendo jasn't told them, or their sections's supervisor hastn't told them?

    Incidently, if anyone wants pristine, unopened Gameboy games for $40 CAN, let me know, I can hook you up. :lol:

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Yeah, I've noticed that a lot of the DS games I have are like that. I haven't spent this much time playing into the morning since I got my first Gameboy. That blocky light thing that you could slip onto the top? Yeah, that thing. I must have used up more batteries playing at night than anyone other point in my life.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    It's in German or something (damn my weakness with other languages), but if you want to see all the released videos from Pokemon DP, here you go. They show some footage from the new underground area, which is fucking huge, by the way, and some Capture The Flag action.

    About the giant underground place... looking at the top screen of the video, I see that there are solid thick lines that seem to completely enclose areas, and it looks like there's no way to get out of one and into another. In fact, there seems to be a small zig-zag shaped area in the center. I can only speculate that they have each area closed off to prevent people from getting lost or to prevent flooding of one area by lots of players. But until it's out in about a month and a half, who knows?

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    You know what just hit me last night...

    I think it'd be cool to see a Spy vs Spy on the DS.

    Oh yeah... I don't see why not. Two screens, you're on the bottom one, and can use the touch screen for various tasks, maybe even taps or something, I don't know... and your opponent is on the top.

    It's been a long time since I'e even seen that game.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    What the fuck? Page two? Not on my watch...

    Yeah, so Pokemon stuff has been revealed through CoroCoro magazine, and it's something.

    First, what appears to be the new starters have been revealed, and one of them is a monkey with a flaming ass. Seriously. Look for yourselves here.

    And then we have the online stuff. It's not just battling (although that's been expanded as well). Contests's have returned and been expanded a bit, and there's this whole underground world you can play online in. Secret Bases from RSE make up this giant cave system where you can play games like Capture the Flag with other people, and set traps for each other. You can also take part in treasure-hunting, and maybe even more. Looks to be the most feature-filled generation of the series.

    Oh, and there's this one pokemon, looks like a parrot, that you can use the DS's microphone to record your own sounds/words, and have it scream it as an attack. Think of how many people will have one that screams "FUCK!" at you in a battle.

    Oh, and a Chocobo game for the DS. I would like more details, but it's all good.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Not happening. GBA games were never designed for touch screen use, and trying to make some sort of unifying system for converting/adding on such support would be goddamn impossible. You would have to make such a system customized for each and every single game. And I hardly think that anyone would be willing or even capable of doing the programming and manufacturing.

    Nice fantasy.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    I'd be happy with just a port to the DS, with that there SNES button setup.

    Fixed. How else can I properly save Lucca's mother from a horrible, crippled life by pressing her name out using the buttons?

    Oh, and spoilers.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    What was that whole touch screen thing about? Are you going to be able to play dress up with your Pokemon? :?

    It's for item management, issuing attack commands during a battle, and what appears to some form of decoration or item use on your pokemon. There isn't any info on that last part. I would expect there to be some more info later this month.

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    Speculated and rumored for months, it's no real surprise. Even back in late 2005, one of the game directors made a page in his blog about how they (Game Freak) were going to use all the features of teh DS for Diaond/Pearl.

    At least it's all confirmed now, so people can stop making up shit (Gamefaqs, I'm looking in your direction).

    Nintendo DS

    in General Discussion

    Posted

    The blue one looks like Metagross in color, Suicune in face, and Raikou with that shiny armor face-plate thing. The white one looks like Lugia and one of the Yugioh white dragon things got drunk one night and didn't use protection.

    Well at least we get some alright looking ones, namely that giant purple death scorpian thing.

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