WiiDs Episode 68-70 – The Future Of German Homebrew?

Episode 70: Yultide Yearnings 2008

- Question Of The Week: Desert Island Games
- News
- Nintendo Dismisses DS Remake Rumours
- New Consoles To Arrive Before Next Gen
- Core Games 2-3 Years Away
- Motion Sensing On DS
- Main Discussion: Yuletide Yearnings 2008
- What games should you keep an eye out for over the next few months?
- What games should you avoid?
- Which ones suprised us the most?
- What We’ve Been Playing
- More

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Episode 69: Live(ish) from Liepzig

- Question Of The Week: New Wii Channels
- News
- Censor call on MadWorld
- Ubisoft announces more shovelware
- Wii likes third parties
- Game Announcements
- Main Discussion: Live(ish) From Leipzig
- James reports from GC 2008
- What titles look promising?
- How many Wii/DS games are there?
- How are our favourites shaping up?
- Does he know any German?
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Online Section
- Emails
- Topic Of The Week: Custom DS/ Game Boy On VC?

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Episode 68: OMWiiDs

- Guest stars: Alex and Ben of the OMG Podcast
- Question Of The Week: New Handheld Features
- News
- LucasArts Upset About MotionPlus Secrecy
- Overlord coming to Wii, DS
- The Name’s Wii, Yatani Wii
- Capcom: We’re Not Shafting The Wii. Honest
- Main Discussion: Wii Hacking
- The Twilight Hack
- The Homebrew Channel
- Homebrew On DS
- What counts as homebrew?
- Is it right?
- Nintendo’s view
- Should Nintendo encourage user-generated content?
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Online Section
- More!

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Advert Of The Week – Legendary

It’s out last advert in the month of music and this one needs no introduction. So here it is, the legendary song that inspired MILLIONS!

It’s the Legend Of Zelda and it’s really rad,

Those creatures from Ganon are pretty bad,

Octorocks, Tectites, Leevers too,

But With Your Help Our Hero Pulls Through,

The Best Games You’ve Never Played – Donkey Kong

As you all know, Donkey Kong is one of my favourite games, but while I love the Arcade version, I adore the Gameboy version! I’m not sure whether you would call it a remake or a sequel but it is truly amazing. The game starts with the original four levels from the original Donkey Kong, filled with retro goodness, but after these few minutes of gameplay the real game begins. 97 brain scratching action-puzzling levels await you after the original as you chase DK through a variety of environments. Rather than just climbing to the top, levels see you navigating through the screens in order to find a Key and carry it to the door that DK and Pauline have escaped from.  Combined with levers, switches, ladder building and hundreds of other mechanics to create a variety of fun and challenging levels.

Donkey Long also saw Mario’s first leap into his acrobatic form. This game introduced backflips, tripple jumps, handstands, flinging yourself from wire pole to wire pole and much more. These add a lot of depth to the levels as they opened up a wide variety of ways that you can tackle each level. For example, do you take the ladder on the right and take the moving platform to the top, or do you use a tripple jump onto the first platform grab onto the wire pole fling yourself into the air grab the end of the moving platform and backflip into the exit? This brings me to another point, the openess. Theres many puzzle games out there that look big and open, but really lead you down one path at the end of the day. You really are left to go whichever way you want in Donkey Kong, and every time I play I complete the level in a completely different way.

As well as these great action puzzler games, theres also a wide selection of boss levels which play more like the original game. These ones basically consist of you trying to make your way past obsticles and DK’s attacks to reach the top. You also get some interesting combat battles where your goal is to avoid DK’s attacks and throw his barrels back toward him. These are great for breaking up the gameplay and also remain great fun!

Donkey Kong provided me with a great mix of puzzling and action which quickly took it’s place as one of my most favourite games of all time. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone as it is far too much fun for it’s own good

Advert Of The Week – Jingle Bells

Welcome to the fourth Advert Of The Week in our month of music!

Once again i’ve dug up another jingle (quite litearally) for your audio pleasure/displeasure. This time were going back to Christmas 1998 when rewriting licence free festive songs was all the rage. This lead Nintendo to releasing this little Gem as a bunch of teenages lament about their terrible gifts and how they really wanted some N64 games instead. Kudos to them for actually getting it to rhyme this week as well as capturing the festive spirit.

Be sure to come back next week and see our final entry into the month of music. Trust me, it’s going to be legendary…

Advert Of The Week – It kinda rhymes? Right?…

Another week and another song. This is one of the more recent advertising songs and is accompanied by a rather spiffy cartoon. While I give them credits for trying… the lyrics aren’t the best… At least it explains the game adequately though.

And a 1, a 2, a 1 2 3 4…

*Yeah*

He’s the man of many many faces,

He may be pink but he’s really dangerous,

Every enemy he meets,

Is another man down for kirby to eat,

And He Takes On Their Powers,

*Kirby*

Nightmare In Dreamland

*Kirby*

Nightmare In Dreamland

Eating up the bad guys,

and taking away their powers…

Smashing Stages – Nuts And Milk

Nuts and Milk, the first ever third party game on a Nintendo console and as much a classic today as it was then. Its simple gameplay, varied levels and ability to make your own levels kept me hooked for hours when I was a child and even more hours now.

Now made into a smash stage, it offers a simple arena, but at the same time offers variety. You have slippery ice fields at the top, mid air combat in the ladder section and basic combat at the bottom.

Pink Kirby plays the role of Milk, Green Kirby is Nuts, while Jigglypuff is Yogurt. Items are set to “Arcade”

Oh and sorry about the shoddy framerate on the Nuts And Milk footage, I think i’ve fixed that now though

Turn Light, Pixel Down, P-P-P-Punch!

Kibesa!

It’s time for another post of promises i’ll try my best to, but fail to keep

Firstly I just want to apologise for the lack of posting these past few weeks. I’ve been working on This Week In WiiDs while the podcast was on hiatus and have since been studying for my driving theory test that’s next week. I’ve also been perparing for my future as I finally got my exam results today and am now going on to study computing at Nottingham Trent University (Yay!)

Other excuses involve a lot of gaming, well two games in particular… Firstly I’ve had a burst of insperation and have made ten or so new Smash Bros stages. I’m currently in the process of making/playing/filming/editing them but expect plenty of videos soon. My other big time consumer is the brilliantly fantastic Rhythm Heaven. Since I want to hold a review off time the Enligh version is available, but still want to tell you about its awsomeness I am going to be doing a fair amount of features and videos of the game. A stage list and descriptions should be up this weekend followed by videos in any particular order (unless you request one). On top of that, keeping with the rhythm, we also have this months musical Advert Of The Week entries to look forward to and something else… possibly…

Finally, I promised to give a shout out to everyone who has emailed me or left me a reply so a big big thank you to:

James

Darkoopa

Dandaman

Kaya122

Jen

Niall Cush

Wii_Deathly_Hallows

Mani@WiiDs

Oaken

Unaffectedness

Phoenix

Dark Link (Oliver Ronaldson)

Tessa Merry

Thank you all for taking to the for reading my random postings and I hope to have much more in the future

WiiDs Podcast Ep 67: The Nintendo Difference

- We’re Back!
- Question Of The Week: Favourite Bad Game?
- News
- Ex-Nintendo Xbox Rep: Wii is a gimmick
- Saints Row Wii: A bad idea
- Nintendo finds holographic storage solution?
- MotionPlus not exclusive to Nintendo
- Iwata: Miyamoto out of ideas
- Main Discussion: The Nintendo Difference
- Are Nintendo trying too hard to be different?
- Has this caused them to miss out on certain markets/successes?
- Virtual Console Releases
- What We’ve Been Playing
- Online Section
- Emails
- New Members
- Topic of the Week: Forum awards

Extended Notes: http://thewiids.co.uk/blog/?p=162

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Smashing Stages – Binary Land

I’m really enjoying doing these preludes to my stages so until further notice or people start complaining they are here to stay. Todays stage is based on the Famicom classic, Binary Land. I loved this game when I was little and played it to death. The game saw you playing as two lovestruck penguins trying to meet up with each other. However, the catch was that however you moved one penguin, the other would move in a mirror image.

The stage itself is very fun to play on with lots of tunnels to run, fight and hide in, with some little pits and alcoves for suprise attacks. It plays a bit like the Mario Bros. stage in the fact that you need to use a strong side attack to launch your opponents horizontally.

The Kirby’s are playing the role or Gurin and Malon with an item theme or Arcade.

Advert Of The Week – GameBOY!!!!! (Gameboyyyy!)

Nobody look at your calender or check your watch and believe me when I say it’s still Sunday and this post is definately NOT late… Oh well, it was worth a try. Sorry for the lateness of this weeks ad but I was distracted by a mixture of Animal Crossing, Spooks, Retro Hunting and talking to my girlfriend, so now, only one day late I present to you “Advert Of Last Week”

Contining with our musical theme I present to you this little gem. For a change, theres no chance of mistaking what this advert is selling. I particularly like the lyrics “bbbbbbmmmmin’ GameBOY! (Gameboyyy!)”