Topic: Nintendo Releases New Wii U Details: PB is Pleased

[Police Girl]

Official English Translation of the above.

[Phi]

Official English Translation of the above.

But there's nothing above your post.

[spoiler]hurr[/spoiler]

[Police Girl]

I really hate when I start a new page when I intend on merging posts.

[Hypershell]

And honestly, lots of people complain to NoA about the VC being a [tornado fang]ing dripfeed where we potentially get screwed out of games for months or years due to the release schedule either being so slow, they twiddle their thumbs and [acid burst] people off and don't change a damn thing for no damn reason. I'm alright with it not being the main thing of importance but they should at least pretend to care and keep older games flowing at a brisker pace.

I think they ought to open the floodgates when it comes to games that are already on Wii's VC; since they ARE selling it but just in an inferior format.  Trickling in new releases is one thing; trickling in the right to change the game over to the system's native menu, that's something else.

And it's gonna be really weird if they get DS Virtual Console games up there before they start with N64.  I don't know what's taking so long with that.

I actually did transfer that stuff to my Wii U. Did a NAND backup before hand, then transferred, and then restored the NAND on my Wii so everything would still be on my Wii.

Ditto.  And it's a damn good thing I did, too, because one of the Wii saves was causing the transfer to fail, and it took a LOT of trial-and-error to find out what the culprit was (turned out to be Rabbids Go Home).

I never did install HBC on the WiiU, though.  I fear the day that Nintendo's updates may screw with it, and I still have my Wii anyway.

[Police Girl]

Nintendo Direct tomorrow regarding upcoming 3DS and Wii U games.

Its at 2PM eastern time (11AM Pacific.)

[N-Mario]

Nintendo Direct tomorrow regarding upcoming 3DS and Wii U games.

Its at 2PM eastern time (11AM Pacific.)

You've got those Time Zones wrong.

Nintendo's FB account says 2 p.m. PT/5 p.m. ET. So you were right about it being 2 PM. Except that 2PM is for Pacific time. NOT eastern time.

[Police Girl]

Well, that's cool then.

I won't miss it due to work.

Ah, now I see the problem, I was looking at the announcement for the UK Nintendo Direct (Which is at 11 PM, not AM. Oh well.)

[Mirby]

Whoops.

Also we may very well get news on X tomorrow, since someone retweeted the JP Direct announcement. And the last two times they've done that, we've gotten info on X in that Direct.

Next Level Games (Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon) also teased something regarding it. That should be interesting.

[Police Girl]

NES Remix Vol. 2!

Starring Metroid, Zelda 2, Both Mario 2's and Mario 3, Kid Icarus, and Kirby's Adventure.

Oh and some other games too. Also Super Mario Bros. Mirrored as Super Luigi Bros. Yay for more Year of Luigi, April 25th for that.

GBA VC is beginning... in Spring. Guess they're doing the cheapass way with Yoshi's Island by just cheaping out and doing the GBA version. Hope the music sounds better at least.

Bikes are back in MK8. Also it looks pretty.
Koopa Kids are playables it seems. All 7 of them. If that's not roster padding I don't know what is but hey what do I care.

X is basically confirmed as Xenoblade 2 going by the style of the fighting with the bar on the bottom. Can't tell if its still auto-attack though.

[Protoman Blues]

EEEEEE!! PLAYABLE ROY!!! [tornado fang] YES!!!! 

[Police Girl]

Bayonetta 2 looks fun.

But they need to get the first game re-released on the Wii U or something because [tornado fang] if I'm playing a gimped [tornado fang]ing port.

Also no date. Thanks Nintendo.

[Mirby]

The battle system in X was mentioned as being a more polished version of Xenoblade's. Which is good. I like the apparent variety of options you have. 

Here's the official PR summary so you can read about everything shown there.

[Police Girl]

Game Boy Advance Games: Portable classics will start making their way to the Wii U Virtual Console in April, starting with fan favorites such as Metroid Fusion, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga and Yoshi’s Island: Super Mario Advance 3. Additional games will follow every month.

Yeahhhh... I'm not going to believe that until they prove themselves.

[Phi]

GBA games are Wii U only? [tornado fang] that, they're meant to be handheld.

[xnamkcor]

EEEEEE!! PLAYABLE ROY!!! [tornado fang] YES!!!! 

GBA games are Wii U only? [tornado fang] that, they're meant to be handheld.

You hold the Wii U controller in your hands. Your argument is invalid.

[Hypershell]

Kinda odd given how long I've been playing Yoshi's Island on my 3DS...  I really thought that when Nintendo got going with the GBA VC, they'd start there first.  Right now, GBA on WiiU is a but redundant for me, seeings how I have my GCN with GB Player hooked up to the same television.

So Smash is re-affirmed for 2014 and the Koopa Kids are in MK8, whoo!

X's battle system looks cool, though I'll probably be jumping into mechs whenever possible (don't know who wouldn't).

[Phi]

Seems useless to have that many Koopa Kids in the game, instead of other characters. Characters that aren't essentially clones of each other.

[Mirby]

but

LUDWIG

VON

KOOPA

[Police Girl]

Oh yeah, you know how we are getting 3 GBA games to start?

Japan's getting like 10.

Metroid Fusion
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
WarioWare
Wario Land 4
Golden Sun
F-Zero
Super Mario World (Advance 2)
Advance Wars
Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap
Mario Tennis

Compared to just Metroid, M&L and Yoshi's Island.

I guess we're getting Yoshi's Island instead of like Mario World but still why only three [tornado fang]ing games. Give us ten too.

[xnamkcor]

but

LUDWIG

VON

KOOPA

When Peanut Butter said Roy was playable, I thought he meant Smash Bros.

PS: When the guy said to keep an eye out for a new character, I was hoping for Link...and secretely hoping for Fire Bar.

[Protoman Blues]

Seems useless to have that many Koopa Kids in the game, instead of other characters. Characters that aren't essentially clones of each other.

IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT YOU THINK, JABRONI!!!!

(Sorry. Been watching way too much WWE lately)

[Phi]

God this looks amazing

[Amatiramisu]

Holy hell. That does look really nice.

[Hypershell]

Oh yeah, you know how we are getting 3 GBA games to start?

Japan's getting like 10.

Metroid Fusion
Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga
WarioWare
Wario Land 4
Golden Sun
F-Zero
Super Mario World (Advance 2)
Advance Wars
Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap
Mario Tennis

Compared to just Metroid, M&L and Yoshi's Island.

I guess we're getting Yoshi's Island instead of like Mario World but still why only three [tornado fang]ing games. Give us ten too.

So Japan is getting two Mario Worlds?  Huh.

I don't know why Nintendo keeps pushing Metroid Fusion but not Zero Mission.  It's like their own version of what's going on with Konami and Contra/Super C.

Seems useless to have that many Koopa Kids in the game, instead of other characters. Characters that aren't essentially clones of each other.

...it's a kart racer.  If they have a unique appearance and voice clips, they're as non-clone as they need to be.

If you want to [sonic slicer] about clones in a Mario sports spinoff, I suggest you take a look at Camelot's recent treatment of Yoshi.

Also, it helps even out the good guy/bad guy count without resorting to playing as random stage enemies.

[Protoman Blues]

If it helps avoid BS characters like Metal Mario, then more power to it!