Nintendo - Warp Piped, Retro Collected

Thanks to the Warp Pipe Project for their announcement that they've released a Windows alpha of their GameCube tunnelling software, which allows previously LAN-only games such as Kirby Air Ride and the forthcoming Mario Kart: Double Dash to be played over the Internet. The site will post the Linux alpha soon, but warns that all versions of the utility are unoptimized: "Be advised that half frame rate was attained by two people with a fairly good connection and not much in between." Elsewhere, Nintendo are ramping up the Japanese version of Club Nintendo with exclusive merchandise for frequent game buyers, detailed at IGN Cube, and including exclusive T-shirts, posters, and soundtracks, but not yet the amazing-looking Famicom/NES 20th Anniversary calendar recently acquired at Nokonoko.net.

Comments

Re:Phony Calendar?

[mattwolfewvu]

Just a guess, but perhaps those were the games from which he sent in the seals. (BTW, FF:CC is a NGC title with GBA connectivity.)

Re:Phony Calendar?

[Anonymous Coward]

First, this calendar was produced for the Japanese market as a promotional item. That's in the very article. And yes, it was produced by Nintendo.

Second, the Japanese versions of both Sword of Mana and Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles have already been released in Japan, and the calendar month pages on which they are featured do not indicate their actual release dates in any non-Japanese regions (in case you were wondering for some reason). The U.S. release dates for both games, for example, are much earlier than as indicated.

As I understand it, this was just a way for Nintendo to get some Square presence in the calendar. Square was a major part of the Nintendo world until the end of the SNES era, and Nintendo is simply acknowledging this. This would be particularly important in Japan, where exposure of the fact that Square is actively supporting Nintendo platforms could be very influential.

Why wouldn't they include design elements from actual old-school Square games that were released for Nintendo platforms? Well, maybe it has to do with the fact that Sony still maintains a degree of control (not total, thus Square's GBA and GCN support), and many of these older games have been re-released on Sony and Bandai systems. The first Seiken Densetsu (which has been upgraded and released for the GBA as Shinyaku Seiken Densetsu) is one game that has never been re-released for a non-Nintendo system, and FF Crystal Chronicles is, as everybody knows, a GameCube-exclusive title.

BTW, yeah, there are other Square-on-Nintendo games that have never been re-released, but the two that were selected are clearly most representative of the most popular series to come out of Square, and they have both been released exclusively on Nintendo platforms, traditionally and recently.

And there you have it, you confused little mofos! Whee!

Gpl problem ?

[Anonymous Coward]

in the sourceforge summary, it said it's a gpl prog. But there are no sources and no cvs available.

And in the forum, authors said that they are going to a closed source program but "forever free".

But when you install the prog, you need to agree with the GPL. So they must give sources, no ?

GPL Problem !

[diablero]

Since I asked in their forums about GPL licence and source code ( http://www.warppipe.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=122 ) :
- they changed licence in sourceforge summary.
- they did another binary to download with a proprietary licence.

You can download the .exe with GPL licence at :
http://diablero.free.fr/warppipe/warppipe_full. exe

Original GPL .exe md5sum : 5b1e80abb3db65703089317401cec041
New .exe md5sum : 8e12abcc22b427bd6da2175ea3329edd