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Pokemon Game Boy Advance Update

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the gotta-catch-em-all-or-at-least-catch-most-of-em dept.

herrvinny writes "As a followup to a previous Slashdot Games article, the upcoming Pokemon Colosseum GameCube game will download an update to a Ruby/Sapphire Pokemon game to fix the internal clock." Pokemon players in the US who want their games patched without buying a new GameCube game can take their carts to EB World or GameStop stores to receive the update. There's also a "special gift" distributed with the patch that requires an open party slot.

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  1. Kudos by redune45 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    I know Nintendo fanatics will likely be upset about Nintendo admitting their fault. But personally I'm glad that the company is admitting they made a mistake and are makeing the steps to fix it.

    Especiallly the fixes that don't need any puchase at all. Big move for the big N. Way to go!

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    1. Re:Kudos by MBCook · · Score: 4, Insightful
      I've been a gamer for a LONG time. The only things I can think of are things like companies giving you new discs or carts (this was SNES or PS1 era) when a real percentage of defective carts were released. Things like a game didn't work with a specific series of PS1s for some odd reason so you could get a new disc.

      As for games that actually got patched (as opposed to the media they're on being bad) I can't think of any. There have been many games that have major problems. Donkey Kong 64 had major bugs IIRC. Enter the Matrix was supposed to have major bugs, and there are many games that are just PATHETIC (there was an episode of X-Play the other day that had a trucking game that I just had to laught out loud at. No collision detection, you raced against an oppontent that never moved, and there was no sound AT ALL).

      Basically, major bugs either prevent release and get fixed, get released, or the game is released and then the bug is discovered. I can't remember any games ever getting patched.

      And I agree with you guys. The fix is free, easy to get, gives you a bonus, and it's for a bug that most people would never encounter (because most people aren't still playing the game unless they have started a new game which negates the bug).

      Nintendo has always been a stand-up company to me. Most companies these days would say "oops", or deny it, or ignore it, or already knew about it before the game shipped. Nintendo finds a bug that won't effect most people and they make it RIGHT.

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    2. Re:Kudos by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      What was the flaw with the NES? Other than occaionally having to blow on the connector, what was wrong with it?

    3. Re:Kudos by Cais · · Score: 2, Interesting

      Didn't SOCOM 2 get an update a while back? I've been unable to use my PS2 lately, so I haven't gotten a chance to check it out.

  2. Not Jirachi by WorselWorsel · · Score: 3, Informative

    You get a jirachi and the berry fix from the disc you get for pre-buying Pokemon Colosseum. You get a shiny zigzagoon if you go to EB or Gamestop and patch your game in the store.

  3. Yes, but... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    when will they fix the save flaw in the original Excite Bike?

  4. very cool way of doing it by Roman_(ajvvs) · · Score: 3, Interesting
    You have to admit, putting a patch for a game on a different platform into a game is unique as far as I know. And I can't think of any other gaming hardware company where that's possible. Neither Sony nor MS have any peripheral components that communicate like Nintendo with its GC/GBA connection.

    The way Nintendo did it sounds a hell of a lot cooler than the standard "would you upgrade your DirectX" you get with PC games.

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