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Nintendo iQue Gets International Release, Linux Depot On Mars?

Posted by simoniker on from the not-so-much-with-the-second-part dept.

Thanks to Lik-Sang for its update on the status of Nintendo's iQue 'TV game', the Nintendo 64-based controller previously featured on Slashdot Games. The update notes Nintendo have "...confirmed their plans of an international release of the iQue Player... [and now] seem to have announced a release in other... countries of Asia and South America." It also references a forum post in which a user reports "the iQue Depot [which delivers N64 games to the iQue's flash memory] is powered by Linux and connected with some kind of network through wireless." He also notes some 'interesting' tech support beliefs: "The iQue Depot has got a camera built in to the top of the screen... I cannot see why... The girls at [Chinese department store] Jusco told me that this camera is the antenna, and it is connected to Mars (I am not kidding) and the reason why the iQue Depot does not flash my card is that the signal to the Mars is now not good because of bad weather condition."

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  1. Amazing by drinkypoo · · Score: 3, Interesting

    I actually got rid of my N64 because I never played the damn thing any more (since buying a gamecube which came with the N64 Zeldas.) Now I'm actually thinking about buying one of these things and enough stuff to hook up four controllers - but only if they come out with Super Smash Bros. (I can't really picture them not doing so.)

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  2. iQue vs original N64, i'm not getting it by real_smiff · · Score: 4, Interesting
    hmm, i'm looking at that pic on LikSang of the iQue mulitplayer adapter, which costs 70 USD, and wondering how is that better than an N64? Why not just put the console in that box and plug it into the TV - it looks like the multiplayer adapter does plug into the TV (rather than controller->TV) anyway! You can get N64 game carts for very little on eBay now. Apart from the "gee-wiz" factor and nice design what other reasons are there to spend so much (relatively) for this kit? I mean if you live in a country with the N64 available (and now officially "dead", although i remain a fan & user), which most of us do? (although eBay gets about everywhere, even poor countries, doesn't it).

    Also note that the z-trigger isn't on the back of this and it's probably heavier to hold.. all stuff that interests me anyway :)

    Despite all this negativity i applaud Nintendo for re-inventing their old hardware in smaller, neater designs... now can we just have a built in screen and call it a proper portable N64 please :) (j/k, the future is the GBA 2, or whatever they call it, with low power processor).

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  3. That Mars bit. by torpor · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Could actually just be standard Japanese "shop-girl" marketing 'schtick'.

    Japanese shop-girls are often given weird lines and marketing gimmicks for their application in 'ditziness' factor.

    Calculated, fashionable, weirdness...

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  4. I know what the camera's for... by Luigi30 · · Score: 5, Funny

    In Communist China, iQue watches you?

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  5. Outsourcing? by wolssiloa · · Score: 4, Funny

    are we being outsourced to Mars now? damn Martians...