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NiGHTS Wii uses Forecast Channel for Game Weather
Wowzer writes "Sega Europe updated their NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams page, and in doing so accidentally briefly listed the new features the Wii-exclusive will have when it gets released in winter 2007. From the article: 'Wii connect 24 features: Exchange items with friends via the network and change the scenery according to real-world seasons using the Forecast Channel.' You'll also get three new shape-shifting masks (dragon, dolphin, rocket) to explore the game's seven worlds."
Don't people play games to experience a different world? DO we really want the same weather outside reflected in game?
Slashdot: It's news every time some random feature is included in a game?
has been doing this for a while.
But I sure like the potential prospect of playing with my wii in the rain!
See, that was funny right there because I used 'wii' in a context that suggested I might be talking about my wiener.
IS it just me or does this song like it's ruining the point of NiGHTS? In the original we didn't need masks or collectable ideas, you just got to the shrine and you were off. Why include artifical barriers like masks when the game it's self isn't suited to to them?
I like muppets.
Let me put in my zip code please. I don't care about the weather 200 miles away from me!
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..... the in-game weather will always be wrong?
The features of this game sound pretty cool; I like the tie ins between the different Wii channels.
However, I've disabled WiiConnect24 due to its power use. When the console is in standby and WiiConnect24 is disabled, it uses about 1W. With WiiConnect24 enabled, it uses about 10W. That's about $10 a year I'm not willing to pay in power.
The problem is that, when I turn on the console, it doesn't attempt to synchronize the WiiConnect data. The net connection works - I can use the internet channel and the votes channel - but the new and forecast channels just tell me "WiiConnect24 is disabled" and error out.
Is there any way I can configure the console so that WiiConnect24 is disabled, but when I turn on the chassis I get the data update? I don't mind if the data takes a few minutes or even half an hour to load; I'll play Elebits or something in the mean time.
Sorry if this seems mildly off-topic. I'd like to get excited about this game if I can use its features.
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.. I'll never know if this works. :(
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I'll hold off on judgement until I try it. Being an avid player of the original NiGHTS, however, I don't like the idea of adding "gimmicks" to the game like this. NiGHTS took place in a dream world, adding stuff like this would make the whole "Dream World" thing kinda pointless. The mask thing doesn't bother me since the original NiGHTS had basically the same thing, you'd transform at different parts of the level to suit the environment. Depends on what they do with it, I guess.
They'll add fire and smog for you.
Replacing the Xbox 360, PS3, and now your local neighbourhod weatherman.
Plus shall we mention this is the first time this has been done in a game?
Far from it: Microsoft flight simulator
X-Plane
Weather Channel Golf
And there has been weather integration in Second Life as well...
With the exception of your last point about battery backup, just google for the Panamax Max 8 Coax PRO. It has 4 outlets that are switched by a 12V trigger, and 4 outlets that are not. All of the outlets have surge protection.
You could solve the battery problem by plugging the Panamax into the UPS. Then the unswitched outlets would have UPS.
Weather effects are fine and dandy, but I'm not entirely mistaken there were some holiday effects (or, more accurately, a seperate disc bundled with some game mag, probably Gamepro or EGM) in which outside the Christmas season would look green and plant-y, but using the Saturn's clock, when Christmas time rolled around would be filled with snow, santa outfits, and the like. I'm near positive that using the Wii's weather and internal clock Nights will do something along the same lines.
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"See, that was funny right there because I used 'wii' in a context that suggested I might be talking about my wiener."
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I swear the Forecast Channel is always about 6 hours behind for me. I'll be playing near midnight and it'll show me weather from 8 PM, I'll play at 10 AM and I'll have a 3 AM reading. They should switch to the Weather Channel's service instead.
I know this is off topic, but when are we going to get a game that mimics D&D, so I can descend into a dungeon, starting off with very little, and then hack, solve, acquire, and arrow-shoot my way through a *first person* 3D adventure role playing game?
C'mon, I want to swordfight using the wiimote, using the nunchuck to control a shield.
(And, no, not in the Legend of Zelda.)
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Now I never have to go outside to know what the weather is like, I can just play video games.
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this appears to be a common misconception about the way WiiConnect24 works. WiiConnect24 is just the name of the service, like WiFi Connection was the name of the DS Internet Service.
If you don't want your Wii connected to the internet when it's off, it's simple enough, turn WiiConnect24 ON and turn Standby Connection OFF. Your Wii will be connected to the Internet only when it is on, it will update itself when it is on, and it will disconnect from the Internet when it is off, saving your precious $10/year.
I thought this was pretty self-explanatory but most people get it wrong.
being vague is almost as cool as doing that other thing...
things.
If you put your TV in the control socket then presumably when you turn the TV off (or put it on standby) it would completely power down whatever other items you have in the switched sockets and there are constant hot sockets for your PVR and whatever.
It's not exactly what you described and wouldn't shut off the TV standby power. On the upside it wouldn't give you another remote control to keep track of!
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That is indeed how it should work, but it doesn't. I have my Wii set with WiiConnect24 on and standby connection off, and if I try to go into the Forecast or News channels it tells me that WiiConnect24 is turned off. Turning standby connection on and then going back to the Forecast channel (without going into standby first) works just fine. Possibly this is a glitch in the current firmware.
My main irritation with standby connection is that it leaves the video signal active in standby mode, which confuses my automatic video switcher...
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