According to this site, you can you use Jinzora to stream MP3s to your Wii. Haven't tried it myself though, since I'm running AMPache on my server, which I haven't gotten to work with the Wii Browser so far.
Wiimote and Nunchuks aren't region-coded, are they? So why don't all you US gamers orders yours at amazon.de or amazon.co.uk for example, where there's still plenty available. It's only a couple of days of delivery, if you order stuff from amazon.com as a European, so I guess it's the same the other way around.
As for sustaining enthusiasm for the Wii: Obviously, I don't play 2+ hours per day every day anymore. I might even not use it all for a week occasionally. But I sure as heck still turn it on whenever friends come over. And I still play Red Steel every now and then, being one of the two people worldwide who actually like the game. Just the same, as with prior consoles, actually.
I was wondering the exact same thing. Could I buy a Japanese Wii, hook it up to my PAL TV and play European releases on it? Or would I rely on an NTSC TV set and/or imported games?
Okay, so now we have release dates for Japan und North America. What about Europe though? Any ideas/clues/hints? Lemme guess, it's gonna be released on Dec. 23rd at 300 EUR excluding Wiimote and Game? Say it ain't so. I don't wanna have to order at Lik-Sang, forcing me in turn buy imported games for the rest of my life. Well, Wii's life, that is.
And no, waiting for a (probably) late European release is _not_ an option..
Yeah, my whole family used to have Tetris tournaments using linked-up classic Game Boys. And my Mom used to win, like, 4 out of 5 times. Actually, the second Game Boy we bought back then was supposed to be my sister's, but I guess she never got to lay her hands on it, other than for a one-on-one Tetris match against my Mom, of course..
Now that my Mom's bought a fancy Notebook, all she ever uses it for is Mahjongg. I can really see how you need 2 GHz for that.. Oh yeah, and she uses it to email me every once in a while. In-between games of Mahjongg, that is.
"Actually, when a violent offender goes to jail, this is one of the things that I hope happens." Oh yeah, but who do you think is gonna do the raping? Probably the guys going to jail for rape in the first place. So they're probably getting rewarded for their crime in a twisted way (I'm aware of the fact that there's a couple more downsides to being in jail). And if there's such a thing as re-integration after you get out of jail, having a year-long history of being raped or raping somebody else probably doesn't help either. Then again, it's all about eye-for-an-eye (or butthole) in the US, I guess.
As I had just posted on www.fark.com the other day, I didn't even know you guys _had_ liberals in the United States. I thought it was just conservatives and.. well.. guys a little more conservative.
I have to admit there's those very few leftists like Noam Chomsky, but it's not like he has any influence other than on people who agree with him anyway. All five of 'em.
Aren't they violating the DMCA by "promoting reverse engineering"? Even though in this case "reverse engineering" probably means pointing a gun at somebody to force him to hand out the source code (which will probably be some sort of flashy 3d-virtual-reality-computer-animated-crap). Anywa ys, sue 'em, I say, SUE 'EM!! (Sorry for yelling!)
"it uses the BSD-licensed KallistiOS toolkit as its base." KallistiOS? Gimme a break! If that thing's named in honor of Eris/Discordia, the goddess of chaos, confusion and discord, it's gotta be a real pain to use. Then again, chaos breeds creativity, or so the saying goes, so maybe it's a good thing.
So it's okay to harrass one country's citizens just because the leader of said country disagree with the leader of another country about political issues? It's just plain racist b#llsh*t to say "the French" per se had that point of view. I don't know if you're aware of the fact that people might disagree with their leaders. I know I do. But I guess you just do whatever your leader tells you to. I think that's called fascism. Or at least it's part of the concept of fascism.
.. And how many Discordians are there in Canada? After all, it seems to be the perfect place to get out of each other's way, as Discordians are advised to. And if you do meet one, you can make all the animal sounds you like, without anybody ever looking at you strangely, because.. well.. it's Canada.
I've been wondering about that for a while. Considering that Geforce 4 cards have more transistors than a Pentium 4, and with all those programmable vertex and what-not shaders, there's gotta be a way to put it to a good non-gaming use. ATI's latest Radeon drivers for example added hardware DivX decoding support, MPEG decoding has been hardwired into graphics chips for a while.
Oh how I miss sidescrolling Shoot'em Ups!!
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Gosh, I'm really getting nostalgic! Anybody know of any _good_ up-to-date non-3D Shoot'em Ups? I'm so sick of 3D-this and 3D-that games. One of the main reason I bought a GBA was to be able to play Gradius and the likes. Of course, there's always M.A.M.E., but I would love to see some modern graphics, high resolutions etc.
Any chance this mighty fine exhibit might make it to the other side of the Atlantic? The Transmediale festival of electronic art in Berlin/FRG would be a perfect opportunity, for example. I can't wait to see the Gameboyzz Orchestra show at the festival, for example.
I don't know where you're from, but this is not solely an (US-)American problem. It's pretty much the same in Germany, where I'm from, and probabely most of the world.
The problem - AFAIK - is that on the one hand, the media is supposed to mirror reality, but on the other hand, they operate in a capitalist, competitive environment. Thus, they tend to exaggerate and report unusual and shocking news to draw attention and readers/viewers to make a profit.
So while the public assumes that they're being shown a representative overview of the world, it's really the most abnormal news that make the headlines.
There's plenty of studies confirming this, just don't ask me for any now. Just take my word for it, this is the type of stuff I learn at college.
You forgot to mentioned one last possibility to pirate it outside the movie studios themselves: Ever wondered why newspapers/magazines have reviews of movies up the day the movies appear in movie theaters? It's because they get special preview-versions, probabely watermarked one way or another. Get a hold of one of them, et voila, a perfect dvd rip.
While I do agree that the US is headed in a very sad direction, I don't believe this particular problem has to do with it. _We_ all know that the reasoning is ridiculous. Joe Average probabely doesn't. But I guess the real purpose is to shut down emerging free networks. Because it could really hurt the ISPs and Telcos in the long run. You're in corporate America and Dubya is a puppet on a string to the biggest ones. Ever realized that Dubya is a character straight out of a Hollywood movie: Simple-minded, supposedly honest and direct, and grown up on a ranch for Eris' sake. I wonder who's written the script and who's the director..
Are you saying that you get to play as a postal worker, bus driver or cable guy in this game? Man, looks like the not-yet-founded Office for Homeland Security (note the caps) is another major sponsor.
My favorite "German" word is "Ausgeschnitzel". Which is not a German word, really. It appeared in one of the early Indy-Jones adventures on Amiga written on a torpedo on a German sub. We quickly adopted it into our own special style of German, meaning something like "broken" as in "Don't use that bathroom, it is ausgeschnitzel". FYI, I am German. But back then, our special language consisted of quotes from the German translations of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes and Hape Kerkeling movies. We even developed our own martial-arts style called Hübnern. But don't get me started on that..
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According to this site, you can you use Jinzora to stream MP3s to your Wii. Haven't tried it myself though, since I'm running AMPache on my server, which I haven't gotten to work with the Wii Browser so far.
Wiimote and Nunchuks aren't region-coded, are they? So why don't all you US gamers orders yours at amazon.de or amazon.co.uk for example, where there's still plenty available. It's only a couple of days of delivery, if you order stuff from amazon.com as a European, so I guess it's the same the other way around.
As for sustaining enthusiasm for the Wii: Obviously, I don't play 2+ hours per day every day anymore. I might even not use it all for a week occasionally. But I sure as heck still turn it on whenever friends come over. And I still play Red Steel every now and then, being one of the two people worldwide who actually like the game. Just the same, as with prior consoles, actually.
I was wondering the exact same thing. Could I buy a Japanese Wii, hook it up to my PAL TV and play European releases on it? Or would I rely on an NTSC TV set and/or imported games?
I don't know, that's a hard decision, to be honest. Something I'm not used to, since in Communist Europe, choices make you.
Okay, so now we have release dates for Japan und North America. What about Europe though? Any ideas/clues/hints? Lemme guess, it's gonna be released on Dec. 23rd at 300 EUR excluding Wiimote and Game?
Say it ain't so. I don't wanna have to order at Lik-Sang, forcing me in turn buy imported games for the rest of my life. Well, Wii's life, that is.
And no, waiting for a (probably) late European release is _not_ an option..
If you wanna play SMK online, you could just install an emulator, like snes9x for example (assuming you're using Windows) and use its netplay feature.
Hey guys, check out Zockerweibchen (German site) for surprisingly good-looking female counterstrike players.
Yeah, my whole family used to have Tetris tournaments using linked-up classic Game Boys. And my Mom used to win, like, 4 out of 5 times. Actually, the second Game Boy we bought back then was supposed to be my sister's, but I guess she never got to lay her hands on it, other than for a one-on-one Tetris match against my Mom, of course..
Now that my Mom's bought a fancy Notebook, all she ever uses it for is Mahjongg. I can really see how you need 2 GHz for that..
Oh yeah, and she uses it to email me every once in a while. In-between games of Mahjongg, that is.
"Actually, when a violent offender goes to jail, this is one of the things that I hope happens."
Oh yeah, but who do you think is gonna do the raping? Probably the guys going to jail for rape in the first place. So they're probably getting rewarded for their crime in a twisted way (I'm aware of the fact that there's a couple more downsides to being in jail).
And if there's such a thing as re-integration after you get out of jail, having a year-long history of being raped or raping somebody else probably doesn't help either.
Then again, it's all about eye-for-an-eye (or butthole) in the US, I guess.
As I had just posted on www.fark.com the other day, I didn't even know you guys _had_ liberals in the United States. I thought it was just conservatives and.. well.. guys a little more conservative.
I have to admit there's those very few leftists like Noam Chomsky, but it's not like he has any influence other than on people who agree with him anyway. All five of 'em.
Aren't they violating the DMCA by "promoting reverse engineering"? Even though in this case "reverse engineering" probably means pointing a gun at somebody to force him to hand out the source code (which will probably be some sort of flashy 3d-virtual-reality-computer-animated-crap).a ys, sue 'em, I say, SUE 'EM!!
Anyw
(Sorry for yelling!)
"it uses the BSD-licensed KallistiOS toolkit as its base."
KallistiOS? Gimme a break! If that thing's named in honor of Eris/Discordia, the goddess of chaos, confusion and discord, it's gotta be a real pain to use. Then again, chaos breeds creativity, or so the saying goes, so maybe it's a good thing.
So it's okay to harrass one country's citizens just because the leader of said country disagree with the leader of another country about political issues? It's just plain racist b#llsh*t to say "the French" per se had that point of view. I don't know if you're aware of the fact that people might disagree with their leaders. I know I do. But I guess you just do whatever your leader tells you to. I think that's called fascism. Or at least it's part of the concept of fascism.
.. And how many Discordians are there in Canada? After all, it seems to be the perfect place to get out of each other's way, as Discordians are advised to. And if you do meet one, you can make all the animal sounds you like, without anybody ever looking at you strangely, because.. well.. it's Canada.
I've been wondering about that for a while. Considering that Geforce 4 cards have more transistors than a Pentium 4, and with all those programmable vertex and what-not shaders, there's gotta be a way to put it to a good non-gaming use. ATI's latest Radeon drivers for example added hardware DivX decoding support, MPEG decoding has been hardwired into graphics chips for a while.
Gosh, I'm really getting nostalgic! Anybody know of any _good_ up-to-date non-3D Shoot'em Ups? I'm so sick of 3D-this and 3D-that games.
One of the main reason I bought a GBA was to be able to play Gradius and the likes. Of course, there's always M.A.M.E., but I would love to see some modern graphics, high resolutions etc.
Any chance this mighty fine exhibit might make it to the other side of the Atlantic? The Transmediale festival of electronic art in Berlin/FRG would be a perfect opportunity, for example. I can't wait to see the Gameboyzz Orchestra show at the festival, for example.
> the media has you Yanks shitting yourselves
I don't know where you're from, but this is not solely an (US-)American problem. It's pretty much the same in Germany, where I'm from, and probabely most of the world.
The problem - AFAIK - is that on the one hand, the media is supposed to mirror reality, but on the other hand, they operate in a capitalist, competitive environment. Thus, they tend to exaggerate and report unusual and shocking news to draw attention and readers/viewers to make a profit.
So while the public assumes that they're being shown a representative overview of the world, it's really the most abnormal news that make the headlines.
There's plenty of studies confirming this, just don't ask me for any now.
Just take my word for it, this is the type of stuff I learn at college.
You forgot to mentioned one last possibility to pirate it outside the movie studios themselves: Ever wondered why newspapers/magazines have reviews of movies up the day the movies appear in movie theaters?
It's because they get special preview-versions, probabely watermarked one way or another.
Get a hold of one of them, et voila, a perfect dvd rip.
While I do agree that the US is headed in a very sad direction, I don't believe this particular problem has to do with it. _We_ all know that the reasoning is ridiculous. Joe Average probabely doesn't. But I guess the real purpose is to shut down emerging free networks. Because it could really hurt the ISPs and Telcos in the long run. You're in corporate America and Dubya is a puppet on a string to the biggest ones. Ever realized that Dubya is a character straight out of a Hollywood movie: Simple-minded, supposedly honest and direct, and grown up on a ranch for Eris' sake. I wonder who's written the script and who's the director..
>B-52's: Taking the 'Fun' Out of 'Fundamentalism' since 1952
You sure about that? Seems to me like it's been spreading the "Fun" in "Fundamentalism" recently.
>spy on each other, denunciations..
Are you saying that you get to play as a postal worker, bus driver or cable guy in this game?
Man, looks like the not-yet-founded Office for Homeland Security (note the caps) is another major sponsor.
> Newton for instance (probably) died a virgin. /. masses. ;)
What a great idol for the
Voice controlled holographic 3D environments..
Holodeck, here I come.
My favorite "German" word is "Ausgeschnitzel". Which is not a German word, really.
It appeared in one of the early Indy-Jones adventures on Amiga written on a torpedo on a German sub.
We quickly adopted it into our own special style of German, meaning something like "broken" as in "Don't use that bathroom, it is ausgeschnitzel".
FYI, I am German. But back then, our special language consisted of quotes from the German translations of Monty Python's Flying Circus episodes and Hape Kerkeling movies.
We even developed our own martial-arts style called Hübnern. But don't get me started on that..