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Another Hidden Radio Message in Metroid

August 29th 2007 Posted in Game Culture, Videos

Josh Thomas at WiiFolder.Com has uncovered a message from Shigeru Miyamoto in Metroid Prime 3. Like myself, he doesn’t know Japanese and has turned to the interwebs for help. Apparently the Miyamoto message says the following:

“Ah, can you hear me? This is Miyamoto. All of you playing Metroid, can you hear me? It’s fun, isn’t it? I’ve also worked on many [Metroid] games, but this one is the best yet, don’t you think? Definitely play it all the way to the end. See you!”

Watch the video here

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Hidden Metroid Prime 3 Radio Message

August 28th 2007 Posted in Game Culture, Videos

I found this message while playing around with the radio in Samus’s ship in Metroid Prime 3. The signal code is the one you use in the beginning.I think this is a recording of Satoru Iwata, Nintendo’s president. I don’t understand Japanese so if someone could translate it for me I’d much appreciate it.

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Thanks to the interwebs (especially GoNintendo, Youtube, and the Nintendo Forums) a friendly anonymous fellow has translated the message. GoNintendo user Jammer did this translation:
“Hello, this is Iwata from Nintendo. You may not know from an outsiders point of view, but being a director is really hard! When things are really busy and stressful we (us directors) may look tired and sick, then people may feel sorry for us! But in my case, it’s the opposite, I get fatter and fatter, so then people don’t think I’m stressed at all!”

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Virtual Console Update 37

August 27th 2007 Posted in Virtual Console

So let me be honest. I was totally expecting a craptacular update for today. But to my surprise when I went to check the Shop Channel and found these fine quality games.

Breath of Fire II for SNES, Ghouls ‘N Ghosts (Genesis version), and Super C for the NES. Three perfectly kick ass games. Admittedly, Ghouls ‘N Ghosts was sort of already released, but hey, it’s still awesome.

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Nintendo World Metroid Gift

August 27th 2007 Posted in Game News, Game Culture, Free Stuff

If you’re going to be at the Nintendo World store in New York City on Monday for Metroid Prime 3 it sounds like you might be able to nab a “Free Metroid gift pack”. The PDF flyer doesn’t say what exactly a “Free Metroid gift pack” is though. Who know, it might be a poster, or something a little more substantial. A real Metroid for example.

If you’re there and find out what they’re talking about send us a message and maybe some pictures!

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Metroid Prime 3 Ad

August 26th 2007 Posted in Game Culture, Videos

So you know those “Wii would like to play” commercials? Imagine one of those combined with Metroid Prime 3 footage. The result is like oil and water.

View on Metroid site
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While I think those ads are great for stuff like Wii Sports and other Wii titles I think Metroid might have been better with a little more traditional ad. Whatcha think?

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Virtual Console Update 36

August 20th 2007 Posted in Virtual Console

Super Metroid

Ok, let’s see what we got. Super Metroid, Super Metroid, and Super Metroid. You know what to do. There’s also Shinobi III: Return of the Ninja Master for Genesis, and Neutopia for TurboGrafx16

Super Metroid is quite possibly my favorite game of all time. If you’re one who downloaded the first NES Metroid last week to see what all the fuss was about, and was dissapointed either because you don’t know what’s going on or it’s extreme difficulty, I think you should check out Super Metroid.

While Super Metroid is still a hard game, it’s more generous in every aspect than the NES one.

More details, and games inside!

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Another Firmware Update

August 14th 2007 Posted in Game News, Wii Channels

There’s already a new firmware update. This doesn’t add any new features but it fixes a couple issues some people had when the 3.0 update came around like LAN Adapters and wireless settings not always working and having the Opera Browser lock up when you hit reset. If you’re one of the people who had those issues you’ll be happy.

This update is so small that it doesn’t even change the version number. Simply a bug fixing update.

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Virtual Console Update 35

August 13th 2007 Posted in Virtual Console

Metroid Shining in the Darkness Cratermaze

There it is, Metroid for the NES along with Shining in the Darkness for the Genesis, and Cratermaze for the TurboGrafx16.

Be warned if you’ve never played the original Metroid, it’s hard. And if you don’t see Metroid being worth a $5 download because it’s included as an unlock for Metroid Prime on the Cube and Zero Mission on the GBA? Super Metroid is for next week. That’s easily worth $10!

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The Metroid Preview Channel

August 10th 2007 Posted in Game News, Wii Channels

Three words. Metriod Freaking Channel. Turn on your Wii and go get it. While there isn’t a playable demo there’s some game play videos and some hidden things. It looks like it’s going to be a bit like SmashBros.Com as there’s something called “Month of Metroid”

If you don’t have a Wii you can check out the website Metroid.Com which has been updated.

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USB Keyboards on the Wii

August 07th 2007 Posted in Game News, Wii Channels

So I was messing around and suddenly discovered that USB keyboards now seem to work on the Wii thanks to today’s firmware update. I’m not sure how compatible is it with all the boards so test it out and post what keyboard you have.

I have a Logitech G15 keyboard that seems to work on the Wii Main Menu, although I can’t get it to work on the Internet Channel (which I hope is fixed soon). Anyone else having any luck?

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