It’s almost new year and there’s a lot of cool stuff to look forward to in the coming months of 2008. But for now you’ll have to make due with this week’s Virtual Console update.
The new additions are Bubble Bobble for NES, Light Crusader for Sega Genesis, and Top Hunter for NEOGEO. Luckily there’s a bunch of stuff I still haven’t gotten around to downloading from 2007 that is approximately 10,000% cooler.
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If you have sharp eyes you may have noticed the new “Game Downloads” section at the left there. If not, take a look. The reason for this new section is that I finally started learning some C++ and about a week or so ago I finished my first real game.
Now this isn’t exactly a deep game, nor is it super complex. Infact it’s pretty simple. Regardless, what it’s done is let me get used to working with the language.
Anyway, after I was done I figured I might as well make this the sort of Christmas Present to Bomb-Omb’s readers. So here you go, a free video game, it’s called “Wack-A-Noel” and it’s probably pretty close to what you think.
You can learn more and download it here!
Thanks to all of Bomb-Omb’s readers for our best year yet and have a Merry Christmas.
I’m just going to go ahead and paste in the introduction from the press release here.
“If you hear a rumbling on the roof tonight, don’t assume that it’s reindeer when there are gorillas on the loose. Yes, this week’s merry Wii™ Shop Channel lineup includes a classic adventure title to entertain every reveler in your household, from the nicest to the naughtiest. Plus, you’ll find a wicked-cool dose of ice hockey action and a thrilling secret-agent sequel to help keep spirits bright all winter long. You were expecting lumps of coal? Sorry-maybe next year.”
I don’t know about you, but I think getting a lump of coal on the Wii Menu would be pretty badass. Imagine it, Chirstmas day and you notice the Wii light is on. Thinking it’s some new channel or something from Nintendo you power the Wii up and take a look. Coal. Freaking coal. I’d love that.
Anyway, this year’s last additions to the Virtual Console library are Blades of Steel for the NES, Donkey Kong Country 3 for the SNES, and Rolling Thunder 2 for the Genesis.
Full details are neatly packaged inside.
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Apparently today is ass-kicking Monday for the Virtual Console. Look at this, look at it! Cyborgs? Aliens? Monsters? All here, and all ready to either kick ass or have their exoskeleton asses kicked! Those monster definitely need an ass-kicking though. Too much color.
This week’s new titles are Cybernator for the SNES, Alien Storm for the Sega Genesis, and Monster Lair for the TurboGrafx16… CD-ROM.
Full ass-kicking details inside! Zrrt!
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Here’s something I bet you didn’t expect to see today. I give you… the Donkey Kong monster truck. Look at that, it’s like DK’s skull was broken off at the jaw and the two halves of his brain fell out and turned into the wheels or something… and that’s awesome. I bet this was your idea, wasn’t it Reggie? This truck was unveiled Saturday on Monster Jam circuit. “Before the event, the Donkey Kong truck was hidden in a huge barrel and was revealed at the opening of the show by busting out of the barrel to the delight of the screaming crowd.” That’s hilarious.
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During the afternoon on Monday a Wii firmware update hit. Among some other things it updates the Shop Channel so you’ll need to update if you want to download some VC games. There doesn’t seem to be too much to this update but I could missing something. Please feel free to list changes in the comments section and I’ll update the list here.
List of changes:
Shop Channel menu icon has been update (looks a lot better I think)
“Wii Gifting” feature added to Shop Channel (lets you buy VC/Wii Ware software for other people on your friend list)
Photo Channel 1.1 added to download list
Photo Channel changes:
You can now set pictures on the SD or System Memory as the Photo Channel icon on the Wii Menu.
MP3 playback has been replaced with with AAC file playback.
This means that if you use the Photo Channel to play MP3s you won’t be able to do it with 1.1. If you want the new feature(s) I recommend using BonkEnc to convert your music collection. (it’ll do batches of files and is free to use, however please note that you can donate to them)
It was previously thought that you couldn’t downgrade back to Photo Channel 1.0 but infact you can. To do so, go into the Channel data management screen and delete the channel. This will remove the update from the memory and the channel will return to its old version. To re-upgrade simply download the 1.1 version again. So if you want to check out the new stuff but don’t want to lose MP3 support have no worries. Please note that Wii consoles that come with Photo Channel 1.1 pre-installed at the factory will not have the ability to delete that version and downgrade to Photo Channel 1.0 (these consoles became available at retail in December, 2007).
Since Pokemon Snap released on Monday I thought they might add in the feature to move pictures on the Wii to SD card. That way you could print the pictures using a PC. I have not found any such feature, and that sucks! If anyone discovers it hidden away please post how here. I have screen shots I’d like to get on my PC without having to use the video capture device.
This week there’s something uniuqe about one the the added VC titles. Pokemon Snap, an oddly entertaining N64 title in which the objective of the game is to take pictures of Pokemon, has been updated. It used to be that you could save your pictures to a memory card and take it to a Blockbuster Video store where they had a special kiosk to print the pictures out on stickers. Obviously, those kiosks are long gone now and instead the game has been updated for Wii to let you save the pictures you take to the Wii message board. (hopefully that update to the Photo Channel will let you transfer images to an SD card). Even if you don’t care about this game it means that these titles can be modified, which opens up some interesting possibilities.
Now, the other two games this week are Ghosts’n Goblins for NES, and Baseball Star 2 for NEOGEO.
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This week it’s mostly a batch of the kind of games I might have rented at the privately owned video store back in the day. Nothing super killer, but nothing terrible either. Check em out.
There’s Zanac for NES (a shoot em’ up), Eternal Champions for Genesis (fighting), and The Dynastic Hero for TurboGrafx16 (something that sounds awesome)
As always, full details inside!
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