Users have been reporting from all corners of the Internet that the Wii firmware 4.2 update has a chance of “bricking” or ruining unmodified consoles.

So, DSi launches in April for $170. A few of us started to talk about DSi-specific games in the other post. Seeing as how there’s so much ground to cover when discussing the new DS model, I figured I’d throw together a post that could get us (and hopefully developers) thinking about some of the [...]

Bob’s Game has become quite the spectacle with its 100 day “protest” for a SDK kit from Nintendo and (tongue-in-cheek?) holiday greeting to Nintendo of America President Reggie Fils-Aimé. On the up side Pelloni has drawn tons of attention to his one man project. However, forcing Nintendo or any publisher to the negotiation table [...]

Nintendo dropped the ball on DVD support, but it’s an understandable decision. Including DVD playback would mean licensing the technology and passing the fees to customers. Most homes have DVD players anyways. The extra cost wouldn’t make the Wii a better gaming console, but if you’re dying to use the vacuum loading drive to watch [...]

Persona 2: Innocent Sin is the missing chapter of the Persona series. Die hard Megami Tensei fans know this and have been craving to play the first half of Persona 2 in English.
 
Thankfully, Gemini is hard at work on the job. He (she?) has a blog discussing the trials of the fan translation with status [...]

I’m one of the poor souls who bought Sega Ages 2500 Vol. 5: Golden Axe looking for a good co-op brawler. The experience wasn’t dreadful, but I haven’t cracked open the PlayStation 2 remake for years. Meanwhile, Golden Axe: Beast Rider looks nothing like the simplistic arcade game of yesteryear.
 
Members of the Insert Credit forums [...]

Sure, the Super Smash Brothers Brawl news is disappointing, but there is an unofficial mascot fighter you can play with to pass the time. Insert Credit points out Namco Super Heroes, a doujin fighter with forgotten Namco characters like Gil from the Druaga series, Valkyrie from  Legend of Valkyrie and my personal favorite addition Rick [...]

Back on the Famicom, Capcom developed a Mega Man party game. However, Wily & Light's Rockboard: That's Paradise!! isn’t a mini-game collection like Mario Party. Rockboard shares more in common with Monopoly or Enix’s Itadaki Street series. You roll dice, move on a board, purchase properties and make bets to collect the most Zenny. While [...]

Namco released Tales of Phantasia on the Game Boy Advance and it contained some of the modifications from the PsOne release. However, the anime intro got cut and the music was notably downsampled. No problem, though! Thanks to the hard work of the fan translation community a polished English patch of Tales of Phantasia for [...]

A labor of love is ready and available for download if you weren’t satisfied with Chrono Trigger’s US script. The retranslation took things out that were added in like Frog’s Elizebethan English and added stuff that was removed like the final ending artwork from the Japanese release. I never found the translation to be lacking, [...]