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Be Wary Of Updating Your Wii Firmware To 4.2

By Spencer . October 1, 2009 . 3:23pm

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.

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DSi – Considering the Possibilities

By Ishaan . February 22, 2009 . 2:56pm

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…

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A Gray Market For Bob’s Game

By Spencer . January 5, 2009 . 8:21am

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…

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Watch: Homebrew adds DVD playback to the Wii

By Spencer . August 13, 2008 . 11:58am

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…

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Persona 2: Innocent Sin goes back to school, learns English

By Spencer . March 21, 2008 . 1:40pm

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…

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Golden Axe revived on the Dreamcast

By Spencer . February 12, 2008 . 5:59pm

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…

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Namco Super Heroes meet in a fan created fighting game

By Spencer . January 15, 2008 . 11:17am

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…

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Zenny free Rockboard translation patch

By Spencer . January 3, 2008 . 11:29am

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,…

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Tales of fan translation, PsOne Phantasia in English

By Spencer . December 27, 2007 . 1:17pm

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…

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Chrono Trigger retranslation completed

By Spencer . September 30, 2007 . 4:58pm

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…