Gaming Cafe Diem Baby: The Nintendo Wii U Discussion

Yeah, it's a lot of info. Even those eShop games looked fun (that octopus father one in particular looks hilarious). Hard to sort out the U & 3DS news from one another at the moment, but still...

Don't forget Mario Kart 8 200cc! And more Mii player costumes (I will be racing dressed as Mega Man, in the Blue Falcon, from now on). Oh, and costumes in Smash will also include Mega Man X and Protoman costumes! HELL. YEAH. That'll do. Oh, and they're opening up an online suggestion box for future Smash DLC fighters! That's actually pretty powerful once you consider that getting a character into Smash means they will likely also become an Amiibo!

I was really impressed by just how much love Fire Emblem got- for a series that was on the brink of complete mothballing before Awakening hit it big, you have the SMTXFE (whichis apparently called "Illusory Revelations #FE"?), the next FE game proper (I love the split storyline possibilities for the story- trying to change an evil empire from within is certainly a different approach) plus the Project STEAM Amiibo bonuses.

And they're finally bringing Fatal Frame over stateside. The Wii U works so well with the horror genre and all the videos I've seen for the game really make it look creepy- and I'm going to need a new horror game once I eventually finish ZombiU,

On top of that, the randomized Amiibo demo stages via free app, the first Amiibo cards via Animal Crossing, the added Amiibo range to MK8, improvements for Codename STEAM, an Attack on Titan 3DS game (plus two free episodes of the anime in the eShop), lots of custom controller options for N64 & DS games,

New Amiibo list:

5/28: Greninja, Jigglypuff
6/11: Zero Suit Samus, Ganondirf, Paluntena, Dark Pit
7/XX: Dr Mario, Olimar, Bowser Jr.
TBA: MewTwo, Lucas, Three colors of Wooly World wool Yoshis.

Also, GameStop tweeted that Ness will be a GS exclusive and preorders go on sale online and in-stores at 2PM CT thursday.

They also had a new trailer for XBC 3D and the Japanese Direct also debuted a new trailer for Bravely Second.


EDIT- OH! And two new Streetpass games!!!

 

I decided to finally upgrade most of my VC games to the U's VC (well, the fee that are available), since Best Buy had eShop cards at 10% off I figured why not?

But it seems the NES emulator they use has a problem I hadn't heard of before- the audio feeding through the TV is horrible, particularly the low-end sound and music. It even almost drops out at times. Yet the audio plays fine from the Gamepad- and the system us hooked directly to the TV so it's not an issue of a receiver having problems.

And it's just the U NES games, not SNES or even NES in Wii Mode. I'm gonna have to look into this.

EDIT- Found the solution: you need to have the audio output set to Stereo, not Surround.

 

Amiibo update: Smash Wave 4 and Splatoon go on preorder today. The GS preorder is in store only via web at 3pmEST, with online store later today.

Also Greninja will be a TRU exclusive and goes on preorder tomorrow.

Jigglypuff will be a Target exclusive.


EDIT- And Jigglypuff sold out in 3 min long before I even knew he was on sale.

Couldn't get to GS until 4:30. Lucina & Robin sold out in 45 min, Wario shortly before I got there.

EDIT 2- Apparently the amount of server traffic from the simultaneous nationwide preorder generated mire traffic in 1.5 hours than Black Friday, resulting in effectively shutting down Gamestop for that period of time as their registers and websites went down as a result. Some people who were first in line couldn't get all the Amiibos because they were sold out by time their order processed.

TRU put up their preorder around 2:30-3am- 4 hours earlier than expected. So people who got up early to preorder found preorders sold out by then.

Sigh. There's still Amazon I suppose...

 

Yeah, Master Hand isn't a push over.

Also, it seems the Amiibo situation is simply Nintendo imitating... themselves:

http://m.imgur.com/ZgLq66k

 

I don't own that one to verify but it's apparently legit.

 

Don't think I'll be able to get Splatoon at launch- need to buy an external HD first because DKCTF & MK 8 DLC2 (and Pikmin 3 from the MK 8 free game offer) took up the last of my internal drive.

The internal HD size would probably have never been a problem since I would never go digital with full retail games normally but I couldn't have anticipated all the great digital freebies over the past year.

 

Ouch, I have no idea. Haven't heard of that happening. Bad internal drive, maybe?

 

There is a delete system memory option under settings, IIRC- that could be accessed through the GP. Not sure how that'd affect the GP sync afterwards.

 

Tried out the 2nd Splatoon Global Testfire demo yesterday- the game is really fun, though I'm still working on the timing and controls for attacking other players because I got my butt handed to me almost constantly. That said, I'm pretty mean with the paint roller .

However, server issues did get in the way- clearly having everyone in the world try to logon to play the game at the same time in the same one hour span of time results in maxxed out servers.