Cameron's Thoughts

Got myself a Wii yesterday. It's good stuff. To busy with it to write more. Let me know what games I should get. Already have Warioware SmoothMoves and WiiPlay.

I am selling a number of Game Boy games and a couple of systems. Also, I am selling my copy of Twisted Metal for PSP. You can find all these goodies on EBay.

Systems:

Nintendo Game Boy Advance SP Black
Nintendo Game Boy Color

Games:

The Legend of Zelda: A Link To The Past (GBA)
The Sims Bustin’ Out (GBA)
Donkey Kong Country (GBA)
Yoshi's Island: Super Mario Advance 3 (GBA)
Super Mario Bros. Deluxe (Game Boy Color)
Twisted Metal: Head-On (PSP)

All auctions are closed now.

Everytime I hear more info on the PSP, I just want to have it more and more. It just sounds so good. And the looks, wow, it's a beautiful machine. I just got done reading some good info over at Gear Live.

The Top Ten Things You Need to Know About Sony’s PSP

The other day, I discovered a pretty cool open source program called DOSBox. This program allows those old DOS games to played flawlessly on Windows XP. So, I have been spending a lot of time playing an old favorite, SimEarth, and will probably bust of the original Civilization soon. This program does require a fairly powerful machine since it needs to emulate all the hardware. But, I have been playing on a 2.8 GHz P4 and everything has been working just like it did 15 years ago. With he exception of everything being really small.

Look like Wal-Mart is taking pre-orders for the new Nintendo DS game system. Is going to be selling for $199.82 and has a release date of 11/30/04 (my birthday). I'm sure all these details have been out for a while now, but I haven't really been following closly. Some things that impress me:

• "If software developers desire, multiple players can compete in wireless games, even if only one person has a game card inserted. Players could also test-play games for themselves as long as they stayed connected."
• "With the newly developed graphics engine, DS can reproduce impressive 3-D renderings that can surpass images displayed on the Nintendo 64. Games will run at 60 frames per second, and allow details like fog effects and cel shading."
• For its compact cards, the unit uses newly developed semiconductor memory, which allows for lower cost, shorter manufacturing time and memory capacity of more than one gigabit of information.
• Nintendo DS makes a vast library of Game Boy Advance games readily available. Developers could find ways to make new connections between GBA games and DS games.

It's probably smart for Nintendo to do this soon as I imagine the PSP isn't going to be too far off. When I saw the PSP, I figured Nintendo was done for if they didn't have something up their sleave because it totally blows away the GBA.
But with the superior 3D capability than the Nintendo 64, this could hold up quite the competition. Nintendo does have a lot of support from developers for their mobile game platform since they have been the king for the past 15 years. Plus, the system is backward compatible with a 15 year gaming library. PSP vs. Nintendo DS could get very interesting soon.

I can't believe Princess Peach and Diddy Kong. I was in third place and out of nowhere, they come flying across the finish line to beat me by one thousandth of a second. That is crap.

This is something that has to be seen to be believed. Check out this link: http://media.ebaumsworld.com/moSMB3.wmv

This is an 11 minute long video showing the complete game. This guy must have spent the past 10 or 15 years (however long this game has been out) perfecting this. It is a true artwork the way the guy plays this game. Not quite sure who this is, but I saw this link posted at ClieSource and I just had to share it.

Today I bought Mario Kart for the GameCube. Super Mario Kart for the SNES has got to be my all time favorite game. I still am not sure if this game fully lives up to it, but it is a pretty fun game itself. I've never played the N64 version,so I can't comment on that.
One thing that I have not received, the bonus disc that was supposed to be included if you pre-ordered the game. I did pre-order, but the people at Wal-Mart said they didn't have them in yet, Actually, the people at Wal-Mart were pretty clueless. They were advertising the game was going to be available November 18th (even though it was released nationwide on the 17th), but they didn't even have it on the shelf. The lady I spoke with said she was pretty sure the game wasn't in yet, but then double checked and sure enough, there was a whole box of games not even opened yet in the back.
But, now I have it and today I was able to easily (first try) get Gold trophies for all three circuits on the 50cc. So far I have received a Silver trophy for each race in the 100cc, but I have only played the 100cc races once now.
The graphics of the game are basically the same as Mario Sunshine, and I think they basically just took a number of the 3D graphics from Mario Sunshine and just did some minor edits and added them to MK:DD.