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What do you think of the name?

Its totally fucking awesome. Easy to remember, short...
3 (8.3%)
Wii'll get used to it
5 (13.9%)
Better than Revolution *fnar*
2 (5.6%)
Meh, Revolution still sounds better than it
8 (22.2%)
This just proves Nintendos disgusting urine fetish
1 (2.8%)
I <3 Nintendo Go!!!! LOL!
0 (0%)
"I don't care that much, but the North American consumer base will, because the childish appearance is off-putting to our culture and the name might very well kill Nintendo's North American sales, which is something that would suck..." - Hadriel
2 (5.6%)
"I think it fucking sucks" - Zeality
15 (41.7%)

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #30 on: April 30, 2006, 04:42:51 am »
Yeah, pretty much anyone who actually wanted to play any of Nintendo's Golden & Silver (8- & 16-Bit...respectively? you decide) Age games has already done so using existing emulators & ROMs (or maybe they *shock* have the old systems). So that leaves the "Wii" with, what? A few good 64 games? Are they gonna have the Gamecube library? Doubtful. Their handheld library? That might be worth it...But I doubt it'd have SP and probably not even GBA...

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #31 on: April 30, 2006, 05:38:32 am »
I hear however that Nintendo are going to enhance the previous games *wink wink*. Plus, Nintendo are INCREDIBLY smart. They know doing this will make downloading ROMs totally illegal, because the games were considered abandonware before. Well, by some.

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #32 on: April 30, 2006, 12:15:43 pm »
What? Those games were never abandonware. All this will do is snap the people who lied to themselves out of it.

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #33 on: April 30, 2006, 12:36:00 pm »
It's ok. Think about how many times you'll say it in one day haha. Well I'm gonna buy it for sure. Wouldn't it be awesome if they came out with a new chrono trigger game for it? Hey a guy can dream can't he?

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #34 on: April 30, 2006, 01:31:20 pm »
Emulators and ROMs don't work very well some times.  Have you ever tried to play Super Contra on Emulators?  At least for the emulator I was using (ZSNES), you couldn't aim diagonally.  Same thing for Metroid games on GBA emulators.  And hopefully, there will be translations of only in Japan games, suck as Fire Emblem 1-6.

And the Wii is fully backwards compatible with the Gamecube.

Enhansed SNES games are always good.

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #35 on: April 30, 2006, 01:38:20 pm »
They made fabulous new inventions (I thiink it was last week) called "controllers" for your comp...:lol:

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #36 on: April 30, 2006, 01:44:34 pm »
haha. you can aim diagonally with the gba roms. You use L/R. Hey do any of you know where I could get a chrono cross rom? I've never played it but am a huge fan of Chrono Trigger.

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #37 on: April 30, 2006, 01:49:02 pm »
They made fabulous new inventions (I thiink it was last week) called "controllers" for your comp...:lol:
We were using XBox controllers with a USB converter.

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #38 on: April 30, 2006, 09:42:48 pm »
The name is fucking stupid. The console is gonna be insanely fucking great. Legal full backward compatibility is the shit, especially with said rumored enhancements. Now if that includes save states, cheats, and speed functions, life is set.

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #39 on: May 01, 2006, 02:26:38 am »
The name is fucking stupid. The console is gonna be insanely fucking great. Legal full backward compatibility is the shit, especially with said rumored enhancements. Now if that includes save states, cheats, and speed functions, life is set.
If it doesn't, I am burning Reggie alive.
Hopefull RD will be on Virtual Console.

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #40 on: May 01, 2006, 07:41:56 am »
 Well this is one big folly for Nintendo, out of all the names they decided with Wii.... Revolution was way batter.

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #41 on: May 01, 2006, 07:52:30 am »
Revolution was WAY too cliche [/subtle wit embedded into cliche]

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #42 on: May 01, 2006, 08:00:55 am »
But Nintendo wasn't going to actually call it the Revolution anyway. It was CODENAMED that until they had actually thought of a name.

Quote from: Wikipedia
On April 27, 2006, Nintendo changed the Revolution section of their official website, http://revolution.nintendo.com, to announce the official name (as opposed to the codename, Revolution)

Still the new name sucks.

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #43 on: May 01, 2006, 11:12:02 am »
As soon as I get my temp job at Bausch and Lomb, I am definately saving up for one. Like Mystik3eb said, the console is going to kick arse but the name is really gay . . . I totally agree

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Re: Nintendo Wii
« Reply #44 on: May 01, 2006, 05:56:29 pm »
The name is "gay"? You say "gay" to something you don't like? Wow, this really sucks, I mean, why you do so?