WiiWare DSiWare Releases - Mar. 28th 2011

This week, players of any age are invited to check out new demo versions of games for the WiiWare™ service – one offering competitive darts challenges, the other giving preschoolers a fun way to learn by interacting with baby animals. For the Nintendo DSiWare™ service, there's a new version of a classic card game, plus a wild new photo-manipulation game that can turn an ordinary face into something eerie and outrageous. The wide selection of downloadable games for Nintendo systems truly has something for everyone.

A comparison of 3DS RAM to its peers

The 3DS has hypnotized me with its 3D visuals and near perfect port of Super Street Fighter IV, but are those visuals and static backgrounds the best it can muster? Well, according to a post on ifixit, there’s an wealth of untapped resources waiting to be unlocked in the darkest region of the 3DS.

The 3DS is equipped with a Fujitsu MB82M8080-07L, duh. I have no clue what that actually means, and if you do you’re a much better person than I am. What it boils down to is that this chip has 512 megabits FCRAM which equates to 128mb of RAM! Socks = BLOWN OFF.

The OS consumes a standard 32mb of RAM for its multitasking needs which leaves games to play around with 96mb of RAM. And you know what that means? Time to put on your perspective goggles!

• The Atari 2600 has 126 Bytes of RAM
• The NES has 2KB of onboard RAM
• Sega Genesis has 64KB of RAM
• The N64 contains 4MB of RAM (expandable to 8MB)
• Playstation 2 has 32MB of RAM
• PSP has 32MB of RAM
• The Wii has 88MB of RAM
• The PS3 has 256 MB of RAM
• The iPhone 4 has 512MB of RAM

What does this mean? That the 3DS is basically just four PSPs duct taped together.

Thanks to gamesareforidiots

-Dustin

Just so you know

For most of the day I will be adding "labels" to all the previous post here on the blog. I really wish I had seen this option before, but least I figured it out before we got any further.
Some of you may have also noticed that I was finally able to add the Facebook Widget to the left side of the blog. Many thanks to the people who clicked the "like" button on our new Facebook page to make it possible!

Starting tomorrow, I will be posting up as much Nintendo News as I can find. We should also have the Epic Mickey review up any day now. I think we are almost all the way through it. It has proved to be very difficult to do without a Guide of some sorts. Plus Daemion only gets 1 hour of game time per day during the week, so it can be hard to go through a game like this quickly.

Hope you all enjoy the changes that we have made to the blog over the last few days. We are trying to make things a little easier for everyone to navigate. Have a good day everyone!

UPDATE: Almost done labeling everything for the month of March.. I'm gonna take a break for a little while.. I have a feeling that I'll be labeling stuff in my sleep tonight!

-Dustin

3DS Impressions by My little Gamer

Our Best Buy finally got a 3DS Demo Station yesterday, so we headed up there just a few hours ago to test it out. When we first walked up I quickly moved the 3D slider all the way down, then I pulled it from it's dock and gave it to Daemion to try it out. As soon as he turned the 3D on he got a HUGE smile across his face. I told him to play with the slider to find the sweet spot where it looks best. So he quickly moved it up and down and found out that about half way works best for him.

As you can see in the pics, Pilotwings was the game being demoed. Daemion kept saying the whole time, "Aw man, this is awesome.. this is just awesome". He played for around 15 minutes to see if he felt dizzy or got any eyestrain, but he never did at all. After he played for a bit, he looked at me and said I had to try it. So I grabbed it and messed with the slider to find what worked best for me. I only had to move it slightly above the off position and I got the full 3D effect without any blurring. I was very skeptical about how good the 3D worked, but after trying it, I was blown away at how good it actually looked. The graphics were also very smooth and the depth is just insane. I was also concerned about the placement of the D-Pad, but after fiddling with it a bit I found out that it's pretty comfortable and doesn't feel like it would give my thumb any strain at all. The slide pad also felt nice and was very responsive while playing Pilotwings.

Overall I think the 3DS is an amazing piece of machinery. Just the Demo alone gave me enough reason to warrant a purchase. Daemion and I can't wait to finally get our hands on one some day soon. Hopefully it will be sooner than later. So, when we were leaving the store I asked Daemion what he would score(1-10scale) the 3D and graphics based just on the Demo he played. He instantly said an 11! Personally, I can see where he got that number, I think it's fantastic too. I can't wait to try out all of the other countless features. I really do think that if Nintendo can keep getting the blockbuster titles for this thing, it will easily outsell the mighty DS. This thing is truly not a gimmick, it's the real deal. 3D with no glasses baby! Wooooo!!

Daemion: This is AWESOME! 
You guys need to get one!

It looks amazing!

(Pics taken with our DSi)

Hope you guys enjoyed our impressions of the 3DS.

Sorry if there is any mistakes in this blog post.

It's very late and I've had a very looong day.

-Dustin

It's finally that time

Daemion's little brother is finally getting to be that age where he can start playing some great games. His name is Louscion(Lew-shin), and he turned 4 this past September. He has played the PooYoo's Wiiware games during the last few months and has had a blast with them. We let him try to play some Mario Kart a while back, but he didn't have much fun because he just wasn't good enough yet. This also seemed to turn him off from playing most games too. But now, he is finally starting show interest in it again. So today we gave him a wheel again and tried our best to help him with the controls. His skills have improved a good bit since his last attempt at playing. He isn't the best at racing yet, but he has found out that he absolutely loves battle mode! His favorite character is Luigi too! I'm really hoping he keeps it up, cause Daemion really wants his little brother to keep playing games right along with him. Who knows, I might have to change the name of the blog to "My little gamers".
Here's a picture I snapped of them playing Mario Kart earlier without them knowing. hehe

-Dustin

Daemion's Mario Kart Wii Tournament Time #3

In this Tournament you must race against 

Dry Bowser @ N64 Bowser Castle. 

Daemion had a real hard time with the Tournament this week. After one attempt, he was done playing. I think overall he got a good time. It was also a really close race in the end. He finally passed Dry Bowser in the last turn by hitting him with a green shell. 

It was a great ending for a long and grueling race.

Good job buddy!

Daemion said: 

This is the hardest Tournament I've raced so far.

[Tournament Time #3]

[3:57:963 w/ Wheel]

-Dustin

Finally!

We finally got our computer running again.. One of our ram chips went out and made everything mess up. It's not running great, but it does work now. Hopefully we will be able to get another ram chip soon to help it run better. Until then, we won't be posting up much of anything because of how long it takes. Plus it sometimes hangs up and has to be restarted. Grrr.
I will be posting up Daemion's Mario Kart time and a great pic of him and his brother playing Mario Kart in just a few minutes. Also, since it's spring break we have been playing Epic Mickey every chance we get. So we should have the review of it up very soon! Stay tuned!

-Dustin