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NINTENDO DOWNLOAD: WIIWARE AND WARIOWARE JOIN FORCES FOR MAXIMUM DOWNLOADABLE EXCITEMENT

March 29, 2010

Wario™ may be known as a troublemaker, but this week he deserves a friendly high-five for helping to deliver a mother lode of downloadable fun for Wii™ owners. The new WarioWare™: D.I.Y. Showcase game for the WiiWare™ service lets users with broadband Internet access download all kinds of outrageous content, from music and microgames to four-panel digital comics – some created by users themselves. Meanwhile, a cIassic RPG has arrived on the Virtual Console™ service, while Nintendo DSiWare™ users will find new ways to tune musical instruments, rescue turtles, launch their own fireworks display and more.

This week also marks the kickoff of Nintendo's WarioWare: D.I.Y. "Big Name Games" series. Several of the industry's most talented game designers are using WarioWare: D.I.Y. software for the Nintendo DS™ family of systems to create their own one-of-a-kind microgames. New microgames will be added every Monday through July 26, all available for download to anyone with broadband Internet access and a copy of either WarioWare: D.I.Y. for Nintendo DS or WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase software for the WiiWare service. The series gets underway with inventive new microgames from Super Smash Bros.™ creator Masahiro Sakurai and Metroid™ designer Yoshio Sakamoto. To learn more about the games and view an exclusive behind-the-scenes video featuring Masahiro Sakurai, visit http://www.wariowarediy.com.

And just for Club Nintendo™ members, we've got a little something extra to offer this week. Starting March 31, members can redeem 80 Coins to download Grill-Off with Ultra Hand!™, a wild game for the Wii console that challenges players to cook a variety of meats with an extendable arm. What better way to prepare for barbecue season than some fast-paced grilling drills on your Wii system? For a taste of the action, visit http://grilloff.nintendo.com.

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WiiWare

WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief, Mild Cartoon Violence
Price: 800 Wii Points™
Description: The frantic fun of WarioWare is available for the first time on the WiiWare service! WarioWare: D.I.Y. Showcase shows off all the different elements found on the WarioWare: D.I.Y. game for the Nintendo DS family of systems. The WiiWare software includes microgames, music and four-panel comics – all with simple controls using only the Wii Remote™ controller. Use the Game Blender and its many modes to play microgames featuring Wario™, ninjas, animals and even cIassic Nintendo franchises. Check out the Music section to hear or play a selection of songs using a character from Balloon Fight™. In addition to the bevy of preloaded products, you can also receive content from friends, play with products made using WarioWare: D.I.Y. or download games from the NinSoft Store. Let your creativity run wild – even Wario would be impressed with the possibilities for new content!

Diner Dash®
Publisher: Hudson Entertainment
Players: 1-4
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Use of Alcohol
Price: 1,000 Wii Points
Description: Diner Dash, a popular PC action-puzzle game, has landed on the WiiWare service. Guide Flo, an office worker-turned-restaurateur, as she builds up her empire over four unique diners. Go online to face players in head-to-head. If you feel up to the challenge, join up with a friend or another player online for a Team Dash game where your team will take on six other players to see whose diner is the best in town. (Broadband Internet access is required for online play.) Players take direct control of Flo as she runs around to seat patrons, take orders, deliver food, take payment and bus tables as efficiently as possible within the time allowed. Players who are fond of traditional control schemes may also use a point-and-click styIe with hotkeys to aid Flo in her quest for customer satisfaction, which is reflected in a heart meter that empties as customers lose patience. If the meter empties completely, then the customer will leave the restaurant.

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Virtual Console

Ogre Battle® 64: Person of Lordly Caliber™
Original platform: Nintendo 64™
Publisher: Square Enix
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: T (Teen) – Mild Language, Mild Violence
Price: 1,000 Wii Points
Description: Ogre Battle 64: Person of Lordly Caliber is a tactical RPG originally released for the Nintendo 64™ system. Featuring a gripping storyline with many possible endings, plus a genre-defining character cIass system, this strategic epic has rightly retained its place in the hearts of tactical RPG fans for more than a decade. The game tells the story of Magnus Gallant, a recently graduated officer of the Palatinean Army who is assigned to the troubled southern region of his native land. There he witnesses the plight of the lower cIass – the victims of a tyrannical ruling elite whose only thought is for the preservation of its own lofty status. With civil war brewing, Magnus is faced with a terrible choice: to betray his own noble origins in the name of liberty, or to turn a blind eye to the evils of his rotten society.

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Nintendo DSiWare

Disney Fireworks
Publisher: Disney Interactive Studios
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Light up the night with Disney Fireworks! Touch and flick to trigger a dazzling nighttime extravaganza of color and fun. Aim rockets to their matching colors in the sky to set off an explosion and score points. Time them perfectly to improve your Wow Meter and unlock special surprises and rockets. Disney Fireworks comes with five themed environments, original music, 15 challenging levels for each world, high-score tracking and much more.

Save the Turtles
Publisher: Sabarasa
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief
Price: 500 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Save the Turtles takes players to more than 32 of the world's most exotic beaches in a quest to help tiny turtles find their new home. Players must use the stylus to rub and tap the touch screen of the Nintendo DSi system, digging eggs from the sand and lining up cute reptiles while avoiding crabs, seagulls and litter on their way to the safety of the sea. The game features four modes, including a never-ending survival mode called Turtles Forever, plus several unlockable trophies. Give Mother Nature a hand and help save the turtles.

Nintendo DSi™ Metronome
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points™
Description: The Nintendo DSi Metronome software can be used to help keep tempo –when playing an instrument, for example. It creates a rhythm by playing sounds based on beat and tempo settings, both of which allow a wide range of adjustments. Choose from three metronome designs (including one based on Nintendo's Game & Watch™: Ball title) and record your own sounds for the metronome to use. Or, if you want to take a break, enjoy a unique minigame: Donkey Kong™ Metronome, in which you make sounds into the microphone to match the beat and have Mario™ jump over Donkey Kong's barrels.

Nintendo DSi Instrument Tuner
Publisher: Nintendo
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone)
Price: 200 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: The Nintendo DSi Instrument Tuner software can be used to tune an instrument by aligning tonal pitches. The software offers two methods of handling this: feeding sounds into the microphone to measure the difference with a target pitch, or listening to a sample tone. In addition, the standard musical pitch and notation can be changed, as well as the design of the tuner (choose one of three designs). If you're feeling especially in tune, test your ear by taking on the Tuner Fight minigame's challenge: Pop balloons as they rise from pipes by making tones that match the displayed pitches.

Super Yum Yum Puzzle Adventures
Publisher: Mastertronic
Players: 1
ESRB Rating: E (Everyone) – Comic Mischief
Price: 800 Nintendo DSi Points
Description: Super Yum Yum Puzzle Adventures is a multi-award-winning puzzle game starring a chameleon called Leon. Featuring 48 levels across four worlds and exclusive Nintendo DSi features, the game asks players to navigate many hours of mind-bending game play while trying to rescue Leon's babies from the belly of Ms. Tum Tum. Leon must eat his way through fruity, fiendish puzzles, licking fruit to change color and choosing the right combinations of fruit to finish each level.

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GameSpot 9.1 Review: "Ogre Battle 64 offers a detailed branching story and great depth of customization, both executed brilliantly within the limitations of a 35-meg cartridge."

IGN.Com's 8.8 'Great' Review: "This game is very deep and wonderfully complex, and RPG fans simply shouldn't miss it."

GameFaqs User Reviews.

Where do I begin when even words are failing me right now?!

This is the game I have been waiting for all the years and weeks I have been doing these Monday morning updates.

For me, this was the pinnacle of the N64 game library... Yes, even more so than Ocarina of Time, Majora's Mask and GoldenEye.

Painstakingly animated and drawn in watercolors. Brilliant Strategic Game Play. Branching, Good and Evil Storylines. Clever Character Classes and Combination Spells and Attacks. This game TRULY has it ALL.

Putting that all aside, This was a VERY limited production game in cartridge form and is totally the type of release The Virtual Console was MADE for.

Please. Anyone interested in JRPGs --OR-- SRPGs. Give it a download, Learn its intricacies and ENJOY! Games like this come along only once or twice a DECADE!

I may download in the near future.

sell me on ogre battle 64

i like retro gaming, i love jrpgs (a genre i believe is on its last leg), i love deep story lines and robust battle systems.

would you recommend this title having never played it and know minimal info about it?

the only cons i can see is i've gotten burnt out on grid based strategy games in the past (FF tactics, advance wars, fire emblem)

also early 3d games rarely hold up, but it doesn't like it its 3d.

i've already seen some great posts, hit me up

Saradin's (Excellent) Ogre Battle FAQ

Remember the World Tendencies in Demon's Souls? Yeah. Ogre Battle 64 has a similar system to THAT going on in the background of the game! It's called the Chaos Frame! Read this FAQ and be de-mystified!

Finally! This is why I got the Wii for games like this and Paper Mario on the VC. Of course after the long, long wait for this, after they showed it as coming when the Wii first released, I have found two copies at a pawn shop for $15 and bought them. Still, I might buy it on the Wii too. One of my top three favorite games of all time.

i like retro gaming, i love jrpgs (a genre i believe is on its last leg), i love deep story lines and robust battle systems. would you recommend this title having never played it and know minimal info about it? the only cons i can see is i've gotten burnt out on grid based strategy games in the past (FF tactics, advance wars, fire emblem)

The game has a great story with multiple endings, paths you can take, and characters you can recruit. For battles you create different units in your armies, decide on the classes of the characters in the unit, equipment, and formation. You have a lot of units soldiers, knights, archers, valkyries, different kinds of mages (warlock/siren/witch), samurai, ninja, dragons, beasts, monsters, golems, beast, golem, and dragon tamers, etc. You move your units all over a big map for each battle, capturing towns as you go.

When two enemy units run into each other it goes to the battle screens and they fight automatically (you can issure orders like attack weakest, strongest, leader, retreat) based on what items they have and what abilities they have depending on where they are in the formation. After everyone has done their 1-3 attacks and EXP is awarded, whatever unit lost the battle (if they are still alive) is knocked away from the winner letting the other unit gain ground while they heal, retreats from battle, change formations, or selects a new leader (if theirs was killed).

Awesome, I think I remember renting Ogre Battle 64 years ago when I was younger and I enjoyed it a lot. I'm definitly downloading it.

And Wario Ware D.I.Y Showcase is the exact same as the DS Cartridge, just costs less? I'll probly download that too.

And Wario Ware D.I.Y Showcase is the exact same as the DS Cartridge, just costs less? I'll probly download that too.

J_Ford

You just play the minigames. You don't make them on the Wii. But you can upload the ones you made off the DS and play those on the Wii too.

I'm broke right now. I heard many good things on Ogre Battle 64. I'm not really into SRPG right now. I might in the future. I'm still with Cave Story and soon I'll replay on Super Metroid.

Finally the best game ever came up to the VC.

Not a bad week for the VC, i guess. Isn't Ogre Battle rediculously expensive oon ebay?

[QUOTE="wiifan001"]Ogre Battle 64! Best N64 game since the release of Majora's Mask. Totally picking it up.garrett_duffman

Super Smash Bros. ;)

Oh, here's something interesting.

According to this, Ogre Battle 64 (Square Enix)is the first N64 title on the virtual console that was NOT published by Nintendo.

How about that?

Must....get.....points card

I saw Ogre Battle 64 at my local Play N Trade a few months ago. I would have picked it up too if it wasn't for that 40$ price tage on the back. :(

But I guess it's now a goodtime to go pick up some Wii Points!

Seems like Nintendo's been listening to our requests. Thank you very much Nintendo!inflammable01

Wow Ogre Battle 64. I heard a lot of great things about and I love SRPG's (still need to get Shining Force II).

This is why I love the Virtual Console. :)

*goes to try out Ogre Battle 64*

Oh, here's something interesting.

According to this, Ogre Battle 64 (Square Enix)is the first N64 title on the virtual console that was NOT published by Nintendo.

How about that?

wiifan001

Oh, here's something interesting.

According to this, Ogre Battle 64 (Square Enix)is the first N64 title on the virtual console that was NOT published by Nintendo.

How about that?

Why do I even bother checking these threads every week? I never see anything I want, except on DSi which is useless since I don't own one.Vic-Ferrari

What do you want?

Finaly another N64 which happens to be one of my favourites got to get a ponts card