Title: Wii Menu 4.0 and Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks
Description: Iwata speaks at GDC 2009
Dei Enyt - March 25, 2009 06:05 PM (GMT)
http://www.joystiq.com/2009/03/25/joystiq-...c-2009-keynote/The order of events goes in reverse order with the top having the most recent bits of information. Here's some stuff that people may like.
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9:54AM The majority of WiiWare titles are produced by third-parties, and has been a success ... but, people have been frustrated by an inability to save games to external storage. Cue the aforementioned "SD Card Channel."
Bill from Treehouse says, "Your games will no longer be competing for memory."
"With Wii System Menu 4.0 we've made a number of improvements ... a single SD card can hold up to 240 titles."
"You're no longer limited to 2GB SD cards" and can use high capacity cards capable of holding up to 32GB right now. That's a lot of NES games (read: all of them). You can also download content straight to the Wii's SD card and run them straight off the card "with just a short loading time."
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Basically, Channels and WiiWare titles can now be loaded directly from your SD card. I just tried it out and it's dang awesome. Doesn't seem to work with VC titles at the moment, but it might just be me.
Also, for the Zelda fans:
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10:10AM Remember when they said there wouldn't be a new Zelda game announced today? THEY LIED!
We've got Celda link steering a train, instead of his usual aquatic ride. The train has a cannon, like Phantom Hourglass's ship, and it appears to control similarly, with action concentrated on the bottom of the screen. It's a DS title, "tentatively" titled The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks" and it will be available later this year. |
Zelda with trains? Well, fans didn't like the cel-shading originally, so I'm interested in seeing how this plays out.
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Dez384 - March 26, 2009 05:25 PM (GMT)
I didn't mind the cel-shading, but I highly disliked the Phantom Hourglass. I felt the dungeons were weak in design and the controls were clumsy.
yoshi71089 - March 26, 2009 08:03 PM (GMT)
My only complaints about Phantom Hourglass were the same complaints I had for the DS, so it's not a lot against the game. I liked the game enough, and the hourglass temple thing was an interesting and fun concept.
As for Spirit Tracks...I hope they do it well. Only Zelda could pull off something like this. >_<
Official TrailerI'm interested to see how the controlling of that statue thing plays out.
Cugar - March 26, 2009 11:21 PM (GMT)
lol, Wii.
It's like a white brick with a circuit board.
But everyone like a new Zelda game, rite?
Zephiel - March 27, 2009 01:03 AM (GMT)
Eh, I'll probably pick it up, but I'm more looking forward to the new entry in the Mario Franchise: Mario and Luigi 3.
That and Pikmin 3, and I won't need a new Zelda.
Dez384 - March 27, 2009 01:28 AM (GMT)
That Zelda looks like it could have potential, but the train element just makes it weird.
Shadowinfinity - April 3, 2009 01:19 PM (GMT)
Finally, SDHC support. For whatever reason I have no SD cards under 4GB so this is useful for me.