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Wii Review by Dan Whitehead
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Up. Down. Up. Down. Dedicated Virtual Consolers should be used to the peculiar biorhythms that seem to guide Nintendo's rapidly expanding retro pipeline, and this is more of a down week than an up. There's amusement to be found in the latest additions, but nothing that grabs you by the lapels and compels you to download.
Speaking of which, do people still wear clothes with lapels on an everyday basis? Or have they joined spats and trilbies in the charity shop of history? Maybe you're sporting some fine lapels at this very moment. Why not write in to lapelsupdate@eurogamer.net and let us know?
Wrecking Crew
- Platform: NES
- Wii Points: 500
- In Real Money: GBP 3.75 / EUR 5.00
Like all good bourgeois class traitors, I've currently got the builders in to transform my humble suburban semi-detached into a slightly larger suburban semi-detached with a downstairs toilet so I can go for a poo without having to lose sight of my precious, precious HD gaming telly.
Being surrounded by burly craftsmen, who can actually create and fix things of tangible value to mankind, I'm stricken with feelins of inadequacy as I sit there, joypad in hand, fannying about with games. "Seriously", I want to cry, "It's real work, honest." Wrecking Crew, an NES curio from 1985, may not have much to recommend it in 2007 but it does at least give me some measure of common ground with the musky tea-guzzling tradesmen slaving away to improve my home equity, as it involves Mario hitting things with a hammer.
Why, I think I can feel my proud working class roots stirring already...
One of those official-but-tangential Mario outings that saw the hairy plumber removed from his traditional environment, Wrecking Crew is actually a throwback of sorts to his origins as Jumpman in Donkey Kong. Once again, our hero scrambles up ladders and across girders but there's no giant ape this time, and no tumbling barrels. Instead you must demolish all the destructible items in the level without being grabbed by wandering monsters. As these destructible items also include ladders, there's a strong element of puzzling involved as you work out the correct sequence to smash things up.
The longevity is also marginally improved with a rudimentary level designer, which allows you to create and save four of your own creations for solo or two-player fun, a feature previously exclusive to the Japan-only NES Data Recorder. It's a decent time-waster, in a sort of sub-Dig Dug kind of way, though it mostly reminded me of the early Jon Ritman hit, Bear Bovver. I can think of more worthwhile ways to spend 500 points of pretend Nintendo money, but it ain't bad.
5/10
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Mentalist(air)
27/08/07 @ 07:58
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Speaking of which, do people still wear clothes with lapels on an everyday basis?
Only everyone that wears a suit to work. Do you even know what lapels are? "each of the two triangular pieces of cloth on a standard suit jacket, which are folded back below the throat, leaving a triangular opening between them" |
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paul_haine
27/08/07 @ 09:18
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In case there's any confusion, this man is holding his lapels. So is this man.
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Verwandlung
27/08/07 @ 10:28
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I do wear clothes with lapels almost everyday for those interested.
edit: Except when it's to hot, then I take of my blazer and guess what then I am not wearing lapels anymore.
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most recently on 27/08/07 @ 11:32
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Master_Miller
27/08/07 @ 10:34
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I really feel uplifted and educated regarding this entire lapel issue. How dare he insult all of us proud lapel users.
/Goes off to register lapelsupport@eurogamer.net |
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@ Sebo
Even if you did want the Saturn version of Daytona over the Dreamcast version its still bigger than any N64 game (N64 carts topped out at 64 MB with Resident Evil 2) as standard the Wii only has 500 MB of internal storage. And then there is the problem of the Saturn being extremely difficult to emulate and requiring a lot of system resources. Its unlikely to happen on a system like the Wii. |
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Mentalist(air)
27/08/07 @ 13:26
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A brief search on the internet reveals the Daytona USA arcade ROM was about 70 megs (zipped).
So it's feasible, but a bit unlikely. Having played the version of the original Sega Rally that came with the last (very, very dull) PS2 version, I think that'd make quite a nice VC / XBLA title. |
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The arcade version of Daytona is even harder to emulate than the Saturn version since the arcade cabinet featured numerous esoteric, custom components.
I would never say anything is impossible, but the Wii CPU running either the arcade version of Daytona or the Saturn version of Daytona full speed via emulation is stretching the bounds of belief to breaking point. The limited amount of RAM onboard the Wii in relation to the size of the arcade ROM is another problem. And there is still the problem of storage, you can't just run games off any card remember, they have to be moved onto the internal storage if you actually want to play them. A port of Daytona as WiiWare is definitely possible but that depends on whether Sega want to spend that much money. If you want to know more about Saturn and arcade emulation there are plenty of online resources where you can read up on such things. The general rule is non-standard, specialised hardware = difficult to emulate. |
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