NiGHTS Wii uses Forecast Channel for Game Weather 97
Wowzer writes "Sega Europe updated their NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams page, and in doing so accidentally briefly listed the new features the Wii-exclusive will have when it gets released in winter 2007. From the article: 'Wii connect 24 features: Exchange items with friends via the network and change the scenery according to real-world seasons using the Forecast Channel.' You'll also get three new shape-shifting masks (dragon, dolphin, rocket) to explore the game's seven worlds."
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I'll answer that question as soon as you explain what this word "outside" means.
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Why are you asking any of us before we've experienced it? I mean, seriously, how could this possibly be considered 'insightful'?
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Insightful? Ad Homonym attack! (Score:2)
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Now, you see why they change its name from 'Revolution'.
Yet, responding to commisaro, the world of Wii followers will look at this as a new way of doing realistic gaming.
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Now, you see why they change its name from 'Revolution'.
Perhaps.
What I don't see is why nobody's ever done something like this before, if it's so goddamned easy...
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This is a major revolution for flying androgenous jester in a dream world games.
Awesome. (Score:2, Funny)
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Plus shall we mention this is the first time this has been done in a game?
Not News (Score:4, Informative)
Far from it: Microsoft flight simulator [microsoft.com]
X-Plane [x-plane.com]
Weather Channel Golf [weather.com]
And there has been weather integration in Second Life as well...
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Heh, no. Look I can appreciate that this is a quality game and you obviously like it but that statement is just silly.
Pac Man defined an era. Super Mario Bros defined an era. Doom defined an era. NiGHTS, again while a good game and certainly under appreciated, was released on a console who's legacy is pretty much being the PS1's bitch.
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Slashdot: It's people coming into threads they don't care about and bitching about them?
MS Flight Sim (Score:3, Interesting)
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I doubt speeding blue hedgehogs cn fool anyone.
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I have no idea what NIGHTS is... (Score:4, Funny)
See, that was funny right there because I used 'wii' in a context that suggested I might be talking about my wiener.
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too bad you never discovered any of the good ones.
Virtua Cop 1 and 2 are there, and as close to arcade-perfect as any conversion in that era. Area 51 is also on the Saturn, and IS arcade-perfect, with the addition of load times. Area 51 in the arcade is a Saturn with a ha
CoJag != Sega Saturn (Score:2)
Area 51 is also on the Saturn, and IS arcade-perfect, with the addition of load times. Area 51 in the arcade is a Saturn with a hard drive.
No. Midway's Area 51 (arcade game) [wikipedia.org] used a CoJag board, based on Atari's Jaguar hardware. One thing the Jaguar and Saturn had in common was that they were both quirky systems with two obscure 32-bit CPUs plus a MC68000 series CPU as an I/O processor, but otherwise, the Jag and Saturn were at least as different as the Sega Genesis and Super NES.
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Masks? :( (Score:3, Insightful)
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Then please fix it! (Score:3, Interesting)
So in other words.... (Score:3, Funny)
WiiConnect24 and Power Use (Score:5, Informative)
However, I've disabled WiiConnect24 due to its power use. When the console is in standby and WiiConnect24 is disabled, it uses about 1W. With WiiConnect24 enabled, it uses about 10W. That's about $10 a year I'm not willing to pay in power.
The problem is that, when I turn on the console, it doesn't attempt to synchronize the WiiConnect data. The net connection works - I can use the internet channel and the votes channel - but the new and forecast channels just tell me "WiiConnect24 is disabled" and error out.
Is there any way I can configure the console so that WiiConnect24 is disabled, but when I turn on the chassis I get the data update? I don't mind if the data takes a few minutes or even half an hour to load; I'll play Elebits or something in the mean time.
Sorry if this seems mildly off-topic. I'd like to get excited about this game if I can use its features.
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Me too! I agree - I turned off WiiConnect24 for exactly the same reason (unneeded power consumption) but was frustrated to find things not updating. A quick check doesn't seem like too much to ask...
-Trillian
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- Power strip with remote control to turn it on and off
- Surge protection on all outlets
- At least one, possibly two outlets that bypass the remote control and are always on (for the DVR)
- Battery backup for at least one always-on outlet and at least one regular outlet
I could build one - I have the expertise to do so - but it's just not worth the time to me. Instead, when I rewired our TV room electro
This exists already, mostly (Score:2)
You could solve the battery problem by plugging the Panamax into the UPS. Then the unswitched outlets would have UPS.
How about one of these (Score:2)
If you put your TV in the control socket then presumably when you turn the TV off (or put it on standby) it would completely power down whatever other items you have in the switched sockets and there are constant hot sockets for your PVR and whatever.
It's not exactly what you described and wouldn't shut off the TV standby power. On the upside it wouldn't give you another remote control to keep track of!
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Ok, I really had a REAL reason for replying to your topic--just that I didn't realize you couldn't use the Forecast and/or News channels without WiiConnect24. I do agree, it's silly that it won't update the data when the machine is on. However, I have noticed that in order to receive a message that someone just sent me, I have to turn the console into "sleep" mode. I wish the Wii could update while it's in the main menu.
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Hmm, now that I think about it, I haven't received any Wii mail since I disabled WiiConnect24, either. (Not that I ever got much; we only have one friend that we know of with a Wii.)
You CAN use these features, you're just not WILLING to... you said so yourself!
This game sounds neat, but it doesn't sound neat enough to
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Those are blended rates shown on their table; my incremental rate is about $0.10/kWh.
I'm going room by room and unplugging all those other things, too, at the same time that I'm swapping in CFLs.
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I guess I'll have to play hours of Counterstrike on my gaming machine or watch House and 24 pimped out in HD instead while basking in the cool air conditioning in my house for all hours instead.
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And if you don't want to spend that money, turn off your computer and monitor overnight, and while you're at work. That'll save more money than the WiiConnect24 after only 400 hrs (assuming 200W consumpton, which isn't that much) for an hour and save the 200Wh.
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WiiConnect24 does NOT mean it's connected 24 hours (Score:3, Informative)
If you don't want your Wii connected to the internet when it's off, it's simple enough, turn WiiConnect24 ON and turn Standby Connection OFF. Your Wii will be connected to the Internet only when it is on, it will update itself when it is on, and it will disconnect from the Internet when it is off, saving your precious $10/year.
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My main irritation with standby connection is that it leaves the video signal active in standby mode, which confuses my
I live in California... (Score:2)
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They'll add fire and smog for you. (Score:3, Funny)
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Are earthquake and riot already in the game?
Not jumping the gun. (Score:1)
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Why?
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Sometimes they do for me, sometimes they don't. I just don't understand why having it match the weather outside would break anything.
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This doesn't even being to cover how Christmas NiGHTS changed the weather based on the date. (animal crossing style)
Christmas Nights (Score:2)
Cool, but... (Score:1)
Commercial use of TWC data costs per month (Score:1)
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Sweet! (Score:2, Funny)
Living in the basement just got better!