Nicely done.

Very well done. Glad they finally got it out of the door.

I hope in time you can purchase VC and WiiWare titles directly from the channel. That could be incredibly convenient.

I can't wait to get home, download this, and get bored with it in about an hour.

I really wanted to download the Ninja Gaiden demo this morning, but my dead beat friend is currently in possession of my DS. >:(

Hoorah! Finally, DS demos.

Hmmm you have to agree to send them what games you are playing and for how long? I wonder if they are trying to figure out how many people are using the Twilight Princess hack (by having a lot of entries for Twilight Princess that was played for only 1 minute).

@NathanX: How would it be that much more convenient than purchasing them through the Shop channel? Either way you still have to enter a channel that has to connect with their servers.

he's a pretty funny guy lol. A+

About damn time. Hopefully this will make more devs make DS demos. I'd love to see a World ends with you or assassin's creed demo.

@liquid_kore: Honestly, I'd be surprised if they were actually that upset about the TP hack. It doesn't provide any way to play pirated games, does it?

Look at them all!
Look at them all!!1

THEY'RE SKIING. DOWNHILL. ON A SNOW DAY. GET READY TO KICK SOME ASS.

But seriously it seems pretty cool. About as mystifyingly entertaining as every other non-conventional channel.

You need to do a movie trailer voice over, Fahey. Your "They're skiing. Downhill. On a snow day. They're ready to kick some ass!" bit at the end left me laughing for a few minutes.

I should probably go turn on my Wii and get this, but after I wore myself out on Smash, I just can't bring myself to turn on the system, instead longing for titles such as GTA4.

-nesdude

@zebber: You don't have to exit the one channel and go to the other.

They could incorporate it as time goes on. They've already got a way for the installed version of the Mario Kart Channel to boot up Mario Kart (provided it's in your disc tray)

@NathanX:

You can. When you do the find game titles thing it brings up a list of a bunch of games if they are in the database. If you select a vc game you can purchase it from the Nintendo channel.

Retail games if you have the opera browser add on will offer to take you to an e-commerce site to order the game.

There are also a lot more videos to watch then are on the main video page. Dementium the Ward for example purchase link while Izuna 2 has a purchase link and a video.

The database is still being updated.

You can search for example by Publisher wheter or not online features are supported as well as wheter or not there is video clips.

I installed this channel today and it seems terribly lacking, honestly. I don't know, I was just expecting more. I really doubt I'll ever use this channel. Although I downloaded the Jam Sessions demo, a game that I was interested in, and saw how awful that game is. So I guess it saved me some money.

And why doesn't Okami show up in my "recommend" list? I played it for like 40 hours.

@Methusalah: Actually, yes. Just recently people have begun pirating VC games and Wiiware games with the hack.

@liquid_kore: That could be a "bonus" of sorts.

But I imagine the quickest and dirtiest use is to see what games people are playing, how long, and how often.

It's a good way of seeing what games are popular, and which games may need more in the way of replayability.

Also, if somebody plays a game for an hour and then never again...there could be a problem there.

I loved the DS downloads (and thought Ninja Gaiden was pretty cool, but thought Cooking Mama 2 had to be the worst thing I had ever played). Ranking the games was also sort of fun, but for some reason they didn't have Okami, RE4 or Zack & Wiki available to rank. Now if Nintendo would do something about Brawl's broken online they'd start earning some respect from me for their online efforts (while relatively featureless, Mario Kart's online is also pretty flawless).

@dowingba: I think only Nintendo-published games show up in that list right now, which is kinda silly.

@Torgen got his apology faceplate but not his fixed GH3 disc:
Not quite, the database is weird right now - Super Smash Bros Brawl is not even in it (at least a search by title for "brawl" did not turn anything up). There are tons of 3rd party games already in the database (heck even Tomb Raider: Legend is in there).

Pokemon Puzzle League info video o.O!!?!?!

<- Love the Panel de Pon series

Anybody ever tell you sound a little like Harry Shearer?

@nastysquared: Oh, in that case Nintendo would have a pretty good reason to track the consoles that show certain Twilight Princess usage patterns. I had the impression that the TP hack mostly just allowed users to run home-brew software. Of course, I'm sure there are more reliable techniques that Nintendo could use to identify consoles with stolen VC games.

@Methusalah:

You know that people who do these cracks allowing pirate activites should recieve the harshest sentences. If they honestly claim to be doing a public good work by finding security flaws why would they put up how to do it on the net instead of secretly telling the company so it could be fixed? There are laws that could easily be expanded to cover this and put the crackers/hackers into jail for life sentances and in certain countries get the death penalities. 90% of the cracking of encrypting methods comes from just four or five groups of hackers who are just a few hundred people. 99.99999 of pirates are effing script kiddies who if they didn't have a how to manual would never be able to pirate monolopy money.

That is nifty times 100.

@dowingba:

Jam Sessions isn't a game in the first place. You would know that if you read any info on it. It's a guitar simulator and a very damn good one. People use the thing in concerts in place of guitars and it does the job.

@Sloopydrew:

Bother to learn what Cooking Mama is it's incredibly popular with casual gamers and why Majescto is still making games.

@Methusalah: I haven't ever heard of someone playing a pirated Wii game through the TP hack yet, but I imagine people are trying. (Unless it's not possible, I have a very very basic understanding of how that all works). It is incredibly easy to get a SNES emulator running though, which is piracy but not too critical a problem for Nintendo.

@TRT-X: Yea after I re read my comment I thought about it more and it would be a very beneficial tool for them even if that hack didn't exist. They could sell the stats to 3rd party developers for some extra coin. So you are probably right about that being just a bonus.

So is this out now, or is it coming out Monday with WiiWare?

@dawimp523:

It's out now for NA wii owners. Europe gets it on the 30th.

"It's very loud!"

Nice video. Thanks.

@Yetanotheruninspiredscreename:
"There are laws that could easily be expanded to cover this and put the crackers/hackers into jail for life sentances and in certain countries get the death penalities."
Uh... x 10,000,000

Does anyone else find the buffer shit on these videos or is my Wi Fi just ass? It only plays like 30 seconds at a time.

Mike, you'd make a great santa claus with that voice!

Thanks for the walkthrough.

@dowingba: I think the DS downloads are awesome. Jam Sessions in particular is great - I killed an hour on it, despite that the demo only lets you use a fixed set of four chords. (Yeah, yeah, one more than Status Quo.) It has all the effects, though, and you can turn on the 'mute' area which adds another dimension as well.

Overall I don't think I'm going to buy the 'game' - it would probably be better to learn to play a real guitar, or possibly another musical instrument I actually own but can't play properly - but as a portable guitar+effects simulator, it seems pretty great from that experience.

I also played all three levels of the crosswords game which was fun (what? I like crosswords) although it's a shame they are American-style crosswords.

So anyway, I'm not going to buy the games, but I had fun with the demos, which makes this new channel a definite winner in my view. :)

@whalleywhat: Videos were shit for me too. My DSL might be slow, but not that slow. Maybe since the channel just launched, their servers are overloaded. (Also they should show a damn progress bar instead of just a spinny thing. Same applies to the DS downloads which took quite a while to download to the Wii - and those can't be more than 4MB at absolute maximum, since that's the size of DS RAM. I'd expect they are actually much smaller.)

Not a bad little channel though I was disappointed in it's lack of streaming full-screen video. XBL has full screen for a lot of it's streaming videos now. It's a touch that would have been nice :(

"It only plays like 30 seconds at a time."

A little tip. B trigger is a seek function. Right now the vid player is like an old style streaming vid player in which you couldn't pause to let it finish downloading. You had to drag back to the start to let it catch up. Do this on the wii when you make the vid take up more of the screen when you click on it.

Quite a number of sites even big ones such as news ones still have shit streaming players that still cannot be paused to let the stream finish before being played.

@okenny :):

Click on the vids when they start playing. Quite a few take up the full screen.

Man the DS Download service works like a charm.

Awesome new channel.

If everyone opts in for the information sharing and then fills up the 512MB on their console, I think we may just get a storage solution soon.

I enjoy it. Tommorow, I'm gonna try out that Ninja Gaiden: Dragon Sword demo again. That game was fun.

@liquid_kore:
Dude... u don't have to agree to send ur information.

I think the channel is pretty good. I'll use it to watch videos or play demos of games I may be interested in but still need to be sold on.

The only DS demo that was of interest to me right now was Ninja Gaiden, so I played thought it and didn't really care for it. It's not bad if you like that sort of thing, but I've had my fill of it just from the demo.

@HeroUWii: You do if you want to download DS demos.

@okenny :): totally FULL SCREEN, just hit A on the vids yo!

@HeroUWii:

If you don't agree then you don't get the DS download service. It's a tit for tat measure.

[www.nintendo.com] details what info is sent to Nintendo and what info isn't sent.

It's just marketing research stuff. Fairly standard fare and they go the extra mile of saying what they don't collect.

Eat less candy!

The Brain Age 2 demo and Ninja Gaiden one sounds fun. I don't know if it is a demo though because in the vid it didn't say demo on the title. Might look for some unplayed titles.

p.s. Fahey does not sound like an Aussie ;p

@Yetanotheruninspiredscreename: The reason I found the game to be awful was because of how unresponsive it is. I play guitar, you know, in real life. Plus the only features I wanted in the game weren't there: multi-track recording and individual notes (like "strum" just one string at a time, within a chord structure).

I can't imagine why it'd be worth $40 to someone.