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UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Ricardo_A — Tue, 18 Mar 2008 17:36:25 MDT

I have to admit I do sympathise with Nintendo.

We Europeans have to realise that they need to translate the game into all the other European languaes, French, German, Spanish, Italian etc and beat em ups generally are chock full of dialogue.

Jesus only knows how long it takes for them to translate the phrase "Ready... Fight!" into about six languages. And "Game Over" (obviously every time they translate common video game phrases they must lose the bit of scrap paper they wrote it down on so they have look it up again)

Thinking about it, 2020 is probably an optimistic estimate if you ask me.

Ricardo_A

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

RawSteelUT — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 20:13:48 MDT

@KeroseneClimax: Though it seems like only Japanese companies do this. I can't imagine they get nearly this much crap for American releases, since, you know, American companies apparently like European money more than the Japanese.

RawSteelUT

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Yam — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 17:09:57 MDT

wow, free shipping. :)

Yam

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Dekabreak — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 16:33:39 MDT

THE DAY DUKE NUKEM: FOREVER COMES OUT PEOPLE

Dekabreak

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Mr.SithNinja — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:52:17 MDT

It's funny cuz it's true! BWAHAHAHAHAHA! Take THAT Europe! XD

Mr.SithNinja

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Josh* — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:37:44 MDT

@Arcadewolf: I'm in Sheffield, just got a game working. Beat a Pikachu as ROB at sudden death, :D I really liked playing, it was a bit slow but real cool to play against a total stranger!

Josh*

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MRKisThatKid — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 15:08:23 MDT

I invented the word 'Funny' in 1976.

MRKisThatKid

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Josh* — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:51:08 MDT

@onomeister: When the games come out here, I will probably rebuy for the Club Nintendo points and for the convenience of avoiding the freeloader.

Josh*

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Wuffles — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 14:13:29 MDT

I got the US copy and a copy of Freeloader. Works like a charm! Spent my whole weekend glued to the screen.

@Jekht: Most likely no.

Oh and I got a couple of online matches. One was laggy as fuck (I miserably lost) and the other was perfect( I won!). That might or might not be relative to my success though. :P

Wuffles

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Kimiko — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:58:07 MDT

Lol!! Ill go play brawl now! =P

Kimiko

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onomeister — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:25:59 MDT

LOL-Post of the Day! Could it be that the typesetter or editor of this ad is a UK gamer who's constantly frustrated with the delays in releases for PAL countries? So he purposely changed the year to an outrageous number.

By the way, aren't any of you guys who bought a Freeloader in order to play import games worried even a little bit about Nintendo releasing a "forced" update (included with a future game, for example), causing your Freeloader to cease working? Or do you believe that Codejunkies will release an updated Freeloader in a few months afterwards (for an additional fee of course), and you are willing to risk the future inconveniences from that?

I'm waiting for them to announce a guarantee policy that will cover for exchanging a 'bricked' Freeloader with a working up-to-date one. The last Kotaku post about them reassuring us about this worry for the Freeloader has not got me totally convinced...

onomeister

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Sailorcancer — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 13:23:38 MDT

I bet it will come out then

Sailorcancer

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Chicken_Dippers — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:53:57 MDT

Thank god i bought a US copy and a freeloader, should be brawling by tomorrow :D

Chicken_Dippers

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LeLoi — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:24:08 MDT

I was just playing SSBB with a few friends last night.....fuck i can't get enough of it! If I was european and found out about this release date, i'd shit some bricks lol....thank god its not true.

LeLoi

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Taco Bell™ — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:15:48 MDT

XD This is friggin' hilarious!

*goes and plays Brawl*

Taco Bell™

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Onizuka-GTO — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 12:05:34 MDT

thanks for the laugh, but i bet Freeloader is laughing hard, laughing all the way to the bank too.

NoE you don't like cross region compatibility, thus you make money for third parties, for that. Thank you, thank you for letting us spank you silly. :)

Onizuka-GTO

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JaxMyth — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:51:37 MDT

Typical British humour.

JaxMyth

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djricekcn — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:45:21 MDT

I thought making unknown release dates as 1-1-2020 and 1-1-2012 was a common practice. I've seen some sites do that.

djricekcn

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Lancehead — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 11:01:59 MDT

I laughed. xD

Lancehead

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Arcadewolf — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:55:52 MDT

@Chadders: Using free loader on a UK launch day Wii

Arcadewolf

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-Sigil- — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:27:45 MDT

I think it was that it was an old 50hz tv, okay then thanks.

-Sigil-

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Hippopotaman — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 10:09:38 MDT

@-Sigil
It sounds like your girlfriend's TV might not accept 60 fps or NTSC (we Europeans use PAL, but most new sets can handle both formats). Check the manual to the TV.

In my opinion, as long as all your Scart leads are fully pushed in to where they are supposed to go, they're unlikely to be the problem.

Hippopotaman

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-Sigil- — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:24:10 MDT

My gf bought a freeloader and US version but it comes up in black and white, she was told it was possibly cos of her joint scart lead or something. Should it be fixable with a normal scart lead?

-Sigil-

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jackusaralious — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:07:29 MDT

Screw it, just bought the US version and freeloader, I'll be playing it within the next two weeks with luck :)

jackusaralious

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-Sigil- — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 09:00:58 MDT

@susurrate: That's a stupid remark, if they only have one then they should get more. If they can localize it to english why not german in the same time? Or why does the UK need to wait so long when it's been translated to english already? Seriously it's just a really bad system and we shouldn't be grateful for being ignored really.

-Sigil-

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redpikmin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:40:40 MDT

My US copy arrived today and im playing it with the freeloder. It runs absolutely perfect. Even the online works, although its really laggy.

redpikmin

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Mister Adequate — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:38:49 MDT

I lol'd, despite the tears in knowing it's probably true.

@The Amazing Exploding-Man: I'm bailing on this continent the day your continent lets me, primarily for sooner stuff and easily-acquired Mt Dew. I'm glad others have similar priorities!

@Manny: Aaaaaand I lol'd and cried again.

Mister Adequate

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excel_excel — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:30:34 MDT

@susurrate: ahahah....wait that wasn't funny at all

excel_excel

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Channing — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:27:57 MDT

@susurrate:
lol whut?

I feel bad for you guys getting stuff late. I also feel bad for not feeling bad enough to tell game companies to do something about it.

Channing

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susurrate — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:23:35 MDT

You Euros need to be more understanding, there is a lot of localization work which needs to be done when releasing a game in Europe and Nintendo has like one Eighty year old dude with a couple of dozen Japanese to whatever dictionaries working as hard as he can to get those games out to you. You should really be more appreciative or perhaps you should have just surrendered to the Germans like you were supposed to.

susurrate

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aelfin — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 08:01:08 MDT

THat's hilarous. And true.

aelfin

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WolfGod — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:51:29 MDT

Funny and heartbreaking at the same time.

WolfGod

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Chadders — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:49:41 MDT

@Arcadewolf:

Is that with a US-Wii or using Freeloader?

Chadders

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-Sigil- — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:12:17 MDT

Nintendo is an awful company to have such a long delay when they are seriously rich and have the resources to release it worldwide. They said we'd get mario kart last year too and now we're waiting on that. As I always say though Nintendo sucks, Sony sucks, MS sucks but Wii, 360 and PS3 rock.

-Sigil-

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Arcadewolf — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 07:02:02 MDT

@Josh*: I live in London UK and have SSBB US version. Online random matches work fine(sometimes laggy) I have to play after around 9pm when the Americans are on. I have also added many European people from a forum who have also imported-and the friends matches are great, totally lag free.

Only problem is no way of communicating,even with friends. Feels very strange having a great match, and having to remain silent...you do get 4 pre-typed messages as taunts tho... :(

Arcadewolf

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DaiMacculate — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:54:58 MDT

@wizardofoz85: I was trying to be nice and just not talk about how much everybody in the States is enjoying Brawl already...DAMN! See look what you made me do!

Some EU country should take the lead and do what Canada has done, ridiculous tax breaks for game devs. A few more homegrown/based devs over there might help.

Not with Nintendo, of course. They hate you guys more than us, for some reason ;)

DaiMacculate

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Josh* — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:53:16 MDT

@Jekht: I don't see why not. I don't think saves are region specific

Josh*

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wizardofoz85 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:28:25 MDT

@The Amazing Exploding-Man: @Chadders: @DaiMacculate: ah brawl, bringing politics to the masses.

I figured there's a publisher wide conspiracy trying to deny europe games. It's revenge for all those British Empire days.

wizardofoz85

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Jekht — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:18:43 MDT

do you think the saves will carry over though?

Jekht

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Josh* — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:09:43 MDT

@Chadders: It's not. You can connect to WFC and are assigned a friend code but you never make it to play an actual match, even as a spectator. I expected that though - seems it's not even running smooth in released territories, certainyl didn't expect it to work here. Will trade my NTSC copy for PAL once it finally arrives but I'll get plenty of playtime in before then.

Josh*

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Josh* — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 06:06:52 MDT

I'm playing it right now thanks to freeloader, so FUCK YOU, NoE

Josh*

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Friendly_Nemesis — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:47:25 MDT

Do they really think it will sell that well? by 2020 they will have some stock pile.

Friendly_Nemesis

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Brutalitarian — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:29:27 MDT

seeing as how we still haven't got Rock Band over here yet I for one am not surprised that another publisher has the reaction of "PAL who?" when it comes to game releases

Brutalitarian

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Tingle — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:17:30 MDT

Bah! I am going to be paying a larger sum of money to import Smash Bros with Freeloader to be able to play the game. And as someone else said Nintendo will wonder why the sales for Europe for Smash Bros are (will) be way be low set expectations.

Tingle

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Chadders — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:16:24 MDT

@AllOfUsAreLost:

How is the online Brawling working out?

Chadders

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Fulgurator — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:09:51 MDT

When it's released they'll wonder why it didn't sell very well. Then they'll think again "Gah, it's not worth it releasing games in Europe, we've even made the dojo and they didn't care."

We cared, we imported it long ago.

Same old song, anyway.

Fulgurator

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AllOfUsAreLost — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:06:57 MDT

I think maybe there needs to be an update letting people know that Datel's Freeloader basically works an absolute treat!

Freeloader+NTSC import=Success.

I've got SSBB booted right now, and there hasn't been a single issue. Been able to selective update for the Dual layer stuff, no Nintendo intervention as of yet, not a single (additional to the common) glitch.

AllOfUsAreLost

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DaiMacculate — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 05:04:22 MDT

@Chadders: I don't even care if we change the current division of powers in the U.S., one thing I like about most EU countries is they have multi-party elections where 2 or more parties are forced to form coalition goverments after a contentious election. I would prefer that, with its inherent complications, to the current system in the U.S. where for a few weeks after one party crushes the other they pretend there might be some cooperation on vital issues...right up until one of those issues comes up and they start bickering like small children again.

DaiMacculate

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darthmole12 — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:59:55 MDT

Maybe by then the Wii online matchmaking will actually work.

Nah, I'm dreaming.

darthmole12

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Chadders — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:53:41 MDT

@The Amazing Exploding-Man:

The US political system is far superior to the EU's - I think what you mean is, you want the American people to vote more like Europeans do... unlike the system which is 2 steps removed from actual democracy for the EU.

Go Switzerland!

I would actually be surprised if Tesco supplied this, every time I go in there, the Wii titles are one's I've never heard of, bar Mario & Sonic at the Beijing Olympics.

Go Tibet!

Chadders

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Beano — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:50:56 MDT

I lold but on the inside I am crying.

Beano

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Xandros — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:49:58 MDT

If it eases anyone's pain, that wasn't done deliberately by whomever at Tesco put the product listing up. I've seen new product listings with that date several times before so it would seem it is in actual fact just a place holder, not someone having a laugh.

Xandros

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DHSlash — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:49:01 MDT

Ahhhhh Tesco.... always the optimist!!

DHSlash

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KeroseneClimax — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:46:36 MDT

I'm pretty sure many hearts from our European brethren skipped a few beats upon seeing this ad. Seriously though, they get screwed over far too much with game releases.

KeroseneClimax

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Kayeliminal Antithesis — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:44:49 MDT

Kayeliminal Antithesis

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PaddyStardust — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:43:04 MDT

@Manny: Ah curses...beaten to the joke...

PaddyStardust

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PaddyStardust — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:42:41 MDT

Wow, they've moved it forward!

PaddyStardust

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Manny — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:41:59 MDT

oh, so they pushed it forward?

Manny

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The Amazing Exploding-Man — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:41:27 MDT

The political system makes me want to live in Europe, but the release date system makes me proud to be an American.

I stay here. Yes, my priorities are straight.

The Amazing Exploding-Man

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Krumm — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:38:59 MDT

Lol, hey we get MK a few days before US... that should compensate for the 9 month delay on Brawl... not!!!

Krumm

UK Supermarket Sees Funny Side Of Euro Brawl Delays

Fulgurator — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:38:11 MDT

Well, at least it's coming. I suppose.

Fulgurator

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juliopalio — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:37:04 MDT

Hilarious.

juliopalio

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GregoriusH — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:36:17 MDT

Not funny. :(

GregoriusH