[JamesE]

http://www.joystiq.com/2007/02/13/secret-passwords-lost-in-kid-icarus-vc/

They're not emulating mappers right! That's basic stuff!

Right. I want to start a website to let Nintendo know this shit won't fly. Is anyone in?

[Shapermc]

Online Petition?

I mean, really, just put your money where your mouth is. Send nintendo an email with your nintendo.com account name (and make sure to register an obsene amount of games) and say "look at how much I buy! This is also only first party support, imagine my third party support. Don't do this shit I won't take it and am not buying it."

That's what I'd do.
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[Focus]

I'm guessing they'll release a fix, sometime.

Like with that one TG game, I think. Forget which one, though!
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[Broco]

Yeah it's not surprising that their emulators are a little patchy compared to what we're used to. I mean the state of the art on PC evolved over a decade, and Nintendo had probably about a year to slap together five emulators. Hiring/transferring the necessary largish team of low-level programmers must've been a challenge.

Come to think of it, the incomplete nature of their emulators might have a lot to do with the small and random-seeming VC selection. (I bet Solomon's Key is not very difficult to emulate!)

[Deets]

Yeah, they fixed Military Madness' scrolling issues, so perhaps if enough people give a shit they'll fix this issue, too. This password problem doesn't seem gamebreaking at all, either. Unless you desperately wanted to totally pimp Pit out or whatever.

I wouldn't use the euro VC at all, though. It just seems kind of hopelessly terrible.

[108]

protip: if any wii at all import jp wii ok
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[Toto]

James I sent you a PM about this and you didn't reply.
What an arsehole :(

[SuperWes]

[Mr Mustache]

Play it on an nes.
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[Focus]

I hope they can use Chip N' Dale's Rescue Rangers.

I'm not sure what that has to do with the rest of this. Besides I was just checking the price of Kid Icarus on eBay. Better off getting it on VC, because they just MIGHT put those passwords back in.
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[rabite gets whacked!]

Wes I dig your new avatar. Keep it for a while, okay?

James would you like to play a game or have a perfect recreation of your childhood before you became a bitter trollish aesthete for all eternity, okay? Or perhaps Mustache is right and you just need more pure 8bit, okay?

Rabite now you've finished off that wine and there's nothing left. Retry Yes/No?

[Deets]

I was in a used gamestore the other day. The cheapest genesis game that was worth a damn was $10, and Gunstar Heroes was $30 out of box. I went home and bought Gain Ground on the virtual console.

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[SuperWes]

[108]

lol

naw man jp VC keepin it real dog
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[Toups]

I... really don't understand why this is a big issue? I mean it's not like Kid Icarus is so prohibitively difficult that you'd ever NEED to use passwords anyway, and besides the virtual console saves your gamestate on anything pre-N64, making the need for passwords more or less moot.

Anyway, as far as I understand it, they didn't remove the entire password system, just the "secret" ones which let you play the entire game from the beginning with full powerups.
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[SuperWes]

I agree with Toups. This is a silly thing to be upset about. It's not like they took Mike D out of NBA Jam or anything.

[Scofflaw]

[newave]

[negativedge]

NBA Jam is so awesome it should have been made by Konami so we could talk about it.

[Laurel Soup]

[Toups]

[gooktime]

I wish there were more new wii games.

[Rud31]

Mod an Xbox.
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[gooktime]

[negativedge]

but nintendo is cool and m$ is not amirite

[Laurel Soup]

[Rud31]

[gooktime]

[teecee]

[NightsB]

i rebought kirby's adventure on vc and the framerate is totally destroyed >:( don't buy it. my nes just died the other day, too

i give it two stars (out of thirty)

[dmauro]

[Focus]

[rye]

[JamesE]

Hey everyone who's telling me this isn't an issue:

It's not about Kid Icarus. It's about doing the job properly and doing the job properly in future.

If indie devs can do mapper support, I expect mapper support from the company that made the mapper.

If a company is trying to sell me a service, I do not expect it to be less than a famiclone.

[Focus]

I see your frustration, or, well, you know what I'm trying to say. However, the most you can do at this point is to not buy the specific product, and then tell Nintendo, "I am not going to buy this because you did X wrong or you did not even include X."

Once again, I'm sure a fix will pop up within the next few weeks.
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[Deets]

I think the issue is more that - is it even confirmed that this is a mapper issue? Why do the non-cheaty passwords even work if that's the case? I'm seriously interested in hearing the answer to this!

[showka]

[NightsB]

[icycalm]

[Focus]