Check it out … a cake recreating the whole World 1-1 level from Super Mario Bros. I bet it’s as tasty as one of those famous red mushrooms.
Via The Tanooki (who seems to crumbled under the strain of a good hard Digg‘ing. I’ll cite the original source when I can find out who actually made it …).
Disturbing news from a fairly repuatable source (Engadet) about the soon-to-be-released Photo Channel update.
If you update your Photo Channel you will lose MP3 support for background music during slideshows, and instead have it replaced with AAC format support. Sure, AAC sounds better, but most of my (and many other peoples) CD collection has been ripped to MP3 years ago … I don’t exactly want to have to go back and re-rip all that music again. Maybe this is because Nintendo doesn’t want to pay the 75 cents per device licensing fee for using MP3 … if so that is pretty tight. If they remove MP3 support, they may as well replace it with the royalty free OGG format, since if the Photo Channel won’t support MP3 most people are going to have to convert their music to some new format to use it on the Wii anyway ….
I certainly won’t be updating my Photo Channel if MP3 support is removed, unless there is some compelling must-have new feature that I feel really outweighs what is otherwise a serious backward step.
Just a quick note for Australian Wii owners: Take a look at the Wii Shop … there is something new available.
You guessed it … the Mii Contest (aka “Check Mii Out”) channel is available for free download. I’ve played with it for about 5 mins, and it was fun. Check it out for yourself.
This week the Australian Virtual Console store saw the release of Blue’s Journey for NeoGeo (the first non-fight game for NeoGeo on Virtual Console ??), Power Golf for the Turbografx-16 and the highly anticipated re-release of Super Mario Bros. 3 from the NES.
Super Mario Bros. 3 (NES) - a game which I’m sure needs no introduction. The Tanooki-suit finally arrives on Virtual Console.
Check out this hil-effing-arious spoof advert for a Wii game of “The Goonies”.
And while I’m at it, if you want more Goonies fan-art goodness, check out “Chunk in Charge” at Channel 101. Remember when Chunk said he’d look after Sloth forever … well Chunk and Sloth both grew up, and forever now seems like a much longer time ….
Via WiiLiving.
