The Nintendo Weekend Warrior – a busy week well-deserved

Warning: The following recap may take a few minutes of your time, so reader is advised to walk over to the fridge, get a few snacks and a can of rootbeer, with which the news will taste so much better. That actually depends if you’re gonna read everything, but if you really want to keep yourself up to speed in all things Nintendo, you gotta have a few snacks close by to enjoy your trip across the news.

Warning: The following recap may take a few minutes of your time, so reader is advised to walk over to the fridge, get a few snacks and a can of rootbeer, with which the news will taste so much better. That actually depends if you’re gonna read everything, but if you really want to keep yourself up to speed in all things Nintendo, you gotta have a few snacks close by to enjoy your trip across the news.

• Once a rumor, once again trailerized. Pokemon Heart Gold and Soul Silver just got a new trailer, and with the comes some pre-order goodies to those who are itching to go and catch’em all for the nth time around. Link
• If Pokemon isn’t your cup of tea, then maybe you might want to take a look at two Dragon Ball titles from Namco Bandai. There’s some new screens for Dragon Ball Z: Attack of the Saiyans for the DS, Link, while Dragon Ball: Revenge of King Piccolo for the Wii is looking mighty sharp in its new trailer. Link
• Naruto isn’t falling behind Pokemon and Dragon Ball, no sir. The ambitious Genin from Konoha is still pursuing his dream of being Hokage and to do that, he and his formidable friends will be taking on the super ninjas of the Akatsuki. Naruto: Ninja Destiny 2 just got its US debut trailer and it’s waiting for your click. Link
• This one made the news over and over this week. Starting with an innocent little sketch of a small landscape, Link, Square Enix’s new teaser site was soon joined by a flying Dragon, a boy, then a girl. Link. Then it was finally revealed to be a new Final Fantasy title for the Nintendo DS. Link
  
• Who could forget John Travolta’s and Olivia Newton-John’s slick performances in Grease? Nintendo and 505 Games sure haven’t. That’s why their characters Danny Zucko and Sandy Olsson are putting their dance shoes on once again and they’re starring in their movie’s video game adaptation for the Wii and DS. Link
• When talking Kingdom Hearts, there’s probably no one better to ask than its lead designer, Tetsuya Nomura. That’s exactly what Ultimania did, so now we’ve got a few updates on the upcoming Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days as well as the other KH games in other platforms, including the elusive Kingdom Hearts III. Link
• The blue bomber is one of the oldest gaming mainstays in the scene today, but he’s still coughing up games to add to his impressive number of titles. The latest additions, Mega Man Star Force 3 Black Ace and Red Joker have shipped for North American retail this week. Link
• Monster Hunter 3 just got trailerized for a third time, and one look at it will definitely get you interested even if you’re no MH fan. Karl could not have put it better – “It’s an overused term, but I’d say “awesome” is a good word to describe it.” Link
• Boring or reassuring? My money is on the latter. Shigeru Miyamoto has revealed that the new Zelda Wii will not be “radically different” from previous installments so what you came to love about past Zelda games will still be around for the show. Link
• Despite being slated only for PC and Xbox 360 digital download, doors are not yet closed for Secret of Monkey Island to have PSN and WiiWare releases as well. Link
  

Nintendo

•  They never seem to run out of cute and seemingly shy cuties in Japan. We’ve got another one in this TV spot, holding in her hands the whole point of the commercial – a pink Nintendo DSi. She looks cute, so does the pink DSi. Winner? Link
• Nothing says “gamer inside” on your front door like having a NES controller for a doorbell. In this unrevealed gamer home, a NES Controller was modded into a wireless doorbell, giving visitors an added treat when coming over. Check out the vid. Link
• Wii Fit and Wii Play game designer Motoi Okayama has gone from making Nintendo’s healthy motion games and has moved on to pursue his true calling. He’s gonna start his own website dedicated to a gallery of action figure images. Link
• It’s cool that this mom is supportive of her kid’s endeavors, but she has definitely overdone it. Her kid, along with his friends, nicked a Wii from their neighbor, and she helped them pawn the console even when she knew it was stolen. Naturally, she’s on her way to the slammer. Link
• Leave it to Wedbush Morgan analyst Michael Pachter to make yet another bold claim. His latest prediction: Wii will still be on top of the console wars by 2015, while the PS3 will find its way in second place. Link. Nevertheless, if a Wii HD ever comes along, Wedbush Morgan indicates that it could damage the PS3’s comeback. Link

Homebrew

•  Lino returns to the scene this week with another update for iDeaS, the DS emulator for Windows and Linux. New features and bigfixes for this update, so users must check this one out. Link
• Wiibrewmaster Tantric gets some help from Carl Kennera as they release a new update for DOSBox Wii. The latest version of of the DOSBox port now sports an upgraded DOSBox engine to the latest SVN, including the usual fixes, of course. Link
• More emulator updates from Tantric. There’s one for FCE Ultra GX, Link, one for Snes9x GX, Link, and one for his Visual Boy Advance GX, Link, so be sure to update yourself accordingly in case you missed the posts.