Nintendo Wii Fanboy

When the news broke yesterday about the Mplayer homebrew application, we were quick to try it out for ourselves. Surprisingly, it wasn't that hard and before you knew it, we were enjoying the Battlestar Galactica DVD you see above. But what about you all? Did you check it out for yourself? Let your voice be heard in our poll past the break.

Few cakes are so completely awesome that they earn the maker a marriage proposal, but then, not all cakes are a Guitar Hero homage. Charm White made this cake last fall for her then-boyfriend's birthday, but didn't manage to get around to talking much about it until recently, and talk she did -- by which we mean there's an entire step-by-step walkthrough on how she created the amazing cake. That doesn't mean we could actually pull it off (that probably takes patience and maybe some decorative talent), but knowing there's a how-to gives us a chance to pretend we could. Y'know. Kind of like Guitar Hero makes us feel like we could totally rock out for real.

Now we want to see someone make the Wii version, complete with Wii Remote.

Unlike most people, when I brought Wii Fit home for the first time, I didn't head straight to my Wii and slide the disc in to play. Instead, I tore apart the packaging to get at the Balance Board, which I then attempted to "hook up" to my computer. It took a while and a change in my method of operating, but I eventually got the thing connected and working in GlovePIE. It was at that point I started realizing what the Balance Board was really capable of, and this week I'll be sharing with you a few things I've learned about this new peripheral, so that you can start scripting for it and letting your imagination run wild.

Maybe it's just us, but if we were writing a tutorial for the Wii Zapper, it would go something like this:

1. Attach Wiimote.
2. Aim.
3. Pull trigger.

Then again, perhaps we're underestimating the complexity of the peripheral, because if you saw the guide Nintendo has posted on its website to assembling and using the add-on, it would be easy to believe that the Zapper contains many deep, convoluted mysteries. Surely even the greenest gamer can't struggle to understand the concept?

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Every Tuesday, Mike Sylvester brings you REVOLUTIONARY, a look at the wide world of Wii possibilities.

Going by the company's success of late, neophytes might assume that Nintendo was always looked at as the redemptive innovator of the games industry. But some time around the midpoint of the Super Nintendo's life cycle, the popular sentiment started turning to "a trend isn't cool until Nintendo bucks it." Nintendo fans were two generations behind in getting an optical drive. We played grayscaled, unlit Gameboys for years while our friends dumped battery after battery into their Lynx's, Turbo Express Portables, Neo Geo Pocket Colors, and Game Gears. Even today, we're still ravening for Nintendo-flavored online gaming.

Nintendo's first 3D console didn't come out until a year after Sony's, and 18 months after Sega's, so while my SNES delivered 2D nirvana in Donkey Kong Country, Super Castlevania 4, and Super Mario All-Stars, I was getting my 3D fix elsewhere.

Every Tuesday, Mike Sylvester brings you REVOLUTIONARY, a look at the wide world of Wii possibilities.

de Blob has been getting a lot of coverage here lately because it's been announced that the freeware PC game will be making its way to our favorite console. I first heard of the game a few months ago, and it seemed like it could make for an interesting bit of roll-up gaming for my Wiimote in the absence of Katamari. I figured this week would be an opportune time to finish the scripting project I'd started back then and present a script for this gelatinous ball of Technicolor fun.