Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Rumors | 3 Comments

Capcom announced last month the Resident Evil Classics line, a series of old RE games that will take advantage of the Wii remote. Specific games that the company announced include Resident Evil and Resident Evil Zero. However, a rumor has appeared in the latest edition of Spanish magazine Hobby Consolas regarding additional Resident Evil titles that could be on the way to Wii. The magazine mentions Resident Evil 2, 3, and Code Veronica, but perhaps it’s possible that Hobby Consolas simply had a misunderstanding of which titles are being remade.

“The game will go on sale at the end of 2009 and will coincide with the reissuing of the Wii classic renditions (Resident Evil 2, 3, and Code Veronica) that will have the same technical section and control system specifically adapted for Nintendo’s console.” – Rough translation

Thanks to Jake for the news tip.

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Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Rumors | 4 Comments

Before I even begin explaining this rumor, let me say that there’s a good chance that this is an April Fool’s joke. So take the following with a huge grain of salt.

Game Focus is reporting that – after speaking with their Japanese Nintendo contact – a remake of The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is in development. An official announcement would follow on April 5. This is something that I personally don’t see happening. If anything, I would expect an announcement to happen at E3, not on some random day, especially when the DSi will be the focus in North America. Who knows though…Stranger things will happen. Find out if this was really an April Fool’s Joke in the following days.

Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in DS, Rumors | 0 comments

A trademark for Turnabout Prosecutor, registered by Capcom, has been discovered and points to a North American release. The official trademark name is Ace Attorney Investigations and has Miles Edgeworth and Detective Gumshoe using their detective skills to explore crime scenes/putting evidence together to solve cases. Turnabout Prosecutor will not ship until May in Japan. Seeing as how it took about ten months for Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney to receive localization, the game would not become available until at the end of the year in North America at the earliest.

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Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in DS, Rumors | 3 Comments

Earlier today, rumors surfaced that the DSi would soon be receiving the ability to download Game Boy/GBA games, similar to the Wii Virtual Console. Though it should still be considered a rumor, another platinum Club Nintendo member who attended a DSi preview event in Illinois is claiming the same rumor is indeed true. Not only that, however, but this person also says that the representative at the event mentioned SEGA is interested in bringing Game Gear titles to the DSi. Nothing is set in stone at all at this point, but SEGA is apparently looking into it.

Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in DS, Rumors | 3 Comments

Last night, Nintendo held an event for platinum members of Club Nintendo to try out the new DSi. Quite a few interesting tidbits were shared at the event, including that DSi owners will be able to download Game Boy and GBA games. I am going to mark this as a rumor for now, however. We haven’t heard about this in Japan and Nintendo has yet to officially confirm the news.

– Will be only able to download Nintendo GBA/GB titles at first
– GBA/GB games will be region-locked
– Will be able to run the games from an SD card
– Calculators will be downloadable
– Opera available for download on DSi launch day
– Confirmed that owners will receive 1000 free points

Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Wii | 0 comments

Now…I’m having a bit of a tough time believing this speculation. Nonetheless, the rumor is that The Conduit will release on April 24 in Europe. There doesn’t seem to be any real base to this, especially when this would mean that the game would be out in about a month. If anything, I would think that The Conduit would release in North America first, and then Europe. SEGA has not confirmed or denied anything at this point, but again, I don’t think this is too likely.

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Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in General Nintendo, Rumors | 18 Comments

The latest buzz surrounding GDC 2009 is that three (four, technically) Nintendo characters will be at this year’s conference this year. The rumor specifically involves Link, Kid Icarus, and the Ice Climbers. Games wouldn’t necessarily be shown – hints to future projects, listing of the characters, or possibly more would be shared.

I do want to stress that this rumor should be taken with a huge grain of salt. In the past, some rumors have proved to be valid but in this case it’s really unclear. I would expect Nintendo to do something like this at E3, but not really GDC…Who knows. We’ll have to just wait and see. Just remember to have a bit of skepticism in mind and don’t set yourselves up for disappointment!

Thanks to Jake for the news tip.

Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Wii | 6 Comments

According to QJ.net, Nintendo is busy developing a “double USB hard drive” for the Wii. This would, supposedly, provide relief for those who have been struggling with the small amount of internal memory available on the system.

The rumors also says that the device would mount on the back on the Wii and is designed to seem like a natural part of the Wii. The hard drive would not be able to be used without a firmware update but all downloaded content from the Wii Shop Channel can apparently be transferred right onto the hard drive.

No date was provided for when all of this would be released. I’m a bit skeptical of this rumor, but I’m sure quite a few people would be satisfied if this is indeed Nintendo’s storage solution.

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Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in News, Rumors | 29 Comments

Update 2: Added the scan from Famitsu.

Update: Looks this this is confirmed. Scans show that the game is in the index of Famitsu.

The latest edition of Famitsu apparently has information on Biohazard: Dark Side Chronicles for Wii. This would be a sequel to the already released Resident Evil: Umbrella Chronicles. More information will be posted as it becomes available.

Posted on 15 years ago by Brian(@NE_Brian) in Rumors, Wii | 8 Comments

Initially, Nintendo’s Wii MotionPlus was scheduled to launch in Spring, but that no longer seems to be the case. Nintendo has even failed to mention it in some of their latest press releases, which does bring up some suspicion regarding the peripheral’s status. According to IGN’s Matt Casamassina, Nintendo has been having a few issues with Wii MotionPlus.

“When I got wind that the DSi announcement which turned out to be pretty accurate…At the same time I heard that Nintendo was internally struggling with Wii MotionPlus and trying to figure out a few hiccups…And that they were going to delay the release of it all the way past June. And also Wii Sports Resort which would be like an eight game title, it would have eight games in it, not ten, and that would also be delayed a little bit…The only thing I got was vague and was like, ‘Oh, they’re having some hiccups in development.'” – Matt Casamassina, Nintendo Voice Chat podcast 39