Um...they already talked about the internet channell....

23rd begins Beta of the Opera brower and the official version begins in march or april and you have till june for a free download.

*reads the updated post*

GO OUTSIDE? ARE YOU MAD?

I'm a gamer! I fear non-circulated air and that bright shiny thing in the sky...I believe you non-gamers call it the Death Star or something.

yeah I have it going. Its ok i guess... but in the end its going to be hot T_T (Australia)

I'm really disappointed in the VC games. Does Nintendo seriously think that these games are the classics that come to mind when people think of Nintendo consoles? Err no.

Wake me up when contra or punchout, or even a fking super mario bros is released. The fact that a person with a PS3 with linux installed could be playing the entire library (albeit illegally) of NES and SNES games is quite a blunder.

it's just like good sex. nintendo is saying we've been naughty, and we don't deserve all our presents at once. we need to be spanked.

I think they're holding out on the good VC stuff because their current servers are pieces of shit and they don't want them to crash and burn when a million people try to clamor for Donkey Kong Country all at once.

Yup, do you think anyone would go back and buy the stuff they released in the first wave if they could get Super Mario Bros 1, 2, and 3 now for the NES? They're making money off the old school crap while they can, and letting the big guns out later on. Sure I can emulate them elsewhere (and I did on my PC years ago), but there's something special to me about playing a legitimately owned classic game on an actual Nintendo console. I'm definitely not getting Urban Champion, but you can bet I'll be downloading Punch-Out and Super Metroid the second they're out.

PS: Donkey Kong Country is SO overrated. Go back and play it again. Doesn't hold up.

@ hushgush:

Same with me. :(

I'm reporting this thread to the FBI. When you support illegal emulation, you support the terrorists!

I checked out the Weather Channel, it was okay. One nice thing is that just clicking on it displays the temperature so you don't have to load up the program unless you want the extended forecast or you want to check out some other place.

I was a little surprised at how few cities were on it in other countries, but that's obviously just to cut down on bandwith since it's just best to feed me US cities instead.

My new favorite game is spinning the globe ala Google Earth and seeing which island has better weather Jesus Lives (Christmas Island) or Jesus Dies (Easter Island).

Jesus Lives is up by 5.

And your South Pole forecast for the day:

Current: 1
Today: 7

So in conclusion, it's cool. I mean... I'll play with it. Not awesome, not horrible.

That aside people bitching about the VC games probably wouldn't be happy with anything they release because they're not big retro fans. Which is cool, hey, not everyone likes everything... but you can't tell me that:

A- You're a fan of old school games and,
B- You have no interest in Military Madness, Alien Crush, Gunstar Heros, PuyoPuyo (Dr. Robotnics Magic Pants in the US) and Bonk.

The TG16 games they've released are absolute classics. As far as the NES games are concerned, what games are they going to release that are popular enough to warrant a download BUT not a title that everyone's played to death?

I'm all for the Super Mario Bros but after that, what?

By the way, Military Madness was an Advance Wars style of game. Now I don't think that's a bad thing.

I just downloaded the Weather Channel. It is actually very well done. Nice, soothing music, wooshy sound effects for when you spin the globe at blinding speeds, and as was mentioned earlier, you can get your current weather from the channels menu without going into the actual weather program.

Some other things I noticed:

The weather channel is stored on the section of the flash memory dedicated to Mii, messages, and other system internals. This means that the number of blocks you have available for saving games and downloading VC titles remains unchanged after downloading the weather channel.

If you press the home button while viewing the actual channel (you have to have the actual weather program running, not just be viewing the current stats from the Channels menu), you can view an "operations guide" that explains how to use the weather channel.

Mmmm, surfing dtoid on my wii is soon to come!