#wii — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #wii, aggregated by home.social.
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TMNT with Jeremy Powers (Zenspath Entertainment Network)
Let’s talk about the year 2007, when Ubisoft looked at Konami’s TMNT license, going up for grabs after three straight beat-em-ups, and said “yeah, we’ll take it,” the video game equivalent of adopting somebody else’s very large, very established pet. They tied the whole thing to Imagi’s brand new fully CGI turtle movie and then, in an act of scheduling chaos I can only respect, shipped the game three entire days before the film hit theaters. Bold! Confusing! Possibly the result of someone losing a calendar!
And then, because apparently one platform was never going to cut it, Ubisoft just kept going. PlayStation 2! GameCube! Xbox 360! Wii! PC! A PlayStation 3 version that got paraded around at trade shows like a prize pony and then quietly put out to pasture, never to be seen again! And just when you think the roster’s full, Nintendo DS and PSP roll in with an entirely separate game wearing the same name tag, because why make one turtle game when you could make several turtle games and let the consumer sort it out. Also, bonus points to whoever in marketing decided the title needed zero subtitles, zero colons, zero numbers, just “TMNT,” like it’s the only one that’s ever existed. Confidence!
Climbing out of the sewer to help me survey this multi-console fever dream is Jeremy Powers, host and creator of the Zenspath Entertainment Network, a man who apparently collects retro hardware, works as an engineer, and still finds time to run a podcast, which is either elite time management or a full refusal to acknowledge the concept of a day off.
So track down whichever version of this thing actually ended up in your house back in 2007, because statistically there’s a good chance it wasn’t the same one as your neighbor’s, and let’s find out if TMNT earned its spot in the turtle hall of fame, or if it should’ve stayed a trade show prototype.
Learn such things as:
- Do we ever stop to think that maybe the people making these games knew what they were doing all along?
- Will we ever get that chance to see Splinter and Iroh together?
- How much retreading is acceptable when you’re the new guy making things?
- And so much more!
You can find Jeremy on YouTube @Zenspathcom and of course at the Zenspath Entertainment Network.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to Behold! and The Last Comic Shop for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who dips pizza in honey mustard.
#ArchieComics #Donatello #DreamwaveProductions #GameboyAdvance #Gamecube #IDW #Image #JeremyPowers #Leonardo #Michelangelo #Mirage #NintendoDS #PS2 #PSP #Raphael #Ubisoft #Wii #Xbox360 -
An 5 de notre grande rétrospective de la Wii où nous couvrons l'ensemble de la triste année 2011. Au programme, la dèche, la loose, la misère mais aussi quelques rayons de soleil avec Xenoblade ou encore Kirby !
https://www.nintendojo.fr/articles/editos/an-5-apres-wii-une-retrospective-chronologique
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Feature on Wii Sports Resort for the Wii.
Taken from Official Nintendo Magazine 45 - August 2009 (UK) (preliminary version)This issue can be found here:
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Versión 1.0.2 de Dolphin-NX, emulador de GameCube y Wii para Nintendo Switch: https://www.dekazeta.net/foro/files/file/5163-dolphin-nx/
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@nintendojofr Tatsunoko VS Capcom !
Mon jeu préféré de la #Wii ever ! Celui qui m'a réconcilié avec le VS fighting à sa sortie, suite à une overdose sévère de jeux de castagne* 🥰
Quel déception que #Capcom n'ait plus jamais osé retenter un délire dans le même genre dans les années qui ont suivi...
(* Faut dire que j'avais une #NeoGeo dans les 90's : Y'avait quasiment que ça dessus, à un moment tu satures, forcément 🤣)
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Versión 1.0.1 de Dolphin-NX, emulador de GameCube y Wii para Nintendo Switch. Es un port del popular emulador Dolphin para Windows, macOS, Linux y Android: https://www.dekazeta.net/foro/files/file/5163-dolphin-nx/
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Since the past few days I am really in the mood of playing Wii games again.
Currently playing Pikmin 1 (Wii Edition) for the first time and started a new town in Animal Crossing.
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How it feels to finish the week strong :wii_spin:
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White House creates Wii Sports video to publicize "Operation Epic Fury" military campaign (UPDATE):
Visit the site to view the full article.
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Les années fastes sont derrière nous, la Wii entame lentement mais sûrement son crépuscule. Mais on ne part pas sans éclat !
Pour cette année 2010, on a du Super Mario Galaxy 2, du No More Heroes 2 et des trucs un peu plus obscurs à découvrir
https://www.nintendojo.fr/articles/editos/an-4-apres-wii-une-retrospective-chronologique -
When devs talk about what stack they use, I’m not sure this is what they had in mind. 😅
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If you’ve ever asked who plays the Wii in 2026?
Only I would be that one person to drag out consoles that are years and years old. 😅
I played the Wii like crazy as well as my PlayStation 3 back when it was really big.
Didn’t have Mario Kart Wii when it first came out but my close friend and neighbor had it and loved playing it.
Just added this to the collection and it is in excellent condition. 😁
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Spider-Man 3 with Harry Steele (Games On Film)
Let’s talk about Spider-Man 3, the movie where Sam Raimi looked at “menacing single antagonist” and said no thank you, I would like three, please, and also I would like Peter Parker to dance down the street like he’s auditioning for a jazz-hands cult. It’s a movie that tried to do everything, mostly succeeded at doing too much, and somehow still made enough money that Activision looked at it and thought: yes, this deserves not one video game, but two, spread across seven different consoles, so that literally nobody in 2007 could escape it. Ambitious! Chaotic! Extremely on brand for the source material!
See, there’s the fancy version, built by Treyarch for PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, where you get a whole open Manhattan to swing around in and the black suit shows up only when the story deems you emotionally ready for it, very mature, very earned. And then there’s the completely different budget cousin, built by Vicarious Visions for PS2, Wii, PSP, GBA, and DS, where you can slap the black suit on whenever you feel like being a jerk, the Wii Remote gets to pretend it’s a web-shooter, and the DS throws the D-pad in the trash entirely so you can beat up Sandman by poking a touchscreen like it owes you money. Same cover art. Same villains. Practically strangers.
Swinging in to help me sort out how many wildly different versions of one questionable movie a single franchise can generate is Harry Steele, co-host of Games on Film, the podcast where he and his brother Rory spend their days grading movies based on video games! Which means Harry has built an entire professional skillset around asking “did Hollywood mess this up,” and today, for one glorious episode, we get to point that same energy directly back at a video game and ask if it managed to mess up the movie right back. Poetic justice! Content symmetry! Whatever you want to call it, it’s happening!
So grab whichever suit you’re feeling today, pick a console, any console, apparently they all made their own decisions, and let’s find out if the Spider-Man 3 games handled three villains and seven platforms with any more finesse than the movie handled three villains and one dance number.
Learn such things as:
- How similar do games have to be in order to have the same title?
- Do movie tie in games really need to care about what happened in the movie?
- Isn’t Spidey supposed to have friends?
- And so much more!
You can find Harry on BlueSky @onlymanwhocan and of course his podcast Games on Film.
If you want to be a guest on the show please check out the Be a A Guest on the Show page and let me know what you’re interested in.
If you want to help support the show check out the Play Comics Patreon page or head over to the Support page if you want to go another route. You can also check out the Play Comics Merch Store.
Play Comics is part of the Gonna Geek Network, which is a wonderful collection of geeky podcasts. Be sure to check out the other shows on Gonna Geek if you need more of a nerd fix.
Play Comics is also part of Art Comedy Pop-Culture Network, which is a long-standing creative organization spawning from a love of Adult Swim. Be sure to check them out for all sorts of entertainment news, commentary, and just plain fun stuff.
You can find Play Comics @playcomics.bsky.social on Bluesky, @playcomicspodcast on Threads, @playcomics on YouTube, or the Play Comics website.
If you want to hear Chris talk with Karrington Martin about the lessons we learned from children’s media and how crazy it is that we’re supposed to just forget about that now that we’re adults, then Sugar, Spite, and Everything is Fine is probably something you should check out.
A big thanks to Murderworld the game and the Glitterjaw Queer Podcast Collective for the promos today.
Intro/Outro Music by Backing Track, who would let the Venom symbiote engulf him if given the chance.
#Activision #GameBoyAdvance #HarrySteele #Marvel #NewGoblin #NintendoDS #PS2 #PS3 #PSP #SpiderMan #Treyarch #VicariousVisions #Wii #Xbox360 -
A new NUSGet release is out!
This release doesn't have any functional changes from v1.5.2, but the Windows binaries are now signed thanks to a free signing certificate from the SignPath Foundation (https://signpath.org)! This should hopefully mean no more issues where Windows users have to fight off Defender to run the app.
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Feature for The Legend of Zelda Skyward Sword on the Wii.
Taken from Official Nintendo Magazine 58 - August 2010 (UK)You can find this issue here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/OfficialNintendoMagazine.html -
#Nintendo 3LP arrival. #physicalmedia #vinyl So pleased to have this, I love the music from the #Wii system! 🤗
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This update took a bit longer than normal and after this I'm gonna rest a bit as think I overdid it a little today. 👀
But here is Official Nintendo Magazine 58 - August 2010 (UK), which has just been added to the magazine catalogue.
Enjoy! 😙
You can grab it here:
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SingStar Take That anyone? The strange joy of charity shop video games https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/jul/31/charity-shop-video-games-singstar-take-that #Games #Culture #RetroGames #SportsGames #QuizAndTriviaGames #PuzzleGames #Wii #Playstation #Sega #Xbox #Ds #Pc
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SingStar Take That anyone? The strange joy of charity shop video games
By Keith StuartHidden gems can be unearthed, but you have to dig deep into the bargain bins of countless outdated Fifas, Wii Fits without the controllers and partially finished quizshow games
https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/jul/31/charity-shop-video-games-singstar-take-that
#Games #Culture #Retrogames #Sportsgames #Quizandtriviagames #Puzzlegames #Wii #PlayStation #Sega #Xbox #DS #PC #TheGuardian #KeithStuart
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Versión 1.5.3 de NUSGet, aplicación para Windows, macOS y Linux que no permite descargar cualquier contenido de los servidores de actualización de Nintendo, al estilo de NUS Downloader: https://www.dekazeta.net/foro/files/file/3984-nusget/
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Un monde fou, des scorpions catcheurs, des bourre-pifs et des sabres mystiques, c’est l’An 3 de notre grande rétrospective chronologique de la Wii !
Suivez le conduit !
https://www.nintendojo.fr/articles/editos/an-3-apres-wii-une-retrospective-chronologique
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Preview for Kirby's Epic Yarn on Wii from Official Nintendo Magazine 63 - Christmas 2010 (UK)
I wish we would get a beautiful port of this one to Switch like with Donkey Kong Country Returns...
This one is so underrated. 😭This issue can be found here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/OfficialNintendoMagazine.html -
Review for Super Mario All-Stars on Wii from Official Nintendo Magazine 63 - Christmas 2010 (UK)
This issue can be found here:
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Today seems to be really focussed on platform gaming. 😅
First up:
Review for Donkey Kong Country Returns on Wii from Official Nintendo Magazine 63 - Christmas 2010 (UK)This issue can be found here:
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So what I wanted to post earlier was that the updated version of Official Nintendo Magazine 63 - Christmas 2010 (UK) is now online and includes the Super Mario Sticker Album supplement which I found yesterday.
Sadly, not all stickers are present, but it's a nice relic anyway.
I also replaced the cover with a brand new one. This supplement came with an issue in perfect condition, so the big crease on the left side of the cover is now completely gone.
You can download this new issue 63 here:
https://www.outofprintarchive.com/catalogue/OfficialNintendoMagazine.htmlEnjoy! 😙
