Revision 3 has started a vidcast of indie game reviews, “bytejacker“. The format seems to be a full review of a cheap pay game, then they have smaller reviews of free indie games. The host can be a bit obnoxious, but not a show-stopper. They are four episodes into this, each episode is about ten minutes long. Some fun looking games in their latest episode.
Wii update v4.2 is available. General consensus is: don’t update. They replaced the bootloader, and there are reports that this is buggy. Buggy as in “bricking your Wii” buggy. The main focus of this update was to go after mods and homebrews. So those applications get wiped-out during this update. The homebrew community has already updated, so v4.2 has been pretty much rendered useless. It is the people that have unmodded Wiis that are being inconvenienced the most.
My Odyssey2 arrived today. I was the only bidder in the auction that Madaracs pointed me to. I didn’t read the fine print… $30 in shipping. The heavy sixer I received from Goodwill a few months back was only $20 shipping. Don’t know what the difference was.
Anyway.
The console runs fine. The one game I have played so far is K.C. Munchkin. What made this Pac-man clone interesting was that it came out before Atari’s Pac-man. You can also argue that it is a more fun version. It gave the Odyssey a bit of a short-term bump at the time… until Atari sued and forced the halt of production.
Harmony Cartridge for the Atari 2600 is up for pre-order. Some features for you to drool over:
The board fits into a standard Atari shell (with slots dremeled out for the SD card and USB of course).
Features: Plays all legacy 2600 games up to 32k. USB programmable, SD card slot: FAT12/16/32 compatible, supports SD and SDHC, menu: supports directories, no limit on number of files, auto-detection of bankswitch type. Windows/Mac/Linux programming software. There is much more, but that’s the gist of it.
