Podcast Episode III

Leave Luck to Us is proud to present Episode III of its podcast. A good solid hour of content including stories on the rumored successor to the DS, Nintendo's profitability, Wii add-ons, Virtual Console releases, Pikmin III, Nintendogs, Okami, and Mario Kart.

Sorry in advance for the noise on the recording. Also I sound like I'm recording from the bottom of a bucket. Oops. We'll get it right eventually but the content makes this 'cast well worth the d/l.

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NES console crammed into an NES cartridge

Here's a mod that demos how electronics can shrink over the years. French modder Kotomi took an NES on a chip and shoved it into a Super Mario Bros. cart. He did an amazing job too. The cart looks great with its switches and ports modded in. Nice Dremel work mon frere.

Diary Girl

Enjoy this review for Diary Girl from guest reviewer Suri:

Why it sucks:

1. You can only type 300 characters a day in an entry
2. The games it comes with to play are booorring i.e. match game
3. The other features are boring (a clock, calculator and paintmode)

It's kinda good cause you get to personalize the front of your diary and it has that wicked password to keep ratboys out
and the girl you design to look like you is kinda fun but you have to keep playing with all the other boorrrring features to unlock new outfits ..( and new games)

The actual journal part is the best cause you get to add 3 emoticons for each entry;
one is a smiley face depending how you feel that day, one is a weather icon and the other is
a reminder for that day. And you can flip back to any day by just going through the calendar and tapping on it. But 300 characters isnt enough. they should take away all the other stuff and just make it a diary. There's a chatroom too but your friends have to have the game to talk to them.

If Diary Girl would have space to hold all my secrets it would be a girl's dream.

I give Diary Girl a 4/10 on other websites but on Leave Luck to Us I'll mark it as a "Sell."

Megaman in Stained Glass

This Megaman stained glass window would be perfect in the cathedral of Nintendo: The Nintendo World Store at 30 Rock.

Unboxing the Super Famicom Wii controller

Now here's a controller the Vanilla Assassin is sure to approve of. A classic controller for the Wii based on the Super Famicom gamepad.

Legend of Zelda: $37.99

Nostaligic scan of a what I think is a page out of the Sears catalogue showing the original LOZ listed for a cool $37.99. The catalogue states that the NES's "two microchips" renders "true-to-life graphics."

Kojima disappointed with PS3 hardware

Looks like the PS3 hardware is already hitting brick walls. Kojima states he's disappointed in the hardware on which his masterpiece Metal Gear Solid: Guns of the Patriots is to appear. I guess he swallowed Sony's mumbo jumbo about the BS3 graphics capabilities:

"But when we actually started developing the game, we realized there were a lot of restrictions. I remember saying three years ago that we wanted to create something revolutionary, but in reality we couldn't really do that because of the CPU.

Wow, 2 years in and we're already hitting brick walls on the PS3? That was a short cycle. Good thing us Nintendo fans only worry about gameplay and not pretty pixels. How long until Kojima "retracts" his statements? I'm guessing as long as it takes the Sony suits to find his phone number.

Miyamoto Tribute Page

Gaze upon the pure majesty of this Shigeru Miyamoto tribute page.

Johnny Lee's Wiimote hacks

Johnny Lee draws several standing ovations at TED2008 for his Wii Remote hacks. Great stuff including using the controller as a whiteboard, touchscreen, and a head-mounted 3D viewer.

Nintendo adds another skull to its belt of skulls

Has Nintendo killed Xbox 360 in Australia? Reports are that retailers there are considering dumping the console from their inventories because their consumers see no "value" in the 360 anymore. Besides, the little white box from Nintendo is generating more than enough profits to cover off.