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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:38 am Post subject: NEWS FLASH: News Channel active! |
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I'm gonna go check. BBS!
EDIT: It's taking about an hour to update, so I'm guessing this is it. _________________
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:50 am Post subject: |
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I thought you were going to bed! Anyway, still updating... I'm actually still in the UK region, I should probably change back before loading this baby up for the first time. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 3:56 am Post subject: |
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And here it is!
Haha, when you zoom in on the channel from the menu, this cliche NEWS FLASH!!! music plays, nice touch. Now I'm waiting for the news to download, and to keep me company is a little black cat who watches my cursor move around the screen. Neat.
More coming!
Gosh, this is exciting! _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:01 am Post subject: |
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Ok, so once in, some nice slightly energenic ambient music is playing in the background. The background is clearly designed to look like paper, and is the font. On the main menu you can select regional, national and international news as well as headlines for certain subjects such as science, arts and entertainment, sports, business etc.
Once you select one, a bunch of headlines come up. Click them, and on the right there will be a picture of the place where the news is coming from (a zoomed in weather globe pretty much), and on the left is the actual article. You can zoom in and out, and the letters all dance around when you do this.
So yeah, nice clean interface that still retains some fun, all in all this is pretty spiffy. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:05 am Post subject: |
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Haha, there is also a globe view. Here, zooming out will show newspapers over each city, with a number next to the name which shows how many headlines there are today. Zooming out will group the same countries papers together, so if you zoom all the way out there are these huge stacks of newspapers all over the planet (except in some countries which simply don't have many headlines). _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:12 am Post subject: |
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Oh, another cool thing (I'm pretty sure this is the last thing) is the slide show feature, where a shot of the earth at the top spins around to various headlines, and the bottom screen gives the actual headline. Pressing A will stop the slideshow and put the full article up, which can be put down once read and the slideshow will continue.
Neato! _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:17 am Post subject: |
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Haha, while watching the Arts & Entertainment slideshow, a review for Lost Planet on the Xbox 360 came up. Oh, the irony! Also, cool, reviews in my headlines. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:27 am Post subject: |
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One more thing! If you're reading an article from another country and money is mentioned, it will say how much it's worth in your currency in brackets. Thanks, Nintendo! _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 996 Location: Super Magic Drive
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:35 am Post subject: |
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Do the headlines spin out of the screen? Do news stories appear on screen one letter at a time like it is being knocked out on a typewriter? _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:37 am Post subject: |
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No, but that would have been cool! Well the type-writer thing would probably piss me off after five minutes, but spinning would be cool. _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:40 am Post subject: |
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They could let you view the entire story at the press of a button when it gets on your nerves. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:41 am Post subject: |
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Or they could just let me view the entire story! I think it's a gimmick we could do without. _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:44 am Post subject: |
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I really like my small details. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:50 am Post subject: |
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Me too, but I guess I don't like annoying gimmicks even more! Anyway, stop trying to make the news channel sound unexciting. Come on! It's news! Yeah! Woo! _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:09 am Post subject: |
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It would excite me.
Do you get all the news from each part of the world or just the major headlines? _________________
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Lestrade Bug Fister
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 6:40 am Post subject: |
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I've got it too! Oh, kitten!
The text zooming is great—fun to watch, but fast and very useful. Being able to spin the world to find regional news is a hoot, and enlightening; it actually makes me want to read more news. What fun!
It looks like each region supports the major headlines only; there seem to be quite a few per locale, though. |
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Mister Toups Hates your favorite videogame
Joined: 26 Jan 2005 Posts: 1693 Location: Lafayette, LA
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 10:49 am Post subject: |
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my wii froze while trying to update
oh well! _________________ where were you when nana komatsu got a wii? |
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helicopterp .
Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 11:41 am Post subject: |
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So where do the news stories come from? AP, Reuters, BBC, etc? Or are they all selected from various newspapers? Or is there some kind of news editing crew specifically for the Wii News Channel?
I guess what I'm asking is: regardless of how cool the interface is, how is the actual content? _________________ Like you thought you'd seen copter perverts before. They were nothing compared to this one. |
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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Fred .
Joined: 18 Apr 2006 Posts: 99 Location: Iowa
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 4:53 pm Post subject: |
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This is neat, but I can't shake the feeling that right now, somewhere in the world, Leonard Downie Jr.* is losing his shit. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jan 26, 2007 5:36 pm Post subject: |
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Oh, another thing, if you click on the cat, she'll ask you if you've found her sister in the photo channel... sounds like an easter egg hint. _________________
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Nana Komatsu weak sauce
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B coma .
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Posted: Sun Jan 28, 2007 3:45 pm Post subject: |
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Maybe the appeal is taking a break to check the news after a long bouts of gaming without having to leave the comfort of your chair/couch/bed/friend's futon?
As for the way it's implemented, it seems clean enough, but I guess it's a bummer if you don't like to get your news from AP. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:42 am Post subject: |
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It's amazing how no matter where you go in the world, one of the main headlines is going to involve America in some way. |
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Fred .
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Posted: Mon Jan 29, 2007 12:48 am Post subject: |
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That's what hegemony is all about, baby! |
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