Ocarina of Time creator Eiji Aonuma has offered a heart felt apology for the games notoriously troublesome Water Temple.

“The Water Temple in the Ocarina of Time was notorious for being very tough to conquer. I am most sorry that it was not easy for you to put on and take off the heavy boots; that all the time you had to visit the inventory.”

“I am very sorry about that. I should have made it much easier to switch to the heavy boots.”

- Eiji Aonuma

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Last night, I discovered the excitement that is Ebay.

Yes, I know, 12 years too late…

But I’ve never been able to use it before, due to being under 18 and not having a bank account. I didn’t get a bank account until I was 19, and didn’t get an Ebay account until last night…

But wow! A lot of fun. I have bought a Holga 120 CFN camera in order to play with photography for my portfolio, and about 10 minutes ago got outbid on an old N64 game named Gauntlet Legends! It was… oddly exciting. I was outbid in the last 6 seconds, having bid only on the last 20 seconds!

I just need to make sure that I don’t buy online too often, because I can’t afford to right now. I recently earned some more money than usual, and decided that I could reward myself for all the hard work by buying this old, plastic camera that I’ve wanted for several years I can’t wait for it to arrive! It usually retails at £50+, but I got it for a steal on Ebay at £23! I’m very excited to start creating surreal, narrative photographs on real film with manual effects that Photoshop and the digital camera age still cannot match up to.

Here are some beautiful Holga photos that I came across online today:

With thanks to mustangbass and Exogenesis on Flickr, and uranium99 on Ebay for these images.

For over three years, Nintendo has been offering some of their best games from days gone by over the Wii’s Virtual Console. It’s also taken them the same amount of time to release one of their all time SNES classics; Super Mario Kart. The delay was a deliberate effort to make Mario Kart Wii more desirable despite the fact it’s been more than capable of selling on it’s own merits. From Monday in the US – coming to Europe shortly after – we’ll be able to download SMK for 800 Wii Points (£4) and play the first and best version of the kart racer. It’s a shame that no enhancements have been added such as online multiplayer but that’s more of a pipe dream than an realistic possibility.

Not stopping at that classical offering, Nintendo will also be releasing the SNES descender Pilotwings allowing a pixelated but technically brilliant take on skydiving. Then when the year is almost up, Super Smash Bros for N64 will join SMK and Pilotwings rounding off an awesome holiday of retro titles. Once again, Super Smash Bros has it’s successor on the Wii already but it’s nice to have the opportunity to experience the originator of the franchise. Many fans (like me) may still have their SNES and N64 copies of these games as a treasured possession but laziness is a powerful thing and soon we’ll be able to play them without having to get up and change the game cartridge or indeed console. Genius.

{Thanks Gamespot}

There are certain matters where I’m always going to be right. It just naturally happens. One of those things I always seem to be right about is my advice that I give to my sister about her relationship. I don’t know what it is, but I’m just always right. I tell her exactly what to do and sometimes she’ll do it other times she argue with me, but in the end I’m right. I think it’s because me and her boyfriend think alike. So yesterday she was freaking out over something that happened. I told her exactly what to do, but of course she didn’t listen. Then in the end who was right. That would be me. Anyway just like to prove a point. Yesterday I got my vehicle licensed. Yay now I can drive it on the street without being pulled over. Now to just get insurance which should be tons of fun. It also didn’t take nearly as long as I thought it would. I guess that’s what happens when you go to the DMV in the middle of the day on a Tuesday. I also worked out my chest….chest workouts can be no fun some days. Luckily yesterday wasn’t that day. Seemed like it went faster too. Now I have to workout today and I think I’ll just do the stomach since it’s comedy Wednesday and as far as I know there are no more stupid Country Music Awards. Now to move on to the squibies. Oh wait before that I was looking at my views and a lot of them are coming from other blogs or people looking at tags. Not so much from Blogsurfer.us anymore. Wonder what’s up with that. Ok now squiby. So back in the day South Park had a game on N64. I remember it well because my mom freaked out when me and my brother played it while she was cleaning up. So she’s like you can’t rent that game again until your 17. Or did she say 18. Anyway it sucked not being able to rent it. It was so much fun. Anyway so here is the opening for the N64 South Park game. Today’s tip is as much fun as over reacting is, you should probably take a minute or two to try to see the issue in another light.

Há Muito tempo postei aqui a primeira parte dos jogos de n64, agora, depois de muito tempo venho postar aqueles que acho mais clássicos do console que marcou época e estará para sempre nos corações dos que o jogaram.

Turok 2: Seeds Of Evil

Seeds Of Evil é sem sombra de duvida, o melhor game do N64, excelentes gráficos, jogabilidade incrível, armas que dão até gosto de atirar! pra que não conhece abaixo eu coloquei um video do jogo.

Super Mario Kart

Super Mario Kart foi o primeiro (e único) game de corrida que realmente me deixou viciado, até hoje ainda jogo quando estou sem net ou intediado, sei que todos que compartilham do meu gosto pelo N64 já o jogaram, por isso é um dos grandes clássicos.

Super Smash Bros.

Como estamos falando de clássicos, claro que não poderia faltar Super Smash Bros.

Mario saindo na porrada com Pikachu, não preciso dizer mais nada.

SuperStar Soccer 2000

Superstar Soccer é junto com Fifa 99 um grande jogo de futebol.

Claro que não dá pra comparar com os de hoje, mas ele é divertimento e nostalgia certas.

Fifa 99

Se minha memória não falha acho que Superstar Soccer só tinha seleções.

Fifa 99 era a salvação, ele tinha times brasileiros! não é tão divertido quanto o acima, mas eu pessoalmente o acho graficamente superior.

Yet another Java emulator for “windows” saw an update today. Most Java emulators will run on a Mac. I was unable to run Super Mario 64 however, the GUI loaded just fine. This emulator is in the early stages of development but, I like to see more Java emulators. More Java emulators means more universal emulators. Java runs on pretty much every operating system. Apparently this new update adds sound. This emulator MIGHT NOT actually work for your Mac but, you are welcome to try. Mostly I’m posting this so that some one might be inclined to make it work for the Mac.

There are few redeeming factors that Cruisin’ USA has going for it, but the arcade racer will always have a special place in my heart for this tune alone. That and the bug-splatter parts. I know, I’m very mature.

What’s your game music guilty pleasure?

1. Improved CAW – The biggest problem with creating wrestlers in the Smackdown series has always been that they never look nearly as good as the WWE superstars already made for the game. They look clunky and their clothes and outfits appear to be painted on as opposed to the real-life folks that get all of the cool bells and whistles. This year goes a long way to improving that. Not only are CAWs the most customizable they’ve ever been (It’s possible to choose the pose the wrestler has on the versus screen now!), but the loading times are almost non-existent. Compare that to the 2007 and 2008 versions ofCAW, where waiting for up to two minutes for a CAW’s entrance to load was the norm and it’s a vast improvement.

2. New animations – Past Smackdown games have kept the litany of original animations for basic moves dating back to the first game and then added to those as the years went on. Unfortunately, that lead to a great quality disparity between the older, clunky looking bodyslams and the more intricate, fluid, lifelike moves that came about with every subsequent version of the game. This year THQ and Yukes addressed this by completely overhauling many of the animations, especially the basic quick grapples. Very few of the older animations are gone in favor of the new ones, which is long overdue considering this is the fourth game available on a next-gen console. It’s about time the creators stopped using holdovers from the PS1 and tried to make something that looks as good as possible on a 1080p screen.

3. Online Community – This was the biggest selling point for me this year. When I actually have the time to do so, I love taking existing people from ROH, TNA, the defunct WCW and those no longer employed by Vince McMahon and creating versions of them for the game. This was easy on WWF No Mercy for the N64 because there were fewer options to worry about. Once the Smackdown games started including size differentials for individual parts of the body, I had to quit relying on eyeballing my creations and begin searching for online templates. In the past three years, having a life and a job has proved the biggest roadblock in creating equivalent avatars for people who participate in a fake exhibition sport. I only created one CAW for Smackdown vs. RAW 2009 last year, the one I create every year to represent myself because I am a narcissist deep down inside. That meant I had no Samoa Joe, no Kurt Angle and no AJ Styles, staples for the last few years of my console wrestling gaming. The Community Creations solves this problem. Now players can upload their own created wrestlers, move sets, and entrances for others to download. This saves an assload of time for me, the wrestling gamer fan on the go.

This game is not perfect, as my next planned post will attest, but the improvements are so vast (I didn’t even mention the completely overhauled and fun Royal Rumble match and the ability to edit existing WWE superstar costumes for the first time!) that I feel safe recommending it to anyone who may have strayed from the franchise due to fatigue before.