Cave Story Coming to Wii
Posted by BMcC Sat, 04 Oct 2008 00:02:00 GMT
So, er, you guys like Cave Story, right? (Kidding, kidding—of course you do!) Well, Nintendo recently announced, in a very official-looking press release, that it’s coming to WiiWare “this holiday season.” And for real this time! Not only that, but with “exclusive content and features created only for the WiiWare version.” Yay, go Pixel!
Tim linked to a presumably accurate fact sheet for the Wii version: 16:9 widescreen, progressive scan. New character designs by Daisuke Amaya (Pixel). Classic controller support. Ten unique weapons, over twenty boss battles. (Wait, Indie Cred be damned, how many were in the original?) Developed by Nicalis.
Some questions: Will the Wii version use the much-loved Aeon Genesis translation? What does Pixel get out of this? Is this actually happening? Do I wake up now? (Shih Tzu, do you have any more information?)
Huzzah!
UPDATE: Word is AG’s translation is being used. (Thanks Zaratus!)
Also, IGN UK has posted some off-screen videos of the game in motion. Is that a new Quote sprite I see? (Thanks reetva!)
The Commonplace Book Compo is over! Voting will begin shortly!
Gideon over at Aeon Genesis has said “Can’t comment on this yet. Soon.” over at AG’s forums:
http://agtp.romhack.net/pantheon/index.php?topic=218.msg6470#new
But based on the press screens, the words, fonts, etc. are the same as the PC version.
Either way, I’m thrilled.
Of course this would happen after I sold my Wii of course. Seriously though I really hope that Pixel is getting more then a puny stipend for this. However, that being said I would love to see Cave Story get a little bit more exposure.
Underside rip-off!
He was probably too shy to ask for anything.
(Or keeping it real or whatever.)
It looks like it’ll be using the AGTP translation.
Gideon Zhi posted on the site: “Can’t comment on this yet. Soon.”
There are videos of it here: http://media.wii.ign.com/media/142/14287155/vids_1.html
I really hope the music is temporary.
Whoa! I was actually thinking about a ‘commercial’ release of Cave Story the other day. Anyway, if I was Pixel, I’d just be happy that my game was well received and garnered so much attention.
Sorry TIG, you’re 2 days late.
Glad to see Pixel didn’t get Cave Story snaked from him, I was vaguely suspicions ever since he apparently asked someone to cease their port to Wii homebrew.
Wonder what extra content he has in store, I’m glad I can put down some money for Cave Story and it’ll get some mainstream recognition
@soupy Sorry? For what? This isn’t a news agency.
well it ought to be :V
“I was vaguely suspicions ever since he apparently asked someone to cease their port to Wii homebrew.”
That’s annoying. Why didn’t Pixel just release his stuff under the GPL? He’s afraid that… something will happen? I don’t get it.
Wait, that’s the same number of weapons as the original!
@Cobalt : Why would he have released Cave Story under GPL? That would’ve been a crazy move, Nintendo wouldn’t have licensed it.
Or at least, I never saw any GPL’d game coming out on the Wii. Maybe I missed it, is there any?
I read about this on PIGscene some DAYS ago.
Oh.. PIGscene rip-off!!
I think Pixel doesn’t even exist, it was just a Nintendo conspiracy to make us believe there’s a man so awesome to make a game like Cave Story by himself and then have it published on a Nintendo console.
Think about it, it’s a pretty clever scam. 2 years from now you will see Cave Story 3 on DSi2, Cave Story Olympics, Cave Story Melee Battle, and so on. MARK MY WORDS.
Best thing I’ve heard all year. :D
I count 18 bosses from memory. More if you include a few boss’s multiple forms (was that 3 or 4 for Ballos?).
Anyway, great news! Money is good.
I hope this means Official Cave Story T-Shirts.
Money *is* good.
Wow. Even the dwarf fortress forums knew two days ago. Is it just me, or are Tigsource posts slowing down a bit?
Does this mean the [Homebrew DS Port] (http://cavestory.ravenworks.ca/) might run into legal trouble? Either way, I’m still waiting to play this (for the first time) on my DS.
Guess it takes a while to unfilter the news ;)
Well the unfiltered IS crossed out up there, Hao.
What do you think Dwarf Fortress players do when they’re not playing DF? CAVE STORY!
@Gutter : Why would it be crazy? I doubt he knew that Cave Story would be as popular as it is, or that Nintendo would do anything with it.
@ Zaratus: Ah, right on! That sounds like good news to me. Thanks. :)
@ rodnonymous: Wait, did you get that I was asking if it was or not? I think maybe no.
@ Douchebags: Shut your fat mouths before I shut them with my fists. When has this EVER been Minute-to-Minute Impersonal Newsbite Source? Never.
So sorry I was under the weather this week. And that I have to waste so much of my time actually working on games. I must be losing my edge.
Another question pops to mind: Since when have we tolerated so many drooling idiots over here? (I don’t necessarily mean you kind gents commenting on this post!) This isn’t Tim’s blog. Go away.
Call me elitist, but I don’t think Moron X’s opinion carries as much weight as anyone else’s by default. (Sorry, but I’m not afraid to call a spade a spade. And I don’t suffer spades gladly.) Consider this an ultimatum.
I’m going to go have some coffee now. :|
Everyone was at least civil until your comments, BMcC.
@ smallfry: Civil ain’t good enough! :P But whatever – I was venting, anyway. One of those mounting frustration things. More about those The Underside shenanigans, really. I don’t honestly think I’ll punch anyone over the internet anytime soon.
I feel better now.
”@ Douchebags: Shut your fat mouths before I shut them with my fists. When has this EVER been Minute-to-Minute Impersonal Newsbite Source? Never”
Uh… this is a game news site? I came here for panda news, but apparently the site is sick.
Why are you linking to Last Measure, !CE-9?
@ Shinji16: I’m glad someone understands where I’m coming from. :)
@ !CE-9: Juicy, thanks!
And yeah, what the heck?
That’s probably not !CE-9 - some idiot’s been spamming the comments with links to that site a lot lately. I think we’ll need to add a blacklist to the comments to sort it out :(
Anyway, fix’d.
oh man! If this is true, I really want to have a wii (thats the first time of my life o.O)
Haha, I was surprised when I saw “Thanks reetva!” in there. I forgot that you were in IRC when I posted the links.
There are some videos of it now at IGN that Tim posted about.
They seem to have replaced some chiptune samples with MIDI instruments, which is really strange.
Also, Quote’s sprite has been redone. He seems to have a visible scarf now.
In general the sound is dodgy and the colors are weirdly contrasted at times. I guess it is WIP.
How did I miss this article saying that there are IGN videos?
I wonder what this means for future ports of the freeware PC version. The GP2X luckily saw a magnificent port (thank you Simon Parzer!), now I wonder if the same will also happen for the new open handhelds that are coming up (Wiz and Pandora).
Either way it’s very nice to see that Pixel will enjoy a larger audience and hopefully a proper financial compensation.
there was 22 bosses in the original
25 if you count all of ballos’ forms
“A young boy is caught up in an adventure beyond imagination as the fate of both human and mimiga races hang in the balance.”
God I really hope they don’t fuck it up.
This news is indeed bittersweet, as Pixel has politely requested all people working on ports of his game to stop. This is especially sad in regards to the DS version, which was way more than just a port, but a partial re-code of the project. Ohh, well - I hope this will warrant an official DS port for which Pixel will get paid.
Hmm. I hope that they fix the sound effects, the water splashing and the triangle clinging is really high-pitched..
Also I’m hoping that he will eventually stop shutting down ports. =/ The Pandora’s coming out soon and I was looking forward to playing Cave Story on it..
Cave story, yawn
@kinten (way up there): Eh-hum. Read what it says up there. “Independent Gaming News.”
Plus, blogs are generally expected to post fresh things. There is no excuse for this being so late, just as most other posts on this site.
Yeah man, what the fuck. Unacceptable. THIS IS TWO DAYS LATE. I DEMAND MY NEWS IMMEDIATELY, AS IT IS HAPPENING.
PS: This site is about video games, you douchebag. It is not a REAL journalism site. Chill.
We really ought to invest in a time machine so we can have our news before it happens
“A young boy is caught up in an adventure beyond imagination as the fate of both human and mimiga races hang in the balance.”
Wait, that’s all true. Mimigas and humans are both under threat, and up until you meet Booster the main character may as well be a boy for all the player knows.
I have faith in this. Hooray
Aaah, those videos! I guess it’s still a work-in-progress, but aargh why did they have to replace those beautiful chiptunes with crappy MIDIs?! Aaaaa-
headsplode
So how is Nifflas involved in all this, Nicalis is his company right?
I don’t think it is. In response to a question at the nifflas forum if he was working on Cave Story Wii, Nifflas said: “I can’t explain in detail how it works, but I have helped out a little with some smaller things related to that too.” (page 19 of the Skymning thread)
http://gonintendo.com/?p=58250
“Yes, the old music and graphics will both be retained via a switch.”
It’s about time the game that everything is a rip off of got a Wii release rather than the all the games that are rip offs of it. Cave Story should be the only game on any system. Everything else is just a cheap rip off and doesn’t deserve any attention or praise or anything. Cave Story is THE video game.
It is the definition of a video game, everything else is just the definition of a Cave Story rip off.
So. They take one dude’s game. They take other dudes’ translation. What exactly are they doing by themselves? Porting can’t be that hard as the Wii should be able to handle a game like Cave Story no problem, even with some sloppy programming. They should give Pixel the larger share from the sales but that’s probably not the case. Shouldn’t the translators also get something out of it, or is their work open sourced and free for any kind of use?