We’ve all heard about this nasty CDi games. EGM seems obsessed with bringing them up in nearly every issue. Well now some kindly soul has uploaded videos of the introduction and ending cutscenes from both games. Watch if you dare…
Wand Of Gamelon Intro, Ending
Faces Of Evil Intro, Ending
I can’t wait to bomb some Dodongos!

I get frustrated sometimes deciding what to play.
Do I play Pac-Man or do I play Zelda? Puzzle or adventure? Reflex or Logic?
Now I can do both

Well first things first: Not having “Twilight Princess” done yet didn’t stop Nintendo from showing off a trailer for the new The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass on DS. This title looks like its using the Link from Wind Waker, or at least the same cel-shaded style. The video also shows off using the DS stylus to angle your boomerang’s path and even write notes on your map!

In other Zelda news, First 4 Figures has secured the rights to single statues, mixed media statues, and VS dioramas based on the games. Sounds fantastic! Their press release make mention of Young Link, Sheik, Dark Link, and Ganondorf VS Link Diorama from Ocarina of Time. Fierce Deity Link (pictured) and Skull Kid represent Majora’s Mask, and Twilight Princess versions of Link and Zelda are also planned. Great first step, now get a killer action figure line and I’ll be happy. Oh yeah, and finish TP already!
Lots of rumors swirled that Nintendo would change the name of the Revolution, but it looks like they’re sticking with the name. The “virtual console” got a big shot in the arm when Nintendo head honcho Satoru Iwata announced that not only would you be able to download NES, SNES, and N64 games, but they’re addign support for Sega Genesis and Turbo Graphix 16! Holy moly! If they come out with emulator for the Neo-Geo MVS I may never have to buy a new game again, I could spend years downloading old ones!

sources: Kotaku’s Brian Crecente liveblogs Iwata, 4CR Keynote highlights, GI.biz

If you got 2 hours to kill, why not watch a video from The “Mario & Zelda Big Band Live” concert, from September 14th, 2003, at the Nihon Seinenkan Hall in Tokyo, Japan. Koji Kondo and Shigeru Miyamoto make appearances, and theres a bit of (Japanese) talking between the songs.

thanks 4cr!

N-Philes has a great feature about game Hacks that have been found for SSBM. The most interesting is you can play with any character(The Hand and Sandbag) in the game. Over 60 boards to fight on and 6 player action. Of course you can only use 4 controllers but you can do 4 humans vs. 2 computers.

The codes(they require action replay) can be found here for version 1.0 of the game they also have 1.1 and 1.2 available.

They also have an interesting feature on Animal Crossing.