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UGVM Disc Drivin Season 4 – Results

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Long overdue then for Season 4.

There are 4 leagues (Platinum, Gold, Silver & Bronze) of 4 players each with the winning player getting promoted & the worst getting demoted to a lower league.

Points are awarded 4 points for 1st down to 1 point for last.

The 4 chosen tracks are Jump Start, Prepare to Qualify, Beachcomber & Under a Big W.

The first player in the league will start the first track Jump Start & invite player 2, 3 & 4 in order.

Then Player 2 will start the next race on Prepare to Qualify & invite player 3, 4 & then 1.

Player 3 will start Beachcomber & invite Player 4, 1 & 2 in that order.

Lastly Player 4 will start Under a Big W & invite in order Player 1, 2 & 3.

Player 1 will wait to play his turn until all 4 races have started & are awaiting his/her turn to play. This will ensure when you come to play your turn you will have all 4 races waiting for you to play.

I made a mistake on moving fluffmyster up from the Gold to Platinum League when in fact it should have been Becs, sorry 2 will go down from Platinum this season one of which will be fluffmyster & two come up from Gold one of which will be Becs

Any questions please ask me before starting your race

Platinum League
Jochta
gospvg
Lufferov
fluffmyster


Results
Jump Start (L,F,G & J)
Prepare to Qualify (L,G,J & F)
Beachcomber (J, L, G & F)

Under a Big W (G, F, L & J)

 Lufferov 13 Points
gospvg 11 Points
Jochta 8 Points
Fluffmyster 8 Points

 Luffers wins the group & Jochta/Fluffmyster get relegated

Gold League
Becs
Xexyzx
Hakk
carldjcross

Results
Jump Start
Prepare to Qualify
Beachcomber
Under a Big W

Silver League
thermalsatsuma
SomethingWitty
GusTavToo
HaggisHunter


Results
Jump Start (S, T, H & G)
Prepare to Qualify (H, G, S & T)
Beachcomber (H, G, S & T)
Under a Big W (H, T, S & G)

HaggisHunter 14 Points
SomethingWitty 10 Points
thermalsatsuma 8 Points
GusTavToo 8 Points

HaggisHunter wins the group & a relegation match will be played against Gus vs Satsuma on the Bump in the Road track with Gus to start the race & invite Satsuma.

Bronze League
actionabbas
Sessile
HarpingOn
monstermohsin

Results
Jump Start (A, M, S & H)
Prepare to Qualify (H, A, S & M)
Beachcomber (H, A, M & S)
Under a Big W (A, S, H & M)

actionabbas 14 Points
HarpingOn 11 Points
Sessile 8 Points
monstermohsin 7 Points

Abbas gets promoted to Silver
Ready, Set & Go !!!!

Nintendo Land: Donkey Kong (many) Crash(es) Course

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The last parts of the Donkey Kong game are pretty evil.  I've now got the first eight areas down pat, although I frequently lose one or two lives in area 7 (in the upper-left of the screen below - you can see the remnants of a crash there) where you have to use the left trigger to raise and lower platforms.


But then I get to area 9, in the bottom-right.


You can see I've lost a couple of lives there already.  Here you have to tap the right trigger to launch your cart up the ramps.  You need to have the gamepad tilted just right to avoid flipping over.  And you need to press the trigger very quickly, and let go very quickly, to avoid catching your character as the platform comes back down.

It took me ages, but finally ...


I then lost all six lives on the last platform before the end of area 10.  I've not beaten that yet.

Lego City Undercover – SPOILERS !!

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THIS IS GAME OF THE YEAR material so much fun diving down a mine shaft, riding a t-rex, trains, boats, skateboards, nintendo easter eggs, red brick power-ups, the humour, TRAINS (I said that already), horses, space centre, mini games and so much more.  I so can’t wait to unlock planes.

I’m on chapter 10 at the moment & loving every minute.

This game is reason why you need to buy a Wii U !!

The Homebrew Channel: ugly GUI

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For various reasons I've not felt the need to mod my Wii up to now. There would have been a few advantages - being able to play my American and Japanese GameCube games, importing US games that didn't get released here, backing up some of the saves for games that don't allow copying.  But these advantages were outweighed by the idea that it was a difficult process and would make my Wii behave oddly.

I now have a bit more impetus to do this. I don't want to replace my Wii with the Wii U completely, for various reasons - GameCube support, Lost Winds not transferring, an extra step needed to get to the Wii menu. However, there are now benefits to moving data to the Wii U, including a cheap upgrade price for the various Virtual Console games I've bought.  If Nintendo had a proper account system in place this wouldn't be an issue; I could just transfer the games I'm interested in. They don't; I have to move everything across or nothing at all.

However, by modding the Wii I am able to have the stuff I've bought in both places; back up the system before transferring, transfer, restore from backup. I can continue to use my Wii for playing Wii games, but can pay the upgrade price for Super Mario World.

It wasn't a difficult process at all. I followed the guide here, and it took twenty minutes all in, from plugging the sensor bar in (as this moves between the Wii U and the Wii) to looking through the Homebrew Browser. The Homebrew Channel has a nice channel icon and a pleasant enough background, but as soon as you start installing anything else you quickly see why companies pay people so much for graphic design. Some of this software is very ugly indeed.

So first stage complete: I have a modded Wii and have it backed up to an SD card.  All I need to do now is to transfer my data and then restore it back to the Wii as well.  And then work out how to make everything region-free.

Stuff I’ve been playing recently

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Or the “can’t be bothered with lots of posts” post. Woo!

Super Mario World (Wii U)

Bought this on the Wii U VC as an upgrade to the Wii VC version I have. It is, as it always was, fantastic. But much harder than I recall. Losing it in my old age! I have managed to clear the forest though, so I’m what, half way? A bit further than half way? Something like that.

Kirby’s Adventure (Wii U)

Oh no! 50Hz! I have no way of telling! Good job someone else pointed it out so I could be angry! That aside, Kirby’s Adventure is also still excellent fun. Yeah, it’s one of the easiest games in all creation (well, except for Where’s Waldo on the Megadrive, obviously), but that matters this much: not at all. Just about to complete Butter Building.

Crimson Shroud (3DS)

I have no idea what I’m doing. Still. At three hours in I’d have hoped I’d at least understand the game by now, but I have no idea where I’m going or what I’m supposed to be doing, so I’m aimlessly wandering round all the locations I’ve been in already in the hope I’ll stumble across the next bit I’m supposed to do. I like the game, and the combat is lovely, I’m just… lost.

Zen Pinball 2 (Wii U)

I bought some more tables as they were on offer. I’ve tried them all (some of which I already have on the 3DS or the 360), and none of them are bad. The Avengers table is probably my favourite though. The high score tables seem oddly empty amongst my friends though, even though some I’m sure have some of the tables. One guy even shows up twice on one table, with one of his scores being identical to mine – which I find highly unlikely. Server issues, maybe.