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Sunday, December 14, 2008

Gamecube Cheat Codes - Animal Crossing


Constant New Year's
To get easy money, all you have to do is set the GameCube's internal clock to New Year's Day. Every New Year, your parents will send you a gift of 10,000 bells. Set the clock to a different year (after saving, of course) and you will get another bag with 10,000 bells.
Bee Courageous
You've done it before -- you've shaken a couple of trees to find some cash, and out comes a whole swarm of bees and does a "remodeling" job on your face... Painful. But did you know that you can actually catch the bees and make some money? It's a bit tricky as the bees move fast, but after you've shaken a tree and a bee's hive has fallen out, immediately switch to the butterfly net and turn towards the hive. Time it right and hit the button and you will catch a single bee, worth 4,500 bucks. Not bad, huh? There are three swarms of bees hidden on the map every day, so you can make some big bucks if you go bee hunting.
Feng-Shui Mysteries
Are you familiar with the ancient art of Feng-Shui? Who would have guessed that it even applies to Nintendo's Animal Crossing? It's all about how you arrange your furniture in your house.
Orange colored furniture in the North
Yellow furniture in the West
Red furniture in the East
Green furniture in the South
What does this do? It increases your chances with getting lots of cash and items -- so try to use Feng-Shui whenever possible.
Get Rich Quick with your GBA
If you've got a GBA and the GameCube Link Cable, you can access an island to the south of Animal Crossing that lets you make money much more quickly. Collect as many pieces of fruit as you can carry, hook up your GBA, turn it on, and then go to the pier at the beach (all the way in the south). A lad named Kapp'n will be waiting here in his boat (he only shows up if your GBA is switched on) and take you to the island. Once you're on the island, drop all the fruit you have collected and go back to the boat. Tell Kapp'n that you want to leave and that you want to transfer the island to your GBA. Your GBA will turn on and you will have see your island, complete with all the fruit you have dropped. Move your hand to the door of your island animal's house and knock. Your animal will come out. Now grab a piece of fruit and put it right in front of your animal. It will eat the fruit and turn happy. After a few pieces of fruit your animal will drop a money bag of random size for each fruit you feed to your little virtual pet. Repeat this process until all pieces of fruit are gone (you can also direct your pet to shake trees to get more fruit), then put your GBA to sleep. Do NOT switch it off.
Go back to the GameCube game. Once back in your town, leave the screen with the boat and come back. Talk to the Kapp'n again and the GCN game will be updated with the new data from the GBA island. Travel back to the island and collect all the money bags. Some bags contain as much as 30,000 coins! You should be able to pay off your house in no time now.
Grow a Money Tree
Did you know that besides growing fruit trees, you can also grow money trees? Yep, no joke. However, you can't just grow them anywhere. Find a sparkly glowing spot on the ground (the type that hints at a hidden treasure) and use the shovel to unearth the money bag. Instead of just pocketing the money and closing the hole, stand in front of it, go into your inventory and select the money bag. Now choose the "plant item in ground" option that you also use to sow seeds or fruit and put the bag back into the sparkly spot in the ground. A seedling will sprout, which will grow into a money-bearing tree. Nice, huh?
Note that planting a money bag just anywhere will not produce a money tree. It has to be planted in the sparkly special spot.
Reset Follies
Don't ever hit the reset switch when playing this game. If you do, the next time you play you will be chastized by Mr. Resetti, an angry mole. He will lecture you on how there is no reset button in real life -- so you shouldn't use it in this game either. Mr. Reset's rant takes quite a while to get through, but that's nothing compared to what happens when you hit reset again... His complaints will get longer and longer and he will even force you to apologize (which requires you to manually enter your apology via the on-screen keyboard). Not fun. So stay away from the reset switch unless you want a good laugh.
Win NES Games
Animal Crossing features an even bigger variety of NES games than its N64 counterpart. You have to be lucky to get your hands on them though. There are several ways to get new games:

Be the first. The first player to start a character on the included Animal Crossing Memory Card will receive a letter from Nintendo after all initial chores are done. The letter includes a grab bag with three items, two of which are NES games. To move a present attached to a letter to your inventory, align your cursor on top of the letter, then press L to grab it. Drag it to the inventory, then click on it with A and select "Open Present". To open the grab bag that's inside, simply select it with A when you're OUTSIDE a building. Do not try to open bags inside your house. It won't work.
Enter the monthly lottery at the Tanuki Store on the last day of the month. You get a lottery ticket for every major purchase you make at the store (stationary and plants don't count). Every five tickets let you play in the lottery once, so be sure to collect a bunch of them. Note that lottery tickets don't carry over to the next month. They're only good for the current month. Prizes in the lottery vary from month to month, so don't give up if you don't find any NES games the first time you enter the lottery.
Check your mailbox on Christmas Eve. Every player gets an NES game as a Christmas present.
Get a game for your birthday. Don't only ask animals if you can run chores for them -- use the second "conversation" option as well. At one point, one of your animals will ask you for your birthday and blood type. This animal will drop by your house on your birthday and personally deliver a new NES game.
Have your Animal Island villager dig. Leave him your shovel, then bribe him with fruit later if he finds a game.
There are other ways to get your hands on emulated classics, so keep your eyes and ears open.
Golden Axe
Check the Wishing Well every day for 15 days and get a consistently great rating. To do this, you'll have to have the right mix of trees in each acre, pull out weeds, avoid littering, and have plenty of flowers. If you pull this off, visit the Wishing Well to meet the lucky spirit Farley, who will hand over the Golden Axe that never breaks.
Golden Fishing Rod
To get an item that will make fishing so much easier, catch all 40 types of fish. Not only will you get a cool Weathervane trophy on top of your house, the mayor will give you the Golden Fishing Rod to match your shovel.
Golden Net
Catch all 40 types of insects to get your hands on the Golden Net, a better version of the regular net that'll help you catch more insects easier. You will also get a Butterfly sign on your house that shows off your bug catching skills.
Golden Shovel
You can produce a Golden Shovel the same way you plant a money tree. Buy an extra shovel, find a sparkle spot, dig out the money bag, stand right in front of it and select the shovel. Pick "bury" and the shovel will be planted in the ground and a sapling will pop up. If the spot is good, a golden tree will grow that will produce a Golden Shovel instead of fruit. The Golden Shovel will unearth money bags at random when you dig in the ground.
Magic Rock
Every day, one rock in your village will turn into a treasure rock. Walk up to a rock and hit it with your shovel. If it turns red, quickly hit it again -- up to seven times if you're fast enough. Each time, a money bag will come flying out. The first few bags will be 100 Bell bags, but soon you'll hear the Mario extra life chime -- which means these bags contain 1,000 Bell. After the rock changes color again, it goes back to being a regular rock.
Secret K.K. Slider Songs
There are three secret songs in Animal Crossing that Totakeke won't play unless you request them. They are:
I Love You
K.K. Song
Two Days Ago
Easy Money
Dig up the stars with your shovel and send them to the far away museum, when you get a response back, get your fossil and sell it to Mr.Nook for big bucks!
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Dickens and Shakespeare books on Nintendo DS console...


Nintendo, the Japanese video games has announced a deal with the publisher HarperCollins to make the classics available to read on its DS games consoles.

The unlikely partnership means that the names of computer game characters such as Donkey Kong and Mario will sit alongside the likes of Jane Austen and the Brontë sisters on the hand-held gadgets.

The 100 Classic Book Collection will cost about £20 and will be available initially only in Britain. However, if the collaboration is a success, Nintendo may expand the range of books available.

The device will allow readers to turn virtual pages of some of the world's most revered novels and plays by brushing a finger across the screen.

It is hoped that the venture will also encourage readers to explore more of the classics by making them more accessible to people who would not otherwise buy them.

Read the full post here on the telegraph website here...

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Free Command and Conquer Red Alert 3 poster to download



Download your Free Command and Conquer Red Alert 2 Poster - Click here...





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Metal box Nintendo Game Boy video games





Great Nintendo GameBoy games in metal boxes - only available in Japan or eBay...



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Ship Simulator 2008 HD Horizons trailer


Ship Simulator 2008 New Horizons trailer from Pjotr van Schothorst on Vimeo.

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Billboard top 25 video game songs ever - with video links...

rage against the machine
01. Rage Against the Machine
Bulls on Paradise (Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock) YouTube link
02. Guns n' Roses
Welcome to the Jungle (Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock) YouTube link
03. Motorhead
Ace of Spades (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2 and 3) YouTube link
04. Back Sabbath
Iron Man (Guitar Hero) YouTube link
05. Beastie Boys
Sabotage (Guitar Hero III: Rock Band) YouTube link
06. James Brown
The Big Payback (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) YouTube link
07. Chemical Brothers
Chemical Beats (Wipeout) YouTube link
08. Frank Sinatra
That's Life (Tony Hawk's Underground 2) YouTube link
09. Metallica
One (Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock) YouTube link
10. Buckethead
Jordan (Guitar Hero II) YouTube link
11. Nine Inch Nails
Quake Soundtrack (Quake) YouTube link
12. Night Ranger
Sister Christian (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City) YouTube link
13. Run-D.M.C.
My Adidas (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 4) YouTube link
14. Miles Davis
Move (Grand Theft Auto IV) YouTube link
15. Michael Jackson
Billie Jean (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City) YouTube link
16. Public Enemy with Anthrax
Bring the Noise (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 2) YouTube link
17. Dead Boys
Sonic Reducer (Tony Hawk's Underground 2) YouTube link
18. David Lee Roth
Yankee Rose (Grand Theft Auto: Vice City) YouTube link
19. Sex Pistols
Anarchy in the UK (Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock) YouTube link
20. Johnny Cash
Rig of Fire (Tony Hawk's Underground 2) YouTube link
21. The Ramones
Blitzkrieg Bop (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3) YouTube link
22. Living Colour
Cult of Personality (Guitar Hero III: Legends of Rock) YouTube link
23. Ozomatli
Cut Chemist Suite (Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3) YouTube link
24. Slick Rick
Children's Story (Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) YouTube link
25. Guns n' Roses
Shackler's Revenge (Rock Band 2) YouTube link

Source: Billboard


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Mario level with gameplay to match the music - amazing...

mario game music
Designers have made a unique Mario level adding a new song. The cool thing is, everything that Mario does in the game, matches with the beat of the music playing

Watch the video on YouTube here...



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Star Wars - The Old Republic MMO game video

Star Wars - The Old RepublicBioWare and LucasArts share the vision for Star Wars - The Old Republic in our first video documentary, complete with new concepts,new screenshots,and real-time pre-production gameplay video.

Hear about the approach to storytelling straight from The Old Republic’s Creative Director and Lead Designer James Ohlen and Principal Lead Writer Daniel Erickson, and watch Art Director Jeff Dobson discuss the aesthetic appeal of stylized realism.

Star Wars - The Old RepublicWatch the latest video documentary and experience the “look and feel” of Star Wars - The Old Republic now!

Star Wars - The Old Republic
Watch the HD Star Wars The Old Republic video game here...

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All I want for Christmas is an Xbox 360...

xbox 360 logoVideogame consoles are the No 1 present teenagers want this Christmas according to research.
A poll conducted amongst residents of teenage virtual world favourite Habbo has shown that games consoles are the most sought after present for teens this Christmas – and the Xbox 360 leads the pack.
The most 'wanted' was Microsoft's Xbox 360 (39%), second was Nintendo's Wii (19%) and third Sony's PlayStation 3 (15%)- PSP and DS hand helds were well down the list.

If they can't get a console many would be happy with an Apple iPhone instead...

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Ubisoft could loss millions with companys going bust


Woolworth are the third, large retailer, to go bust which could cost Ubisoft 1.5 million euros in unpaid bills.

Ubisoft recently suffered as a German and French default cost them about 300,000 euros.

Just days before the Woolworths collapse the company had paid Ubisoft 5.7 million euros.

Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo are also likely to suffer with this collapse.

On Friday another giant UK retailer 'Zavvi' went bust but it is believed that the Virgin group had guaranteed all debts on Zavvi - this guarantee was due to expire in the next few days... Zavvi are understood to own Woolworths £106 million.

HMV posted a loss of over £19 million for the last six months despite sales rising over 3%.
The company has moving into the second hand games market in the UK and Ireland.

It remains to be declared what exposure EA has to these events.



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Video game food from Japan...


Click here to visit Kontraband website with images of amazing video game and movie food creations...



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MouseHunt on Facebook sign up or watch the movie

mouse hunt facebook

MouseHunt is a Facebook game of epic proportions.

Here's a link to more information and download...

mousehunt facebook

You are a hunter, hired by the king to find and trap the mice that infest his kingdom.

For each mouse you catch, you'll find a unique reward, bringing you closer to being the best MouseHunter in the land!

Watch the teaser video here....


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