I essentially have a month before the spring deluge arrives. It's going to
be the busiest year in gaming history, in my opinion. The winter has proven
itself packed with games to play. Spring has Mario Kart and Grand Theft Auto and
Persona 3: Fes in the same freaking week. Not to mention that Phantasy Star
Universe sees Maximum Attack G arrive that very week. An event we've been
waiting months for and will require some serious time put forth.June will see
Ninja Gaiden 2, LEGO Indiana Jones, Metal Gear Solid 4, and Battlefield: Bad
Company. When has June ever had so many must play games in it? I mean really,
freaking June? Even summer seems to be filling up. And this holiday season
already looks insane and a lot of titles haven't even been announced yet. Like
all of Nintendo's second half of the year offerings. So I guess I better get
cracking and knock out some games in this month before it starts pouring. The
question becomes what to start next of course. Between all the consoles and
portables and their respective virtual offerings I'm sitting on some thirty plus
games to play.
To touch on another recent topic. My online situation seems to have resolved itself as far as the Wii is concerned. Nintendo had an online form to fill out and they wanted to know your personal information as well as your Smash Bros. Brawl error code along with your modem, router, and Internet service provider information. I filled it out. To my surprise I received a call from one of Nintendo's 'advanced techs' and we set about trying to resolve my issue. She essentially ran me through everything I'd already done, port forwarding, assigning the Wii a static IP address with the router, placing the Wii within the router's DMZ, the whole nine yards. She came to the conclusion my router wasn't the issue. She had me attempt to connect the Wii directly to the modem. No luck there. She had me adjusting every setting just about everywhere over a couple of hours. We essentially ran through everything she could think of before she came to the conclusion that there was nothing Nintendo could do and I was essentially fucked out of online on the Wii for the generation. During this time I had forgotten to write down what my initial router settings were before she had me flipping switches willy-nilly. Needless to say I found myself off the phone with Nintendo and having no Internet connection at all. Having power cycled everything and having messed with all the switches I could think of trying to restore a connection, I came to the conclusion I'd have to use the router's 'restore factory defaults' option and I'd just have to install it again and I'd be good as new. No such luck. Seems all that messing around fried my router outright. So now I'm at the store to get another one and sorely pissed off and the like, I decide on going wireless. So $69 later for a PCI card for the PC that will accept a wireless signal, and $89 later for the latest in wireless routers, and $99 later for the Xbox 360's wireless adapter I'm at home with a few hours of headache inducing set up left to take care of. I open up the PC and insert and install the card. Install the router. Get my PC up and running and all secured away. Move on to the Xbox 360. Couple minutes of failing the connection tests and figuring it all out. Got it. Port forwarding and everything set. Nat type open. Good to go. The X360 experience makes the PS3 experience a breeze. The PlayStation 3 is up and running in seconds with a NAT type of two. Which is open, for the PlayStation 2. On to the Wii. The fucking thing can't find a connection to the Internet. But the thing is the champion of wireless technology and all that. Nope. No good. Nintendo couldn't annoy me more at this moment. Even if Reggie Fils-Aime himself came over and took a giant shit in my mailbox I couldn't possibly be more annoyed with Nintendo as I am at this moment. The wireless router has four ports for wired connections. I connect the Wii to the wired port and use the old connection settings from my previous router and it finds an Internet connection. No problem. I'll at least be able to connect to the Wii Shop Channel and buy the Virtual Console titles I want. It's not a total loss. Just because I'm a masochist or something I sign on to Brawl and test the friends connection with Riddel. What the hell do you know? It works. I can now seemingly connect to the people on my friends list at will. I'm not going to tempt fate. I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. It gives me a headache all over again just thinking about it days later. As it stands now, everything is a go. Knock on wood...
To touch on another recent topic. My online situation seems to have resolved itself as far as the Wii is concerned. Nintendo had an online form to fill out and they wanted to know your personal information as well as your Smash Bros. Brawl error code along with your modem, router, and Internet service provider information. I filled it out. To my surprise I received a call from one of Nintendo's 'advanced techs' and we set about trying to resolve my issue. She essentially ran me through everything I'd already done, port forwarding, assigning the Wii a static IP address with the router, placing the Wii within the router's DMZ, the whole nine yards. She came to the conclusion my router wasn't the issue. She had me attempt to connect the Wii directly to the modem. No luck there. She had me adjusting every setting just about everywhere over a couple of hours. We essentially ran through everything she could think of before she came to the conclusion that there was nothing Nintendo could do and I was essentially fucked out of online on the Wii for the generation. During this time I had forgotten to write down what my initial router settings were before she had me flipping switches willy-nilly. Needless to say I found myself off the phone with Nintendo and having no Internet connection at all. Having power cycled everything and having messed with all the switches I could think of trying to restore a connection, I came to the conclusion I'd have to use the router's 'restore factory defaults' option and I'd just have to install it again and I'd be good as new. No such luck. Seems all that messing around fried my router outright. So now I'm at the store to get another one and sorely pissed off and the like, I decide on going wireless. So $69 later for a PCI card for the PC that will accept a wireless signal, and $89 later for the latest in wireless routers, and $99 later for the Xbox 360's wireless adapter I'm at home with a few hours of headache inducing set up left to take care of. I open up the PC and insert and install the card. Install the router. Get my PC up and running and all secured away. Move on to the Xbox 360. Couple minutes of failing the connection tests and figuring it all out. Got it. Port forwarding and everything set. Nat type open. Good to go. The X360 experience makes the PS3 experience a breeze. The PlayStation 3 is up and running in seconds with a NAT type of two. Which is open, for the PlayStation 2. On to the Wii. The fucking thing can't find a connection to the Internet. But the thing is the champion of wireless technology and all that. Nope. No good. Nintendo couldn't annoy me more at this moment. Even if Reggie Fils-Aime himself came over and took a giant shit in my mailbox I couldn't possibly be more annoyed with Nintendo as I am at this moment. The wireless router has four ports for wired connections. I connect the Wii to the wired port and use the old connection settings from my previous router and it finds an Internet connection. No problem. I'll at least be able to connect to the Wii Shop Channel and buy the Virtual Console titles I want. It's not a total loss. Just because I'm a masochist or something I sign on to Brawl and test the friends connection with Riddel. What the hell do you know? It works. I can now seemingly connect to the people on my friends list at will. I'm not going to tempt fate. I'm going to enjoy it while it lasts. It gives me a headache all over again just thinking about it days later. As it stands now, everything is a go. Knock on wood...
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