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"Freeloader - Is It Worth It ?"

I've been thinking about grabbing freeloader lately, but I'm not sure of any title right now that makes it a must have purchase.
Obviously Zelda is gonna be the nuts, but I want to wait till the official release of that game as I still have plenty of other games to play through so I don't need that game early.

No doubt some will quickly throw in the name Animal Crossing, but I'd like to know more about this game. I know the basics of it, but I want to know more about it that makes it so fun and stuff.
Don't take me as someone whose only out for the likes of realistic games and stuff cause I'm far from that - I really enjoy the quirky games that have fun stuff that totally detracts from the main game I'm just reading about Zelda and I'm already looking forward to playing hide and seek, finding pigs and exploring the sea in my boat for hidden treasure. :-)

Animal Crossing looks like it has plenty of this kind of stuff but it would be nice to know more about it and some of the experiences some of you have had with it cause I know a couple of you own this game.
Other games like Rogue Squadron 3 also make freeloader an interesting idea but these are a way off yet so as far as the near future goes, its games such as Animal Crossing that seem to be a way off a release over here or not at all in some cases that are going to be putting the arguement in favour of freeloader right now.

So if you have the time to do some typing and fancy sharing your Animal Crossing experiences, or any other import game in fact, then it'll be much appreciated. :-)
No spoiling Zelda for me though ! ;-)

Do you have a link to the actual product?
I can't find anything proper on there like what I need.
Cheers.

link for NTSC to PAL convertor

http://www.kanection.co.uk/

Yep.


I really want to know how to get Mario and Zelda legitimately...

So you get the old NES games Mario and Zelda ? Are they the full games ? :-)

gamezfreak wrote:
> FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> I'll also need a NTSC-PAL adapter for my telly to get the games in
> colour. Which is an extra £35.
>
> Tell me Mr FFF what is one of these? Explain. Or give me some sort of
> internet link.
>
> Cheers.

I bought one last week off ebay for fifteen quid, you can get them for a tenner from a UK company, I have the link at work, will post it here tomorrow.

You get Freeloader free with your Action Replay (which I picked up for just £18).

I you want to know about Animal Crossing:


It's an N64 game that's been touched up for the Gamecube.
The basic graphics make it sort of cute but you'll find other limitations later on which aren't so ignorable.

I'll start with the good:

It's original. You basically move into a village with some animals. The aim of the game is to live a "life" (buying a house, furnishing it, making friends with the animals, getting money, collecting items... etc).
There's quite a fair bit to do.

The REALLY clever part is how it's run by the internal clock.
It's done in real time and the world inside changes accordingly.
Some animals will be in bed at night, certain things happen at certain times of day, events range from daily, weekly, annually and some are random.

You'll be amazed and hooked for the first week atleast.


After that it starts to tire.
The main problem is that it was designed for the N64 and the seriously basic AI reflects this. Animals are pretty repetitive, relations are very basic, there's a few interesting surprises but it soon gets all very repetitive.

They can't understand the letters you write them unless you write a certain script a certain way...

I was completely bored and fed up after about 3 and half weeks (which probably isn't too bad as games go) and only come back to it here and there now.
But it was probably worth it just for the first week of play.


Also, there's a several Nes games you can pick up.
You get Mario and Zelda with you use an Action Replay.


AC might be worth getting, but even if you decide against it, it's still probably worth getting the Action Replay/Freeloader anyway.

No worries

Lend us £100 quid, someone?
Well, I say 'lend' ......

Thanks mate! I'll look into it.

Cheers .

:D

http://www.lik-sang.com/ info.php?category=0&products_id=1686&

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Basically American (NTSC) tellies and games run at 60Mhz and PAL (us) ones run at 50Mhz. So you need a converter to change the thingy down from one to another.
Although, you may not - as a lot of newer PAl tellies come with a 60Mhz mode in them - so you can play imports no problems.

But they tell I', hooked up to is pretty old, and when I try to run something in 60Mgz, it comes out in Black and White. With the converter, it'll be in colour.

However, if you're telly's quite old you'll need to find our whether it can support a 60 signal at all. I used Ico, for example, which has a 60Mgz option in it already. Although I'm not sure how you'd test it without a game with an 60 option in it.

Anywho, if the 60 picture is in colour - then you won't need an adapter.
If it's in B&W and a stable picture, you will.
If it's in B&W but the picture is horrible, nothing will work and you're stumped.

Phew.
Complicated business, this.

FinalFantasyFanatic wrote:
> I'll also need a NTSC-PAL adapter for my telly to get the games in
> colour. Which is an extra £35.

Tell me Mr FFF what is one of these? Explain. Or give me some sort of internet link.

Cheers.