Don’t update your DSi if you plan to continue using your flash cart, be it for homebrew or other reasons.

Nintendo’s DSi update 1.4.1U has reportedly blocked the use of many flash carts available on the market. Among those named are:

• Acekard 2i
• DSTTi
• iPlayer
• M3i Zero
• Supercard DSTwo

Of course, since the update is entirely optional, the threat this poses to your Colors! sessions is very small. Another option would be to just wait for the cart manufacturers to release a new firmware update to counter 1.4.1U.

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Yet another Nintendo series receives a perfect 40 out of 40 in Famitsu. Pokémon Black and White apparently did enough to blow away the reviewers at one of Japan’s top gaming magazines. The attempt to reboot the series and lock out all old pokémon until after the game has been beaten was among the many positive things the reviewers had to say. They were also smitten with the game’s new PC and Wi-Fi functions.

But really, is this top honor actually as prestigious as it once was? I remember back when Famitsu was notoriously stingy with their scores. In fact, after Vagrant Story for the PSX, their next perfect score was awarded almost three years later!

This is the ninth 40 out of 40 given out in the past three years; the fifth in the past two years! I really have to wonder: Are games getting better, or has Famitsu been letting its coffers do the reviewing?

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Everyone’s favorite cravat-wearing, maroon-clad prosecutor is back! The latest issue of Famitsu revealed a sequel to Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth.

Little can be gathered from the current scan (seriously, did someone smother their lens in Vaseline or something?), but Siliconera managed to make out a gameplay-related tidbit. Apparently, “chess” is a keyword.

The wait for more info on the game won’t be long, however. It’s been confirmed that Capcom will have a playable demo at Tokyo Game Show, which kicks off next week.

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No real rhyme or reason for this one. I just think it’s a spiffy version of Terra’s Theme.

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If you’re on Facebook, Hudson is teaming up with Child’s Play, the charity founded by the creators of Penny Arcade, to raise money for children in hospitals across the country.

All you have to do is “Like” the facebook page for Hudson’s upcoming Wii game Lost in Shadow. That’s it! Hudson will donate 10 cents for every Like, but if you also change your profile picture to a shadow (any shadow will do), they will bump up the donation amount to one dollar!

You don’t have much time, though. All Likes and pictures will be counted at 4 p.m. PST today.

Lost in Shadow – Facebook

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I don’t know how people find these things, but someone managed to get a screengrab of a listing for Super Mario Collection on Amazon.co.jp before it was taken down a few hours later. This is a pretty good indication that the collection is real. You know, in case the announcement last week wasn’t enough.

According to the description of the game, Super Mario Collection is basically a Wii port of Super Mario All-Stars — all three original Super Mario Bros. games plus The Lost Levels (a.k.a. Super Mario Bros. 2 Japan) remade with 16-bit graphics — but with a soundtrack CD featuring music from the original Super Mario Bros. all the way up to Mario Galaxy 2 and a 25-page collector’s book with development notes and pictures and a history of Mario.

Not a bad package for ¥2,500 ($29 USD).

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Maybe you can spend your phony baloney holiday by killing some Space Pirates or something.

I don’t really care about the new Spider-Man game coming out; I just enjoy any opportunity to whip out the old cartoon intro.

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PAX attendees were treated to a new trailer for Epic Mickey on the Wii, Deus Ex producer/director Warren Spector’s take on Mickey Mouse’s past.

The trailer takes place shortly after the events in the Gamescom trailer shown last month. Not only do we get (re)introduced to a couple of Mickey’s earliest foes, The Mad Doctor and The Phantom Blot, we also get to see Mickey’s long lost half-brother Oswald the Lucky Rabbit.

I’m not the biggest fan of Disney’s work before Pixar came into the picture, but I do appreciate the work and careful attention to detail Junction Point is putting into Epic Mickey. The amount of references to Mickey’s early days on the big screen and days in comic strips is just staggering. I honestly can’t wait to see what other long-forgotten characters Spector will pull out of the Disney vault.

Epic Mickey will be out in time for the holidays this year.

The Nintendo-published WiiWare game Fluidity was announced last month, but press materials would not be available until today. Nintendo took the opportunity to debut the game at PAX today. The physics-based puzzle game challenges players to make use of all three states of water — liquid, cloud, and ice — in order to navigate tricky environments and complete tasks.

Extra game info pasted after the break.

Source, 2, [Nintendo Press Site]

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