Fujifilm Corp. and Nintendo Co. Ltd have collaborated to launch a new photo printing service exclusively for the Nintendo Wii gamers. The  "Wii Digicam Print Channel" is available only to Japanese Wii users and lets them upload images from SD cards to receive customized photo products like prints, business cards and photo books.

The Price List is:


* Photo print - L / 3R sized (127 x 89mm / 5" x 3.5", ¥30 including tax
* Business card - Standard Japanese business card (91 x 55mm / 3.6" x 2.2", ¥500 including tax for a set of 30 cards
* Photo book -
o A4, 6-page ring bound (297 x 210mm / 11.7" x 8.3", ¥2,480 including tax
o Square, 20-page ring bound (152 x 152mm / 6" x 6", ¥1,575 including tax

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WiiBrew is proud to present the Wii Pack Generator! For those of you who aren't familiar with the concept of a Pack Generator, I'll give you a quick rundown. The Wii Pack Generator is a web based utility that allows you to select from the most recent, up to date, and high quality homebrew for your Nintendo Wii and create a custom pack. All of the homebrew you select will be added into a .zip or .exe file with the correct structure for easy, ready to go extraction onto your SD card.

Get homebrew on your Wii, the easy way! Just select what you want, download, extract to the root of your SD card, and run using the Homebrew Channel! Don't have the Homebrew channel, but have Twilight Princess? Have no fear, we've got you covered. Just download the necessary files at the top of the homebrew list, run the Twilight Hack (we've got a video tutorial if you don't know how), and the Homebrew Channel will be installed automatically for you. Ready to start downloading? Then simply click the Wii Pack Generator banner or follow the link below. Special thanks goes out to BrentBizzle for his hard work with updating and filling the Pack Generator to make all of this possible!  If you like our Pack Generator or need help, be sure to join our forums and let us know!  We always appreciate getting new members in the Brewology community!

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Amusing remake of retro gaming such as Donkey Kong, Yoshi Island, Advance Wars, Street Fighter and many others on real backgrounds by RETROnoob at Deviant Art. Above shows Street Fighter Ken vs E. Honda in a dojo. Creative set of artwork to remind you of the old games that you have played in the old days.

More of the retro sprites on real backgrounds with 12 more pics after the jump.

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Nintendo may not want to license a Lightsaber peripheral for the Wii remote.. but apparently this was OK. A 3-pack of Lightsaber styluses(styli?), and they're officially licensed by both Star Wars and Nintendo! Go figure...

Also available is a 2 piece set of larger light-up styli. Though here you just get Darth Vader's and Luke's sabers.

According to Amazon.com, both of these items are releasing July 31st, 2008. The 3-pack will retail for $7.99, and the 2-pack light-up sabers will cost you $16.99. They don't seem practical for gaming; but I guess it'd be need to play mini-Jedi vs mini-Sith battles... without the use of action figures or LEGOs......

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While spelunking in the basement at the ThinkGeek headquarters we met a fairy girl handing out bright blue Ocarinas. She mumbled some warning about the end of the world, deku nuts and the tri-force but we were all too busy to notice. Later some employees found that during long afternoon meetings they could summon a galloping horse just by playing the correct melody on their ocarina. But then Ganon burst in and the jig was up... fortunately for you we stashed away a few of these completely playable Ocarina flutes to spend your hard earned rupees o

Product Features

• Real playable Ocarina lets you re-create your favorite Zelda tunes
• Made from glazed earthenware
• 6 Holes, Plays notes from C4-D5
• Includes song book with instructions on playing several Zelda tunes
• Tri-Force Logo adorns the stem
• Made in the USA

Hook up your new belt buckle to any TV and instantly begin playing the classics. Despite it's sleek design, the Nintendo Entertainment System belt buckle actually plays old school NES games.

Sprouting up in many recent fashion shows in France, the NESystem Buckle is sure to take the world by storm. Included are two controllers, a power adapter, A/V cables, Super Mario Bros and those disguise glasses with the nose so noone knows who you are. We do not recommend wearing this buckle while driving, sitting or talking to girl

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Sometimes, it really sucks to be the little guy (especially if the big guy you're up against is Nintendo). Take Forbis Technologies, for example, who came out with the Weemote (and trademarked the name in 2000) long before the Wii even launched.

Nintendo never officially refers to the Wii's controller as a Wiimote, and always calls it by the full name Wii Remote. Retailer and blog outlets such as ourselves are the cause of the problem, however, as we constantly use the unofficial nickname. Ever since the term "Wiimote" caught on, though, the Weemote's sales have "fallen considerably."

Game Politics recently talked to John Stephen, who owns the firm that manufactures the Weemote. Not only has the term Wiimote managed to cut into Weemote sales, but also, the company has been forced to spend a lot of money and resources protecting its trademark. The firm recently sent out over 100 cease-and-desist letters to retailers and resellers, asking them not to use the term "Wiimote" anymore (here's an example). If the firm doesn't take such actions, they'll lose the trademark by default. In either case, they lose something, making it a lose-lose situation of sorts for Forbis.

Ideally at this point, Nintendo would just buy the trademark from Forbis and the small firm would rebrand the company. Of course, Nintendo refused such an offer -- as Stephen explains, "The reality is we have no leverage and they are already getting a free ride. So I guess their position is why pay for something that is already free!"

Stephen knows that Nintendo's success from the word "Wiimote" has been mostly unintentional, but wishes the mega-company would do the right thing and purchase the trademark, even though they're not under legal obligation to do so. In the real world, though, the chances of that happening are slim to none.

Who knows, maybe the Big N will go and surprise us. But until then, our heart is breaking for the little guy.

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Deep within the tony district of Kichijoli in Tokyo, there is an annual exhibition on display that makes NES fans hearts go a flutter. The Famicase Exhibition is a collection of NES cartridges with designs for games that never really existed. Instead they are the cartridges of fictional games inspired by fans love for NES  other and existing games. For geeks like us, this exhibition is the kind of art we can truely wrap our heads around, it’s just a shame that the exhibition hasn’t been brought state-side.

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Is there a single gaming-related object, we wonder, that has not yet had the innards of a NES squashed into it? As it happens, yes. Of all the stuff-a-NES-in-something mod variants that we've encountered, we can't recall a light gun being used to encase Nintendo's ancient console.

Inspired by Duck Hunt, BenHeck.com forum member GonzoMPM-1 has corrected this oversight, fitting all of the necessary buttons, wiring and an NOAC board containing 76 on-board NES games into the above light gun peripheral (perhaps the NES Zapper lacked the space for this?). Hook this bad boy up to an old-fashioned CRT screen, chuck in three AAA batteries, and you're ready to go. It's rather bizarre (and not a little pointless), but for some reason we really want to try this.

via nintendowiifanboy