Talk:Homemade Nintendo Power magazine

Reformatting

Unless this sort of reformatting would somehow mess everything up, this article's transcript and picture gallery should probably be combined page-by-page, just like how the Week With Christian Chandler article is set up. Llort 01:49, 4 July 2009 (CEST)

• Since nobody protested my suggestion of three months ago, I've totally overhauled the page formatting to mimic what's been done with A Week With Christian Chandler. It took a long time - and plenty of the lesser formatting will still need to be corrected - but I think the page works and looks significantly better this way. :3 Llort 22:58, 12 October 2009 (CEST)

• Holy shit. Transcribing some of these lesser details that were earlier overlooked is turning out to be well worth the effort. Postcards sent in by fictional readers "Rocket Thompson" and "Rocky Coolio"? Yes, Chris. Proceed. Llort 01:16, 13 October 2009 (CEST)

Chris and his "Clairvoyance"

You know, one has to wonder about what Chris did in this magazine and how much of it actually came true. I mean, it's sad: there WAS a Mega Man game for the N64 (it was a port of Legends, not Chris' shitty X1/Mega Man 3 fusion game), there WAS a Beast Wars: Transformers fighting game (Beast Wars: Transformers: TransMetals, a fighting game for the PS1 and N64 based off of the second season of Beast Wars) and, of course, Sonic making appearances on Nintendo consoles. Of course, we could always chalk it up to Chris talking out of his ass, as usual, and not realizing it. --Blazer 17:53, 17 August 2009 (CEST)

It's not that hard of a guess to make. Mega Man is one of the most absurdly fecund game series of all time, and that there was only one Mega Man game for the N64 is more astonishing than there being any Mega Man game for the N64, seeing as how it started on Nintendo consoles! The longest shot would be Transformers, but it had a resurgence of popularity at the same time as the N64, so there was an elevated chance of a game coming out. Sonic coming out for Nintendo consoles was the single weirdest thing, given that while Sega wasn't doing so hot in the console wars with the Saturn, it was still a healthy company at the time. One would have to make some pretty bold predictions to calculate failure from the floundering of one console, seeing that momentary failure was no object to Nintendo or Microsoft. Of course, Chris didn't predict based on some crazy moment of foresight; he was just had a dream about playing Sonic on Nintendo consoles, and because Chris's dreams are "infallible"... Ensign disposable 01:58, 13 October 2009 (CEST)

Something Is Very Wrong

The last four pages presented here couldn't have come from Chris's original Nintendo Power magazine!

Chris's homemade mag was created in 1998. The last four pages presented here talk about Sonichu (whom Chris didn't create until 2000) and the Nintendo Gamecube (which wasn't released until 2001).

All of this confused the hell out of me until I revisited the Sonichu Adventure page, where there's a totally separate mock Nintendo Power cover. In fact, that one specifically mentions Sonichu Adventure, which is what the last four pages presented here are about.

Conclusion: Holy shit! I think Chris made two Nintendo Power magazines, and it's just that the second one was only four pages long! It looks like that second Homemade Nintendo Power had its pages added here by mistake, and it in fact requires its own new article! Llort 04:33, 18 October 2009 (CEST)

• Well if you notice, the last four pages are in progression from the previous pages (that is, this is entitled "038-CWCsNP35.jpg", that is page 35 of Chris's Nintendo Power, which follows 34 which is definitely from the old one). From what I recall, Nintendo Power use to have supplementals, like a mini magazine in the magazine (like when Pokemon first came out, there was a mini strategy guide usually covering one town at a time, with a in-game newspaper hinting at whoever the gym leader was in that level or what Pokemon to look out for) so that could explain for style differences. And don't forget, Chris is a lazy ass, odds are it would be 3 years before he bothered to finish his Nintendo Power.

It's very possible Chris did mean to do that, but didn't do a very good job of indicating this in the slideshow. It's very well possible that that cover was just a mock up to have ready in case he was approached by Nintendo for a Sonichu game.

I think it'd be alright to keep these pages though, maybe make a note about the time difference, so we can point out that it took Chris three fucking years to finish this. --Champthom 10:25, 18 October 2009 (CEST)

A few notes

Just skimming over this and actually reading the codes section for the first time, it's pretty easy to tell what Chris stole and what he didn't. I don't mean taking codes and rewriting them in his magazine to make it seem like a real magazine, I mean straight up ripping them.

For one, the codes/tricks he stole, he stole verbatim. The 'wheels over heels into first place' bit from the Mario Kart 64 Rocket Jump tricks appeared, word for word, in the Mario Kart 64 Player's Guide.

And the ones he didn't steal are either baseless rumors (that fucking HOLD UP AND B trick for Pokeballs) or just plain retarded (hey if you run around and keep fighting people you'll eventually have lots of experience and money!)--FalseSwipe 06:48, 29 October 2009 (CET)

Kevin Arnold in the letters section

There's a letter from a Kevin Arnold in the letter sections, which also happens to be the name of the protagonist from the late 80s/early 90s sitcom "The Wonder Years." Do you guys think that maybe Chris watched The Wonder Years? I mean, Chris was 16 in 1998 and that's when it was still on Nick at Nite at the time and Chris does watch a lot of TV, including old sitcoms (which would also still be on Nick at Nite at the time). The only thing about this is that I'm not sure a teen drama that is about an adolescent boy becoming a man and the trials and tribulations of adolescence would appeal to an eternal child such as Chris.--Champthom 19:23, 4 December 2009 (CET)

• You're assuming Chris understood the theme, and that's assuming a lot. --sonichuis44 19:30, 4 December 2009 (CET)

cleanup

cwc sucks at art. this shouldn't be news to anyone reading the cwcki. i'm going to prune unnecessary bile and try to make it more smooth to read without all the tryhard unfunny nonsense. -- {a pop to lick it} {talk} 14:19, 19 February 2012 (PST)

Wait a second...

"Additionally, Chris claims that the Transformers: Beast Wars game in the magazine is his own idea, although this was an actual video game made for the N64 and PlayStation."

Actually, the actual Beast Wars game is different from the one Chris describes in his magazine (for example, Dinobot and Quickstrike are not playable in the real one). --Phantom Dusclops'92 (talk) 19:20, 12 November 2015 (UTC)