Nintendo ique

[rob black]

What ever happend to this? why wasnt it released? was it because of piracy?

thanks :D

[Slate]

All i heard about it was that it was released in china and that's it.

[theshizzle3000]

what is the this is there some history about what it was I have not heard of it?

[Bratwurst]

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[mills]

LOL LOL LOL

[rob black]

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lol what a dick.

[Lord_Magus]

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ROFL

[HotCarl]

Because of rampant piracy, the iQue was Nintendo's first and only foray into the Chinese marketplace. Games are stored on a 64MB flash card which is contained within a cartridge that plugs directly into controller/console. Games are purchased at a special "iQue depot" where games may be downloaded onto the cartridge and played later.

[CosmicMonkey]

I'm with Bratwurst on this one.

The English language in both it's written and spoken form is falling apart. I consider many of the members on this forum to be intelligent, educated adults. So, let's have the proper use of capitals, punctuation and grammar please.

It's bad enough that many kids nowadays use text talk in their everyday written English: it's ''see you later'' NOT ''c u l8r''. Honestly it makes my blood boil, along with the use of the word ''innit'', amongst many others.
:angry:


Anyway, I always though that the iQue was a nifty bit of kit. Games are stored on a secure memory card and are purchased from kiosks in shops, much like Famicom Disk or Nintendo Power kiosks.

I always wondered why the system never got a worldwide release, especially with the recent popularity of Plug 'n Play units.

[InsaneDavid]

lol what a dick.

Yeah, for speaking what we all think, mm-hmm, yeah. Same thing with all my "truncate you links" and "please make your images smaller" thing I got tired of. (and have only shut up about because of the edit function being disabled)

Google would have answered all your questions - Wikipedia entry (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintendo_iQue). And when you want help, comments such as yours aren't going to get you very far around here. I know I've been short in some of my responses lately - maybe I've just had it with these three second snap decision posts. If you want anyone to take the time to get you information and research things for you, then the least you can do is take a minute to write a decent request post.

[theshizzle3000]

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ROFL

Yeah I am lazy when it comes to forums. I will have you know that when it comes to writing essays I outshine the competition.

[Kid Ice]

Please direct all further conversation to the Nintendo iQue (something I hadn't heard of but now I have).

The battle over correct spelling and grammar has already been fought and lost. Any more posts along those lines will be split and thrown to the dogs in OT.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

Because of rampant piracy, the iQue was Nintendo's first and only foray into the Chinese marketplace. Games are stored on a 64MB flash card which is contained within a cartridge that plugs directly into controller/console. Games are purchased at a special "iQue depot" where games may be downloaded onto the cartridge and played later.
The iQue system is definitely not Nintendo's only system released in China. The GBA, DS and I think also the Gamecube are all also available in China as well. All of those systems are sold under the "iQue" brand name, by the way, which is not properly the name of the system you're talking about, but actually name of the Chinese-based company that Nintendo partnered with a few years ago before making it's entry into the Mainland market.

The N64-based system that's all built into a controller and plays games downloaded to a flash card, which is waht most people mean when they talk about the iQue has a real Chinese name, though I can't recall what it is offhand. I was released, though, and can be purchased from several Hong Kong based import shops. I think that version only comes with a few demo games and since the full games need to be downloaded from an official download station all of which are located in China, it's not a ver attractive system for most importers. There was some hope earlier on that the game loading mechanism might get cracked, but so far it hasn't, either because Nintendo wisely put an airtight piracy scheme in place or--more likely--just because the system hasn't been popular enough either with hackers or with the Chinese populace for anyone to work very hard on cracking it.


...word is bondage...

[boatofcar]

I have no further info in the iQue, but thank you bratwurst for making me laugh.

[Sothy]

pwned

[HotCarl]

Because of rampant piracy, the iQue was Nintendo's first and only foray into the Chinese marketplace. Games are stored on a 64MB flash card which is contained within a cartridge that plugs directly into controller/console. Games are purchased at a special "iQue depot" where games may be downloaded onto the cartridge and played later.
The iQue system is definitely not Nintendo's only system released in China. The GBA, DS and I think also the Gamecube are all also available in China as well. All of those systems are sold under the "iQue" brand name, by the way, which is not properly the name of the system you're talking about, but actually name of the Chinese-based company that Nintendo partnered with a few years ago before making it's entry into the Mainland market.

The N64-based system that's all built into a controller and plays games downloaded to a flash card, which is waht most people mean when they talk about the iQue has a real Chinese name, though I can't recall what it is offhand. I was released, though, and can be purchased from several Hong Kong based import shops. I think that version only comes with a few demo games and since the full games need to be downloaded from an official download station all of which are located in China, it's not a ver attractive system for most importers. There was some hope earlier on that the game loading mechanism might get cracked, but so far it hasn't, either because Nintendo wisely put an airtight piracy scheme in place or--more likely--just because the system hasn't been popular enough either with hackers or with the Chinese populace for anyone to work very hard on cracking it.


...word is bondage...

The Gamecube was never released in China but the GBA was in 2004. The DS was released as the iQue DS in 2005. The original iQue was released in 2003 (so, it was the first...but not the only). The NES, SNES and N64 never saw release in China.

[c0ldb33r]

Can these still be imported?

If so, how do you get games onto them?

[CosmicMonkey]

Can these still be imported?

If so, how do you get games onto them?

I can't find anywhere selling them. Off to eBay then.

You go find an iQue kiosk somewhere, i.e - China.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

I can't find anywhere selling them. Off to eBay then.
Hm, yeah. They seem to have gotten harder to find in the last year. Most of the places that sold them before like Success-HK and Play-Asia seem to be out of stock now and may not be getting any more in. Game Choice Club still lists the system as in stock, though their site isn't always accurate.


You go find an iQue kiosk somewhere, i.e - China.
Actually, Game Choice Club lists something called a Game Download Voucher that you can use to by games online and download them directly to your system. If that works outside of the Mainland, it'd be pretty cool. Thing is, that requires a special USB adapter, which I can't find for sale anywhere, but maybe Game Choice would get one as a special order.

I checked out the iQue website, too, and found the list of games available for the system. There's only 14 of them, but the list includes many of the best games for the system like Paper Mario, F-Zero X, Ocarina OF Time, etc. Of particular note is that Animal Crossing, Custom Robo and Sin & Punishment are also available; those are three of the best formerly Japanese exclusive games for the N64. Animal Crossing and Custom Robo were just released this past June, too, so the system is still being supported apparently. There doesn't seem to be any NES or SNES games available for it, though, even though they were mentioned before the system was released.

The system's proper name is the iQue Shenyou, by the way. The best translation is probably "Free Spirit," but if you wanted to sound cooler you could call it the "Roaming God." They also just refer to it as the iQue Player on the website, though.

http://www.ique.com/machine_bb%20player.htm

Also, check out the link from the menu at the top of the page just to the right of where it says "iQue GAMES." That says "Free Spirit At Home" and is the information about the online game downloads.


...word is bondage...

[fishsandwich]

Of particular note is that Animal Crossing, Custom Robo and Sin & Punishment are also available; those are three of the best formerly Japanese exclusive games for the N64. Animal Crossing and Custom Robo were just released this past June, too, so the system is still being supported apparently.

I wonder if these games have actually been translated into Mandarin or Cantonese? Sin & Punishment and Custom Robo wouldn't be too hard to figure out without knowledge of either Japanese or English but I couldn't see a Chinese person getting much out of Animal Crossing if it's still in Japanese.

I want one of these things now.

[Sweater Fish Deluxe]

I wonder if these games have actually been translated into Mandarin or Cantonese? Sin & Punishment and Custom Robo wouldn't be too hard to figure out without knowledge of either Japanese or English but I couldn't see a Chinese person getting much out of Animal Crossing if it's still in Japanese.

I want one of these things now.
Yeah, all the text in the games is fully translated to Chinese. The speech in Animal Crossing is neither Mandarin nor Cantonese, though, of course. It's Animalese!


...word is bondage...

[smork]

There's about 87 threads made at the same time on this; I posted the below in another of them:

iQue is Nintendo's brand in China, they sell all the Nintendo products under the iQue banner. That device is called the iQue Player.

It was released -- I own one and I know several members on these boards do as well. They were still in production or at least still in stock in China as of last year, as I bought mine new and got a few good games loaded on it (like Sin & Punishment!). Haven't seen one on sale online for a while, though....