@Paganini:
Strongbad456, fenberry and all the others who use freeloader to play the game. When you insert the freeloader to play the game. Do you insert it two times or just one time every time you play the game? Or do you insert it two times every time to prevent the Wii from updating?
The game looks absolutely spectacular and I can't wait to be able to play it. But I have to wait at least one week or until Wednesday because it does take a rather long time to ship it to Iceland :(. But I can wait :D.
Why are you guys so sure that Kizaru and the Supernovas might be in Episode 2? Isn't it possible that the other characters from the Thriller Bark arc will be in the game and not the ones from the current arc? For instance: Ryuuma, Lola, warthog Lola, the general zombies, Jigoroh, Inupen, Absalom, Cindry-chan, Hogback and Perona. Hogback would obviously be with Cindry-chan because he can't figt on his own. I was just wondering about this because it seems that Episode 2 might be the continuation of Thriller Bark whereas Oz is in it and the place where he is going to be fought in the game, looks a lot like Thriller Bark after it has been crushed by Oz and his giant body. Where the mansion is in ruins and so on. Well this is just an idea that I had so you are more then welcome to criticize it :).
P.S. Episode 2 also looks absolutely spectacular :D.
Hi Paganini!
I'm sorry that I couldn't answer you earlier. Yes, every single time I play my One Piece Unlimited Cruise game, I turn my wii on, then load the freeloader twice, then load Unlimited Cruise. When I first got my copy of the game I have (and I STILL have) firmware version 3.2E (for my PAL wii). I am little concerned that if I load the freeloader only once before putting in the game, it may force the update (I'll confirm this probably this afternoon once I get my SD I ordered (co-incidentally I ordered my SD card before I was able to start playing UC, thinking that the freeloader wouldn't work. Unfortunately I'm still waiting for it, but it should arrive this afternoon. I'll backup all my save files, then give it a shot trying to load the freeloader only once) - I am curious myself BTW.
Strongbad has a Japanese Wii (from what he said), so he doesn't need a freeloader at all. I feel your pain. I felt so upset when I thought that my freeloader wouldn't work with UC…thinking that those with either a Japanese NTSC-J Wii or a mod-chip (or an SD card with GeckoOS:happy:) would be playing it, and I would have to sit and wait and watch youtube until I could either modchip my wii or something similar. Don't worry, when you get the game, you'll see that it's a really great game. To those (RuNa in particular....) who think this game sucks, in some senses I tent to agree. When it comes to the actual game itself, alongside other games such as Perfect Dark, God of War, Devil May Cry 3 and Ninja Gaiden, this game looks stilted, half-cooked, slightly blurry without component cables and rather half-hearted......however when you focus on the game for it's Intellectual Property and in particular it's "One Piece-ness", this game absolutely rocks. I love playing it just as much (maybe slightly more) as Unlimited Adventure. I know the game doesn't have many moves (due almost entirely to the Wii Remote's limit of buttons) and in some senses is a very spirited Easter-Egg hunt, I adore this game and will enjoy playing it for many months and possibly years to come.
Regardless of it's shortcomings that others have posted (with reasonable grounds I might add), Paganini, I know you will love this game. I know that for Eps 2, it will definately be full of Arabasta and Thriller Bark characters - My bet is Crocodile, Mr. 1, Vivi (hopefully), Pell would be awesome, Absolom, Perona, definately Ryuuma and some of the General Zombies. Odz may be a playable character, but it would a series first (by series I mean Unlimited XYZ) to have a boss character NOT playable - Something like Night Terror from Soul Calibur 3. I sure hope Kizaru and atleast one or two of the supernovas make it (If they do, I hope it's Scratchman Apoo and Drake, though I'd love all of them). I'll end my very long post now
Edit: SD card in hand. Give me 8 hours to finish work, and I'll be able to confirm this Paganini