Cool. I'll have to check for that set when I get back. According to the box you have Mario 64, Zelda, Wave Race 64, and Star Fox as playable demos. This actually makes it even more difficult for me to wait to go back to China, haha. Chinese Animal Crossing here I come! :dance:
Hehe, Just to add some minor/stupid info to this topic. I'm hopefuly going to china in march/april to visit my wife's family. So hopefuly I will be able to get out to an iQue store to get my system updated as well as try to grab up as many game manuals as I can (something that seems imposible to find online). Wicked. Thanks for that bit of info!
Just FYI, they are timed demos. It's the full game but it only works for a little while then it will lock you out of the demo completly (i think it's 10 mins, i'm not sure).
heheh, Time to bump an old topic. Sadly in my wife city ique is dead. Of the official shops they barely have a small display case with a gbsp and a ds lite and that was all. The ique depot was sent to a company who deals with after market support. They in turn a while back broke down the machine and sent it back to the company. The even sader part is they threw out ALL of the ique game manuals they had. They did still have two game cards left but they only install games now through ique[at]home which won't work on my unit since the firmware is out of date. So after wasting 2 full days to get my ique updated, it's now being shipped to the manufacturer in beijing (heh, i was just there last week) for repair so I can use ique[at]home. I did have my wife ask and they said if they by chance still have game manuals in beijing they will send some back with my system (dear god I hope they do and one of them is for zelda which i have but dont have the manual to). So now I wait 5-6 days to get my system back so I can copy two games onto it (and thats it unless the manufacturer sends back some game cards also). I'm sadly not overly shocked since I think the last game was in 05/07 (forgot which) and I don't think the thing was very popular. Also most ique DS units you can buy in any mall that sells electronics (i've seen many of them at perl market in beijing & found a lot in shenyang). Anyways will update again when I get my unit back. Lets all hope for some elucive manuals return with my console.
I'll check here in Kunming to see if they have any manuals left...there is a charging station here at one of our department stores, but again they wanted something like 700RMB for the unit, which is pretty outrageous. I wish iQue could control the pricing of their products in department stores...they really charge a premium for these things that just never sell!
Charging station? You mean the iQue Depot machine for installing games? Also what the hell are they giving you for 700rmb? The freaking machine?!? Sucks games are still their original price (48rmb i think). If you find manuals, let me know and how much they cost. I originaly thought they were sold seperately but I learned from the repair place that they gave them out for free with every game you purchased. I'm hoping in my case they'll just give me a bunch of them if some get sent back with my unit since the repair place will just throw them out again.
Yeah the machine is over 700RMB, and extra controllers run around 200RMB if I recall correctly! I've been scouring Taobao for a good deal, and I'll probably be purchasing a used machine within the next few days. I'll definitely let you know - I remember seeing some of the game cards at our department store. Maybe by this weekend I'll have a better answer for you as my work schedule is pretty killer lately.
Ah ok, you're talking about an actual ique unit. Yeah I think my mother in law paid a high amount for mine as well. She end up having to get it at a huge eletronics mall in sheynyang since the official stores stoped caring them. Sucks I didn't think to go try ique stores when I was visiting beijing. I probably would have found something there. If you can get game cards then thats cool. I might have to bug you to get me a few in the future (since once my unit is updated, you can purchase games through ique[at]home as long as you have the cards, i dont think you can buy through it with visa). Oh also does the extra controller cost include the base station needed to hook up 3 additional controllers? (which sadly happen to actualy be modified n64 controllers, they can be rewired to actualy work on a real n64).
The extra controller doesn't include the base station, unfortunately. It's an entirely separate unit, and one that runs around 400RMB.
Haha, No wonder this thing never really took off if they're ripping you off that bad for an older system. Its sad that there probably wont be any future iQue products (rumor of a wii but whats the point really, there oddly enough there are a few wii games already translated to chinese for the hk market and it's not hard to find a place selling a modded wii in china). Oh my system is back from beijing. Not sure when I go pick it up (sometime between tomorrow and friday, hopefuly tomorrow) and they didn't mention anything about the manuals.
I got my unit back. Firmware is updated and I can access it on a PC now. Sadly no manuals. All I got sent back was some advertisement flyer. =( Also they didn't get any more game cards so I currently have the last two they had for sale. If by chance you can find manuals at your local iQue store let me know. I'll gladly ship you over some cash to pick me up some (and maybe a few game cards). Anyways now to figure out what to install. Mario64 & Waverace are out the window since I own the LE rumble eds on both and have a working jpn n64 P). Animal forest is on the fence since I do own the jpn n64 version but i'm currious if there are any changes other then being translated. Paper Mario would be cool but I don't know chinese (yet.., must learn over the next two years). Mario Kart & Starfox i'm thinking against since i've played thoes to death over the years (yet starfox is always fun). F-Zero i've played alot and sold in the past (if i were to get again i'd go n64 due to me having a DD). Zelda64 I have on my iQue. So that leaves sin & punishment, Custom Robo, Yoshi, Excitebike 64 & Smash Bros. I'm tempted it go S&P and Smash Bros but Smash Bros is not fun without multiplayer. Yoshi & excitebike I never really played before & custom robo I know will have language issues for me (much like paper mario). Any ideas which to take?
minor update. One game down. I installed sin & punishment on my system. Sad thing, the flash on this unit is really small. I can't fit both zelda & S&P on the device (it's a few blocks short). Also odd that the games do not share an even size on them. I'm wondering if this means the roms are compressed when stored on flash or they are void of padding (i'm leaning twards compression). Also i guess the iQue is the first nintendo product that required you to "clean out the fridge" prior to the Wii. :lol:
