After a gruelling two weeks of wondering whether Super Mario Galaxy 2 would eventually turn up I have now sent my claim form back to GAME (via email, I ain’t no snail mail sucka). If everything goes to plan I should be able to sit back and relax with my new copy of the fat plumber’s adventure dropping onto my doormat sometime next week. WHO AM I TRYING TO KID? The Royal Mail will probably lose that copy as well!

FML.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 was released on Friday 11th June, and while many kiddies and adults are enjoying the fat little plumber’s latest adventure I’m still going without. Yup, despite the game being dispatched LAST TUESDAY, I’m still Super Mario Galaxy 2-less. Bunch of bastards, I expect my copy to be here on launch day dammit!

PS: This carrot cake is all kinds of awesome.

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is easily one of my most anticipated titles of the year, and to ensure I get a better experience I have finally bought a component cable for the Wii. I got my HDTV around the same time as New Super Mario Bros Wii and the picture was a little bit on the blurry side. The cable won’t make the game HD, but it’ll help make the new galaxies look lurvely.

I did a test just now with New Super Mario Bros Wii and it is looking much better. The image is not quite so blurred but it helped bring out the jaggies. Not a good thing but then again, I probably shouldn’t be sitting as close to the screen as I do!

All in all it seems to be a worthwhile purchase, and with Mario’s latest adventure releasing in a week’s time I’m definitely ready. Thank god the cable only cost me six quid instead of Nintendo’s asking price of £17.99.

… now I’ve said that, the cable will probably randomly catch on fire.

For the last month or so I have been considering getting hold of a DSi XL when it launches on the 5th March. Like with any purchase I have to consider whether I actually need one, I’m looking for some opinions on this!

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It’s official, at the time of writing this entry I have spent more time asleep than awake this decade! I watched a bit of The Speedgamers New Year playthrough of New Super Mario Bros Wii until 1:30 then I went for a lie down, I didn’t wake up until 5am. I sat at the PC for a while until 5:30/5:45 and then went back to bed again, not rising until midday. w00t!

Anyway, what did I do for New Years Eve? Not a lot really. I installed my Bluray drive (breaking one of the cold cathodes in the process) and hooked it up to the TV using a HDMI cable. So far the results have been pretty damn amazing, I used Rambo as my test disk.

Sarah came down just before 9 and we watched a bit of TV. The IT Crowd was on along with The 100 Most Annoying People of 2009 (AGAIN! – it’s been shown nightly on BBC3 for some time now) then I hooked up the Wii to the TV and we played New Super Mario Bros Wii for the first time. It’s a pretty good game, it’s taken all of the really good parts of Super Mario Bros, Super Mario Bros 3, Super Mario World and the original Yoshi’s Island and mashed them together to make something that is truly brillaint. A good game to end the decade playing and to start the new one with!

PS: It snowed overnight again, awesome!

Thanks to the the recent Speed Gamers Pokémon Marathon I have been in the mood to play Pokémon, the last time I played the series properly was Pokémon Sapphire in 2003, in which I managed to get a free legit copy before release. This year is also the 10th Anniversary of my absolute addiction to Pokémon Blue. Playing Pokémon against the guys in Sixth Form, now those were the days!

Anyway my copy of Pokémon Platinum came today and its brought back all of those good memories! It’s an excellent little game so far and the DS seems more suited for it than the original Gameboy did. Managing your inventory on the touchscreen makes life so much easier. I’ve been playing for an hour and a half now and I haven’t seen a single Pokémon from the original yet… then again their numbers have risen to 490-odd from the 151 in the originals.

I’ve got to catch me a Pikachu! Team Rocket 4 Life, yo!