BENDER: 'Kiss my shiney metal @$$,

in that case i'm buying it then. i did great in visual basic.

They purposely use their IPs to sell their hardware, that's why big N has no real competition. No one else can claim/do that. Games with greatest appeal go to the slowest selling console.3rd party games make a small portion of their income (% wise) in comparison. + using old tech in new ways: those are a powerful combination to build a business. They're in no real danger.

Boy would Nintendo be pissed-off if someone coded and posted the whole thing finished.... FREE. LOL.

I've heard there's a tutorial on youtube: by 'SMILEBASIC' (sp?) I had taken 'Visual Basic' in tech school years ago, this is almost the same, with a few variables no pun intended,

well, its a start, that much is certain.