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Super Meat Boy Hits PC This Month, Wii Version Delayed

Turns out compressing games down to Wii size is hard.

Super Meat Boy won't be hitting its target release date on the Wii. Team Meat has gone on record via its official Twitter account to announce a delay, citing that it would be "impossible" for the indie developer to compress the title to a WiiWare-appropriate 39MB by this November, as was originally planned. No additional release date details have been shared, however, and Team Meat doesn't appear too close to getting it out on the Wii yet. "We haven't even gotten the size to 50MB yet," Team Meat said. 

You've got options if you want to get your Meat on, though. The Steam version of SMB will be hitting the last week of this month, and of course, the game is available over Xbox Live Arcade right now. 
 
  
  
 
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Brad really dug SMB, giving it a five out of five stars in his recent review. I've no comment on SMB, though I am willing to say that calling the game "hard" is an understatement. I would begin fearing for the integrity of my dry wall and my cats' faces if I were to continue attempting to beat the level that I'm stuck on right now, just so that I, too, could tell you that the game is awesome. 

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Hopfully the pc version has xbox controller support

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@Darkstalker said:
" Hopfully the pc version has xbox controller support "
It does. The SMB steam page says so.
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@aurahack said:
" @Aeterna: Something tells me the PC version will play a little something like this. "
I hope not, the flashgame feels pretty weird imo.. but I'm confident it will feel just fine.
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Awesome, But now I have to wait until the end of this month :(

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Edited By BabyChooChoo

Oddly enough, this is my new most anticipated game of the year since GT5 was delayed. Hopefully I can preload this so I can wake up and get straight to the fun when it comes out.

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Finally time for me to get some meat... Boy!

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Edited By nintendoeats

Wow, this being held up by the same problem that Microsoft was having...3 YEARS AGO...

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yay

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39 MB? That's a pretty crazy restriction. Man that little white box is falling REALLY far behind these days. 
 
A retail version makes a lot more sense to the wii, you wouldn't have to sacrifice anything but resolution that way, and it's a pretty long game as it is, if you play as poorly I as do, at least.

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Dammit! This won't run on my laptop (stupid pixel shader 2.0!), so I was really looking forward to the Wii version. Maybe I will spend some points on Bit.Trip Fate instead.

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WTF?  39mb's?  fuck the wii version, they should just make a PS3 version!

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@Potter9156 said:
" Playing this game with arrow keys and spacebar? Noooooo thank you. "
better than playing it with a god awful xbox d-pad.  original meat boy was a flash game
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I'm really impressed, that i'm not impressed on this not coming to PS3.

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im a huge nintendo fan but god, 39 mb is wiiware size? jesus. nintendo really messed up there making such a small harddrive for the wii most xbla games are like 100mb-1gb depending on the game

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This is the news I've been waiting for. I much prefer playing these kinds of small, pick-up-and-play game on my PC (which is pretty much always on anyway) instead of having to go through the trouble of booting up the Xbox and TV set just for a quick SMB level or two...
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Edited By veXedbulldog

I can't imagine trying to get through the dark world levels with a keyboard.  I know that the super hardcore flash game players would disagree, though.

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@Conformunist said:
" Can Wii owners even stomach hard games?    Also, does that question make me racist? "
The Wii comes in white, black, and red. It knows no racial boundaries. So no, you're only a bigot. Rest easy friend. :)
Also the Bit.Trip franchise seems to be doing fine for Gaijin.  They're finally porting to Steam as well, but WiiWare has sustained them for a while now. And I chose to buy Megaman 9 and 10 on Wii because fuck those achievements. :P
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@Laketown said:
" yay PC version! fuck buying points "
Yes, man.
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I wonder if early XBLA buyers will receive the level-editor that comes with the Steam version.

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Hell yes, totally buying this on Steam. I didn't know that WiiWare releases had to be so ridiculously small, that's retarded.

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OH NO NOW ILL HAVE TO PLAY IT

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@veXedbulldog said:

" I can't imagine trying to get through the dark world levels with a keyboard.  I know that the super hardcore flash game players would disagree, though. "

You can always plug in a controller of your choice.. a lot of people (I'm not saying you, though) seem to assume the only way to play games on the PC is by using a mouse and/or a keyboard.  
And you can also connect your PC to your TV, if you want to play on your couch with a higher resolution than consoles can offer right now.. just saying. :)
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I will buy on steam so I can play at home and play in college when i am bored in a lecture. 

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@Siphillis said:
"I wonder if early XBLA buyers will receive the level-editor that comes with the Steam version. "

Dont think so.
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Is there a reason this isn't on PSN? I've already purchased it on XBLA, I'm just curious why it's not coming to the PS3.

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They seem to be quite confused with what to do with the Wii version.

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@Siphillis said:
" I wonder if early XBLA buyers will receive the level-editor that comes with the Steam version. "h
The level editor is PC exclusive. They said that they wanted to do it across all platforms, but there were too many complications in getting servers & whatnot for user generated content on the 360 version. They will be adding the best user created levels to the 360 version via "teh internets" though.
@Loose said:
" Is there a reason this isn't on PSN? I've already purchased it on XBLA, I'm just curious why it's not coming to the PS3. "
They built early versions of the game on PS3, 360, Wii and PC. They sent early builds to MS, Sony and Nintendo, and Sony were taking far too long to reply to them, so they scrapped the PSN version.
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@captain_clayman said:
" @Potter9156 said:
" Playing this game with arrow keys and spacebar? Noooooo thank you. "
better than playing it with a god awful xbox d-pad.  original meat boy was a flash game "
Analog stick ftw.
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Just get this game however you can, rules hard.

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I actually wanted to get the Wii version but Wiiware requires 39 MB?? 
Come on Nintendo are you seriously honest?

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at least its actually coming to wiiware....whens my psn smb? I don't wanna play with a keyboard.. :(

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@Raineko said:
" I actually wanted to get the Wii version but Wiiware requires 39 MB?? Come on Nintendo are you seriously honest? "
The Wii only has 512 MB internal storage.
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dont people know you can use almost an controller on a PC? I hope they release a retail box copy for Wii.
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Love the concept, love the graphic style, love the gameplay.. Think I'm gonna get it. :)

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God this game is friggn' awesome!

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So is there going to be a Mac version? Wikipedia lists it and I thought it would be a Steamplay title but I haven't seen any mention about it anywhere else.