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Strong Bad's Freezing Issue for Attractive People!

Posted Wed, 13 Aug 2008 by Corbie Dillard

According to Nintendo WiiFanboy, some users of Strong Bad: Episode 1 Homestar Ruiner have experienced freezing issues during the game. Readers over at the Telltale forums are also reporting the same problem. Some users have said that changing the display from 16x9 widescreen setting over to the regular 4:3 display setting fixes this problem. Other users have also said that changing the setting from 480p to 480i also helps.

If you're experiencing this freezing issue this is about the only help we can offer until Telltale releases a patch to completely fix the problem. We'll have any information regarding any possible patches when it becomes available.

Source: Nintendo WiiFanboy

Tags: WiiWare, Telltale Games, Rumours.

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User Comments

hansolo350

1. hansolo350 Canada 13 Aug 2008, 00:38 BST

Where's the review?

Corbie

2. Corbie United States 13 Aug 2008, 00:40 BST

Alex is doing the review. I have no idea when it will be up.

Tabbyluigi

3. Tabbyluigi United States 13 Aug 2008, 00:48 BST

The Number 1 game right now, so just change the settings, Super Mario 64 also sometimes freezes at the end of the game, so its uncommon for games to freeze.

TokiToku

4. TokiToku United States 13 Aug 2008, 00:48 BST

i love this game. too short.

kirbycc

5. kirbycc United States 13 Aug 2008, 00:50 BST

No problems for me, and I have it running at 480p. (Not 16x9 though)

Kawaiipikachu

6. Kawaiipikachu Australia 13 Aug 2008, 01:13 BST

I guess it isnt called “Strongbad's Cool game for attractive people” for nothing then .
I guess its “Strongbads squissed game for attractive people” then .
At least as this is a downloadable game meaning you can download a patch unlike for example Guitar Hero III where you have to order in a replacement disc to fix the audio issues .

Virus

7. Virus United States 13 Aug 2008, 01:20 BST

Hmmm, I haven't had problems (even if I've been playing it on another person's TV).

Bahamut ZERO

8. Bahamut ZERO United States 13 Aug 2008, 01:33 BST

@Corbie
Tell Alex to work faster. Your reviews came out practically the same day!

GabeGreens

9. GabeGreens United States 13 Aug 2008, 01:36 BST

Hey Im new. Im thinking of buying this game but im not sure. Should I buy this or Space Parodier.

AlexSays

10. AlexSays United States 13 Aug 2008, 01:47 BST

@ Bahamut ZERO-
So either Corbie is very dedicated, or Alex has a life. :P

Corbie

11. Corbie United States 13 Aug 2008, 01:51 BST

I'm feeling that urge again to abuse my mod privileges. :P

Bahamut ZERO

12. Bahamut ZERO United States 13 Aug 2008, 02:13 BST

Oh noes!
Corbie is going mad with power!

Brav

13. Brav Nicaragua 13 Aug 2008, 02:39 BST

@ GabeGreens
Only if you seen the cartoons

GabeGreens

14. GabeGreens United States 13 Aug 2008, 02:48 BST

@Brav

thanks, ive seen them, ill buy it once i get the points

theludicrous

15. theludicrous Canada 13 Aug 2008, 03:12 BST

I just beat the game today!
whats with the "extended play" mode?

Objection_Blaster

16. Objection_Blaster United States 13 Aug 2008, 03:13 BST

@theludricrous
probably new game+ kinda thing or else related to the future episodes

SirToasty

17. SirToasty United States 13 Aug 2008, 03:19 BST

I downloaded this game...and i pressed the save button in the menu, and right before it was gonna save, it froze and made a weird "bzzzzzz" sound, and i had too unplug my Nintendo Wii, and had too start back too the previous save![the save before the save where it froze]. I was really MAD...

vherub

18. vherub United States 13 Aug 2008, 03:20 BST

have any wiiware games been patched before?

BlueRider

19. BlueRider United States 13 Aug 2008, 03:36 BST

Hmmm what so good about this game it look so boring but hey it my opinion

WeeGee

20. WeeGee United States 13 Aug 2008, 04:06 BST

yeah, I bought this right when it came out. Towards the end of the game it started freezing up, so I looked it up and found that changing the screen to 4:3 would work and thankfully it did.

Kadou

21. Kadou United States 13 Aug 2008, 04:13 BST

I played the game for about four hours yesterday, and while I did see some slowdown, my game never froze.

@theludicrous: Extended Play is just giving you the ability to go around the world without a story to follow. It lets you get all those achievements, too.

Phantom5800

22. Phantom5800 United States 13 Aug 2008, 05:29 BST

@vherub - Dr. Mario has been updated (as well as a variety of VC games being updated to fix minor bugs), but I don't know of any others. It is possible though which is good.

Draygone

23. Draygone United States 13 Aug 2008, 05:49 BST

Ouch. I foresee this hurting the overall review.

Mr.Game and Watch

24. Mr.Game and Watch United Kingdom 13 Aug 2008, 07:16 BST

I see no Strongbad this Friday.

Wiiloveit

25. Wiiloveit United Kingdom 13 Aug 2008, 10:45 BST

It is out in EU this Fri, but I wont be getting it due to storage problems.

That, and the fact I have no money :)

Oh - get that review up soon aswell

Terranigma

26. Terranigma United Kingdom 13 Aug 2008, 14:43 BST

I'm downloading the PC Demo currently, which i rarely do. I have high hopes for this game.

Also, where is the EC demo? I can't seem to find it

Ian Daemon

27. Ian Daemon United States 13 Aug 2008, 15:44 BST

OK, slightly embarrassed to admit that I haven't gotten far enough to have freezing problems yet. It may have something to do with the lack of free time this week, but that's probably just an excuse. :)

JBL3115

28. JBL3115 United States 13 Aug 2008, 17:57 BST

I had know problems with the game, and it was great wiiware game!

King wiL

29. King wiL United Kingdom 13 Aug 2008, 18:03 BST

I couldnt wait till we get it over here in the uk so i got the pc version instead, not had any problems yet (touch wood) lol

King wiL

30. King wiL United Kingdom 13 Aug 2008, 18:07 BST

also i apologise for not really having a wii related post in somes eyes but all im saying is if your worried about the wii versoin, or cant wait the few days, get the pc version, telltale still get the money and you can save about £8 on buying the whole season at once (ie by paying for it now in a bundle and downloading the other eps upon release)

ACK

31. ACK United States 13 Aug 2008, 21:02 BST

I played through the game to its entirety with no freezing whatsoever.

Also, the review should be up soon. My apologies for taking so long, but as someone suggested, I do have a life to get around to. Hopefully the wait will be worth it...

Naturestee

32. Naturestee United States 13 Aug 2008, 21:29 BST

My husband played it for 3 hours while I was at work yesterday, then I played 2 hours and neither of us had freezing problems. I had a minor glitch where the menu didn't want to work for a minute but it fixed itself.

How many people are actually having problems with the widescreen?

Drizzt

33. Drizzt Canada 13 Aug 2008, 23:03 BST

That's strange. Fortunately I haven't had any problems.

Great game by the way :).

WeeGee

34. WeeGee United States 14 Aug 2008, 05:59 BST

It happened to me towards the end when I interacted with some of the obstacles on the race. I can't say anymore because of spoilers, but it also happened in the middle of a scene, which sucked because I was excited and I had to unplug the wii.

Stratos

35. Stratos United States 15 Aug 2008, 04:47 BST

@vherub & Kadou
My Life as a King had a patch/update as well when the second batch of DLC was released so that the game could acknowledge it. You had to delete and re-download the game. I don't know if that is how all games with periodic DLC updates will have to work or if it was just Squeenix's programming style that caused it.
Also, I played through all of the main SBCG4AP story in regular screen mode and had no glitching problems.

Stuffgamer1

36. Stuffgamer1 United States 16 Aug 2008, 03:18 BST

@WeeGee: My game froze at the same moment but works in Standard screen mode. Did you know that you could just hold your Wii's power button for about five seconds to turn it off instead of pulling out the plug? Might be safer for the system.

Also, my brother said that he had to open up some memory to download the Dr. Mario patch. It just so happens that the memory required was the size of the game, suggesting that it re-downloaded the entire game and THEN deleted the file that was already on it. Does that make any sense?

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