MahJongg Wii v0.4

[The_Ultimate_Eggman]

No probs Justin good to see your getting support on this project....Also another idea for a later date a simpler tileset aimed @ children my 8 year old was itching to give it a go lol.....

[justinswood]

Also another idea for a later date a simpler tileset aimed @ children my 8 year old was itching to give it a go lol.....

I definitely want a few more tilesets + a simple one is on the agenda (Although my child (15 months) might be a to little - she does like the wiimotes though).

Actually, this is one area that I could do with some extra graphic support. The talk page of the Mahjongg Wii homepage has got details of what format I need them in, if your mate would make some for me that would be great :thumbup:

http://www.wiibrew.org/wiki/Talk:MahJongg_Wii

[sean.aaron]

No probs Justin good to see your getting support on this project....Also another idea for a later date a simpler tileset aimed @ children my 8 year old was itching to give it a go lol.....

My five-year-old is getting the hang of them because we use my Mahjong set to do Shanghai (I have printed out a few patterns to use) and play memory games (only using half the tiles; even then it's quite difficult).

[whYeNQue]

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this is great. my brew time is mostly mahjongg time.

i'll try and get my 7 yr old nephew to sit and play with me since my bro is hardly around at the moment.

[sean.aaron]

Now, will anyone have the skills to program the AI for a "proper" (i.e. not Shanghai) Mahjong game?

[justinswood]

Now, will anyone have the skills to program the AI for a "proper" (i.e. not Shanghai) Mahjong game?

I'm thinking about doing this Sean, although the todo list on the mahjongg solitaire game is pretty long at the moment so I probably won't get to it for a while

[sean.aaron]

I'm thinking about doing this Sean, although the todo list on the mahjongg solitaire game is pretty long at the moment so I probably won't get to it for a while

Really, that's excellent. I didn't want to assume you even knew the rules to the game (although which rules to use will be an issue right out the gate -- I'd expect Riichi, since it's the most popular version in Japan and therefore the world), let alone have the ability to program the AI (though I expect it would be easier than doing the AI for a game of Go).

Koei has a Mahjong game for the Wii, but given that my system is in a bad way presently and I can't even get the Sunsoft Shanghai game to load, I'm not keen to throw down for it -- besides something in English would be nice for those of us that don't speak Japanese.

I've been a fan of Shanghai (solitaire Mahjong) for a long time and have had a Mahjong rule book and tile set for a couple of years now. It's only in the last month that I've finally decided to learn the game; I ran my first Japanese Mahjong games in MAME last night and I like it better than any video card/board game I've played before.

[justinswood]

let alone have the ability to program the AI (though I expect it would be easier than doing the AI for a game of Go).

Sean, I've done AI for a backgammon and tic tac toe games in the past. With different methodologies used - purely rules based, learning behaviour, etc. - so shouldn't be too much of a leap

[sean.aaron]

Sean, I've done AI for a backgammon and tic tac toe games in the past. With different methodologies used - purely rules based, learning behaviour, etc. - so shouldn't be too much of a leap

Groovy! I wrote Sunsoft about the fact that they're planning a WiiWare Shanghai title for Japan and said they should do a worldwide release. They replied that they hadn't considered that (and given that previous releases like Shanghai Advance never came out elsewhere I don't think they would have); how ironic that one of the first Wii Homebrew titles should be that very thing!

[justinswood]

Yeah Sean, you'd have thought that given the low distribution costs of WiiWare it would be pretty much automatic. I suppose they have to consider whether it would be worth the globalisation costs.

I don't want to do anyone (SunSoft) out of making money as this is the only reason why we have consoles is the software. But, I think there should also be a place for homebrew - I did a google search for Mahjongg Wii and found a number of site in Japan that had it on, so they haven't got a free run there either (although just in English at the mo)