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{{page title|''New Play Control! Pikmin''}}
'''[[File:I_17607-1-.jpg|thumb|The NPC cover for Pikmin]]New Play Control! Pikmin''' is a re-release of [[Pikmin (game)|Pikmin]] in the ''[[New Play Control!]]'' range of video-games. It was released in 2008 in Japan and 2009 everywhere else, and features a number of changes to the original game.
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{{Infobox game
|name=New Play Control! Pikmin
|image=NPC Pikmin boxart.jpg
|size=250px
|jname={{j|Wiiであそぶピクミン|Wii de Asobu Pikumin|Let's Play On Wii Pikmin|f=tp}}
|esrb=E
|pegi=3
|console=Wii
|developer={{w|Nintendo EAD}}
|publisher=[[Nintendo]]
|genre=Real-time strategy
|players=Single-player
|savesize=31 blocks
|successor=[[New Play Control! Pikmin 2]]
|rereleaseof=[[Pikmin (game)|Pikmin]]
|jp={{date|25|December|2008}}
|na={{date|9|March|2009}}
|eu={{date|6|February|2009}}
|au={{date|26|February|2009}}
|ko={{date|27|October|2011}}
}}
 
'''''New Play Control! Pikmin''''' is an enhanced port of {{p1}} for the [[Wii]], as part of the ''[[New Play Control!]]'' range of re-rereleases. It launched in 2008 in Japan and 2009 internationally, and features a number of tweaks and changes to the original game, mainly in its [[controls]].


==Changes==
==Changes==
===Gameplay===
*The game now has widescreen support.
{{todo|Make a video, gif, or some sort of exact timing measurement comparing the time it takes for Pikmin to burn up/drown, in the classic and in this port.}}
*A new control scheme allows control of the cursor by pointing at the screen with the Wii controller. Because of that, the player can now call the Pikmin at a greater distance.
*A new control scheme allows control of the cursor by pointing at the screen with the Wii Remote. Because of that, the player can now [[Whistle|call]] the Pikmin at a greater distance. [[Throw]]s have also received slight physics changes.
*An updated save system allows the player to restart play from any previous day. This allows the player to fix problems, such as the [[Libra Glitch]].
*An updated [[Saved game|save system]] allows the player to restart play from any previous day, from the [[saved game selection menu]]. This allows the player to retry mistakes or fix problems such as the [[Glitches in Pikmin#Libra glitch|Libra glitch]].
*Some sound effects are played by the Wii remote speaker.
*[[Yellow Pikmin]] holding [[bomb-rock]]s no longer drop them when whistled to. In addition, they will automatically try to run out of range of a planted bomb-rock's explosion or throw it at an enemy.
*Enemy sound effects, 'voices' in particular, are different, notably more 'squeaky'.
*When [[Mushroom Pikmin]] attack [[Captain Olimar]], they pause between each hit, while in the original, they would attack over and over.
*Only the "tails" of Pikmin [[spirit]]s are blue, rather than being completely blue as they are in the Gamecube version.
*[[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] last longer when on [[fire]] or [[Water|drowning]].
*Yellow Pikmin holding bomb-rocks no longer drop them when whistled to. In addition, they will automatically try to run out of range of a planted bomb-rock's explosion or throw it at an enemy.
*The player can press {{button|wii|b}} to cycle through the types of Pikmin they are holding and {{button|wii|padd}} to cycle through [[maturity]], a feature which was first introduced in the [[GameCube]] version of ''[[Pikmin 2]]''.
*The [[Enemy Reel]] is presented differently. The Enemy Reel plays as usual, but around the edges of the screen, five-petaled flowers are falling, in addition to what looks like snowflakes towards the end of the Enemy Reel.
*Cutscenes can be skipped, similar to the European localization of the original game.
*[[Pikmin family|Pikmin]] last longer when on fire or drowning.
*When centering the [[camera]] with {{button|wii|z}}, it points to the direction Olimar is facing, and not the direction the cursor is at.
*The carrying numbers are like in [[Pikmin 2]], which means they show the color of the onion they are carried to.
*Whenever the Nunchuk or Wii Remote is disconnected, the gameplay will pause and a prompt will appear notifying the player.
*The player can press up or down on the D-pad to cycle through the types of Pikmin they are holding, a feature which was first introduced in the [[GameCube]] version of [[Pikmin 2]].
*The [[Glitches in Pikmin#Cardboard box cutscene softlock|cardboard box cutscene softlock]] has been fixed.
*During the Bad Ending, Olimar's Ship makes different malfunctioning noises.
*On the GameCube, Pikmin thrown at a [[Pellet Posy]] will knock down the pellet and then return to Olimar, if he is close enough. In ''New Play Control! Pikmin'', the Pikmin stays idle, leading to it [[carrying]] the pellet right after taking it down.
*The Credits play differently; Instead of going from the bottom of the screen to the top, they "roll" across the surface of the planet. Meteors will also occasionaly pass the screen in the background.
*[[Throw]]n flower Pikmin now fall straight instead of twirling horizontally at the apex of their throw arc. This also makes them fall at the same speed as leaf or bud Pikmin, instead of falling slower.
*If a Pikmin holding a [[bomb rock]] is killed, its bomb will only explode when the Pikmin succumbs and its [[soul]] appears. In the original game, its bomb would explode right away.
 
===Graphics===
*The game now supports widescreen.
*The cursor was changed to reflect the new control scheme:
**The cursor is composed of a large pointed ring and a smaller segmented spinning ring inside. The large ring follows the Wii Remote's pointer, and the segmented ring cannot go past a small range around the leader; this is the location Pikmin land on when [[throw]]n.
**Parts of the cursor located under level geometry become gray.
**A faint trail also follows the cursor.
*When Pikmin are being issued to [[swarm]], some arrows will appear between the leader and the [[HUD#Cursor|cursor]]; the latter will also flash yellow.
*When Olimar is behind the level geometry or an object from the [[camera]]'s perspective, his silhouette will be drawn in red to indicate his position. Pikmin do not have these silhouettes.
*The camera will move up when it gets close to a wall.
*The carrying numbers are like in ''[[Pikmin 2]]'', which means they show the type of the Onion they are being carried to.
*The main "bodies" of the Pikmin's souls are now tinted to match their type, similar to how Pikmin souls look in ''Pikmin 2''. The light blue glow and trails Pikmin souls leave behind are unchanged.
*Some bubbles are fused together into one such as the ones that say "Best 5", "Challenge", "Ship Parts", "Pikmin Population", and "Final Analysis". In addition, the text on the [[Challenge Mode menu]] that says "It's the single day challenge mode!" is all in a single line as opposed to two.
*The [[credits]] play differently; instead of going from the bottom of the screen to the top, they "roll" across the surface of the planet. Meteors will also occasionally pass the screen in the background.
*The [[enemy reel]] is presented differently. It plays as usual, but around the edges of the screen, five-petaled flowers are falling, in addition to what looks like snowflakes towards the end of the enemy reel.
*Some fonts and text boxes have been cleaned up, most notably on the [[area selection menu]].
*[[Bomb rock]]s are almost twice as big in this version.
 
===Audio===
*Some sound effects are played by the Wii Remote speaker: [[whistle]], [[dismiss]] sound, the [[swarm]]ing theme, [[punch]]es, the elastic noise when stretching a buried Pikmin to [[pluck]] it, the sounds played when panning and zooming the [[radar]], the whistle when under an [[Onion]], the sound that plays when toggling the held Pikmin type, the noise that plays when damage is taken, the "low [[health]]" beeps, and the jingle that plays when a task is complete.
**In addition, some entirely new sound effects also play from the speaker: two sound effects play when opening and closing [[menu]]s, like the radar or the Onion's menu, and a sound effect that plays when a Pikmin is grabbed onto.
*Some enemy sound effects are different, notably more "squeaky". This is because they have the wrong sample rate, making them play sped up around 6 times. The European and Korean releases fix most of these problems, which were later carried over to the [[Pikmin 1 (Nintendo Switch)|Nintendo Switch port of the game]].
** Almost all Red Bulborb, Dwarf Red Bulborb, Wollywog, and Yellow Wollywog sounds are sped up.
** With the European and Korean versions, Red Bulborb and Dwarf Red Bulborb sounds are working properly, and Wollywogs and Yellow Wollywogs have all sounds corrected except for the death animation thud.
** Some Onion sound effects use a lower sampling rate in the European and Korean versions, making them sound faster.
*During the [[Cutscenes#Bad ending|bad ending]], Olimar's Ship has been given new sound clips.
*The [[saved game selection menu]] had a small change in its [[music]], slowing down the sound effect at the beginning of the theme.
 
===Other===
{{Todo|Check if the enemy naming differences also apply to Australian copies of ''New Play Control! Pikmin''.}}
*Naturally, all references to [[controls]] in the GameCube version have been altered to their Wii counterparts.
*The player can now use the D-pad to navigate through menus.
*The Nintendo logo before the title screen has been updated to resemble the 2006 logo in all regions, rather than the 1983 logo using their regional logo like in the GameCube original.
*The [[title screen]]'s copyright info has been updated from "© 2001,2002 Nintendo" to "© 2001-2009 Nintendo".
*The "Continue from Last Save" option in the [[pause menu]] has been renamed to "Continue from previous save".
*Due to the Wii's system menu, the [[options menu]] lacks the language setting (even in the European version), the [[rumble]] setting, and the mono/stereo setting.
*A typo has been corrected where the [[Onion menu]] would say "There are no blues Pikmin to take out." when attempting to take out more Blue Pikmin than the Onion has.
*Pikmin can no longer [[Glitches in Pikmin#Swimming through gates|swim through gates]].
*The European [[Region|version]] now also supports the PAL 60 Hz frequency, instead of only supporting PAL 50 Hz (see [[Frame#Framerate|framerate]]).
*In the European version, [[Wollywog]]s, [[Yellow Wollywog]]s, [[Wogpole]]s, and [[Pearly Clamclamp]]s were renamed to to Wollyhops, Yellow Wollyhops, Wolpoles, and Clampshells, respectively. These name differences do not exist in the GameCube game. The naming changes to members of the [[Amphituber family]] are likely to have happened because the word "wog" is considered a slur in [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England England] and [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australia Australia]. The Amphituber family naming changes became the norm for the European versions of every subsequent [[Pikmin series|''Pikmin'' game]] and every ''Pikmin'' game in North America since ''[[Pikmin 1+2]]''.
*In the [[Region|Japanese version]] exclusively, a fifth [[attract mode]] movie is present with ''[[Ai no Uta]]'' as the song.
*In the [[Final results menu|Final Analysis]] screen, the [[Anti-Dioxin Filter]] is instead labeled the "Non-Dioxin", and all text is left-justified instead of being centered.
 
==Controls==
{{see|Controls#Pikmin|t1=''New Play Control! Pikmin'' controls}}
 
==History==
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===Development===
 
===Release===
On {{date|1|September|2016}}, the game was made available as an eShop download for the [[Wii U]], in Europe. In North America, it was made available on {{date|29|September|2016}}. Finally, in Japan, it become a Virtual Console download in {{date|20|June|2017}}. As of {{date|27|March|2023}}, the Wii U version of the game is no longer available for purchase due to the closure of the Wii U eShop.
 
The Japanese version of the game is only available in Japanese, the American version is available in English, Latin American Spanish, and Canadian French, the European version of the game is available in English, European French, German, Italian, and Castilian Spanish, and the Korean version of the game is only available in Korean.
 
===Versions===
{{main|Region}}
There are three versions of ''New Play Control! Pikmin''. One version was released in Japan, and uses Japanese text, another was released in North America, and uses English text, and a third was released in Europe and Oceania, and uses European-language texts. Beside language options, there are almost no differences between the North American and the European releases, except for the fact that the latter renamed some [[enemies]] in order to avoid controversy.
 
To note is that ''New Play Control! Pikmin'' is a Wii port of the 2001 [[GameCube]] original, titled simply {{p1}}. The Wii port has some substantial differences to the GameCube release, as seen in the [[#Changes|changes section]].
 
===Reception===
 
==Credits==
{{see|Credits#New Play Control! Pikmin|t1=''New Play Control! Pikmin'' credits}}
 
==Media==
{{todo|Upload the flip side of the covers.}}
<gallery>
Japanese New Play Control! Pikmin.jpg|Japanese box art.
Pikmin KR Wii.jpg|Korean box art.
NPC! Pikmin logo.jpg|Logo.
NPCP1 Communication Interrupted error.jpg|Communication Interrupted error.
NPCP1 No Nunchuck error.jpg|No Nunchuck error.
</gallery>
{{see also|Promotional material}}
 
==Trivia==
*The save data description is ''"Pikmin are alive!"''
*This is the first game in the ''Pikmin'' series to be available in Korean, Latin American Spanish, and Canadian French.
 
==Names in other languages==
{{foreignname
|Jap=Wiiであそぶピクミン
|JapR=Wii de Asobu Pikumin
|JapM=Let's Play On Wii Pikmin
|Fra=Nouvelle façon de jouer ! Pikmin
|FraM=New way to play! Pikmin
|FraN=From cover, written as Pikmin NOUVELLE FAÇON DE JOUER ! on official website.
|Ger=New Play Control! Pikmin
|GerM=-
|Ita=New Play Control! Pikmin
|ItaM=-
|Spa=New Play Control! Pikmin
|SpaM=-
|Kor=피크민
|KorR=pikeumin
|KorM=Pikmin
|KorN=This version lacks ''[[New Play Control!]]'' branding, likely because this is the first time any version of the game was released in Korea.
|Dut=NEW PLAY CONTROL! Pikmin
|DutM=-
|DutN=Name taken from various official sources.
|PorP=NEW PLAY CONTROL! Pikmin
|PorPM=-
|PorPN=Name taken from the official ''New Play Control! Pikmin'' website.
|Rus=NEW PLAY CONTROL! Pikmin
|RusM=-
|RusN=Name taken from the official ''New Play Control! Pikmin'' website.
|notes=y
}}
 
== See also ==
*[[Pikmin (game)|Pikmin]]
*[[Pikmin 1 (Nintendo Switch)]]
*[[New Play Control! Pikmin 2]]
 
==External links==
*[http://www.pikmin.com/ Official North American ''New Play Control! Pikmin'' website]
*[http://www.nintendo.co.uk/NOE/en_GB/games/wii/new_play_control_pikmin_11210.html Official European ''New Play Control! Pikmin'' website]
*[http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/r9ij/index.html Official Japanese Wii de Asobu Pikmin website]
*[http://www.nintendo.co.kr/Wii/software/pikmin/main.php ''Pikmin'' listing on official Wii website of South Korea]
*[https://www.nintendo.com/consumer/gameslist/manuals/Wii_Play_Control_Pikmin.pdf US version instruction manual]
*[https://m1.nintendo.net/docvc/RVL/JPN/R9IJ/R9IJ_J.pdf Japanese version instruction manual]
*[http://wiifolder.com/?p=144 Video demo]
 
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==External Links==
*Official New Play Control! Pikmin [http://www.pikmin.com/ website] (North American).
*Official Pikmin (Wii de Asobu) [http://www.nintendo.co.jp/wii/r9ij/index.html website] (Japanese).
*[http://wiifolder.com/?p=144 Video Demo] of the game.
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