Wallpapers Wednesday : Ninja Gaiden 2 Official Wallpapers
The Xbox 360 game Ninja Gaiden II has definitely broken the world record for the highest number of official downloadable wallpapers available. Not 100, not 200 but over 6000(!) 
The premise of Ninja Gaiden II’s Embrace The Blade dynamic wallpaper generation feature revolves around the selection of weapons and equipment from Ryu Hayabusa’s rather impressive armoury.
You have to select 3 out of the 8 melee weapons (and yes, the order matters) , 2 of the 4 projectile weapons available and finally one of the ninpos (I assume they’re martial techniques )
The available choices are listed below. I’ll explain the significance of the numbers beside each item in a short while.
Melee Weapons
© Team Ninja / Microsoft
00. Lunar Staff
01. Tonfa - These weapons were originally used by farmers who were forbidden to bear arms.
02. Vigoorian Flail - An interesting variation of the nunchaku with sickles in place of batons.
03. Dragon’s Claw and Tiger’s Fang - The legendary Miyamato Musashi was the most famous proponent of the dual sword techniques.
04. Falcon’s Talon
05. Dragon Sword
06. Kusari-gama - The sickle is used to finish off opponents whose weapons were ensnared or disarmed by the attached chain. A famous proponent of the kusari-gama being Yamada Shinryukan according to the book Secrets of the Samurai (pg 317).
07. Eclipse Scythe
Projectile Weapons
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00 Shuriken
01 Windmill Shuriken
02 Incendiary Shuriken
03 Fiend’s Bane Bow
Ninpo
© Team Ninja / Microsoft
00 Art of the Inferno
01 Art of the Wind Blades
02 Art of the Piercing Void
03 Art of the Flame Phoenix
Here’s a couple of the generated wallpapers.
© Team Ninja / Microsoft
A typical wallpaper link looks like the URL below:
http://www.ng2pvp.com/wallpaper/1024×768/n_01-0203-020603_1024×768.jpg
The first 2 digits after n denote the ninpo type, the next 4 digits the two projectile selected weapon codes (six combinations 0001, 0002, 0003, 0102, 0103, 0203 since order does not matter here) and the final six digits signify the 3 chosen melee weapons (order does matter here so 020100 and 000102 will generate different wallpapers).
As you can see, there’s a mind-staggering number of possible combinations as mentioned earlier (or more precisely a total of 6048(!)). If you’re just as obsessive as me in collecting every single possible wallpaper, you can either click your mouse to death for over 6000 times or load this handy text file with all the possible URLs into your favourite download manager. (my favourite is the open source Free Download Manager). Just be prepared to allocate around 500 MB for all the wallpapers.
© Team Ninja / Microsoft
There’s also another wallpaper of Ryu Hayabusa exclusive to the official site in 1024×768 and 1280×1024 resolutions (scroll down on the main page, nearly missed this one)
Download the Ninja Gaiden II wallpapers.
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:)) that’s crazy man, you’ve download it all!! :))
you even create a script to generate the urls, neat
i stop collecting wallpaper ( 4gigs ) once i use black background or one car that i focus to buy in my PC.
but i collect hundred gigs of divx for sure
I originally cut and paste the urls for each combination until I calculated the possible combinations. Really glad I didn’t flunk my maths in school
I haven’t got much vids on my harddisk but my wallpaper and digital art collections is growing for sure.
BTW which car are you aiming for?
Is this out in June..?
I’m way behind on release dates at the moment…
Can’t complain about his arsenal, thats for sure!
The Vigoorian Flail looks painful.
not too expensive, vw golf or any other city car
Hi DEITRIX, the official page says it’s going to be out next Tue on the 3rd.
@Kenny, the flails look vicious but I think I fear the Eclipse Scythe more …
@Dian, I thought you were aiming for a Lamborghini or Ferrari
This game really mind blowing! Nice info on those weapons that you’ve posted there!