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General Boards => Gaming => Topic started by: TerraEsperZ on May 26, 2008, 02:33:08 pm
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I'm been trying to find a Wii somewhere in Quebec City for the past week and I'm starting to think that the Wii is in fact Vaporware, i.e. it doesn't exist. I mean, this is the first console I've wanted to buy since, well, ever (my previous console was a NES that my sister and I received for Christmas as a child) and Nintendo apparently doesn't want my money, or that of many other potential buyer. How can a console so established still not be available in enough number to satisfy demand!?
Every major store in town who has sold Wiis have given me the same answer: we don't accept order/pre-order, and we don't know when we'll get more or even how many but they'll be gone within the hour. Apparently, Nintendo is losing millions in potential sales because people can't find Wiis and eventually give up buying one in frustration. Well I can understand that, especially since without a car, there's no chance for me to ever find one.
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Current projects: ?????? (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man V (GB), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), etc
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Still looking for one? 0_0 What is this, 2006? :P
By this time in 2006, I had already played it at E3. :P
And I got it on the first day in North America. :P
Though my mom was the one who was in line for the pre-order since that was a weekday. >_> Thanks, mom!
I'm only finally getting a car this week, so I'm still behind in life-related things like that, so I should shut up...
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We ended up buying a Wii in Colorado and sending it to our cousins in California just because they're so much harder to find there. I think it has a lot to do with the region. I keep thinking the supplies will increase to meet demand, but they must not be able to make them fast enough. Good luck!
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I remember getting some Wii games as Christmas presents in 2006 but not getting the Wii until a week later. At least we got an Atari Flashback to keep us busy during the time (Pitfall is fun).
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"its a good day to do what has to be done by me and help my brother to defeat the enemys" - John Freeman
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Don't you live in Quebec?
I remember something a few years back about the premier of Quebec complaining to Nintendo that Pok?mon didn't have French names at the time. Maybe that's why Nintendo doesn't like Quebec. :P
("La tios" and "Le dyba" sound French to me... :P)
In French speaking areas, is there any confusion of "Wii" with the word "oui"?
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Nope, because of a little called 'context' :)
And don't get me started on the whole "let's sacrifice babies to Satan to protect French" thing we've got going on right now. At least in Québec the city, it's destroyed any incentive I ever had of seeing movies in theaters (we no longer get any movie in their original language except for art films, and those we do get are increasingly dubbed here with disastrous results, like with Transformers and now Indiana Jones).
Heck, apparently the French Canadian text in Super Mario Galaxy for the most part reads like it was written by our equivalent of rednecks...
Anyway, I want a Wii bad, mostly for Wii Fit (I'm a bit overweight and could benefit from losing 15-20 pounds) but also for a few other titles like Super Mario Galaxy, and maybe a few like NiGHTS: Journey Of Dreams (it's cheap), as well as a few GameCube titles I'm interested in that I've missed seeing as the Wii is backward compatible.
But it doesn't look like Nintendo is going to increase their production output sufficiently for that until after people stop buying them or they introduce a new system. You know, Murphy's law and all...
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Current projects: ?????? (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man V (GB), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), etc
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Terra, if you're that desperate, I could do some looking around where I live, between all the Future Shops and what not, there should be at least one hiding around the city somewhere. I could pick one up for you and send it to you. It's the least I could do since you sent me the Reboot movie back a while ago, though I'd kinda need to be payed back for this though ^^;
And are you talking about the whole "minorities in Quebec are diluting our culture so we're going to destroy theirs" thing that's been going on lately? (I live over in Ontario; it's all over our news too).
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This looks like a job for Science!
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Yeah, it's fucking annoying, but the issues is typical in that both sides don't want to compromise. Some Quebecers are overly sensitive and can't tolerate that some people have different customs and heck, can be just plain racist ("damn aliens are stealing our jobs!"), but at the same time you have several vocal minority groups demanding separate rights that go against the established laicism in goverment and our ideals for equality between genders, such as demanding frosted windows in a YWCA (because Hasidic Jewish man are offended at seeing women in a pool), allowing religious symbols in schools and certain public functions such as the Chadri (thereby giving no excuse to those woman who don't want to wear it but are forced to by their families).
I'll summarize my feelings by saying that if you move to a country, you implicitly accept their customs and laws. Certain principles like separation of church and state, equality and opportunity for all and freedom of expression, are non-negotiable. The rest is up to you to do as you please. But coming to a country and trying to import your backward restrictions (I'm deliberately avoiding the word customs because customs aren't the problems, the restrictions they establish in the names of tradition and/or religion are) is unacceptable.
Anyway Eggz, that would be neat. I don't know how expensive shipping would be, as that would factor in my decision, but provided it was reasonable, I'd be really thankful for the help :)
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Current projects: ?????? (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man V (GB), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), etc
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I'll look into it tomorrow and let you know.
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This looks like a job for Science!
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Thank you for being so helpful :)
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Current projects: ?????? (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man V (GB), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), etc
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Nintendo must have decided that everybody who wanted a THE NINTENDO REVOLUTION already got one, so why bother putting out more?
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It was easier to go shopping when Nintendo wasn't so popular. I would go into a games store and be the only one browsing through the GameCube section.
Now whenever I go to look for a video game in the Wii section, I'm fighting off families ogling over Wii Play and Big Brain Academy. Meanwhile, I'm like, "make room! I just need to grab Metroid Prime 3: Corruption!" >_<
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Apparently, Amazon.ca has some Wii in stock, so for a variety of reasons, I'll most likely order from them.
So far, I'm interested in a few specific games (like I said previously, Super Mario Galaxy, Wii Fit, NiGHTS: Journey Of Dreams, Sonic and the Secret Rings), but I'm interested to hear reviews for other games people have brought.
Like Metroid Prime 3: Corruption for example; I never played the first two so I have no idea what to expect from this one. I've also heard that Rayman Raving Rabbids is really fun. So suggest away everyone, as well as what potential options and peripherals I might like (Virtual Console doesn't interest me, since I pretty much already get my fix through emulation, with the added bonuses of savestates).
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Current projects: ?????? (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man V (GB), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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Zack & Wiki. Go.
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How bout a description of the gameplay and why it's so great? Please :)?
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"With the first link, the chain is forged. The first speech censored, the first thought forbidden, the first freedom denied, chains us all irrevocably." [...] The first time any man's freedom is trodden on, we're all damaged. - Captain Jean-Luc Picard
Current projects: ?????? (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man V (GB), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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What about Zelda? You should get both Twilight Princess and Wind Waker if you haven't played them. And if you expect to play with friends often, Smash Bros. is a must. As for Gamecube, I'd recommend Eternal Darkness, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron 2, Super Mario Sunshine, and Pikmin 1 or 2.
I don't think you'd be a Metroid Prime fan, unless you have an FPS obsession you never told me about. I thought the first two were fairly entertaining, but I never finished either of them.
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Games I've enjoyed on Wii:
- Super Mario Galaxy. Best Mario ever.
- Super Paper Mario - more Mario
- Bully - silly GTA-like sandbox game, with surprisingly good story and characterisation
- Kororinpa - Japanese marble rolling. What more do you need to know?
- Dr. Mario (WiiWare) - it's just Dr. Mario, you either love it or think it's "meh". This one you can play online.
- Mario Kart Wii - just for the online fun. I actually suck at this game.
Games I've been disappointed by:
- Zelda TP - I'm not a Zelda fan (or any RPG for that matter), so I find it rather gruelling and slow.
- Wii Sports - fine for playing with family but as a gamer I find it all too vague and imprecise.
- Metroid - again, it really helps to be a fan of the series.
- Rayman Raving Rabbids - if you think the videos of it on YouTube are hilarious then you'll like the game. If a deformed rabbit saying "AAAAARGH" stops being funny the 10th time, maybe not for you.
- Elebits - great fun for about 3 hours, then it's dull.
The most important thing to do with your Wii is to NOT connect it via the bundled component cable. Get whatever you can in your country (RGB over SCART here, probably "component" there) to make it not be a rainbow-hued fuzzy wrong-colour wobbling mess.
Well, that and get it connected to the internet, but that goes without saying.
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Super Smash Bros. Brawl. Obviously.
The Trauma Center games are awesome. Surgery is more fun than it ought to be. Turbulence, dark tunnels, time bombs, toy locks, manmade pathogens, the scenarios and story are certainly NOT what you would see on an episode of ER.
Super Paper Mario is awesome. It's like oldschool platforming with a neato "3D rotation" twist and the humour and RPG elements taken from the Paper Mario RPGs.
Look up Zack & Wiki on GameTrailers.com. It's another one of those underappreciated games. Think point-and-click adventure with Wii Remote motion controls when using items. It's like Eternal Darkness, Beyond Good & Evil, and Psychonauts in that people won't stop saying how awesome it is so in some circles you might hear too much about it yet some groups of people have no idea.
(In the same vein, they say Okami's like that. That game with the dog and the inkbrush to do attacks or spells or something, now with Wii controls? I have yet to try this out myself, though.
I also haven't played No More Heroes, but it's developed by the same guy who did Killer7 (GameCube), one of the most uniquely demented games out there, that I want to make time for it. Since you'll be able to play GameCube games, try Killer7 one day, too.)
In general anything published/developed by Nintendo is good, though I personally have not yet tried Excite Truck, Wii Play, or Mario Kart Wii yet. Ask me about anything else by Nintendo, and I've likely played it (and loved it).
Get the Wii connected to the Internet. I had mine connected with the official wireless USB connector ('cause I had it before for my DS) but personally I find the wired connection better (using the LAN Adapter that you stick in one of the back USB ports). Either way you have to buy a part from Nintendo, you can't just stick the ethernet cable straight into the Wii. >_<
Then you can purchase WiiWare games, which are new games like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life As A King, which my brother absolutely loves. (It's like a city management sim where you send out parties of adventurers to dungeons to play Final Fantasy for you.) It's surprisingly deep and good-looking for a downloadable game, it looks like it could've sold well even if put on a disc. Takes up a lot of room on your Wii, but if you don't plan on getting any VC games, then you'll be more than okay.
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I forgot Excite Truck. For a low-rated launch title, it's amazing fun and doesn't look half bad. Wii Play is rather weak - look at it as a freebie demo disc with a Wiimote, or a cheap "casual" game to play with non-gamers, like Wii Sports.
I don't see the reason to mess around with USB LAN adaptors or USB Wifi bridges - just get a proper wifi router and everything works. if you don't have a router at all then you're nuts, exposing a computer to the internet without a decent NAT/firewall device is a really bad idea.
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Brawl and Mario Kart Wii I find sufficiently addictive.
And of course if you haven't played it yet, I highly recommend Twilight Princess. And if you want to scrounge around for a Wii Zapper, I hear Link's Crossbow Training is a nifty time killer as well.
As for GameCube games, meh, too many to list. I think the folks above have chimed in well enough. ;0)
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"So this is what it's like..."
- Spark Mandrill
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Finally, my Wii has been ordered through Amazon.ca. Would you believe that the very next day after noticing they had some, the day I was ready to order one, they ran out of stock? I've been checking on local stores ever since, and I was unlucky enough that the two times I was told they would have some for sure, I was out of town and thus couldn't go.
Anyway, it should get here in a couple of days. Games and accessories of course are not a problem. Every store in town is overrun by them.
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Current projects:
Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen): Up To Planet Sonata, Round 4-1
Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen): Up To Spring Yard Zone, Act 2
Sonic CD (Sega CD): Almost Up To Quartz Quadrant Zone, Act 1
Mega Man Zero (GBA): Up To Neo Arcadia Shrine, Missing Overworld
Battletoads (NES): Missing Turbo Tunnel, Surf City & Volkmire's Inferno
Bucky O'Hare (NES): Up To Blue Planet, Act 6
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Let me know if you do get Brawl and are hooked up online. For the fastest-selling Nintendo game ever, I'm surprised I don't have a single Friend Code from anyone for that yet. >_<
Though I may put SSBB on hold (I kind of already have), as I'll be borrowing a friend's PS2 soon, and catching up on last generation's games on the non-Nintendo side of things, so I may be asking about games to rent/borrow for that... :P
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I doubt it, as I really, *really* have no interest in fighting games, even those starring classic Nintendo characters. Doubly so for sucking immensely at them. Memorizing button combinations for attacks and combos is bad enough, but having no worthwhile reflexes is even worse.
Unless you can convince me the single player mode is good enough to warrant a purchase, with the multi player mode being a nice bonus.
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Current projects: Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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Well I'm just glad you finally managed to get ahold of it. Have fun.
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Well, what I was looking forward to Brawl most was actually the single-player story mode, The Subspace Emissary. I knew that the multiplayer would mostly be the same experience (as Melee), other than new characters and new arenas, and that I would surely get my butt kicked.
While some parts of Subspace Emissary do seem like silly fan-fiction, overall I liked the story, though the end was weak. And I guess I should clarify; I like the cut-scenes in Subspace Emissary, but the actual gameplay, the platforming got repetitive, especially near the end when they artificially lengthen the gameplay by having you revisit many of the game's previous locales. However, I played all of it before touching multiplayer (because my brother was studying at the time), so it was actually a good chance to learn how to use characters I wouldn't usually consider, so at least the first time around, it didn't seem too bad.
And the stickers and trophies and the "Chronicle" are meant for oldschool fans, you can't not love all the history in this. You might not care who these nobodies from Donkey Kong Barrel Blast are, but I'm sure you'll find someone in there you thought Nintendo long forgot about.
Have you even played Super Smash Bros. or Super Smash Bros. Melee, Terra? You don't need to memorize button combos, really. Moves are just pressing a certain direction + A or B...it's easy to learn, though there are subtleties to master...auto-handicap makes matches more fun when you have a bunch of people playing with different skill/experience levels.
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Finally installed my Wii today after throwing the extended family out (it was nice to have them for the holiday but I need a weekend to myself every once in a while). Made a Mii just for the heck, because the bugger sure is ugly. Connecting it to the Internet might take a few days until I can get to a game store (and get a GameCube controller and memory card too, to see if that scratched Sonic Adventure DX disc was worth the 5$ I paid for it).
I did play Super Mario Galaxy for the last several hours and I will honestly say I don't think I've ever had this much fun with a game since, well... ever! Some people say that they preferred Super Mario 64 to this, but I completely disagree. I hated more than half of the worlds from SM64, and found many of the missions boring and tedious. True, I'm not that far along (also completed all the stars from the first two domes) but so far it's almost perfect :)
I also bought NiGHTS: Journey Of Dreams despite reviewers rating it as inferior to the original one, since this is most likely my only chance to experience a real NiGHT game (though there are rumors of an updated version of the original coming to PCs in the future via Steam or something similar). Apparently, the game is played best with the Classic Wii controller, which saddens me a bit because it means another purchase; I'm not made of money you know!
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Current projects: Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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SMG has a few tedious missions, ones that come to mind are the "Purple coins on the Battlerock", "Luigi's Purple Coins", the garbage dump stages, and some of the Cosmic Mario races. But compared to the treadmill stage in Super Paper Mario, it's not bad :)
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I'm not sure about changing cables, as I don't have a monster TV. It's a simple flat screen 27 inch CRT TV; the only annoying thing I've noticed is the limited vertical resolution, and seeing as my TV can't even do 480p which is the maximum the Wii supports, I'm not ready to "invest" into expensive cables that won't dramatically increase the quality output.
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Current projects: Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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I'm glad you're enjoying it! I too found Super Mario Galaxy more fun than 64, though I have more nostalgia for the latter. I don't have a classic controller, but I think the Gamecube controller works fine. Sure, the d-pad is a little small, but it's not a big deal for me. Try to get a Wavebird they're great.
As for the cables, they're worth it, but never EVER buy cables like that in local stores. They're way overpriced. Just last week I got an HDMI cable for less than $2 online when they retail for over $70 in stores like Best Buy.
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I play on a non-monster TV too - a CRT I bought second-hand for £40 (that's CA$80) that's probably about the same size as yours. The bundled composite video cable seems fine until you try something better. I noticed colours in SMG that I couldn't see with the bundled cable; it took away all the shimmering, blurriness and colour fringing on high-contrast screens like anything with text; and (if this doesn't sound like a downside) it meant I could actually see some of the pixels on-screen.
Since you're across the pond, your TV (with RGB electron guns in the tube) probably can't accept RGB inputs, but a cable that supports the best it's got (component, S-video) will be a worthwhile investment, believe me. Moreso if, as suggested, you buy the cheapest one you can get.
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Interesting... I'll have to look into this...
As for the Wavebird, what advantage does it have over the standard GC controller, aside from being wireless and thus a battery gobbler (my main reason for hating wireless; the moment they invent a *safe* way to transmit power through the air, I'll be happy beyond belief)?
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Current projects: Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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It's not a battery gobbler at all, I can only remember changing the batteries 3 or 4 times in the last 5+ years. Besides being wireless, though, it's the same (minus rumble).
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To be fair, I'm lazy enough that changing batteries more than once a year counts as "battery gobbler" to me ;P. Seems interesting, and I've never cared about rumbling anyway. I wonder if they're hard to find new however.
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Current projects: Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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The thing to consider is that it's only transmitting a few metres, and it's only transmitting when the input changes. For digital inputs, that's actually really slowly - maybe 5 times per second at most, usually much less often. So the data throughput is on the order of a few bytes per second, which doesn't need much power.
Devices that are more active, like mice, analogue controls and of course the Wiimote, are transmitting data at a higher rate (maybe hundreds of bytes per second), usually have more on-board processing to do, and thus sap batteries a lot faster. I have a set of 2700mAh rechargeables in my Wiimote and laser mouse and recharge them every maybe every 2 weeks if I'm using them very heavily, but more like every 3 months for light use.
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I bought a second WaveBird off of eBay particularly for Super Smash Bros. Brawl, and by that time, they were already discontinued by Nintendo and hard to find.
I believe Nintendo did release (or will release? I haven't kept up) a "Wii White" GameCube controller with a long cable, but it would've been nice if they released a "Wii White" WaveBird (with rumble and speaker, while they're at it :P). They would sell a crapload of those if they advertised "for playing classic VC games and GameCube games on the Wii", if only because there are people that STILL don't know you can play those on it.
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Well, I finally bought a good old Platinum GameCube controller, as I found a brand new one on sale for 15$, as well as a memory card so I could finally check if my SADX disc was working despite all the scratches. Turns out it does, so I really got my money's worth on this.
As for new video cables, my TV does accept component input but will only display in 480i, not 480p (I finally found the manual online to check the specs). Still, I've found Wii component cables online for 9$; it certainly can't hurt to try!
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Current projects: Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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Man, you weren't kidding about "Luigi's Purple Coins" being frustrating (I still haven't beaten it), although "Purple coins on the Battlerock", while annoying, was fairly easy to compelte. "The Battlestation's Purple Coins" however has me wanting to throw the controller through the TV screen in frustration >:(.
At first I didn't want to start another game until I had the first 120 stars, but those last few purple comets made me re-think that decision.
I started playing NiGHTS yesterday and I really like it, although I find it straining on my thumb to use the joypad on the GameCube controller to move.
Of course, all mapping is suspended until the initial Wii rush subsides ;)
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Current projects: Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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I just remembered "purple coins, on rails, with guns" and looked it up in a FAQ. I completely forgot how similar those two galaxies were.
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I finally obtained all 120 stars with Mario ("Luigi's Purple Coins" was definitely the worst thanks to the whole level featuring no safe spot aside from the starting platform).
The Luigi quest I'll put aside for now; the Cosmic Comets with him are almost impossible given how clumsy I am with a controller.
I really should comment on the soundtrack of the game which is, to me, unquestionably the best Mario soundtrack ever. The orchestral and grandiose score complements the epic setting perfectly.
Heck, after having Mario save the whole Universe from Bowser, I wonder what else they can find for the next "main" game. I mean, it's hard to go bigger or more epic than this. Maybe they'll finally go back to the Mushroom Kingdom and actually have an actual plot and develop the characters for a change (which I guess they did in the various Mario RPG games, but they're not really part of the "main" Mario series, more like side stories).
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Current projects: Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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I'm glad someone else saw the ending of Super Mario Galaxy as being epic. When you think about it, the mere process itself is technically more epic than all other endings combined (highlight for SPOILERS) [(unless other games have a Big Crunch/Big Bang ending too)]...
I liked the story of Zack & Wiki. The ending was cool, too. I saw Zack & Wiki at Blockbuster the other day, used, for $20. If I hadn't finished it to the max on a rental, I probably would've picked it up. Maybe I should have on principle anyway.
Did you get any WiiWare or Virtual Console games, Terra? I only played a bit of Dr. Mario, but my brother downloaded that, FFCC:MLaaK, and Pok?mon Ranch...
I'm finally feeling the storage crunch that everyone else is complaining about. External storage would be nice... >_>
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We finally picked up a Wii this past weekend. It came bundled with GH3 (old news since I beat it while away at school), but I picked up RE4 while at Future shop buying a new laptop. Haven't even cracked the plastic on the game yet, but I'll let you know my impressions when I do.
And I figure it's just as well we got a Wii, seeing as my sister destroyed one of the memory card slots on our 360 last week by trying to jam a UBS controller cable in there...
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My Wii is still not online, at least not until I change my router. I've been thinking about buying a wireless one for a while, but since my old one still works fine, why change? And since there's a chance I'll change it, why buy the Wii wireless USB adapter, which nobody has confirmed for me that it's Vista compatible.
I'm just not interest in the Virtual Console when I can have pretty much all the games I want online (illegally, true, but still) with graphical filters and savestates to boot. As for WiiWare, so far only Megaman 9 looks like it might interest me, provided it turns out good (which I'm not completely convinced of so far).
Regarding storage space, can you save downloaded data to an SD card, or are you limited to save data as well as photos and songs? The Wii site isn't too explicit about that.
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Current projects: Ristar-The Shooting Star (Gen), Sonic The Hedgehog (Gen), Sonic CD (Sega CD), Mega Man Zero (GBA), Battletoads (NES), Bucky O'Hare (NES)
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Wii games will save onto the internal flash storage. The SD slot is for backing up saves to an SD card, I haven't yet seen any games that can save directly to it (though in SSBB you can copy replays and snapshots to it in-game). I never played Excite Truck, but supposedly that lets you play MP3s off of the card there during gameplay. You can have your photos and MP3s (or AACs or whatever now) for the Photo Channel. You can copy some Channels there, though I don't really see a point as you can't run them off of there, and you can redownload the ones you'd need again, and you'd need to be online to use most downloadable Channels anyway...
Some games, like Super Smash Bros. Brawl, can't have their saves copied to the SD card. Same with how GameCube saves couldn't be moved or copied from one card to another. I could kind of understand the restriction if it was a Pok?mon game, where a copied save means it's too easy to cheat, but the restriction on SSBB saves pretty much means that if you want a tournament, EVERY Wii is going to have to go through however many hours it takes to unlock all the characters and stages. Boo! That's just silly.