The Official Nintendo Wii Discussion Thread

[CoasterFanatic]

Personally, I always thought of impulse buy as small ticket items such as peanuts, gum, pocket sanitizer. You know ... the things right by the register that you buy on a whim before checking out.

[Masked_Maverick]

I think next time I am at Best Buy I will "impulsivley" buy Warioware, Red Steel, Rayman and Elebits and maybe excite truck I am kinda jonesing for a Wii racing game anyway. Anyone know how Tony Hawk is? I'd like to get it but I am afraid it might suck.

[Sir Clinksalot]

^ I'd pass on Tony Hawk. Honestly, ExciteTruck is 100 times better. All the cool stuff about the tony hawk games is gone and it's pretty much like a racing game ... but on a skateboard.

[CoasterFanatic]

For those that are interested, Super Mario World (SNES) came out this past week.

 

// we want Super Metroid dammit!

[Masked_Maverick]

^^ That's a shame Tony Hawk could of been something special on the Wii.

[BorisTF]

For those that are interested, Super Mario World (SNES) came out this past week.

 

// we want Super Metroid dammit!

I'm just glad us Euros got it the same week as you guys

 

I'm still wanting Link To The Past

[stingrock23]

I'm still waiting for Contra from NES to come out. I downloaded Contra 3 for SNES, but it's just not the same

[Sir Clinksalot]

^ Wonder if the "Code" will still work on Contra ... and the other games.

[BorisTF]

^ Wonder if the "Code" will still work on Contra ... and the other games.

The games are direct emulations, the classic up, down, left, right START+A works on sonic, so i see no reason why that one wouldn't...

[Masked_Maverick]

Is it too much to hope for some of the old Game Boy/GBC/GBA games?

[Shavethewhales]

Ah man, today I picked up my wii-mote only to find it not working. After changing the batteries and re-syncing several times, it still isn't working. Anyone else had this happen?

[onewheeled999]

I found two Classic Controllers at Circuit City yesterday. I'm not sure if these are rare or not, but i didn't buy them. No wii yet.

[Homer]

I was *SO* close to a Wii today.

 

I waltzed in to my local EB as usual on my break and noticed there were black DS lites on the shelf. I was hoping by some slim margin there would be one Wii left or something.

 

There wasn't . Here's hoping that Monday has a shipment at my local EB!

[pvcoasterguy]

Despite our area's population, the stores here get very few Wiis. So, I decided to just try the internet.

 

There are two different bundles for sale on http://www.gamestop.com. They are marked as 'Pre-Sell--Ships on Feb. 28'. I bought one, as the chances of getting one here are very, very slim. To my suprise, it shipped on Feburary 9, two days after I had purchased it. I was SO happy!

 

The bundles contain a Wii system, an extra Wiimote, and an extra Nunchuk, four games (dependent on which bundle you choose), and a memory card. There really isn't much of a discount for buying them all together, but you do get everything you need. If you're having a great deal of trouble finding one, and are willing to buy a couple of things together, these bundles are well worth it.

[BorisTF]

I found two Classic Controllers at Circuit City yesterday. I'm not sure if these are rare or not, but i didn't buy them. No wii yet.

About as rare as any other official Wii stuff over here.

[Angry_Gumball]

All I ever find are Classic Controllers...we've got an over abundance of them. It's weird...I have 3 nunchuks, and my 3rd one's still unopened. Probably because I'm waiting for the opportunity for all of us to get playing again when we have time to unwind and just play some games.

[Masked_Maverick]

I have seen every Wii accessory around here except for the Points Cards which ticks me off becasue I want to download some of the classic games and I have no credit or debit cards.

[Angry_Gumball]

so this isn't quite an original idea as I found this on Ninty's forums...but I made my own variations of this...which could be very intersting when it comes to coasters. Please note that these are Cell phone pix as I'm too lazy to grab my camera (And I actually like my Cell's (Razr V3xx's) cam. Amyway, enjoy! And I hope to see some of your creative ideas.

(In a dazed voice) "It's through the fences...."

"Ow...that was a rough spot!"

Wii!!11!

Proper Wiimote usage demonstration. (Even the Wiimote uses the straps properly...)

Operation Double-A

So the Wii can play NDS games...

[Masked_Maverick]

^ Maybe I'm missing something but what were you trying to demonstrate?

[Angry_Gumball]

^Just random pix of Wiimotes 'in the form of people.'

[X-L-R-8]

^ You're absolutely right. Using a theme park analogy, PS3 is like building the next great B&M multi-looper. You'll have seen all the elements before, but this time a little bigger, a little longer, and a little faster.

 

Where the Wii is like creating something unique and cool, like "Winjas." Not the tallest, not the fastest, but OMG it's so cool!!!!

 

--Robb

 

 

 

activision helped develop wii?

[Angry_Gumball]

^They made games for the Wii, in which they needed a Wii dev kit to develop the game and test things out.

[onewheeled999]

Yeah, This isn't really about the Wii, but it's Nintendo: I got out my dad's old NES two days ago. Classic Nintendo, such as Duck Hunt and Top Gun. Awesome.

[DeliriumTrigger]

For those who didn't get the shiny blue light...there's a new (free) Wii channel available now, the "Everybody Votes" channel.

 

Run a system update and then go download through the Wii Shop channel.

[Angry_Gumball]

There's only like 3 polls to vote on so far...too bad we couldn't do more options to pick from...so we could do a 'which coaster manufacturer is better' poll.