The **Official** Nintendo Wii Thread

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pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
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WOOT! I'm getting a Wii and Zelda! lol, i feel like a little kid!

So now someone recommend me some other games. Some good multiplayer games would be nice, even if they are GC games, since I haven't really touched a Nintendo product since the SNES.
 

purbeast0

No Lifer
Sep 13, 2001
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Originally posted by: slag
Just got back from my local EB games. They got some accessories in today.

Picked up 2 remotes and the last nunchuck. I should have looked for cables...

Now my 5 yr old can beat me at tennis.

did they get some in? or were they just selling the preorder stuff that wasn't claimed yet.

The gamestop near me did that this morning. If the people didn't pick up their stuff by last night, then it went back on sale today. thats how i got my nunchuk.
 

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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I've found that the Wii really should sit on a hard surface like a shelf in an entertainment center. I had mine sitting on the rug in my living room because I haven't run the wires behind the TV yet, and the bottom of it was warm just from being in standby mode. There are vents on the bottom (what would be the bottom if it's laying flat), and putting it on the rug covered the vents. I put it on a hard surface and it didn't even feel warm after a few hours of playing. Same deal if you have it standing up - there are vents on the bottom, and the stand looks like it's designed to have a gap at the bottom for air to flow in.
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
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to play GC games, do you have to use a GC controller or can you use the wii controllers or even the wii gamepad (the one for the virtual console games)?
 

BD2003

Lifer
Oct 9, 1999
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Alright, here are the most detailed instructions I can give to make your own component cable, elaborated from the first post:

Disclaimer: Do not attempt this if you have never spliced, stripped, cut, or otherwise messed with cabling before. You will probably screw it up, and you won't have ANY working cable, and right now it is IMPOSSIBLE to find it in stores. I take absolutely ZERO responsibility for anything that happens to your cable, wii, equipment or body. This is also not for people who can't bare to be without their Wii for a second, get frustrated easy, cry easily, are PMSing, or retarded.

If you know what you're doing, you can do it in under an hour. If you don't, it'll take you a while. As long as you don't cut or remove anything you shouldnt, you can give up at practically any time, and the composite should still work just fine.

You will need:

A wire stripper/cutter
2 or more large paper clips
Electrical tape/heatshrink
Needle nose pliers, or soldering iron optional
3 spare RCA or Component cables
Balls

First take the grey cover off the composite cable. This is probably the hardest part...you need something very thin and VERY stiff. I ended up just cutting away at the little clips in the front. You want to push the wire through, NOT pull it out. Then get that little black plastic clip out of the way. Also get rid of that little metal thing that bundles the wires.

Take one of the black wires from the composite cable, DO NOT REMOVE IT. Strip it a bit, give yourself an inch or so to work with...it'll be the ground for the rest of the cables.

Grab a spare set of component cables or RCA cables...for 480p, it won't really matter. Cut them off at one end. For each cable, separate the inner insulated wire (positive) from the outer loose wire (ground). Twist the ground wire around to make it easy to work with. Strip some off the ends of each of the positive wires, and twist as well.

For all three of the ground wires from your new cables, splice/solder them into the ground that you stripped away from the nintendo composite cable. Cover this up with tape or heatshrink.

Then take your paper clip. It needs to be somewhat thick: basically, you should be only able to get the paper clip through the pinholes with a little force/jiggling. If it goes right through, its too small, and will be too loose. Cut it apart so you have perfectly straight pieces, at least 1 inch long. Bend one end into a loop.

Then, for each of the three new positive component wires, splice it through the little loop you made, use the pliers to make it as tight as possible, and then cover it with tape/heatshrink. Alternatively, and much better, solder it to the clip.

Keep your Wii off and unplugged, just in case. Connect the cable to the Wii. You can't put the clips in first...they have to go in while the cable is connected. Look at the pinouts from the linked page to double check. Off the top of my head, assuming you are looking at the cable, and the ridge is facing right, on the top row, Y is directly adjacent to the right of the black ground wire, then Pb right next to it, then Pr.

Connect the pin as best you can, make sure it goes in pretty deep and through the hole. Make sure your pin cable is connect to the TV, component is on, and you have it connected to the Y (green) input. Fire up the wii. You may or may not get an image - play with the pin, jiggle/push etc, until you do. You should have a black and white screen, probably still of the safety warning. Get a feel for what you need to do to connect the pins. Once you're confident, take the pin out, and remove the cable. Don't bother with the other two yet, they won't work.

Next, take another paper clip, and cut a long piece of it...2-3 inches. Bend it back on itself so you have a hairpin essentially - the important thing is that both ends are EXACTLY the same length, and EXACTLY level with each other. This is going to be your jumper. You want it to connect pins 8 and 10 to each other. This will prob take a few tries, but do your best. Connect the two pins to each other, connect the Y cable you made before, and fire it up. Go into system settings, and try to set it to 480p. If the option is greyed out, then the two pins arent connected to each other well enough. I dunno if you have to turn the wii on and off over and over again while you try to connect them, I did...and it'll eventually work.

Then once you have it set to 480p, the other two cables, Pb and Pr will be enabled. Connect these exactly as you did the Y cable. First get the Y cable in so you have an image. Then add the other cables until you get half color, then full color. If yours was anything like mine, you'll have a real fun time with this, as jiggling one cable will knock the others out etc. Basically, have your Wii in place exactly where you want it, cause you're probably not moving it after you get it set up right.

Once you got it, leave it alone. You're good to go.
 

slag

Lifer
Dec 14, 2000
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Originally posted by: purbeast0
Originally posted by: slag
Just got back from my local EB games. They got some accessories in today.

Picked up 2 remotes and the last nunchuck. I should have looked for cables...

Now my 5 yr old can beat me at tennis.

did they get some in? or were they just selling the preorder stuff that wasn't claimed yet.

The gamestop near me did that this morning. If the people didn't pick up their stuff by last night, then it went back on sale today. thats how i got my nunchuk.

They got a shipment in today at 3:20 pm.. it was still in the box and all, sitting behind the counter.

Lawrence, Kansas btw
 

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: pontifex
to play GC games, do you have to use a GC controller or can you use the wii controllers or even the wii gamepad (the one for the virtual console games)?

You cannot use the Wii controller (remote + nunchuk). I'm not sure if you can use the classic controller. It does seem like it has all of the necessary functionality.
 

ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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Originally posted by: pontifex
to play GC games, do you have to use a GC controller or can you use the wii controllers or even the wii gamepad (the one for the virtual console games)?

You can only use the GC controller. This chart explains everything.
 

randay

Lifer
May 30, 2006
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Originally posted by: noagname
how do the controlers work so you can hit the golf ball
how does it know where it is

its automatic, all you control is the speed of your swing, also you can adjust the direction of your shot left or right before you swing. thats all. so its impossible to miss the ball.
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
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sorry to ask this again but the search isn't working.

i think someone said there will be an ethernet cable adapter released later on for people who don't have wireless? when will this be released?

if i don't want to wait for that, whats a good but rather inexpensive wireless router?
 

TraumaRN

Diamond Member
Jun 5, 2005
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Originally posted by: pontifex
sorry to ask this again but the search isn't working.

i think someone said there will be an ethernet cable adapter released later on for people who don't have wireless? when will this be released?

if i don't want to wait for that, whats a good but rather inexpensive wireless router?

Dont have to wait, pick up Thisinternet. You should be able to find it at any B&M store
 

pontifex

Lifer
Dec 5, 2000
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Originally posted by: DeathBUA
Originally posted by: pontifex
sorry to ask this again but the search isn't working.

i think someone said there will be an ethernet cable adapter released later on for people who don't have wireless? when will this be released?

if i don't want to wait for that, whats a good but rather inexpensive wireless router?

Dont have to wait, pick up this

Originally for the DS but it works with the Wii, trust me, it's how my Wii is hooked up to the internet. You should be able to find it at any B&M store

ok, cool!
 

ponyo

Lifer
Feb 14, 2002
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I hooked up the Wii to my old spare 32" Quasar TV in the basement and the picture quality is much better over composite. This TV is so ancient and cheap that it doesn't even have S-video input. But for composite, it's good. This will have to do until I get my component cable.
 

foghorn67

Lifer
Jan 3, 2006
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Originally posted by: isekii
I opened mine up and started playing Wii Sports.

Pretty fun, and makes you sweat.

Did you have to wait for the weekend??? Or it didn't ebay for the amount you wanted.
I'm actually hoping my Wii doesn't sell.
 

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: randay
Originally posted by: noagname
how do the controlers work so you can hit the golf ball
how does it know where it is

its automatic, all you control is the speed of your swing, also you can adjust the direction of your shot left or right before you swing. thats all. so its impossible to miss the ball.

Yeah, the Wii sports games are pretty basic and simplistic. I expect future stand-alone games to take much more advantage of the remote's capabilities. I hear the third-party golf game that comes out soon is supposed to be pretty good. (at least with regard to its use of the remote)
 

isekii

Lifer
Mar 16, 2001
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Originally posted by: foghorn67
Originally posted by: isekii
I opened mine up and started playing Wii Sports.

Pretty fun, and makes you sweat.

Did you have to wait for the weekend??? Or it didn't ebay for the amount you wanted.
I'm actually hoping my Wii doesn't sell.

well I sold one yesterday for $500 bucks shipped.

I tried to sell another one at the same amount but it didn't go... so I just decided to keep it and use it myself.

I was gonna buy another one after I sold off both and made a profit..
 

foghorn67

Lifer
Jan 3, 2006
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Originally posted by: isekii
Originally posted by: foghorn67
Originally posted by: isekii
I opened mine up and started playing Wii Sports.

Pretty fun, and makes you sweat.

Did you have to wait for the weekend??? Or it didn't ebay for the amount you wanted.
I'm actually hoping my Wii doesn't sell.

well I sold one yesterday for $500 bucks shipped.

I tried to sell another one at the same amount but it didn't go... so I just decided to keep it and use it myself.

I was gonna buy another one after I sold off both and made a profit..

ya!!! My Wii didn't sell. Really low ball offers. I paid $414 for a Costco bundle which includes Zelda and Excite Truck, and picked up COD3. Also throwing in FedEx 3 day insured. I got tons of offers for 400. Idiots.
Oh well, time to play some Nintendo.
 

randay

Lifer
May 30, 2006
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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: randay
Originally posted by: noagname
how do the controlers work so you can hit the golf ball
how does it know where it is

its automatic, all you control is the speed of your swing, also you can adjust the direction of your shot left or right before you swing. thats all. so its impossible to miss the ball.

Yeah, the Wii sports games are pretty basic and simplistic. I expect future stand-alone games to take much more advantage of the remote's capabilities. I hear the third-party golf game that comes out soon is supposed to be pretty good. (at least with regard to its use of the remote)

The golf game in wii sports is really poor. If you're talking about Albatross 18 it should be awesome especially because its been out on pc for a while now, they should have everything down. Even the baseball game in wii sports is piss poor, its not a baseball game, it should just be a batting game. Overall I feel the launch titles are pretty crappy, I'm kind of disappointed and regretting buying the wii early.
 

mugs

Lifer
Apr 29, 2003
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Originally posted by: randay
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: randay
Originally posted by: noagname
how do the controlers work so you can hit the golf ball
how does it know where it is

its automatic, all you control is the speed of your swing, also you can adjust the direction of your shot left or right before you swing. thats all. so its impossible to miss the ball.

Yeah, the Wii sports games are pretty basic and simplistic. I expect future stand-alone games to take much more advantage of the remote's capabilities. I hear the third-party golf game that comes out soon is supposed to be pretty good. (at least with regard to its use of the remote)

The golf game in wii sports is really poor. If you're talking about Albatross 18 it should be awesome especially because its been out on pc for a while now, they should have everything down. Even the baseball game in wii sports is piss poor, its not a baseball game, it should just be a batting game. Overall I feel the launch titles are pretty crappy, I'm kind of disappointed and regretting buying the wii early.

Yeah, Wii Sports was never really intended to be a full-fledged game. It's a decent party game, but it lacks depth. Really, what can you expect for a 5 games in one pack-in title. The boxing and bowling are really fun, those are the ones the wife and I keep going back to (wish I had a second nunchuk for boxing).

Most of the launch titles don't interest me much, at least not at their current prices - but I'm still really glad that I bought it. The price won't drop for at least a year, so I'm definitely not going to wait for the price to drop like I did with the GameCube, Xbox and PS2 (I was a poor college student when they came out... didn't have money for video games ). I got Zelda, and that will keep me occupied until some more games come out. I'm actually looking forward to Wii Play, the shooting and ping pong look promising. It comes with a Wii Remote, and the price is about the same as the Wii Remote alone.

When Nintendo comes out with a Mario Kart and Mario Tennis, and someone comes out with a good golf game (maybe an Outlaw Golf title), I'll be a very happy man.

And yeah, the upcoming golf game that I was referring to is Super Swing Golf, aka Albatross18. Nintendo Power had good things to say about it.

I do wish there were some good online multiplayer games out.

Edit: The training minigames in Wii Sports are actually pretty fun
 

foghorn67

Lifer
Jan 3, 2006
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Well, I busted it open. Nintendo made this simplistic. I really love the minimalists approach. The way everything is centered around the remote for the interface is cool. I played bowling, boxing and golf. Seems pretty fun for a bundled game. Excite Truck wasn't bad. It might be some more fun with other players.
Haven't touched Zelda or COD3 yet. I'll probably start tomorrow.
It's the first time in a while where I get to relax. I couldn't think of anything better to do to get my nerves down this long weekend.
 
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