[Wii] Official Nintendo Wii thread

Originally Posted by Tritoch

I'm more excited than ever about the Wii after hearing how it doesn't disappoint. It sucks that I won't get mine until Christmas, but at least I'll be able to hijack my brother's some this week while I'm there for Thanksgiving.

Hoho I'm going to do the exact same thing.

Actually looking forward to Christmas with all the awesome games on the Wii right now.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

So. It appears there are some Wiis still available here, but they are only in bundles.

499.00 for Madden NFL 07, Tony Hawk's Downhill Jam, Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz, GT Pro Series, and Rampage: Total Destruction and some warranties.

I think it would be better to just wait for a restock of unbundled Wiis and buy whatever games I want.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Is there honestly a reason to update right now anyway?

Unless one of the games requires you to have version whatever I wouldn't bother updating...

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Grawl

Is that even an option once you're connected to the net? Doesn't it auto update?

A forced death would suck

Unless you never connect to the internet. Ever.

(until it's sorted out anyway)

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The minor stores here had a restocking on Monday and put a few up, then they put the rest out on Tuesday... they were all sold out by the time I got there of course.

The main stores like Best Buy and Toys R Us are supposed to get a third shipment on Friday for the Black Friday sale and what not.

Someone will probably get killed trying to get a Wii fighting off all the rush.

I was speaking idiomatically.

I still have to hit up some stores looking for this evil console

My one hope is that rumor of BB restocking their Wiis on sunday. If not I'll have to go to random TRUs and BBs looking for them D:

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Originally Posted by BlueMikey

Best Buy told me point blank that they have no Wiis for sale tomorrow, but everyone on Cheap Ass Gamer is saying the stores are lying if they say that. Maybe I'll run by a few minutes before opening and hope there isn't a line.

I confirmed it with the manager and store clerks here that they were going to have some Wiis for sale tomorrow, but that was only because they said they didn't look forward to unloading them.

I don't know if this will be for all stores but that's for the one here. I hope there are not that many campers since they said they were getting less than 10 Wiis

FELIPE NO

Yay I got a Wii.

So, the workers told me 8AM. One manager said 9AM.

I get there at 8AM to find 20 people ahead of me, but some were in groups so I was actually number 11.

So it's 8AM. Nothing.
9AM. Nothing.

People were getting kind of anxious so they are banging on the door and stuff asking for the Wii. Cop pushes people away and what not.

The main manager comes out at 9:55 and says they are going to be giving out tickets now, and that they had 27 Wiis in stock. Then they shuffled us all into customer service after we got our tickets and we bought our Wiis and went on our merry way.

They said the warranty will cover any bricking that might occur due to WiiConnect24 or any System Updates. But I don't know if I actually want to bother with that yet.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

I got mine at Best Buy.

Also I can't even get online anyway. My router does not support the Wii. Oh well.

It should be noted that the store I went too was already sold out by the time I left the store. The other BBs in the area were definitely sold out as they had over 200 people waiting in line for one (Which is why people started rushing into the location I went to)

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It is kind of tedious, and one can only hope in a future update they will make it easier on us D:

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Originally Posted by Dayvon

You sure you can't access the save data from the SD card?

You cannot. The Wii will only look straight for the hard drive.

Even if you place the save data onto the Wii, it won't read it unless it is in the correct directory for that game. You cannot overwrite files at this time so you have to delete and replace.

At least you can backup your VC games, but they will only play on your Wii and you have to transfer them back to the hard drive as well.

This thing is sticky, and I don't like it. I don't appreciate it.

Originally Posted by Slayer X

I don't know if this is because I have an updated Wii and my friend doesn't, but I tried to take my DBZ save file from my SD card to his Wii HD and his Wii couldn't even see the card nevermind copy the file. So does anyone know if this is only because his system isn't updated or is it something else?

One of the two updates allowed you to take files on and off SD Cards.

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Is that cow made out of yarn?

I was speaking idiomatically.

Originally Posted by immp

Hmm with that in mind nintendo probably will release some firmware to deal with this save game issue. I dont see how you're gonna free up space on the Wii HD by putting the savegames on an SD. Currently everytime you'd go to play one of the saved games you moved, you'd have to move it back onto the HD by freeing up more space on another SD? just to pop in an old game? =( must be fixed!

Well, Wii gamesaves themselves take up 1~3 blocks out of the 2000+ blocks that the Wii has in that 512MB.

It really is only going to be an issue for those who download a bunch of 64 games from the VC I guess.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

So I had to manually assign my Wii an IP to get online and it appears everything is running smoothly now.

Just got both updates, everything still functions A-OK.

Someday I might buy a VC game, if the right ones come out.

EDIT: Did anyone catch Stephen Colbert playing his Nintendo Wii? Someone uploaded a flash of the video here.

Number one threat because it is so addicting.

FELIPE NO

It slows down just like it would if you were playing the game on the original console.

What, you don't want my bikini-clad body?

The only thing unrealistic about Pangya is the power shots, at least I think so.

It's enough to hold someone over until the next Tiger Woods game.

Unfortunately I can't play it since it doesn't come out over here until the 14th.

Jam it back in, in the dark.