The Wii is Here.

[SethSquall]

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I was thinking of making a Zelda thread. Maybe I should...

In other news: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0RrZePmc68

Lmao. The Wii is getting loads of coverage here as well. The ads have started coming think and fast for Zelda, Red Steel and Wii sports. Every now and then Rayman is on. The Wii has been on countless talk shows and that. Everyone has been loving it. They're mainly playing Wii Sports like but they can't get enough. I can't wait for mine.

[Squeek]

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Try this one as well.

http://www.gametrailers.com/umwatcher.php?id=23836

[banditcom]

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Wii Tips & Tricks (much taken from the thread over at IGN, though I put them all together like this)

Be Your Own Doubles Partner or Opponent
In Wii tennis, use two wiimotes against a friend who does the same. One in each hand for your team, or you can play against yourself.

Burn-Screen Reduction
If you have this option on, it kicks in when the Wii sleeps.

Channel and Message Organizing
Click on a channel or a message with A+B to grab it, allowing you to move it around. I believe this only works after an update.

Console Email
The messages you send and receive are from the consoles email, which is w[console#]@wii.com. You can add an email address to the address book, including your own. When you or a friend receive the email, it will show the console email address as stated.

Extra Parts
There are two parts to the Wii in your box that you may either not find, or never know what they are. The first is a Clear Disc piece. This piece fits under your Wii stand to Stabalize it's balance. The second is a Small(1" - 1.5") plastic Piece. This piece is the stand for the Sensor bar. It puts some disntance between your TV and the bar. In theory, that should give you a better angle reception.

"Favorite Color"
The "Favorite Color" of your Mii is the color of your baseball team.

Free Nintendo Power
Register 3 Nintendo products on Nintendo.com, and get 3 months of Nintendo Power free.

Get Miis in Your Parade
Setting your Miis to Mingle, and having your friends do the same thing will soon have Miis walking around in your parade. Your friends' Miis will wonder over to your console and parade around, so long as they are set to Mingle. You can then grab them and send them to your Plaza so you have a copy.

"Other Games"
Under the Today message, sometimes a game will show up as "Other Games". To avoid this, make sure you exit to the Wii Menu before powering off the console.

Receiving Messages
When you receive a new message, the console drive lights up and pulsates blue (can change this to bright, dim, or off). The Wiimote speaker also gives a little chirp.

Register and Extend Warranty
Register your Console on Nintendo.com, get a free 90 day extension to your warranty.

Sending Messages
You can type faster by clicking the little eject button in the top right corner of the on-screen keyboard (above the backspace key). It will then show words that come close to yours and once it pops up you can just click on it instead of typing the whole word.

Sending/Receiving Attachments
If you don't have an SD card and still want to check out Photo Channel, you can e-mail a jpg to your Wii Message Board. You can also send them to your friends. Formats:
images:jpeg,baseline only
size:upto 8192x8192
video files:quicktime(motion jpeg or .mov files)
size:up to 848x480
audio files:mp3

Sensor Bar Accuracy
It's more accurate when placed below the tv, on its stand (also make sure to set the Wii console to have sensor bar position as below the tv). Also, placing the sensor bar upside down doesn't reverse anything. So if you want to use it to stick under something right above the tv, it still works well and will hide that eyesore.

Slideshow Music
If you put mp3s in your SD card or send them through email, you can change the background music during a slideshow to one of your mp3s. If you press the + and - buttons while your watching a slide show you can adjust the volume the music plays at.

Waking up the System
You can wake up the system by either hitting a button on the Wiimote, or inserting a game. However, ejecting a game will not wake up the system.

Wiimote Activation
After syncing, to get the Wiimote to work again with the console, just hit any button on the Wiimote and it'll turn on. Order matters in terms of who is which player (1st, 2nd, 3rd).

Wiimote Battery Life
When you hit a button on the Wii controller while it's not communicating with the console, the number of lights flashing in unison is an indication of remaining battery power. With new batteries, all 4 will flash in unison. As they drain down, the lights will start to fade from right to left. It also shows the battery life in the Home menu under the Wiimote section.

Wiimote Player Reordering
If you want to turn off controllers or switch which number your controller is set at, just press the home button and click the controller on the left. This will bring up the option to reconnect the controllers. After selecting this option press 1 and 2 buttons simultaneously on the controllers in the order that you want each remote to be, and leave off the ones that you aren't using

Wiimote Speaker
To adjust the speaker volume, or to turn it off, hit the Home button, then click on the Wiimote in the bottom left-hand corner. You can then adjust the volume in there. If it's off, don't worry about missing the sounds as they come out of your tv/speakers anyways.

Wiimote's Wireless
You don't have to be in the same room for the Wiimote to work (excluding the pointer part). The only problems are that you may not see the screen. Example if you hear your Wiimote indicate that it's your turn to bowl, yet you're off getting some food or going to the bathroom. Well, you can take your turn from there.

[Squeek]

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I love the distance thing. The bluetooth works from an incredible distance.

I did hear the chime indicating it was my turn to bowl while I was upstairs in the kitchen. Clicked right four spaces and bowled a strike with my head in the fridge looking for something to drink.

We only had three mysteries when we first played the thing and they were all solved shortly. One was that clear plastic disc, one was the wiimote volume, and the last was exiting out of minigames on Super Monkey Ball.

[jamuko]

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Oh man, thanks for mentioning the email and Wiimote speaker things. Both things that I have been wondering about but didn't ask yet since I haven't read the manual yet. XD

Playing the Wii at like 3 in the morning when everything is dead silent... that Wiimote speaker is LOUD.

Another thing worth mentioning is that the Power button on the wiimote actually controls power on the Wii. XD Someone pressed it while I was playing one time, with the intention of only turning off his remote. :/

[Squeek]

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That's one thing they didn't mention. You can hard-sync and soft-sync remotes. Hard-synced remotes can turn off the console from the power button and I believe they're the only ones able to use the Home button. Soft-syncs cannot. Soft-syncing is adding remotes from the "Home" menu.

PS - Just got Pro status in bowling. And my Wii Fitness age has been in the twenties for a solid week.

And just now I got a Gold on the second of three Bowling trainings. 20/20 in the gate challenge and 612 pins in the Power Throw. <3 bowling.

PPS - Just got Pro in Tennis. That didn't take long, even with the loss my mom got when she played on my character for the first time.

PPPS - Wow, Red Steel is the 2nd most popular Wii game right now. That's impressive. I found out because Ubisoft is planning a sequel already and the numbers were there with it.

Edit: Something else I should mention because it's been a problem for some people.

There are two glitches in Zelda that make gameplay a little frustrating for a minute or two. This is potentially spoilerific, but at the same time, without knowing it could be somewhat of a nuisance. Both of them involving saving your game and quitting at the wrong time.

1) When you're headed to your first foray into the Lanayru province, do not save until you enter that province. If... *something* bad happens along the way and *something* happens to make going back the way you came a little difficult, that's the point where you must continue on without saving & exiting. You have to go about thirty seconds more into the game, so it's not a big deal. If you do have this problem, the solution is to go the long way (or so I've read).

2) When you're headed for the last piece of *something* and you need to talk to some guy about some thing under some guy's house (seriously avoiding spoilers is hard here) in order to get to that place, do not save & exit. The guy you talk to will have his character model turn invisible. He'll still be there and you can still continue on with the game. Just a matter of finding out where he is to talk to him.

[kilroysd]

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im considering buying a wii. they look so fun and the reviews are pretty good. not to mention the price is so tempting.
right now i have $400, so thats $150 left after the console, what games should i get?

[dead_juggalo]

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Twighlight Princess, and Red Steele are byfar the greatest games on there.

[kilroysd]

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red steel!!?? really?!? the reviews were horrible for it, BUT i heard the guy who reviewed it was a PS3-fanboy so maybe he was just bashing it because it is wii.

does anyone else like red steele?

[Squeek]

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http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/red-steel/red-steel-impressions-217969.php

Read the comments too. They inspired me to start playing again, where I noticed that on my new sensor bar setup and configuration, it's a lot easier to control.

Personally, I think this game is pretty sweet if you like Time Crisis-esque arcade shooters. You do the moving around on your own, but in the end you're moving into a big room with guys ducking behind things and moving to get a better vantage point on your location while you do the same exact thing.

I think it's solid for a launch title. Apparently a lot of other people do as well because it's the 2nd most popular game on the Wii.

[nforcer06164]

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What do you get when you combine a Panasonic DMC-LZ3, a Sony (lol) microcassette-corder, a two-way analog headphone cable, TMPGEnc, VDubMod, Audacity, and some mad tech skills? This.

Trauma Center: Second Opinion opening movie and "Life or Death" operation. Please pardon the crappy standard 480i TV and sub-par sound quality; I did the best I could with what I have.

Let me know if you want to see anything else; I can do videos of the first three worlds of Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz and any operation from Trauma Center: Second Opinion that you saw in the video. I plan on trying the browser hack in the near future, too =)

[Squeek]

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OH MAN.

THAT WAS INSANE.

Man, Twilight Princess was already on my top 5 games of all time list. Then they had to make a boss battle like that and make me want to put it at #1.

I wanna do it again. Maybe I shouldn't save? I wish I saved right before the fight =/

[Tps222]

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Ugh so busy haven't gotten far enough yet.

Side note: That video hasn't entirely convinced me to buy the game yet. I may rent it, I don't know.

[Squeek]

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So I'm gonna stop Zelda here because I'm not going to want to stop playing if I don't. I just got my last Heart Piece. I'm about to search for the last pair of bugs. All I have left to do is trigger the final cutscene and the game is over... I think.

The story has been amazing all throughout. Truly an epic game. Hardly banking on the 70-hour gameplay they said it would take as I'm not even at half of that so far. Maybe there really is a 20-hour dungeon ahead of me. I don't know. I do know there won't be another boss that isn't the last one because I've already gotten 20/20 heart containers...

I'm still working on Monkey Ball which I think will be one of the most replayed games on my console on single player. You can beat a stage, sure. But doing it without a continue is worth a little crown above the stage number and my life won't be complete without all of those crowns.

I'm also trying to get Gold on all the trainings in Wii Sports and Pro status in every sport. I'm Pro in bowling and tennis, above 500 in boxing and baseball, and maybe 250 in golf.

And then I have to beat Red Steel and it tells me I'm only 15% done so far. Yeesh.

So yeah, I have a lot to do before I consider starting Trauma Center if I get that for christmas.

[emptiness]

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Got Wii-Elbow yet?