AndrewTS

Something to keep in mind: Wal-mart opens tomorrow 5 AM. Target opens 6 AM. Gamestop/EB opens 7 AM.

Even with cable internet I couldn't make it. Refreshed the page at 2:00 and it was a screen of white and never loaded up.

In other words, 3rd shipment? No clue.

Target, Wal-Mart, Best Buy, Toys r' Us, Gamestop/EB, etc.

Anyone get the guide book yet? It's massive and very well designed. Although I've been careful skimming because of spoilers.

The Wii is just an overclocked Gamecube, though. Few, if any, games should have BC issues. One person reported an issue with Mario Golf on it, but others have been able to use it just fine: http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/wii/wii-havin...sues-216567.php From the comments thread: "As for Skies of Arcadia? Yes it does (play fine on the Wii). Good game too." Unless we hear more reports, for all we know it could have been just a fluke, a single problematic system, or perhaps a Crab (Sony fanboy) making a false claim. Does the Wii have any obvious Expansion slots under the system, like the Gamecube did? I'd like a Wii version of the Game Boy Player, if it would be possible.

"SUPERMAN SMASH!" wouldn't make much sense, though. Unless you play as Bizarro. That would be great. Bizarro should get his own game.

http://www.1up.com/do/reviewPage?cId=3155445 Guess what? It sucks!

It would be interesting to read that review. The reviews for Red Steel are all over the place, so it's virtually impossibly to find a consensus. By the way, retailers have recieved their second shipments, but they're sitting on them until Black Friday. So clerks that tell you they have no more either are ignorant or flat out lying. So I can't buy a system on a nice warm afternoon, and instead retailers want you to stand outside in the freezing cold for a couple of hours. Terrific. This wouldn't be so much of a problem if it weren't for a bunch of ASSHOLES PUTTING THE SYSTEMS ON EBAY.

Does anyone have the Classic controller? How is it? Despite the crappy dpad, it seems like the Wavebird just makes more sense, though, because it works on everything basically (GC/VC/Wii) and doesn't have to be connected to the Wii Remote like the Classic does. I've heard that the Freeloader works for import GC games. Can anyone confirm that? Will the most up-to-date Action Replay work with it? Oh--Jeremy Parish's Wii60 setup. Damn, the Wii is tiny: http://www.toastyfrog.com/img/blogart/0611...61121_wii60.jpg

You mean a 3rd party device like this: http://www.usbgear.com/USBG-UE200.html ? In theory it should work. It is essentially the same thing Nintendo is going to be selling (but isn't right now, for some reason).

The installation steps for connecting my PS2 (slim) up for online play. -Plug in ethernet cable. -Turn the system on. -Enter some simple settings into a menu. -BOOM! Wireless internet is kind of nice. You know, when it works. However, with the DS, you either had the option of A) buying a new router if you didn't have one, or B) running a wi-fi connector that is only supported by an extremely shitty operating system. Seriously, no OSX or Win 2000 support? Give me a damn break, Nintendo. You love Apple so damn much, why not? And now the 3rd option--buy an *ACCESSORY* for the *PRIVILEGE* of using a wired connection. What the hell? Even Apple hasn't sunk that low. That's easily my biggest disappointment with the Wii. Doesn't help that I hate wireless internet anyway. I suggest sending some product feedback like I did a while back: http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/webform.jsp

Ebay snipers should be, like, shot. Okay--I guess it's lots of other people experiencing similar problems then. Try back now and then. Noonish should be good.

Call Nintendo. They have a great wi-fi help line that got me up and running. Until it stopped working again--but I blame my lousy Norton Internet Security, not Nintendo/the connector. I had sold it off used and it seems whoever got it has had no problems with it. This time around I'm saying screw it and going for the ethernet kit when it comes out. I'm hoping the Wii itself can be used as a WiFi hotspot for the DS eventually, tho.

Does that mean somebody out there was getting his/her BUTT kicked by the first Birdo encounter? Ouch. Ristar is still pretty awesome, but I've encountered a few little bugs I never noticed before--like there was a section on Planet Sonata where I could *NOT* throw one of those weights onto a pressure plate (it would always miss), and had to kill myself to start "fresh." It's a shame the game didn't more hype back in the day. I love it 10x more than the relatively-mundane Vectorman games.

Perhaps the magical Firmware Fairy will get to work on that.

People are, yes. The problem is that the score is much lower than other publications, and the reasons cited aren't very good and/or conflict with other publications folks respect more. And one of his colleagues who is defending him is a moron. It doesn't really matter to me because a site/magazine that uses tenths of a point/%s are inherently crap. Half a point on a ten-scale? Respectable. stuff like a 7.9 or a 79%? Idiotic. Leave the %s to Gamerankings/metacritic. It rounds it up to a 9/10 anyway. For most of these sites (i.e. not 1up), 70 is an average game. 0-69% is used to determine where on the badness scale the bad games fall. And there's plenty of very stupid gamers who consider a game to be beneath them if it is below a certain number (sometimes it would be an 8 or a 9).

Bill O'Reilly being Bill O'Reilly (read: douchebag) -- http://gamepolitics.com/2006/11/18/bill-or...t-in-that-order Now, maybe I'm just too stupid of a geek to understand that rant (after all, I just fix computers), but it seems Bill O'Reilly is worried for America because we are able to spend time and money on leisure activities, while the OMGTEARWRISTS are learning to kill and stuff. Obviously you whippersnappers would be better off in the Army. Why, there oughta be a government program to force you to join the military! That would be a positive direction for America.

Gamespot acts absolutely retarded in response to the complaints over their review: http://www.kotaku.com/gaming/gamespot/game...lash-215922.php "It's the same damn game we've all been playing for the last 15-odd years. Hey, guess what? You get to go into dungeons...and find items...and put together pieces of heart to make new heart containers. I haven't gotten very far into it, but I'm going to go out on a limb and guess that Triforce is in the mix at some point." Pretty much every RPG deserves a 4/10 then, I guess.

I agree. Leave it alone for a while, so that us Zelda fans can find a damn system.

I have a purple Cube too. We're secure in our masculinity, my brother. Anya got a Cube at launch too...with no difficulty whatsoever. Maybe that's a sign Nintendo is on a massive upswing. Or maybe it's just a sign that Luigi's Mansion and Super Monkey Ball aren't in the same universe of an enticement as a fantastic Zelda game at launch is. If it is called the Wi-Fi Max, that's not the official Nintendo connector, but a 3rd party one by Datel. http://gear.ign.com/articles/704/704528p1.html It works for PSP and DS, but I have no idea about Wii compatibility. I would recommend calling the manufacturer--there should be a number with the packaging. In theory it should work, because the regular Nintendo USB Wi-Fi Connector lets you connect the Wii online.

For anyone who has gotten a Wii, if you register it with Nintendo you get an additional 90 days on the warranty besides the regular 1 year: http://www.nintendo.com/productreg So you'd covered for 15 months if something breaks down.

Well, duh. FYE sucks: http://www.consumerist.com/consumer/compla...cott-215895.php

Shadow Dancer is awesome and underrated, and Shinobi 3 is bar none the best of the series. I've never really seen what the big deal was with the game, since the game seems to control kind of clunky, collision is spotty, and it's plain just way more frustrating than the vastly superior 3. Shadow Dancer feels just like an arcade game (which it is based on), and as a result is a blast in short doses, although it can't touch 3. Revenge of Shinobi is on the Smash Pack, the Genesis 6-Pak (great comp available on the Genesis that includes Revenge, Streets of Rage, Sonic, Columns, Golden Ax, and Super Hang On). Revenge of Shinobi, besides the Sega Smash Pack on DC, can be found also in the PC Smash Pack. It isn't the emulation that's a problem on the Genesis VF2--that's the way the original game played. It's just not very good. Pretty much all the moves are in, it just animates really chunky and runs really slow.

My Target got in NINE systems, and my Sears got TWO. What the hell is going on here? I have a shiny Zelda sitting here I can't do anything with yet, too.