Wii essentials?

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Picked up a Wii today with Wii Play and Zelda, but unsure as to exactly what i need to get the best from it?
Was looking at getting another nunchuck, official component cable, SD card, and some Wii points, but not sure what else I'd need after that, games included, no idea what's good and what's not? Thanks in advance. :)
 
Get a Kingston 2GB SD card for £11
Official Component cable
Second controller/nunchuck
Excite Truck
Paper Mario
Mercury Meltdown
Korinpa
Mario Strikers
Zelda
Wario Ware
 
Kreeeee said:
Get a Kingston 2GB SD card for £11
Official Component cable
Second controller/nunchuck
Excite Truck
Paper Mario
Mercury Meltdown
Korinpa
Mario Strikers
Zelda
Wario Ware
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Thanks, just about to order a 2gb Kingston card for £8 so even better!
Anyone got any experiences of 3rd party component cables? Will there really be a huge difference at only 480P? And how can I connect it up to my home theatre amp? Thanks again. :)
 
broona said:
Thanks, just about to order a 2gb Kingston card for £8 so even better!
Anyone got any experiences of 3rd party component cables? Will there really be a huge difference at only 480P? And how can I connect it up to my home theatre amp? Thanks again. :)
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Nice, they were £11 when I bought mine a few months back. I had a blaze cable, it was horrible. A video cable is the very last thing you should consider cutting corners on tbh mate. It does make a fairly large difference in my experience, even at 480p colour vibrancy and sharpness matter a lot.

What inputs does you amp have? The component cable offers dolby pro logic II via the red and white stereo phono cables.
 
Kreeeee said:
Nice, they were £11 when I bought mine a few months back. I had a blaze cable, it was horrible. A video cable is the very last thing you should consider cutting corners on tbh mate. It does make a fairly large difference in my experience, even at 480p colour vibrancy and sharpness matter a lot.

What inputs does you amp have? The component cable offers dolby pro logic II via the red and white stereo phono cables.
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It's a Yamaha RX-V357, should have plenty of analogue inputs spare, good to know the component cable outputs audio too.
 
A COMPONENT CABLE!! The difference between composite and component is quite shocking, especially with Zelda. You can also run the wii at 480p which IMO is much better than 576i.
 
Meatball said:
A COMPONENT CABLE!! The difference between composite and component is quite shocking, especially with Zelda. You can also run the wii at 480p which IMO is much better than 576i.
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Well it's far worse for things like the web browser but some of my games have borders in 576i.
 
You got Zelda thats good, not sure about Wii play, Wii sports is good fun and worth getting. The madden NFL and Mario striker looks impressive, I've got an SD Card and not used it so thats not essential, Just get a few extra Wii remotes.

Hybrids
 
I use my memory card for music in Excite Truck which is well worth playing.

I'd make sure you've got two sets of controllers, and if you like the Virtual Console (as myself and my bro do), an extra set of Classic Controllers. Gamecube pads (Wavebird pref.) if you want to play GC game and some VC console games.

A component cable.

Whatever games tickle your fancy.
 
I really don't like the classic controller and got a Wavebird instead. There is just something not right with the classic for me, it could be the lead making it top heavy but it just doesn't feel right.

Is paper mario available in the Uk?


Whoop
 
The single most important thing you need, which I haven't seen mentioned yet is:

Some rechargable batteries and a charger!!

2500mah (or more) will be the best option.
 
Whoop said:
I really don't like the classic controller and got a Wavebird instead. There is just something not right with the classic for me, it could be the lead making it top heavy but it just doesn't feel right.

Is paper mario available in the Uk?


Whoop
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That'll be the rumble, which is missing in the wavebird.
 
I went whole hog and have 4 controllers + 4 nunchucks and then also 2 x classic controllers = expensive but worth it for the hours of fun !

I've not bothered with an SD card as yet either as the 512mb of inbuilt memory has sufficed so far !

I've not got too many games but that will change soon with the likes of mario strikers tempting me and then plenty of ace looking games planned for the other half of this year !

Got a component cable ( not the official one but does the job ) and its ace on my mates projector :cool:
 
Oh and to echo what ~J~ said about batteries - defo get some nice 2300/500 mAh ones and you'll be sorted!

I got the quick charger set from uniross which does a full charge in about 15 minutes and can charge 4 batteries at once which is good ... enough to use all four controllers assuming your other batteries ain't completely flat!
 
Thanks again for the replies, have got loads of rechargeable batteries, but will get some more anyway!
Little bro's got a wavebird, gonna hunt that out and see what it's like,
 
SwishSpencor said:
Um... You get that with the console.
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Not always depends what combo you go for, from what I gather the original poster has not got Wii sports, so i've just informed him that its worth getting.

Hybrids
 
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