Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

Mayhem · Post by **Mayhem** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:14 pm 0

Cue Bob the Angry Flower explanation

Zack & Wiki, REUC, Link's Crossbow Training and Geometry Wars all seem worthwhile buys from early play. SMG is a given

Yeah you could say I've gotten a bit busy here on my trip to the US!

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:15 pm 0

TFO wrote:
IronGiant wrote:I've just experienced my first ever Wii crash ....... clicked on the SMG channel, Mario yells out 'Super Mario Galaxy', I clicked Start, and a few seconds later thw Wii crashed. Power was still on but nothing on the display (but briefly before it crashed I saw a flash of garbage).

Power cycled it and all was well.

I'm guessing a bit of dirt on the disc - anyone else experienced anything similar before, or is my Wii preparing to take a nose-dive?
Mine hangs occasionally after opening the disc channel.
Restart and its fine again.

I've never had that, but I had mine not turn on once,few months back, scared the shit out of me.
Power in/out, did nothing. Dead.

A few minutes later it came on just fine, guessing it was a heating issue.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 5:32 pm 0

Just seen this nice deal from Tesco on Link's Crossbow Training plus a Wii Zapper:

http://jersey.tesco.com/product.aspx?R=824074

Not bad for Â£14.97 (including delivery)

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 6:18 pm 0

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:39 pm 0

IronGiant wrote:I'm glad I'm not the only one.

Is yours an early Wii? I bought mine a year ago.

Yep - day 1

amanset · Post by **amanset** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 7:58 pm 0

Well I appear to have lost my Wii to the girlfriend and Super Mario Galaxy. She's up to sixteen stars and I have three. THREE.

IronGiant · Post by **IronGiant** » Sun Nov 25, 2007 8:08 pm 0

Got a spare Wiimote? Pick it up and play together.

I'm now up to 59 stars. Wiiiiiiiii !

Tanatoes · Post by **Tanatoes** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 2:02 pm 0

No time for a full post as I must dash to work, but:

Geometry Wars Galaxies has just replaces SMG as my Wii game of the year. So. Beautiful.

Must dash.. maybe time for one more quick play...

Rod_S · Post by **Rod_S** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:26 pm 0

Mayhem - nice trawl there, looking forward to some impressions of that little lot.

Riddle me this, Wii owners - is it possible to get a good picture on the Wii from the official component cable, on an HDTV? Anything I should know before hooking it up? Merci.

Jimaroid · Post by **Jimaroid** » Mon Nov 26, 2007 11:28 pm 0

Rod_S wrote: Riddle me this, Wii owners - is it possible to get a good picture on the Wii from the official component cable, on an HDTV? Anything I should know before hooking it up? Merci.

Got mine on a HDTV via the official component cable, looks lovely, the Wii over SCART on the same set was horrid. There's some settings in the Wii Settings menu to set 480p and widescreen etc.

SiN · Post by **SiN** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 12:24 am 0

Rod_S wrote:Riddle me this, Wii owners - is it possible to get a good picture on the Wii from the official component cable, on an HDTV? Anything I should know before hooking it up? Merci.

You'll still get a shitty looking picture, but it'll be less shitty than using composite.

(it's the scaling that looks horrid ... if your TV does scaling really well, I suppose it won't be that bad)

SiN

TFO · Post by **TFO** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 8:21 am 0

Looks like someone's Marketing department has dropped a bollock...

Deckard · Post by **Deckard** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:06 am 0

Prefer this to the zapper - http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/nintendo-wii ... 326728.php

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:34 am 0

Better, but its not what we really want is it?

WiteWulf · Post by **WiteWulf** » Tue Nov 27, 2007 11:46 am 0

Jimaroid wrote: There's some settings in the Wii Settings menu to set 480p and widescreen etc.

fwiw I prefer the look of mine when set to 576i, my HDTV does a good enough job of deinterlacing that the extra vertical resolution (compared to 480p) are worth having.

ymmv