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#1 ocdog45
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I went to gamestop to trade in my 360 and everything i have for it to get trade in credit (i don't play it anymore). they had some promo going on and i got 30% for everything. i ended up getting about $350 for all of it. I was gonna jsut get 2 new sual shock controllers for the ps3 adn save the rest to pay off other games.

I jsut happend to ask the guy when they were gonna get wii's and he was like "we got some now" I jumped on it fast. I know my kid would ove it anyway and all i want is SSBB and Mario Kart. After reading the Tech Center on gamespot on the wii, I decided im just gonna get component cables, extra controller, and a chargable station for the controllers.

am i missing anything?

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#2 pyben
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if u dont have wireless internet you might want to get the usb adapter
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#3 ganga_
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if u plan to really play a lot i would be the charging station, but if u got some normal charging station for batteries i would just take those.
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#4 GoDsSoN770
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The Zapper doesn't work with RE4 or Metroid. I'd skip the Zapper, unless more games start to use it in the future. I think your set.
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#5 GoDsSoN770
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The Zapper doesn't work with RE4 or Metroid. I'd skip the Zapper, unless more games start to use it in the future. I think your set.
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#7 theragu40
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Well, the zapper would technically "work"...it's just a shell, doesn't do anything electronically. But I wouldn't bother. It's awkward feeling, and not worth the money, IMHO.
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#8 theragu40
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The Zapper doesn't work with RE4 or Metroid. I'd skip the Zapper, unless more games start to use it in the future. I think your set.GoDsSoN770
Sure it does. It would technically work with any game. Like I said, it doesn't actually do anything at all. It's just a holder for your Wii remote and nunchuck. That doesn't change the fact that it's a waste of money, but it would "work" in the sense that the games would function exactly the same with it as they do without. The only problem I could see is that if I remember right the C and Z buttons are not that accessible from the zapper. Either way, it's really uncomfortable, and I think it makes pretty much any game experience worse, exponentially. I own Link's Crossbow training (which is actually a good game), and I play it only without the zapper.
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#9 ocdog45
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aight, what about a memory card. would i need that?
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#10 osan0
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[QUOTE="ocdog45"]aight, what about a memory card. would i need that?theragu40
Nope, the Wii's got 512mb of internal memory for game saves.

if u ever want to play gamecube games on it though then u will need a gamecube controller and gamecube memory card. wii games use the internal memory though as said above so no worries there. u could get a SD card to back up stuff but its not needed by any means.

if ure lookin for games then i think theres a sticky at the top of this forum.

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id get a wheel but if your getting mario kart wii it comes with one") oh and a usb adapter for wifi
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#12 ganga_
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id get a wheel but if your getting mario kart wii it comes with one") oh and a usb adapter for wifiRuhdezee

why should u buy a wheel without having kart? maybe u get another one if u really like it. and why should he buy an usb adapter if he has wireless lan?

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#13 ocdog45
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right on it man. thanks everybody. got some good input

[QUOTE="Ruhdezee"]id get a wheel but if your getting mario kart wii it comes with one") oh and a usb adapter for wifiganga_

why should u buy a wheel without having kart? maybe u get another one if u really like it. and why should he buy an usb adapter if he has wireless lan?

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#14 wiifan001
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right on it man. thanks everybody. got some good input

[QUOTE="ganga_"]

[QUOTE="Ruhdezee"]id get a wheel but if your getting mario kart wii it comes with one") oh and a usb adapter for wifiocdog45

why should u buy a wheel without having kart? maybe u get another one if u really like it. and why should he buy an usb adapter if he has wireless lan?

Maybe for Excite Truck or some other racing game. And he shouldn't buy an adapter if he has wireless.

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#15 wiifan001
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right on it man. thanks everybody. got some good input

[QUOTE="ganga_"]

[QUOTE="Ruhdezee"]id get a wheel but if your getting mario kart wii it comes with one") oh and a usb adapter for wifiocdog45

why should u buy a wheel without having kart? maybe u get another one if u really like it. and why should he buy an usb adapter if he has wireless lan?

Maybe for Excite Truck or some other racing game. And he shouldn't buy an adapter if he has wireless.

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[QUOTE="GoDsSoN770"]The Zapper doesn't work with RE4 or Metroid. I'd skip the Zapper, unless more games start to use it in the future. I think your set.theragu40
Sure it does. It would technically work with any game. Like I said, it doesn't actually do anything at all. It's just a holder for your Wii remote and nunchuck. That doesn't change the fact that it's a waste of money, but it would "work" in the sense that the games would function exactly the same with it as they do without. The only problem I could see is that if I remember right the C and Z buttons are not that accessible from the zapper. Either way, it's really uncomfortable, and I think it makes pretty much any game experience worse, exponentially. I own Link's Crossbow training (which is actually a good game), and I play it only without the zapper.

Well in Metroid you have to flick the nunchuk to grabble, that wouldn't be possible in the zapper.