Peench now owns a Wii

[Peench]

Yep, I was able to score one last night from a fellow gamer (he's a WoW gamer) who was returning it to Gamestop last night. It was opened so they only offered him $180. I told him I'd give him more than that and offered him $200-$220. He said $220 sounded good and then the guy behind the counter tried calling all his friends to buy it for more than $250! He was totally trying to sell me out, but I can understand him trying to hook up his friends and get the guy more money for his Wii.

Anyway, the clerk (who I was buying Resistance from), couldn't get ahold of his friends and the one he did get ahold of passed on the deal. So I kicked the guy down $220 and walked away with the Wii.

Now I have to tear apart my home theater again to install this bad boy!! I can't wait, I get to use my ladder again!!

[dolfan]

Congrtats Peench!!!! Give us your impressions when possible...

[BiffCo]

Have fun with it! Installing it in mine was a snap. However, be prepared to drag everything out again after getting the component cables. You can purchase them from MadCatz store online for around $20, IN STOCK. I don't know how good they are, but I'm going to give them a shot.

MadCatz Wii Component Video Cables

-Brad

[Jon Liu]

hahaha awesome, mang! Congrats again!!!

once you have it hooked up, make Mii's for the whole family (such a blast in itself!!!)! haha

[KingAndyXVII]

Originally Posted by Jon Liu

hahaha awesome, mang! Congrats again!!!

once you have it hooked up, make Mii's for the whole family (such a blast in itself!!!)! haha

what's a mii ???

[BiffCo]

It's a Nintendo character that's super customizable. You can essentially get it to look like yourself. Pretty neat!

-Brad

[Jon Liu]

it's a virtual you! You create a characters that have the likeness of you and stuff and they can roam around in different Mii channels and wander off to other Wiis that you are friends with. The faces of the Mii's are actually also used in Wii Sports, too!

[KingAndyXVII]

nice, sounds fun !

[Jon Liu]

it's hilarious with all the combinations you can make and just funny to see people trying to recreate themselves and what they view themselves as. hahaha "Oh, I'm not that fat..."

[BiffCo]

My friend created a Mii for me on his Wii (trying saying that five times fast). I was really, REALLY surprised at the likeness. I'm going to have to transfer it to mine. That's if I can stop bowling.

I'll post some pictures tonight after I get off of work. I've been meaning to do that.

-Brad

[Jon Liu]

hahaha, once you get friends console codes, your mii's can travel to and from other people consoles on their own! Then you can have Mii Parades!!

[BiffCo]

I'm going to start a new thread in the same vain as the "XBOX Live GT" thread. There, we can post our we numbers and have our Wii's mingle!

-Brad

[Jon Liu]

awesome! next time I fire up my Wii, I'll get that number!

[Peench]

Dude - that sounds awesome!! I have seen Mii's around on websites that are pretty funny and I was wondering what they were. Thanks for the clarification.

Yeah, I need to order the component cables - no one had them in stock anywhere I went. But I did pick up 3 more Wiimotes and a couple more games - Super Monkey Ball and a crazy rabbit game (raymond rabbit?). No one had nunchucks in so I couldn't get those either.

BUT, when I was in the mall outta town they had a huge Wii station set up in the middle of the mall walkway. There were 6 Wii stations (3 on each side) and people were demo'ing all sortsa games. There were people lined up watching and playing. Awesome press! I took a pic or two with my wife's camera and will upload it as soon as I can.

I can't wait to set it up and play. I guess I'll live with composite for now, and will have to figure out something when the component cables get here. I only have 2 Component and 2 HDMI inputs on my Mits downstairs and they are both used right now. I'll figure something out I'm sure.

Can't wait to exchange Mii's and codes and play with you all online - you can do that right?

[Jon Liu]

ahhh I need to get Rayman!

Yes you can do that, I believe... haha

[laxgod]

You can send you Mii's to people, but right now there are no games that allow you to play online.

[Serren]

Cool beans Peench! I got Zelda yesterday. Target had it on sale for $39.99 That is a good deal for a long game like that.