So I got my wii on Thursday, a friend came back from a week in the States and managed to pick me me up one at BestBuy, along with Wii Play, Zelda and Warioware I've got some nice surprises (and disappointments) from the console so to sum it up:
- Console came with the new remote jacket, stated on the box along with all other contents, already wrapped around the remote
- It appears Wii Sports had been updated to "include" the jacket, in game images of the remotes had been edited to include it and between-game tips remind you to play with the jacket on...
- New jacket is surprisingly good, the remote has a nice grip and the added padding gives less worries of smashing it against furniture (or other people)
- There also appears to be a new strap clip, the new one has a small latch that can lock it into position, nice when playing alone but adds that extra prep-second when moving it between people, still prefer it over the simpler strap.
- My copy of Wii Play came with a remote but without the new jacket, I'm pretty sure it's because it was from old stock but I was itsy-bitsy disappointed...
- Since I live outside the US where voltage is different, I had to get a thirs-party multi-voltage adapter, the one at dealextreme works just well...
- ...However the dealextreme component cable didn't work. I got the of these ~$5 cables and my TV or receiver refuse to accept the video signal, and I'm only able to achieve audio, I'm using the supplied composite cable for the time being. Being the paranoid that I am I checked the manual only to see the warning "The Wii console will not work with any AV cable other than the model supplied with your Wii system or the component cable listed below". I'm pretty sure that this is some Nintendo BS but I'm still afraid it's either my broken console unable to output component or Nintendo somehow blocking unofficial cables. It's probably just a faulty cable but I'll keep wearing my tin-foil hat in the meantime.
- Haven't opened it yet but I'm pretty sure there's a D2C inside, seeing that's probably an October-batch wii, so no modchip... yet...
On a side note, any US residents here nice enought to have Nintendo mail them my extra Wii Remote jackets and mail it to me (Israel)? I'll be willing to pay any shipping costs...
- Console came with the new remote jacket, stated on the box along with all other contents, already wrapped around the remote
- It appears Wii Sports had been updated to "include" the jacket, in game images of the remotes had been edited to include it and between-game tips remind you to play with the jacket on...
- New jacket is surprisingly good, the remote has a nice grip and the added padding gives less worries of smashing it against furniture (or other people)
- There also appears to be a new strap clip, the new one has a small latch that can lock it into position, nice when playing alone but adds that extra prep-second when moving it between people, still prefer it over the simpler strap.
- My copy of Wii Play came with a remote but without the new jacket, I'm pretty sure it's because it was from old stock but I was itsy-bitsy disappointed...
- Since I live outside the US where voltage is different, I had to get a thirs-party multi-voltage adapter, the one at dealextreme works just well...
- ...However the dealextreme component cable didn't work. I got the of these ~$5 cables and my TV or receiver refuse to accept the video signal, and I'm only able to achieve audio, I'm using the supplied composite cable for the time being. Being the paranoid that I am I checked the manual only to see the warning "The Wii console will not work with any AV cable other than the model supplied with your Wii system or the component cable listed below". I'm pretty sure that this is some Nintendo BS but I'm still afraid it's either my broken console unable to output component or Nintendo somehow blocking unofficial cables. It's probably just a faulty cable but I'll keep wearing my tin-foil hat in the meantime.
- Haven't opened it yet but I'm pretty sure there's a D2C inside, seeing that's probably an October-batch wii, so no modchip... yet...
On a side note, any US residents here nice enought to have Nintendo mail them my extra Wii Remote jackets and mail it to me (Israel)? I'll be willing to pay any shipping costs...