I have got a top five list as submitted by Samuel Ledu (ph) known as evil lizard or on YouTube, he is known as Samueltehg33k. He say Samuel the Geek, I tell you say it, but it's obviously spelled a little more gee, gee.
So the top five Wii tips. Number one, extra controllers. The number problem we owners have is when they first have company over there, they never have enough controllers to go around. So at least by one extra pair, so you can take turns. In fact, if I did pick up another Wii and this time opened it and connected it to the television, it would largely be used in gaming situations with friends. I don't know if I want to play the Wii alone, but may be a Zelda game or a Mario game, but it's more fun to play games with friends like on the Xbox playing Fusion Frenzy, I don't know whether Equivalent would be on the PS3 since I have never really had a PS other than the PSP.
Number two, SD cards. All my fellow, Wii owners have trouble keeping their memory because the Wii only comes with about 512 internal memory. This is also a great way to keep your virtual console games from clogging your Wii.
Number three, Official straps, I cannot stress this enough. I always find Wii owners who have bought a silicon jacket for the Wii using novelty third party straps. These straps are weaker than the original launch straps. So if you swing your remote hard, it will probably break and you'll need a new TV and yes that has happened in fact here's an interesting story. Kate, not the Kate from our chat room but cat my old co-host from Tech TV's Call For Help round up, she is married, she has got a kid and her husband works on the show South Park and Kate was telling me that one day Trey (ph) and Mat were having a party, everybody was over there and weird ally walks in and this was when the Wii first launched. So he started playing it and apparently El got a little excited and the remote flew out of his hand and he ended up breaking either Mat or Trey's big plasma screen. So it can happen. At least according to Cat, that is an absolutely true story and I just talked to her few months ago. So she is doing good by the way.
Number four, Wii C games. Since the Wii is still sort of crawling with its game library, there are ton of classic games from SEGA, Nintendo and the TurboGrafx. Just by a Wii Point Card, and you'll have the classics you love on one system. I am telling you, the classics will never die. I mean, 20 years from now, I am still going to be in love with adventure for the Atari. I am just telling you, the classics are just classic.
Number five, Classic controllers. Some games are just not meant for the Remote and Nunchuck like wiring games. Lot of games are going to start letting you use a classic controller instead if you please buy one, so you don't feel like a fool passing out from playing Mortal Kombat. I should also tell you, there is a guy out there who has done something, it's if I have got the URL right, let me try it. I think it's robodance.com. He has programmed an application you can use on with your Nintendo remote, you can use your remote to control other things like robots like the RoboSapien or like the i-SOBOT. So head over to and I am just throwing this and there is a bonus thing. So I am telling you, you can use your remote for things other than just your Nintendo Wii. If you go to robodance.com, there's the RoboSapien dance machines, free software will allow you to control like the i-SOBOT which I've demonstrated a few times on the video, love this little guy, instead of controlling it with this, it's easier to use this guy software and control it with the remote. So like right block you do something or up you do, it's easier to control like that in a motion sensor than it is to try to punch in wacky little commands.
Again, it's at robodance.com. I got to give him a plug because he is doing something that I wish that people who created this would do. I wish hardware was a lot more open than it actually is. I am seeing awesome hacks come out from people who are doing great things with hardware like the remote. In fact you've probably seen a handful of -- there's one guy on YouTube who has reverse engineered the remote and done really cool things with like 3D stuff with the remote. He is getting like millions of views for a good reason, the guy is just like totally into it.
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