Wii Archive

  • Dolphin, the Wii and GameCube emulator, has its first post-open source release. It’s really good.

    Dolphin, the Wii and GameCube emulator, has its first post-open source release. It’s really good.

    Around two years ago, Dolphin, the GameCube and Wii emulator for Windows, Mac OS X and Linux, went open source. Today marks the first official release since that magical day. And let me tell you something: Dolphin works really, really well. Give it a shot when you have a chance.

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  • Netflix comes to the Nintendo Wii

    Netflix comes to the Nintendo Wii

    Officially official (as opposed to rumored, I suppose): You can now stream Netflix on your Nintendo Wii. You can only stream in standard definition, so if that matters to you… Oh, and you’ll need to request a streaming disc, à la the PS3, in order to stream content. That’s about it.

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  • Video: New Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer dances its way into our hearts

    Video: New Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer dances its way into our hearts

    Hey! You there! Do you want to see a new Super Mario Galaxy 2 trailer? No, not an old one—a new one! Well here you go~!

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  • A quick look at Netflix on the Wii

    A quick look at Netflix on the Wii

    The disc required to get Netflix up and running on the Wii should hit subscribers mailboxes sometime today. Here’s a quick look at the Wii-ish interface and controls. Nifty, eh? Too bad there’s no HD content on the Wii version. [via Download Squad]

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  • Pushup bar for Wii Fit Balance Board

    Pushup bar for Wii Fit Balance Board

    Fun fact: If you took one of every available Wii accessory and laid them all end-to-end, they’d stretch around the world 17 times! Add this Balance Board pushup bar to the line.

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  • Tiger Woods 11 for Wii to feature ‘True View’ first person golf shots

    Tiger Woods 11 for Wii to feature ‘True View’ first person golf shots

    Oh boy, I love where EA Sports is going with this. Tiger Woods PGA Tour 11, due out in June, will feature something called “True View,” which allows you to hit your in-game golf shots from a real-life, top-down point of view. When coupled with the Wii MotionPlus accessory, “It works extremely well,” according to IGN.

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  • Analyst: PS3 to win over Xbox 360 and Wii

    Analyst: PS3 to win over Xbox 360 and Wii

    Technology analyst firm Strategy Analytics just announced their latest forecast: Sony's Playstation 3 will will outsell the Wii and Xbox 360 by the time they all end their product cycle. Say what?

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  • Wii Classic Pro controller showing up at GameStop

    Wii Classic Pro controller showing up at GameStop

    Here's some retro gaming goodness, GameStop has all but confirmed the White Classic Controller Pro for the Wii, with a ship date of April 1st. This is of course patterned off of the GameCube controller and has been clamored for by gamers ever since the Wii came out. Hopefully it'll be worth the wait.

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  • No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo

    No new Wii ‘any time soon’ says Nintendo

    Don’t expect new console hardware from Nintendo in the near future. When asked “When do you think it’ll be time for new hardware?” in a recent interview with Gamespot, Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway replied, “I don’t think it’ll be any time soon because even though our installed base is, at this point, 5 million households larger than the PS2 installed base was at the same point in its lifecycle, it still has a lot of room to grow.”

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  • Wii laptop hack is about 2.5 inches thick

    Wii laptop hack is about 2.5 inches thick

    Of all the consoles to stuff into a laptop form factor, the Wii’s minute size makes it as good a candidate as any. And while Wii laptop mods have been done before, this most recent one has the distinction of being relatively thin at just over 2.5 inches.

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  • Virtual guitar pedalboard interface

    Virtual guitar pedalboard interface

    If you have a friend who is a “serious” guitarist, you probably know how they love to show off their pedal collection. A dizzying array of brightly colored metal housings that more often than not, they don’t know exactly how they all work. Dave Verlee from the University of Illinois has cooked up a really [...]

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  • Wii arcade fighter gamepad good for Hadokens and Shoryukens

    Wii arcade fighter gamepad good for Hadokens and Shoryukens

    At last count, there are something like six Street Fighter games available for download from the Wii’s Virtual Console section. And for that truly old-school experience, you need a truly old-school controller. The $15 dreamGEAR Arcade Fighter Classic Gamepad for Nintendo Wii looks like it may be able to scratch that itch.

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  • New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the fastest single-console game to reach 10 million sold

    New Super Mario Bros. Wii is the fastest single-console game to reach 10 million sold

    Can we agree that Modern Warfare 2 was an average shooter, just one that happened to be backed by a gigantic marketing budget? It wasn't bad, certainly, but the story was bat-shit crazy—Red Dawn was more plausible—and No Russian was so clearly developed to spark controversy. This is why this Mario story warms my heart so. New Super Mario Bros. Wii is now the fastest-selling game on a single console to reach 10 million units sold worldwide. The previous record holder was Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.

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  • Fun Fact: New Super Mario Brothers is totally amazing when you play it with a sniper rifle

    Fun Fact: New Super Mario Brothers is totally amazing when you play it with a sniper rifle

    I'm not sure how we missed these charming little PS3 and Wii sniper rifles (you know, for kids) at CES. However, as Technabob points out, both look like AK-47s, which aren't very useful as sniper rifles.

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  • Poll: Do you want a Wii HD?

    Poll: Do you want a Wii HD?

    Mr. Nintendo America, Reggie Fils-Aime, basically said to CNBC that Wii buyers could care less about high-definition. Is that true? Sound off in the poll and the comments after the jump. Do you want a high-def Wii Yes No View Results

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