Comments on: Classic Style Wii Controller – Ideal for Virtual Console

By: racketboy

racketboy — Wed, 10 May 2006 22:08:00 +0000

Nope — never knew they existed
Infrared just isn’t as good was the radio-based ones like the Wavebird though…

By: Alex

Alex — Wed, 10 May 2006 21:57:00 +0000

Racketboy, have you ever come across the NEC Infrared PC Engine controllers? I’ve been looking for those things for years.

By: Ivo

Ivo — Wed, 10 May 2006 18:06:00 +0000

I just want to say that this is pretty much an official picture. I don’t know if it was in Gamespy or Gamespot as I was checking E3 news in both, but one of them showed this picture and said that it was somewhere in one CD that came along in the press kit Nintendo handed out.

About it being wireless… Isn’t that thing in the middle the wire? Looks like it’s going up just a tiny bit and bending 180 degrees to make the picture. It does look the thickness of a controller wire so I assumed so, it might just be some stand for the controller.

As for being nitpicky, I’ll further pick on your nit. I think the form factor is great for SNES games (I haven’t tried the Wavebird), but it will still leave a bit to be desired for Genesis games.

By: racketboy

racketboy — Wed, 10 May 2006 17:39:00 +0000

well it’s a little nit-picky, but I don’t want to have to plug the adapters into the side of the Wii. Purely aethetics, I guess.

And if you want to get REALLY picky, the Gamecube button layout isn’t as friendly for SNES and Genesis games.

By: geedeck

geedeck — Wed, 10 May 2006 17:35:00 +0000

Yeah, but you can still use Wavebirds on the Wii, so what’s the problem?