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-How To Search For Free Wii Games

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More and more things are now easily done with the use of the Internet-researching, searching for important records, and others. Aside from that, it is also very useful now in performing Wii Games Download. Such activity has become well-known now to both avid players of Wii games and even those who just play a game or two, young and old alike. Thus, Wii has indeed established its name on top of the others when it comes to home gaming.

Owning your own Wii involves two important factors to consider. These factors are the price of the actual Wii console, and the cost that you have to spend in acquiring those Wii games. The good thing is that there is now a fix for the second factor and that is by turning into those membership sites online that offers a one-time charge for an unlimited free download.

There are a lot of Wii download service providers online now that can help you Download Wii Games. It is your personal responsibility to select the best provider for you based on the service offerings that they have. Just a tip, that site that you should turn to must showcase a one-time fee, online convenience, unlimited download, spyware and virus-free database, money-back guarantee, and 24/7 support. If your site had these things, then you're good to go with downloading.

Like an ordinary PC, a Wii console is subject to all kinds of viruses and malware. It is recommended that for regular Wii users to be safe, you should only trust those paid membership sites wherein you can either go for per download, limited time, or lifetime unlimited packages. But for non-regular users, per download and limited time services can be a good choice. However, nowadays, lifetime membership has become the most popular among other services.

Wii games are intellectual property protected. That is why the act of downloading Free Wii Games is actually against the law, especially that which is imposed by Nintendo itself. Therefore, the question now will be if there's no way that Wii games can be downloaded for free from the Internet now. Well, the Internet still provides access to these free games online. All you need to have is a computer with internet access and you'll get all the games that you want.

Your country and your conscience have something to do when you download free Wii games. It is of your advantage if you're in a country that is not that strict in its policy regarding software piracy. In that case, you can download whatever you want anytime through the Internet. Another factor is your conscience which will direct you as to download the games for free or not since the authorities are not capable of monitoring such activity tightly.

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-wii game accessories to maximise your enjoyment

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Wii games accessories are essential if you want to get the most enjoyment out of your games, when you buy your console you will find that it comes with one controller and one nunchuck.

If you intend on playing games as a family or with a group of friends then you will need to buy extra controllers, there are many online stores that supply the extra controllers and many other extras for the games console. If you are looking to buy a wii console and games for all the family to play, then do some research online there are some great deals to be found where you can get packages that include the extra controllers and extra games. One accessory you should consider is the sports pack this includes attachments such as a golf club, tennis racket, and baseball bat, these attachments fit easily on to your controller and make playing the games much more realistic and enjoyable.

The steering wheel is also another accessory to consider, these can be found online at a very reasonable cost and give you more realistic control over the games you are playing. The controller fits inside the steering wheel allowing you to control the game with just the steering wheel in your hands, this gives you the feeling of reality when playing the game. One great way to use your console to keep you fit is to buy the wii fit plus accessory pack, this contains accessories that will give you and your family great entertainment and help to keep you fit in process.

When you first purchase the console it comes with a 512mb SD memory card, this is adequate for a single player but if you play the games with your family or friends and like to save the stats from the game then you should look at buying an extra 2gb SD memory card. These can be found online at very minimal cost and will give you plenty of storage space to keep all your stats from the games, you should consider this when multiple players are going to be playing the games. A docking station is also a great accessory to purchase for your games console, when used regularly the wii can use up a lot of batteries, with a docking station you simply buy rechargeable batteries and fit them to your controller and place the controller in the docking station when not in use. This recharges the batteries ready for your next game play experience and means you will not have to buy batteries all the time to keep playing on your wii, if you intend on using your wii regularly then buying a docking station will saves you money in the long run.

To achieve the maximum enjoyment out of your games console then finding the right wii games accessories is a must, online is a great place to start to look for information on accessories available so you can make an informed decision on which to buy.

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-Nyko Wand Action Pak

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Pros: Can be used as a remote or a gun

Cons : Can’t use it with a Wii Remote Charger

I’ve always liked the idea of having a walking stick that turns into a sword, but the closest I’ve come so far is Nyko’s Wand Action Pak, a Wii remote that turns into a pistol.

What It Is: A Remote That Can Talk to a Gun Shell

The Action Pak consists of Nyko’s version of the Wii remote, which they call the Nyko Wand, and a pistol shell into which the remote can be inserted. The interesting thing about the gun shell is that it communicates with the remote electronically. Generally speaking, gun shells have a mechanism that will simply shove the remote’s B button when you press the trigger. Nyko’s shell instead simple signals the remote that the B button has been pressed. This method also allows Nyko to map the A button to a hammer at the back of the gun. The shell is very small and light; it’s mainly just a handle and a trigger, with the remote itself becoming the gun’s barrel. This means all the buttons of the remote are uncovered and within reach. You can plug a nunchuk into the bottom of the shell. The bottom is shaped so that Nyko receivers like Nyko’s wireless nunchuk adapter can be attached. You can’t connect the MotionPlus to it, but so far there aren’t any shooting games that use the MotionPlus anyway. The shell is unusual in that it is essentially a battery cover. You take off the Wii remote’s battery cover and then shove the remote into the shell. This sets the remote very firmly into the shell, but on the other hand means you can’t use rechargers with the remote. Also, if you are disorganized like me there’s a reasonable chance you could lose the original battery cover, at which point you would no longer be able to use the remote without the gun shell.

Summary: A Simple Remote with Something Extra

Nyko’s Action Pak has a clean, simple design. It is light and works well, although the small, light quality also makes it feel more like a cap gun than a pistol. And when you don’t want to shoot anything, you can transform it from a dangerous weapon of destruction back into a harmless game remote.

-Wii InCharge Dual Charge Station

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There is a fundamental flaw with battery pack Wii remote chargers like Nyko’s Charge Station for the Wii and Energizer’s Power & Play Recharge Station; they cannot be used with the silicone sleeve that wraps around the Wii remote to protect it and anything you accidentally throw it at from damage. And no one wants to unwrap a remote just to charge it.

To the rescue comes Tekno Creations’ Wii InCharge Dual Charge Station, a charger that can send a current straight through the silicone sleeve.

What Makes It Different

The InCharge is an inductive charger, so unlike a typical charger, which requires metal contacts on the battery pack to touch metal contacts on the base, the InCharge Station will charge the InCharge battery pack you put in your Wii remote if it is within perhaps an inch of the base. The sleeve is irrelevant to the charger.

This is pretty neat, and if you’ve avoided getting a charger because you didn’t want to give up your sleeve then the InCharge is a virtual necessity.

The Charge Station That Could Have Been Perfect

The InCharge could have been the perfect charger if not for two things. The first is a “what might have been” reason. One of the drawbacks of chargers is the minor hassle of having to unplug your nunchuk to use them. The InCharge base could have fixed this with a slot in the end that would make it possible to lay the remote in the base cradle with nunchuk attached. Tekno says having the nunchuk attached takes more power, to which I say, so what? They also claim most people don’t care about leaving the nunchuk attached, but I am not so unique that I want something no one else in the world wants.

It is possible to balance the remote on top of the charger in such a way that it will charge with nunchuk attached, but it would be nicer if it were simply designed for this.

A bigger problem is the way the InCharge lets you know your remote is fully charged. Energizer and Nyko chargers uses a light that changes color; the InCharge uses a blinking light.

I hate things that flash; it makes me feel I have to take action. The whole reason I use ad blockers with my Internet browser is because I hate flashing ads. I stopped watching a TV series at one point because the station constantly displayed a flashing, animated logo.

Flashing lights are a warning sign; they should be used when your nuclear power plant is about to melt down, not when your remote is charged up. With the other chargers I simply leave the remote in the base until I want to use it, with the InCharge Station I always feel the need to take the remote out of the base to stop the flashing light.

Summary

In spite of a couple of a couple of unfortunate design decisions, the InCharge is a solid product perfect for those who want both the protection of a silicone sleeve and the convenience of a rechargeable remote. Those who don’t object to blinking lights may

- DreamGear Wii Racing Wheel Review

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When I was a boy, I would sometimes pretend to drive a race car by moving my hands in front of me as though I were steering an invisible wheel while making a “vroom vroom” noise. It was an activity I thought I had put behind me until I started playing racing games on the Wii. Once again I held my hands in the air, this time holding a remote control, and moved them as though I was driving. At least the racing games make the “vroom vroom” sound for me.

Wheels to Create a More Convincing Driving Experience

Nintendo’s Wii Wheel made the action a little more realistic by giving the player a wheel-shaped shell for the remote, but DreamGear has gone one step further, creating a shell with its own base that allows you to use the Wii remote very much like a conventional video game console steering wheel accessory.

DreamGear’s wheel base has suction cups on the bottom so you can firmly place it on a coffee table. I don’t have a coffee table in front of my couch, I have a fuzzy dice ottoman, but fortunately the weight of the base caused it to sink into the foam rubber of my ottoman and keep it in place while I steered. Later though when I played on a glass-top table the wheel did not stay in place, proof that suction cup technology has not changed since I was a child and my suction cup arrows refused to stick to the wall.

The wheel can be turned to the left or the right like a regular steering wheel and can also be tilted forward or back in order to take into account some of the odd things one can do with wheels in a Wii racing game.

A Wheel with More Stability but Less Mobility

Racing games on the Wii are not bound by the normal limits of steering wheels, so DreamGear’s wheel is useless when playing a game like Speed Racer that asks you to move the remote in every possible direction. But for games with more basic controls schemes like Mario Kart Wii and Excite Truck the wheel will do most of the things you need (although in Excite Truck using the wheel means you can’t do a stunt that requires wiggling the remote back and forth). (It is possible to separate the wheel from the base for games like Speed Racer.)

The main thing DreamGear’s wheel gives the player is increased stability. After running several tracks of Excite Truck with the wheel, I pulled the remote out of the wheel shell and used it by itself. Suddenly my truck, which I’d been guiding forward smoothly, was weaving from side to side like the driver was drunk.

Whether you need that stability is another question. I thought the added control would make me win every race in Mario Kart Wii, yet I found I did about the same or even slightly worse than with the simple Nintendo Wii Wheel shell. Since these games are designed and tested by people who are holding a wheel in mid-air, perhaps stability is something these games are not designed to demand.

To Buy or Not to Buy

As a reviewer, I should now tell my readers whether or not to buy DreamGear’s wheel, but I find myself on the fence. If you play racing games so much that your muscles begin to ache from holding the controller in mid-air I would say buy it. If you’re hoping it will improve your driving I would say, it might or it might not. If you just want a racing experience that feels a little bit closer to steering a car than the childhood practice of holding an invisible steering wheel and saying “vroom vroom,” DreamGear’s wheel might be just what you’re looking for

-Wii MotionPlus

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We all remember how cool it was the first time we tried the Wii. It was so incredible to be able to wield a virtual sword or a tennis racket just by waving around the Wii remote. It was neat to be able to use the remote like a computer mouse to select objects. It was something new and exciting. But we also remember that moment of disappointment and frustration when we realized the Wii was not quite what we expected. The remote was finicky, often misreading our movements. We would struggle with it, moving it faster or slower, angling it this way or that, trying to find the magic spot that would make it do what it was supposed to do. The problem was that the remote had a fairly limited ability to broadcast where it was in space. And so Nintendo has created the MotionPlus, an attachable add-on for the Wii remote that gives the Wii more information on the remote’s movements.
The Basics: What It Does

I don’t understand the technology, but apparently the MotionPlus contains a gyroscope that sends out rotational information, and this combined with the Wii remote’s accelerometer (which indicates direction and speed) tells the console almost exactly what the remote is doing.

The results can be seen most clearly in Wii Sports Resort, a mini-game collection which Nintendo designed specifically to show off the capabilities of the MotionPlus. Resort can tell the exact angle of a virtual ping pong paddle and can use the remote to accurately aim an arrow from a virtual bow. This means the small, somewhat random movements that will work in other Wii games aren’t good enough; the need to move realistically has finally forced me to use the remote’s wrist strap, because I need to move forcefully to get the same force out of my avatar.

A few non-Nintendo games are also MotionPlus compatible. The most notable is Tiger Woods PGA Tour 10. Because you can play that game with or without the MotionPlus it allows for a direct comparison of the two, and the difference is striking. With the MotionPlus, the game registers every small movement, sees exactly how far you move your virtual club and takes into account the exact angle of that club.
Some Reservations
Accuracy doesn’t necessarily make games more fun, since swinging your remote to hit the ball was already fun, but it does something just as important: it makes the game less frustrating. You no longer feel that you are battling the remote for supremacy over your game. Unfortunately you will still have to battle with the remote for games that aren’t MotionPlus enabled, like the games that have been coming out since the Wii’s release. Tenchu: Shadow Assassins’ refusal to recognize a forward thrust will never change, because the game was made before the advent of this new technology. And at least for now, it seems likely that most games will make no use of the MotionPlus, since there are plenty of Wii owners who don’t have one. There is also no guarantee that the MotionPlus will actually make much difference; Grand Slam Tennis played just as well for me without it. My biggest complaint about the MotionPlus is it cannot be used with some third-party add-ons. Wireless nunchuks, for example, communicate with the remote via a device that plugs into the nunchuk port. The MotionPlus plugs into that port as well. While the device has a port of its own into which you can plug the nunchuk, that port is positioned differently than on the remote, which makes it incompatible with some devices. It might be possible to plug some dongles into the MotionPlus anyway if not for these weird, seemingly extraneous plastic knobs on its bottom.
Conclusion: Yes, You Really Do Need This

But these are quibbles. At its best, the MotionPlus can be seen as the thing that completes the Wii revolution, allowing players the level of control they erroneously expected from the beginning.

Why wasn’t this technology in place when the Wii launched? According to Nintendo’s Shigeru Miyamoto, the technology simply wasn’t in place at the time to create a reasonably sized, reasonably priced gyroscope-equipped remote.

The MotionPlus does what it’s supposed to do, which leads to the question of, what now? Only a handful of upcoming MotionPlus-capable games have been announced, including Red Steel 2 and the next Legend of Zelda game, but brisk sales of Wii Sports Resort are filling homes with the MotionPlus, so publishers are likely to start adding support for it to more and more games. At first, much of this support will probably be minimal, offering useless features dropped in simply to allow publishers to put “MotionPlus” on their game’s covers, but within a year there should be some interesting uses for the new technology.

So, should you buy the MotionPlus? That depends on what you think of the current MotionPlus games. If you like sports mini-games then Wii Sports Resort is well worth buying, and if you’re a golf fan you’ll want the latest Tiger Woods game bundled with the MotionPlus. If neither of these appeals to you, then there is no need to rush out and get a MotionPlus. But it is something you will need sooner or later, because it is the future of the Wii.

-Twin Star Sabers

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DreamGear’s Twin Star Sabers, a pair of Wii remote add-ons that turn your remote into a light saber, fulfill the first basic necessity of gifts for kids: they look cool when you open them up.

Quality: Is This Supposed to Come Off?

I also would have destroyed it in about five minutes, because in spite of my advanced age and mellow habits, the thing started falling apart almost immediately

The handle into which you insert the remote has a hinged back that locks into place with two plastic locks. One of those locks snapped off after I’d removed and reinserted the Wii five or six times. The other lock is still in place, but it looks like a little more use would take care of it too.

The Styrofoam blade is already beginning to fray a little. To be fair, a more durable plastic blade would probably also hurt more if you hit someone with it, so I can give DreamGear a pass on that, but the deteriorating handle is an unmitigated disaster. I wasn’t trying to stress test the saber, like Consumer Reports would, but I still managed to destroy it.

The saber also makes sounds when you wave it around, but you have to swing it pretty hard to get those sounds, even though you generally need very little movement to play a Wii game. The sounds are also quiet and tiny.

Conclusion: Just Imagine How Fast A Kid Could Destroy This Thing.