This morning I reached 2018 on Nintendo Wii Tennis. The game is addictive at this level, and I have diligently been playing it, instead of switching to Super Paper Mario gifted to me recently. I wondered whether one could go above 2000, since the graph didn’t seem to support it, but apparently you can.
Starting in 1950s the game requires enormous amount of Zen-like concentration and you’re constantly playing a pair of partners with 1900 and 2000 personal score. They do not change, they just sometimes vary their tricks. The biggest effort is to get them to play your game, and not vice versa. My game was heavily dependent on the front guy doling out shots left and right, till the back person of the opposing team got tired or was out of range to reach for the ball.
There’re some pretty tough requirements to get to the 2000 level. If you have 1980, and you win the best of 5 with 3-2 in your favor, you lose points. If you win 3-1, you gain 0 points. You have to win all 3 games in the best of 5 right away, win them flawlessly, and preferably without any deuces involved. Talk about pressure.
The opponents, however, are prone to mistakes even at this skill level. If the ball has a chance of either going out or landing on the green, the opponent will always hit it, if they’re in the range. Also, when the front guy hits the ball high in the air, but he has to jump for it to reach it, the ball frequently goes out. Other than that not too many mistakes are allowed.
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Wii at May 6th, 2007.
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When searching for Nintendo Wii games, Amazon currently provides only 42 titles. This is the master list from Nintendo, which keeps track of existing and upcoming games for Wii.
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Wii at February 28th, 2007.
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The first few bookmarks that I have set up on my Wii were YouTube, Yahoo! Music Videos and Facebook. Checking for feed updates and changing status on TV was pretty cool, Yahoo! Music kept suggesting upgrading my browser to Internet Explorer 7 for optimal experience, so pretty soon that bookmark got trashed, and YouTube on Wii screen is just not too optimal of an experience.
Well, till now. WiiToob repurposes YouTube content and displays it on Wii. Large fonts, full-screen videos, easy clickable regions. Good job, whoever’s behind the site.
Update: a British site MiiTube seems to offer similar content without auto-refresh, but with links to content like most popular videos.
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Wii at February 14th, 2007.
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To pull local audio, video and photo files from your home desktop to your Wii you might set up wireless sharing, then point Opera browser to a file location on the network, then debug firewall access issues, then…
Or you could just install Orb and then on your Wii bookmark mycast.orb.com and log in with your Orb username and password. This will stream all the multimedia content on your home PC (or several of them, if you have Orb server installed on many PCs) to your Wii and consequently to your TV.