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[isny]

For those of you who PM'ed me, I'll be replying to you soon.

The Wii Mini is going to be $44.99 during boxing day next week at Toys R Us, so I'm probably going to wait to pick one up for myself, and for any GAF members, until then.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/wm-fs-flyers-dec-21-24-toysr-us-dec-26-31-a-1274903/

 

[TheExodu5]

For those of you who PM'ed me, I'll be replying to you soon.

The Wii Mini is going to be $44.99 during boxing day next week at Toys R Us, so I'm probably going to wait to pick one up for myself, and for any GAF members, until then.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/wm-fs-flyers-dec-21-24-toysr-us-dec-26-31-a-1274903/

$44.99 AND comes with an extra free Wii remote? Holy shit.

That's two Wii remotes, a nunchuck, and a Wii Mini for $44.99.

 

[Tagg9]

For those of you who PM'ed me, I'll be replying to you soon.

The Wii Mini is going to be $44.99 during boxing day next week at Toys R Us, so I'm probably going to wait to pick one up for myself, and for any GAF members, until then.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/wm-fs-flyers-dec-21-24-toysr-us-dec-26-31-a-1274903/

You're reading this wrong. Buy the Wii Mini for $99 and get a Wii Remote ($45 value) for free. This kind of makes the Wii Mini $55.

 

[TheExodu5]

You're reading this wrong. Buy the Wii Mini for $99 and get a Wii Remote ($45 value) for free.

But it says 1/2 Prix. The ad is very confusing.

 

[whitehawk]

For those of you who PM'ed me, I'll be replying to you soon.

The Wii Mini is going to be $44.99 during boxing day next week at Toys R Us, so I'm probably going to wait to pick one up for myself, and for any GAF members, until then.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/wm-fs-flyers-dec-21-24-toysr-us-dec-26-31-a-1274903/

$44.99? Well shit, I'm going to try and buy this now. I get a cheap Wii remote + a console for free.

 

[anon_mastermind]

For those of you who PM'ed me, I'll be replying to you soon.

The Wii Mini is going to be $44.99 during boxing day next week at Toys R Us, so I'm probably going to wait to pick one up for myself, and for any GAF members, until then.

http://forums.redflagdeals.com/wm-fs-flyers-dec-21-24-toysr-us-dec-26-31-a-1274903/

To me it looks like a controller is half price with the purchase of a Wii.

 

[TheExodu5]

To me it looks like a controller is half price with the purchase of a Wii.

Yeah that's what I'm thinking too.

I actually need two extra Wii remotes, so that wouldn't be awful...but it's not great.

 

[Tagg9]

But it says 1/2 Prix. The ad is very confusing.

I just think they're doing some stupid rounding. Anyone here speak French?

The caption "telecommande Wii (valuer $44.99) a l'achat d'une console Wii" translates via Google to "Wii Remote ($44.99 value) with the purchase of a Wii".

 

[Yoshi]

So you get two Wii-Remotes for the price of one, a nunchuk on top and some nice looking but cirpled Wii-console-bonus ^^. Would buy just for the Wiimotes .

 

[Fox Mulder]

$44.99 AND comes with an extra free Wii remote? Holy shit.

That's two Wii remotes, a nunchuck, and a Wii Mini for $44.99.

I might pay a nice person to get one for me. A wii motion plus remote costs $40 by itself.

 

[whitehawk]

Yeah I think you just get a second wii remote for half price if you buy a Wii Mini console.

 

[TheExodu5]

I just think they're doing some stupid rounding. Anyone here speak French?

The caption "telecommande Wii (valuer $44.99) a l'achat d'une console Wii" translates to "Wii Remote ($44.99 value) with the purchase of a Wii".

It's weird because it says:

1/2 Prix
(and in a separate column)
Telecommande Wii

Normally in French you would say "Telecommande Wii à 1/2 prix". Their wording is very confusing.

 

[Johnny]

I just think they're doing some stupid rounding. Anyone here speak French?

The caption "telecommande Wii (valuer $44.99) a l'achat d'une console Wii" translates via Google to "Wii Remote ($44.99 value) with the purchase of a Wii".

You can purchase an additional remote for half price with the purchase of the Wii mini, at full price.

edit: beaten

 

[isny]

You can purchase an additional remote for half price with the purchase of the Wii mini, at full price.

edit: beaten

Bah, silly French ads =p

It would have been bomba at half price =(

 

[TheExodu5]

wrong thread

 

[whitehawk]

Apparently Halo Reach 250GB 360s are being cleared from The Source for $79. I'm going to check the one at Billings after work to see if I get lucky.

Oh shit, source? (We should probably move this to the canadian gaming deals thread.)

 

[TheExodu5]

Oh shit, source? (We should probably move this to the canadian gaming deals thread.)

Ahahaha I thought this was the Canadian deals thread. My bad.

 

[wii_HD]

Sorry for the slight thread bump, but as mentioned in the other thread, Digital Foundry now has a review of the Wii Mini up, and I noticed this picture shows the Wii Mini's Model Number is RVL-201:-

Googling this Model number showed that Nintendo already has the operations manual for the Wii Mini available on their website:-
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/downloads/WiiMiniOpMn_RVO_en.pdf
and on page 10 of the manual (pdf page 7) it says "IMPORANT: The Wii mini console will not work with any AV cable other than the model supplied." (Yes the "IMPORANT" typo is in the manual)
This seems to confirm that no other AV cable will work except the bundled Composite cable, which means there is no S-Video or Component output available from the Wii Mini (And likely no RGB Scart or D-Terminal support either)

This makes sense when you look at the Wii's 'AV MULTI OUT' port pinout, since all these outputs use the same 3 pins:-
http://gamesx.com/wiki/doku.php?id=av:wii_multi_av_pinout
Its likely that the Wii Mini is still using the same DAC/Video Encoder chip as the original Wii consoles, so i'm sure these video outputs could be restored by modding just like the SNES Jr (Although not really worth the time given the other missing features) However it seems a real shame that Nintendo would remove these outputs, when all it saves is the cost of a few resistors, diodes and capacitors, and perhaps a bit a PCB space for the traces/components

I have a wii mini and can add the following -

S-Video - NOT working.

RGB Scart - working.

The S-Video cable was tested with three consoles - wii NTSC - working obviously / wii PAL - not working - rolling black white image / wii mini NTSC - not working - faint white diagonal spaced out lines.

 

[iphys]

Ugh! Nintendo has no class at all to purposely manufacture junk like this and waste resources and take advantage of unsuspecting consumers. Having no S-video is beyond cruel.

 

[BocoDragon]

RGB Scart works? lol

 

[Eusis]

RGB Scart works? lol

RGB Scart's about as good as Component for an interlaced signal, isn't it? Though it figures they'd break S-Video, what the hell is wrong with you Nintendo.

 

[Gameboy415]

Well, that is it. I'm out.

No component makes it useless. I don't give a fig about internet. This would have been a sexy little Galaxy machine but it is pointless now. I can't even look at the unit in the same light now.

I was in pretty much the same boat - no Internet isn't big deal to me and I like the design but not supporting anything other than composite is crap.
If they plummet in price, I may grab one for the collection but it's quite disappointing how much of a downgrade this thing turned out to be.

 

[NintenDOMG]

I just think they're doing some stupid rounding. Anyone here speak French?

The caption "telecommande Wii (valuer $44.99) a l'achat d'une console Wii" translates via Google to "Wii Remote ($44.99 value) with the purchase of a Wii".

I speak french. It's buy a 99.99$ Wii and get a Wii remote at half price.

So it's 100$ for the Wii and 22.50$ for the remote.
122.50$ total... not that great of a deal.

 

[Yes Boss!]

I was in pretty much the same boat - no Internet isn't big deal to me and I like the design but not supporting anything other than composite is crap.
If they plummet in price, I may grab one for the collection but it's quite disappointing how much of a downgrade this thing turned out to be.

As will I. The design is so damn sexy...really uniquely Nintendo. Really sad. I've got a lot of Wiis already but I really wanted to add this one to my collection.

 

[Rich!]

If the goddamn SNES can be modded for true component output, then I'm sure this thing can be too.

 

[Kafel]

I never owned a Wii, can you use homebrew with this one ?

 

[Yes Boss!]

If the goddamn SNES can be modded for true component output, then I'm sure this thing can be too.

That is why I'm cautiously optimistic and taking a wait-and-see approach. Surely this will come stateside sometime next year.

 

[Rich!]

I also wouldn't be surprised if there was a hacky way to get SD support on it too. Totally guessing on that one though.

 

[Link83]

I have a wii mini and can add the following -

S-Video - NOT working.

RGB Scart - working.

The S-Video cable was tested with three consoles - wii NTSC - working obviously / wii PAL - not working - rolling black white image / wii mini NTSC - not working - faint white diagonal spaced out lines.

Sorry, but you must be mistaken on that :/

Using a Wii RGB SCART cable with a Wii Mini will display a picture, but its not RGB - its just Composite video over a SCART connection:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART#Usage
The image quality will be exactly the same as using the standard Wii Composite cable with the 'Composite to SCART adaptor' included with all European Wii consoles - the only difference is that a Wii RGB SCART cable might automatically switch to your TV's 'AV1' channel if the +5V/+12V SCART switching pins are still connected:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART#Blanking_and_switching

There are Wii Mini motherboard pictures here which show that only the Composite video and Left/Right audio signals are connected to the AV port:-
http://i.minus.com/iXqIudQBPcJ7k.jpg
http://i.minus.com/iQPFvmW9ikiJU.jpg

The above pics do at least confirm that the Wii Mini uses the same "AVE-RVL" DAC/Video Encoder chip as the original Wii though. There also appears to be solder pads present for a Wi-Fi module, although its unlikely you could do much with it even if you installed one, since AFAIK the Wii Mini System Menu is 'modified' to prevent any internet access, and at present there is no way to restore an original Wii System Menu.

 

[Chittagong]

Sorry, but you must be mistaken on that :/

Using a Wii RGB SCART cable with a Wii Mini will display a picture, but its not RGB, just Composite video over a SCART connection:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SCART#Usage

There are Wii Mini motherboard pictures here which show that only the composite video and left/right audio signals are connected to the AV port:-
http://i.minus.com/iXqIudQBPcJ7k.jpg
http://i.minus.com/iQPFvmW9ikiJU.jpg

The above pics do confirm that the Wii Mini uses the same "AVE-RVL" DAC/Video Encoder chip as the original Wii though.

So they actually had to do extra work to gimp it...?!

 

[Link83]

So they actually had to do extra work to gimp it...?!

Well yes...but if your redesigning the motherboard anyway (To make it smaller) its not really a lot of extra work to remove some traces at the same time - especially if it saves a few cents on component costs.