{"id":307,"date":"2007-02-11T15:39:34","date_gmt":"2007-02-11T15:39:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2020-06-01T21:59:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T20:59:27","slug":"11022007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/11022007\/","title":{"rendered":"Wii"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are now Wii enabled. Our number is 6789 0126 7404 7756.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/spiral-stairs.jpg\"><img class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-12\" title=\"Click for larger view.\" src=\"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/2007\/02\/spiral-stairs-small.jpg\" alt=\"Spiral stairs in London City Hall\"><\/a>First impressions are good, but there are a few rough edges I hadn&#8217;t heard about previously. The setup is easy and getting the Wifi connection working was simple. Wii Sports Tennis is a lot of fun as is, surprisingly, the golf. Zelda is very good, although I hate being in wolf form: The fighting is harder and the jump functionality is simply strange (no real challenge from a game play perspective &#8211; why have it in the first place?).<\/p>\n<p>Now for the rough edges. First up &#8211; the colour. The SCART adaptor shipped with the Wii results in washed out pale colours, to such a degree that I had to adjust the TV settings just for playing on the Wii. From what I can tell this should be fixed by an RGB Scart Cable, but why is this not included as standard rather than charging \u00a320+ for it? An aside: There&#8217;s plenty to be spent on the Wii before you even get more games: Missing SCART cable (\u00a320), a second controller (with Wii Play &#8211; \u00a333) and a classic controller (\u00a315) comes to nearly \u00a370 before you even buy a Wii Console game or Wii disc.<\/p>\n<p>Another slight annoyance is the range of the Wii controller when using the sensor bar. The recommendation is to use the controller 1 to 3 meters from the TV. 3 meters isn&#8217;t much, and (it turns out), slightly short of our comfy chairs position from the goggle-box.<\/p>\n<p>Overall though, I&#8217;m happy with it. I&#8217;m sure I&#8217;ll be investing in a few Wii console games as well as a second controller. First up is the RGB SCART cable, hopefully I can get a third party one at less cost.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Picture: Spiral stair case inside London City Hall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are now Wii enabled. Our number is 6789 0126 7404 7756. First impressions are good, but there are a few rough edges I hadn&#8217;t heard about previously. The setup is easy and getting the Wifi connection working was simple. Wii Sports Tennis is a lot of fun as is, surprisingly, the golf. Zelda is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":752,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/307\/revisions\/752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.owlfish.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}