Stop Paying for your Wii Games!

Even if you cheat, you can’t beat us at this game. Yes, no matter how fast you read this article or how many sentences you skip, you can’t beat us to the end of this article because we’ve already been there. Yes, we cheated. We’re experts at cheating. But play along with us anyway, because, for the rest of this article, we’re going to teach you how Wii cheat. 

Hints and strategy guides
Wii cheats come in various forms and levels. At the lowest level you have hints and strategy guides, which are simply generalized suggestions that help the gamer understand the basic strategies of the game. Many people don’t even consider these to be cheating, but more along the lines of learning how to play the game from a teacher.

Wii walkthroughs
The next level is Wii walkthroughs. These let you know exactly what you need to do in order to get to the next step of the game. A lot of people use these only in critical situations where they continually get stuck, just so they can experience the entire game rather than just a level or two that they can never get past. You can use these walkthroughs for the entire game, but that would seem to defeat the purpose of playing the game at all, because you would basically be turning yourself into a puppet. But sometimes walkthroughs give strategic suggestions also.
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A modification (mod) chip is an electronic device that modifies or disables the built-in restrictions of many popular video game consoles. It replaces or over-rides a system’s protective hardware or software, and thus only works on one type of console. Mod chips allow users to unlock their consoles so they can play homebrew or copied games.

Using a Wii console mod chip (also called Wii modchip, Wii hack mod chip, Nintendo Wii mod chip, etc.) requires a bit of technical know-how and usually involves soldering the mod chip to the console, which risks damaging the console. There are several types of mod chips available. One popular brand is the Wii mod chip Wiikey, which costs about $30.

Mod chips are of questionable legality, with verdicts in legal cases sometimes going one way and sometimes the other, depending upon the region or even a particular judge’s opinion. But one thing that is perfectly clear is that the use of mod chips nullifies the Wii console’s warranty.

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Homebrew refers to programs such as games, utilities and other software that are developed at home by individuals rather than by software companies. Homebrew programs have been made for many systems, including PlayStation, XBox, Wii, cell phones and others. Gaming companies discourage the use of homebrew by developing countermeasures that lock their consoles from homebrew, but clever hackers have developed special software that is capable of over-riding these countermeasures.

The game sales numbers for the first half of 2009 are out, and Wii games still lead the way.

Can you download Wii games for free? The question is more complicated than you might think.

Yes, there are sites that offer free Nintendo Wii game downloads, but chances are you might also be getting other things there for free, like spyware, malware, and viruses. Yes, I went into a download Wii games torrent site the other day to see what it was about. I felt uncomfortable, partly, I suppose, because the title of the site proudly and prominently displayed the word “pirate.” I had a flash that the site was a setup by the FBI, and that the Feds now had me in their sights. A ridiculous thought, probably, but in any case I didn’t tarry there long. I was almost tempted to check out their music downloads, but I didn’t want to chance ruining my new computer with a virus or getting hacked by an identity thief.

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Wii games are great to play, aren’t they? I really enjoy the interactivity of playing great games like
Super Mario Galaxy, Punch-Out!, Wii Fit, and…oops, that one’s scratched. Dang, another $50 down the drain!

It happens to the best of us. Shaq Daddy can take a few scratches on his bod while battling in the paint,
and he won’t lose his cool; but if you scratch his Punch-Out! disc he’s liable to throw a Fit across the room.

Can you burn Wii games? Yes, you can copy Wii games, which is great because game discs are fragile and
easily scratched. And they can be broken, lost or stolen. Blank discs are a whole lot cheaper to buy than
new games. Sure, you can try the Internet tricks for fixing scratched discs with alcohol and bananas, the
same as you can try buying beach property in Nebraska. Best of luck to you.

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Old-time video gamers know what a drag it is to lose your old games every time you get a new console. Oh, the joys of planned obsolescence; they make you buy new games because your old games won’t work on your new system. But now, with the Wii Virtual Console, you don’t have to lose those old classic games like Donkey Kong and the older Mario Brothers games. Your Wii can play many of the games that were made for Nintendo, Super Nintendo, Nintendo 64, and the Sega Genesis.

The Wii Virtual Console (VC) is a section of the Wii Shop Channel, which is an online service where you can download games and other software. The Virtual Console library has lots of pre-Wii games that have been adapted for use on the Wii console. The games that you download from the Virtual Console can be stored in the Wii console’s built-in 512 MB flash memory drive. The newer consoles with Version 4.0 system software let you store and play games on a removable Secure Digital (SD) card. However, games on an SD card can only be played on the Wii console that they were purchased on.

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Before you can download any games, you have to buy Nintendo Wii Points, which are the currency that Nintendo uses. You can buy them online on the Wii Shop Channel, using your credit card. Downloading from the Virtual Console is simple, and complete instructions are given online and in your Wii console’s instruction manual. If you have trouble, you can contact customer support.

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Nintendo Points are a type of currency you can use for buying Nintendo products online or in retail stores. In the US you can purchase Wii Points for $10 per thousand, and you can buy them online with a credit card, or you can buy a Nintendo Points Card at a retail store. When buying them, you must stipulate whether you want them for Wii products or for DSi products, because you can only use them for one system or the other, not both. Probably the most popular use for Points is for buying and downloading Nintendo Wii games.

How to get Wii Points free
You can also get up to 2000 free Nintendo Points on any of several sites, which would cost you $20 for each 2000. These are legitimate Points that the sites have purchased from Nintendo in order to draw people to their sites. The catch is that you have to let these sites send you a lot of ads from their sponsors. We advise you to sign up for a junk email address beforehand, which you can do for free from Yahoo, Gmail, or Hotmail. And then you can give that junk email address to the free sites so that you don’t overload your real email address with ads.

Once you agree to let one of these sites send the ads, they’ll probably direct you to their prize section, where you can choose from any of several free prizes, including Wii Points. On some sites they might not direct you, so you might have to find the prizes yourself; look for “Available Offers” (or something similar) and click “Free Offers”. Then you might have to fill out a few steps before you can claim your prize. The sites are all different, of course, and they might have changed since we’ve been there.

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The world has seemingly gone crazy over the awesome WiiMote the past couple years. The innovative, high-tech remote controller has actually managed to get some of the world’s most confirmed couch potatoes up onto their feet and swinging their arms. The downside of this is that several of their wives have fainted at the sight, thinking that their husbands had taken up exercising.

Yes, the wireless, motion-sensing controller has made Nintendo’s Wii game console one of the most talked-about items in the world. Anything that enables people to fish in their own living room is worth talking about, I suppose, although a few years ago that would have seemed like a fish story.

But some of the more interesting uses of the controller aren’t part of Nintendo’s official game library. The Wii system has been such a revolutionary concept that as soon as it was introduced, people began hacking it, putting it to some creative uses.  Within weeks of Wii’s launch, videos began popping up on YouTube showing Wii hacks of the controller being used to move a PC’s mouse cursor, play Half-Life 2 and even to control a music synthesizer and a drum machine.

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Well, the year is half over, and we thought it would be fun to take a look at the Top Ten Most Anticipated Wii Games in 2009 list from the beginning of the year, and see how those ten are panning out. Of course, everyone had a different Top Ten List in January, but we reviewed the lists from quite a few sites and came up with a consensus list. So, before we give you a sneak preview of upcoming Wii games, let’s review our list below, with the list of Amazon.com’s current ten best Wii sellers to the right of it:

Not much similarity, is there? The only two of the Most Anticipated to make the current Top Ten Sellers list are Sports Resort and the Punch-Out!! Wii game.

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