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Yes, you read that correctly!

Buy.com currently has an Connect3D 2GB Secure Digital Card available for $0.00 after a $50 mail-in rebate. Sure, you have to pay $50 up-front but, if my past experience is any indication, you’ll have your rebate back in about a month. All you Wii owners trying to find a good price on an SD Card can rejoice! Click the link below for the product page:
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Edit: Notice I did not say free anywhere above ^_^

In the US at least ^_^

Last night I noticed something when looking at my DVD case stand which is home to my game cases. “Man there are a lot of Zelda games on the Gamecube”. Did the long running Gameboy or Gameboy Advance even see as many Zelda releases as the Gamecube? Could the Wii see this much Zelda love? Well technically it already is since Gamecube games can be played on the Wii plus the Virtual Console Zelda releases that are almost certain to come down the road.

From Go Nintendo:

“The entire Wii community is still abuzz with talk of cross-region VC purchasing. We discussed this awhile back, and now AzaMcWazza has sent in a video. Nintendo must know about this…I wonder if they are going to do something about it.”

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Source: Go Nintendo

Note: Be wary of the music in the video… seems really loud and obnoxious!

Yet another Virtual Console Monday is nearing and Nintendo has not released what games will show up. What are your guesses? Personally I want Punchout to finally show up. As well as giving us some of the bigger VC games already released in Japan such as Super Castlevania IV and Super Mario World. As it stands right now the VC has a good selection of games but none of which besides Sonic and Mario 64 are really instantly recognizable.

So when I purchased my Nintendo Wii on November 19 I was so excited about the hardware finally being out that I really forgot that, man, Twilight Princess is out! I had been waiting for this game since E3 2004 when it was announced.

Tonight I just beat the game with a play time of about 45 hours. I say about because the game doesn’t let you save your progress after the final boss. This game had me sucked in and captivated all 45 of those hours. Not since Ocarina of Time had I been so wowed by a game. From beginning to end Twilight Princess delivers the highest quality you will ever witness from a video game. Nintendo really is at the top of gaming. I give The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess my highest recommendation and my vote for Game of the Year. Not only is the best Zelda ever made, even trumping Ocarina of Time I would also go as far to say it’s the best video game ever created.

Some interesting things I’ve found whilst messing around with Nintendo’s new system:

Photo Channel:
-If you hold down the 1 button while on the puzzle game, you can select an option for 194 pieces.
-A cat runs across the top of the screen on the Fun page, catch it with A+B for tips.
-You can send images to your Wii via email attachments, though I’ve yet to determine which images are acceptable to Nintendo’s servers. It almost seems random which ones actually get through to the system, as I’ve sent images with the exact same properties (480×320, 24bitRGB, 72dpi, default JPEG compression, memory footprint of 1.26MB, file size of 282KB) yet only one will show up. Dpi doesn’t seem to be an issue, as I sent one at 640×480, 24bit RGB, 102dpi, default JPEG compression. Also, an 1280×960, 24bit RGB, 72dpi, default JPEG compression, with a memory footprint of 3.95MB and file size of 198KB image was received just fine. I’m sure that the image can’t be larger than 1.5MB due to an error message I received after sending an 2.2MB image.
Your message is larger than the destination computer is willing to
accept, so it was returned. The error message below indicates the
size of your message and the maximum size allowed by the receiving
E-mail system. You may be able to split your message into several
smaller pieces and have them delivered separately.
Size of this message: 1627775 bytes
Server maximum size: 1572864 bytes
-If you have MP3s on your SD card, you can change the background music during a slide show.
-Puzzle mode allows for Co-Op play!

Message Board/WiiConnect24/Others:
-When you receive a new message, your controller will chirp once along with the disc slot lighting up. Not sure if this works while the controller is off.
-The console seems to check for new content when you enter or leave the Photo and Wii Shop Channels. Depending on the amount of content, this causes a black screen to show for quite some time as the system downloads, making it seem locked-up. I sent 10 images to my system in a row as a test, took my Wii ~5 minutes to exit the Shop Channel, and just before returning to the Wii Menu, the disc slot flashed blue.
-Every time you enter/exit a game or the Mii Channel, the system records it as a separate play period, and posts it to the Message Board. It seems that if you don’t exit back to the Wii Menu before powering off the system, play time is recorded as ‘Other’.
-If you attach a Mii to a message being sent to a normal email address (ie, not to another Wii system,) the 2d picture of your Mii does not go along for the ride.
-You can rearrange certain things using A+B… messages on the message board, channels on the Wii Menu, images in the Photo Channel.

Go Nintendo reader Eddy saw this new Wii commercial on Nickelodeon. Has a nice retro feel to it… I still prefer the “Wii would like to play” ads, but this is still leaps and bounds better than most of Nintendo’s GameCube ads!

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Source: Go Nintendo

Here’s two pictures of Mii created over the last few days.