Rumour: Classic Wii Pad Harbours Secret
Just when you though Wii rumouring had no more legs...
The Internet says that the Classic Wii Controller, that's the one that looks like a big SNES pad with analogue sticks added (pictured), houses a secret.
Footage recorded at E3 shows a French lurker bothering a Nintendo representative on the booth during a Wii Virtual Console demonstration of Mario 64. The filmer asks the representative what the little panel is towards to upper rear of the pad, to which the Nintendo rep simply says 'a secret'.
Now of course, the Nintendo man might have been playing a mean trick on his foreign inquisitor. Never the less, somehow a rumour has now sprung up claiming that Nintendo will offer remakes of these original controllers and they will plug into the back of the Classic Controller.
On show on the Nintendo stand, behind the velvet ropes of privilege, SPOnG caught glimpse of a metallic briefcase housing a WiiMote alongside controllers for NES, SNES, Master System, Megadrive and PC Engine. We assumed that this was to visually represent the gaming goodness of the ages owning a Wii will afford, and we'ew still stick with that assumption.
In fairness, HORI or a similar third-party peripheral manufacturer might make Wii-compatible retro pads, though the chances of this conspiracy theory proving true are, we are afraid to say, almost nil.
If the Classic Controller does ever give up this "trick up its sleeve", we'll be sure to let you know.
Footage recorded at E3 shows a French lurker bothering a Nintendo representative on the booth during a Wii Virtual Console demonstration of Mario 64. The filmer asks the representative what the little panel is towards to upper rear of the pad, to which the Nintendo rep simply says 'a secret'.
Now of course, the Nintendo man might have been playing a mean trick on his foreign inquisitor. Never the less, somehow a rumour has now sprung up claiming that Nintendo will offer remakes of these original controllers and they will plug into the back of the Classic Controller.
On show on the Nintendo stand, behind the velvet ropes of privilege, SPOnG caught glimpse of a metallic briefcase housing a WiiMote alongside controllers for NES, SNES, Master System, Megadrive and PC Engine. We assumed that this was to visually represent the gaming goodness of the ages owning a Wii will afford, and we'ew still stick with that assumption.
In fairness, HORI or a similar third-party peripheral manufacturer might make Wii-compatible retro pads, though the chances of this conspiracy theory proving true are, we are afraid to say, almost nil.
If the Classic Controller does ever give up this "trick up its sleeve", we'll be sure to let you know.
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tyrion 23 Jun 2006 11:45
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a rumour has now sprung up claiming that Nintendo will offer remakes of these original controllers and they will plug into the back of the Classic Controller.
Given that the classic controller plugs into the back of the remote, this could get very wired for a wireless controller system.
warbaby 23 Jun 2006 16:04
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tyrion wrote:
a rumour has now sprung up claiming that Nintendo will offer remakes of these original controllers and they will plug into the back of the Classic Controller.
Given that the classic controller plugs into the back of the remote, this could get very wired for a wireless controller system.
Damn... you beat me to it. I was just about to say, what kind of crazy chain would you be making. | Wiimote |------>| Classic |------>| N64 Controller|
Who needs rope when you can hang yourself with the cords of a wireless controller...
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The Hero of Time 24 Jun 2006 22:53
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Doesn't the Wii Remote attach to the back of the Classic controller? I remember Nintendo saying soon after the unveiling of the Wii remote, that they were making a classic 'shell' the Wii remote would attach too. IGN did a mock up of a Wavebird the Wii remote slotted into. Basically giving it the same functionality of the PS3 controller.
vault 13 24 Jun 2006 23:12
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I remember reading that as well. But it was ages ago. Things may have changed.
TigerUppercut 25 Jun 2006 19:47
5/16
The Hero of Time wrote:
Doesn't the Wii Remote attach to the back of the Classic controller? I remember Nintendo saying soon after the unveiling of the Wii remote, that they were making a classic 'shell' the Wii remote would attach too. IGN did a mock up of a Wavebird the Wii remote slotted into. Basically giving it the same functionality of the PS3 controller.
I think Nintendo's keeping it all secret for the time being.
I'll request an outline of how it all works from PR...
tyrion 26 Jun 2006 08:06
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The Hero of Time wrote:
Doesn't the Wii Remote attach to the back of the Classic controller? I remember Nintendo saying soon after the unveiling of the Wii remote, that they were making a classic 'shell' the Wii remote would attach too.
Well, I look at it this way - the Classic controller has a wire, the only other Wii things that have a wire plug into the remote.
Logically (to me anyway) the classic plugs into the remote, in fact I'm sure I saw pictures of this at E3, but can't find them now.
I always thought this was unwieldy, but if we then have a set of ports on the classic that take the old Nintendo controllers, we are talking a large mess of wires.
Jay 26 Jun 2006 10:55
7/16
The slot is for memory cards
vault 13 27 Jun 2006 21:26
8/16
Isn't the left hand analog part also wired? Quit yer whining folks.
tyrion 28 Jun 2006 07:27
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vault 13 wrote:
Isn't the left hand analog part also wired? Quit yer whining folks.
Yeah, but that's just one wire and makes sense since the off-hand controller (let's not propagate the right-handed monopoly on language) is only a single hand unit.
The issue is that the classic is obviously a two-handed job, wired to the remote. Without a clip or slot for the remote, this is not aesthetically pleasing or even easy to hold on to.
If this rumour is true and you can plug NES, SNES and N64 controllers into the classic, there is going to be such a mess that you have to wonder at the sense in it all.
Nintendo would be better off creating a base station with the wireless system the remote uses that can accept the older console controllers. At least that could be placed on a coffee table at a reasonable distance from the TV/Wii and we would only have to deal with wires at one side of the room.
vault 13 28 Jun 2006 19:38
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Why don't they just make everything wireless! That would be the best idea.
tyrion 29 Jun 2006 07:50
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vault 13 wrote:
Why don't they just make everything wireless! That would be the best idea.
It would, but I assume that even the mighty Wii suffers from the limitations of the wireless system its using.
Just as the PS3 will be limited to seven devices, four of which are controllers (see the four lights on the new controller images) so the Wii will have similar limitations. Once you get four remotes, four off-hand controllers and four classics (for N64 games) in to the mix, you are talking a lot of wireless signals floating around. More importantly you are upping the cost of the wireless system.
Nintendo seem to have taken the approach of sticking with four remotes and daisy-chaining everything else into those. Personally I think that with their main controller being so basic, this may be a drawback to their system. There may be a lot of swapping of the extra controller elements and this may wear out the connection if it's a similar connection to, say, data cables for mobile phones, which the connector on the remote most resembles to me.
vault 13 29 Jun 2006 15:24
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tyrion wrote:
It would, but I assume that even the mighty Wii suffers from the limitations of the wireless system its using.
Nintendo = Magic
If they wanted to create a real live unicorn playtoy for kids, they could. The world is just not ready for the awesomeness.
tyrion 29 Jun 2006 18:26
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vault 13 wrote:
Nintendo = Magic
Magic != Technology
Wii = Technology
Wii != Nintendo ?
One of us has something wrong! :-)
vault 13 29 Jun 2006 21:44
14/16
If you follow this simple equation, I think it'll all make sense.
Magic = Miyamoto * ½®/(x)² - 2b + Mario * Luigi/Vault 13 > Tyrion + ¼¥(Unicorns are fun) * 2
I hope that cleared things up. It's correct. Go ahead, check it. All signs point to Vault 13 dominance! As in the words of a fellow Warcrafter, you got pwned²!!!
Magic = Miyamoto * ½®/(x)² - 2b + Mario * Luigi/Vault 13 > Tyrion + ¼¥(Unicorns are fun) * 2
I hope that cleared things up. It's correct. Go ahead, check it. All signs point to Vault 13 dominance! As in the words of a fellow Warcrafter, you got pwned²!!!
tyrion 30 Jun 2006 07:41
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vault 13 wrote:
Magic = Miyamoto * ½®/(x)² - 2b + Mario * Luigi/Vault 13 > Tyrion + ¼¥(Unicorns are fun) * 2
I have a truly marvelous dis-proof of this proposition which this posting is too narrow to contain.
vault 13 30 Jun 2006 23:13
16/16
Well played Clerks...