The Other Worlds Shrine

Your place for discussion about RPGs, gaming, music, movies, anime, computers, sports, and any other stuff we care to talk about... 

  • Wii Console Friend Code

  • Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
Because playing them is not enough, we have to bitch about them daily, too. We had a Gameplay forum, but it got replaced by GameFAQs.
 #102810  by Lox
 Mon Nov 27, 2006 12:38 am
So does everyone just want to post their Wii Code in one thread or would you all prefer to trade via PM? I don't care about posting mine online so here it is. Let me know when you add me. I'll add anyone who posts theirs or PMs theirs to me!

4466 9022 6599 9329

 #102820  by Flip
 Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:26 am
Looks like credit card numbers to me... shopping spree!

 #102822  by Julius Seeker
 Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:29 am
Believe it or not, I still do not have a Wii of my own, otherwise I would post mine. I am wondering, now, if the high shipment numbers Nintendo was touting were accurate.

 #102824  by Lox
 Mon Nov 27, 2006 10:45 am
Flip wrote:Looks like credit card numbers to me... shopping spree!
Feel free to give it a try. :) Let me know when the Feds come knocking at your door.

The expiration date is 99/99 and the security code is 000, btw. ;)

 #102833  by Zeus
 Mon Nov 27, 2006 1:46 pm
Dolph wrote:Believe it or not, I still do not have a Wii of my own, otherwise I would post mine. I am wondering, now, if the high shipment numbers Nintendo was touting were accurate.
I don't think they hit their million that some were estimating, but if my local little store was able to get 10 and each of the Walmarts, Futureshops, EBs, and Best Buys had at bare minimum of 25 (we have 2 Walmarts, 2 Futureshops, a Best Buy, and 4 EBs for 400,000 people), I can't imagine them shipping any less than 600,000 for day 1. And my bud's EB just got 15 more on Saturday and the Best Buy had 30 on Friday, so they're probably very close to that million right now, if not have surpassed it.

I'm waiting for the figures to come in, but it looks like there wasn't too much of a shortage, it was just less than the demand.

 #102836  by Julius Seeker
 Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:31 pm
I would be expecting 75-150 units for stores like Wal Mart, Futureshop and EB games; that is what they had for DS Lite which launched with 750K units. Instead we got numbers that were less than half of that.

Nintendo, back in October, announced that they had produced over 2 million units already.

 #102843  by Zeus
 Mon Nov 27, 2006 4:25 pm
Dolph wrote:I would be expecting 75-150 units for stores like Wal Mart, Futureshop and EB games; that is what they had for DS Lite which launched with 750K units. Instead we got numbers that were less than half of that.

Nintendo, back in October, announced that they had produced over 2 million units already.
...worldwide. They have to prep for the European and Japanese launches as well.

I'm going by figures in my little tri-city area of 400,000 people. If you want to assume that this area alone (I'm not even including Zellers or HMV or other places that got some; Sears?) we got about 750 (that's reasonable based on people's reactions in town) then extrapolate that over the combined population of North America of 350 million, that would mean about 650,000 units. This is, of course, assuming that a) Canada got about 1/10th of the shipments, which we never do and b) our little city got the same proportional allotment that a place like New York or Toronto will.

So, estimating at least 600,000 units for launch day and on their way of their goal of 2 million by year end is, I'd say, a fair bet.

 #102848  by M'k'n'zy
 Mon Nov 27, 2006 9:49 pm
I am gonna try getting online on mine tonight so if I do I will try to get my number, but my being online is going to be rare until I get high speed at home again

 #102857  by Zeus
 Tue Nov 28, 2006 10:01 am
Dolph wrote:http://www.nintendoworldreport.com/news ... rtid=12471

Wow, 600K it is, and over 450,000 units of Zelda: Twilight Princess sold. I can see this Zelda game beating out Ocarina of Time's 8.8 million sales.
Seek, why you continue to doubt me is beyond comprehension :-)

 #103413  by Oracle
 Tue Dec 12, 2006 11:56 pm
7824 0521 7856 1952

 #103414  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Wed Dec 13, 2006 12:30 am
Will publish mine when I get home and check my Wii, fuck yeah!

 #103606  by Lox
 Sat Dec 16, 2006 1:26 pm
Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:Will publish mine when I get home and check my Wii, fuck yeah!
So where is it??? :)

 #103641  by Andrew, Killer Bee
 Mon Dec 18, 2006 4:48 pm
Heh, sorry :). Jesus, they made it hard enough to find!

1444 6539 0468 6927

 #103642  by Lox
 Mon Dec 18, 2006 5:02 pm
Andrew, Killer Bee wrote:Heh, sorry :). Jesus, they made it hard enough to find!

1444 6539 0468 6927
I know! I had to google where to find it to get mine!

 #103693  by M'k'n'zy
 Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:55 pm
6733-3379-5245-6503

 #103841  by Zeus
 Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:01 pm
Finally set up, so here's mine:

3721-4264-0297-1637

 #103842  by Oracle
 Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:49 pm
I'll add you guys tonight

 #103849  by Zeus
 Fri Dec 22, 2006 7:30 am
Yeah, I added everyone last night myself. If you guys wanna send me a message when you got me set up, we can finalize the set up

One quick question: how do you send guys to the Mii parade? I noticed that my bud who I also set up last night had two of his Miis appear in my Mii parade but I'm not sure how to send my guys there. Is it all your favourites who get sent to the Mii parade?

 #103852  by Lox
 Fri Dec 22, 2006 8:23 am
I believe it's random. I don't know if Favorites matter in that. I don't know for sure since I can't view my own guys in a Mii Parade though.

 #103858  by Zeus
 Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:45 am
Lox wrote:I believe it's random. I don't know if Favorites matter in that. I don't know for sure since I can't view my own guys in a Mii Parade though.
http://www.theaveragegamer.com/2006/12/ ... ade-works/

You turn on mingle and then they'll start travelling to the parade. I'll go and turn all of mine on when I get home. I'm relatively certain they're all on now, but I'll make sure of it

 #103880  by Lox
 Fri Dec 22, 2006 9:18 pm
Zeus wrote:
Lox wrote:I believe it's random. I don't know if Favorites matter in that. I don't know for sure since I can't view my own guys in a Mii Parade though.
http://www.theaveragegamer.com/2006/12/ ... ade-works/

You turn on mingle and then they'll start travelling to the parade. I'll go and turn all of mine on when I get home. I'm relatively certain they're all on now, but I'll make sure of it
Well, yeah, you have to have mingle on. I didn't mention that because I figured that part was obvious. :)

 #103909  by Zeus
 Sun Dec 24, 2006 9:50 am
Lox wrote:
Zeus wrote:
Lox wrote:I believe it's random. I don't know if Favorites matter in that. I don't know for sure since I can't view my own guys in a Mii Parade though.
http://www.theaveragegamer.com/2006/12/ ... ade-works/

You turn on mingle and then they'll start travelling to the parade. I'll go and turn all of mine on when I get home. I'm relatively certain they're all on now, but I'll make sure of it
Well, yeah, you have to have mingle on. I didn't mention that because I figured that part was obvious. :)
It appears to be automatic, though. It's not like making them your favourite will cause them to go to the parade. They should fix that so you can send guys to the parade.

BTW, any of you guys that got me set up, send me a message. I have all of you set up and am just waiting

 #104032  by Julius Seeker
 Sun Dec 31, 2006 8:04 am
Adding everyone now

5977 5893 6664 8816

I have the devil in my code! =)

 #104050  by Julius Seeker
 Mon Jan 01, 2007 1:23 pm
Alright, Zeus added me, but where's the rest of you?!

 #104053  by bovine
 Mon Jan 01, 2007 7:56 pm
I totally PMed you my friend code and it doesn't look like you've added me from this end.

 #104061  by Julius Seeker
 Tue Jan 02, 2007 12:15 pm
Alright, I am adding you now. Wow, I came home last night and my Wii was glowing a blue colour, I think there is something creepy and demonic about that....

 #104065  by Zeus
 Tue Jan 02, 2007 1:03 pm
The Seeker wrote:Alright, I am adding you now. Wow, I came home last night and my Wii was glowing a blue colour, I think there is something creepy and demonic about that....
Yeah, that screwed me up the first time too. I thought it was like the red lights of death on the Xbox 360 and was trying to figure out what the heck was wrong :-) It's meant to signify that there's either an update or a message from someone on your list, but it's still pretty weird.

Another thing I find kind of neat is the fact that you can send emails to normal email addresses. But it's a little cumbersome. I set it up with my email address to try it out. You get an email from an address that looks like wxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@wii.com (the x's are your Wii console number) but it has no subject line or anything. It's just a form email from Nintendo saying "this Wii would like to establish contact, if you want to, reply". I can understand the whole idea behind requiring the other side to approve before you can send messages, but at least give them a chance to figure out where it's coming from. At least let us put a message in there for the other person to read so they don't just delete the message.

I can't wait for them to get the browser up and running properly, in particular the plug-ins. The flash player doesn't play everything (from my experiences on YouTube) and there isn't even a Quicktime plug-in, so I can't watch trailers on Apple's website. Thankfully there's a Macromedia plug-in. Also, I like the idea of the intelligent zoom and it generally works very well, but they need to give you the option of zooming in yourself for those rare occasions when the site isn't set up properly and the zoom doesnt' work.

BTW, for everyone surfing with the Wii, if you surf through Warppipe (www.warppipe.com), it apparently speeds it up a bit. Check out the article at Slashdot for more details.

 #104189  by Julius Seeker
 Wed Jan 10, 2007 11:36 am
Lox and Andrew Killer Bee still have yet to add me.

 #104194  by Lox
 Wed Jan 10, 2007 12:41 pm
Yeah, I'm really really lazy. :)

I'll add you tonight.

 #104250  by Julius Seeker
 Thu Jan 11, 2007 11:32 pm
OK, So far I have discovered that the two most popular Mii's that people create are Jesus and Hitler (I actually got two of them). It's been about two weeks and I have already received 3 Jesuses, which puts my grand total in the collection to 4. Though I may have to get rid of a few once I hit 100; and I think my 100 mark is quickly approaching, I am already over 50.

 #104274  by Zeus
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 2:50 pm
The Seeker wrote:OK, So far I have discovered that the two most popular Mii's that people create are Jesus and Hitler (I actually got two of them). It's been about two weeks and I have already received 3 Jesuses, which puts my grand total in the collection to 4. Though I may have to get rid of a few once I hit 100; and I think my 100 mark is quickly approaching, I am already over 50.
I don't have a Jesus yet :-(

 #104282  by Kupek
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 3:06 pm
Then your soul is condemned to suffer eternal hellfire.

 #104300  by Julius Seeker
 Fri Jan 12, 2007 5:15 pm
There Zeus, you're saved for sure! I sent you Jesus, Satan, Hitler, Super Mario, and Michael Jackson!

 #108024  by Shellie
 Wed Jun 27, 2007 4:50 pm
bumping for later ;)

 #108210  by Shellie
 Wed Jul 04, 2007 10:28 pm
Ours is 5752 1032 8153 8141. I've added everybody, and already have a bunch of Miis of our own.

 #108670  by SineSwiper
 Sat Jul 28, 2007 10:06 pm
Bump. Add me, bitches! Still waiting on you guys. (Seraphina's message above.)

 #108671  by M'k'n'zy
 Sat Jul 28, 2007 11:08 pm
Got you guys added tonight.

 #108691  by Shellie
 Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:41 am
Unfortunately, our Wii died. It gives disc read errors on every game. We're in the process of sending it back for repair. Hope they save all my data : /

 #108693  by Lox
 Mon Jul 30, 2007 7:48 am
That was fast! What'd you do???? :)

 #108697  by Zeus
 Mon Jul 30, 2007 1:31 pm
Seraphina wrote:Unfortunately, our Wii died. It gives disc read errors on every game. We're in the process of sending it back for repair. Hope they save all my data : /
? Do you have it wrapped up in a blanket or something? I haven't heard of any issues with the system. I would hope not considering it's the same freakin' technology as the 'Cube and they've been manufacturing that for 6 years now.

 #108700  by bovine
 Mon Jul 30, 2007 3:28 pm
there was trouble with the first wave of consoles bricking after getting the first update. I believe oracle fell victim to that. Other than that, I have heard nothing of these disc read errors. Sorry for your temporary loss :(