Highwind7

No, it's just like having a laptop with a wireless card. When I hooked up my router, I started to setup my Wii to connect to the internet, and just like that, it automatically detected my router! Just a warning though, the system update takes a little while, so be patient! You have to go into the Wii menu to setup the card to search for a router, and it should automatically detect your router. The only problems you might have will be if you have a password for the network, if you have more than one wireless connection in the house, or if the network is encrypted. Otherwise, you should have no trouble.

Well, this was the first video game console I had ever camped out for, and might I say, it was well worth it! I had pre-ordered one at FYE in mid-September because I had won $250 the night before playing bingo, so I didn't want the money to "burn a hole in my pocket". I went on with my life, counting down the days to release, until the Thursday before release. That night, I received a call from FYE saying that they had were not going to receive ANY Wii consoles at launch, and were unsure if they were even going to get any by Christmas time!!! Needless to say, I won't be going back to FYE for a long, long time. Anyway, I decided to camp out for one, so my fiancee and I made a few calls on Friday night to find out how many consoles each store was going to have. We ended up going to Target, got in line (#9 out of a possible 39 units) at 3:30 p.m. and camped there until they handed out vouchers at 7 a.m. The temperature got down to 29 degrees that night , and even though I couldn't sleep, I got my "bundle" at 8 a.m.: Wii Console 1 Extra Remote 1 Extra Nunchuk 2000 Points Card Legend of Zelda: Twighlight Princess Rayman: Raving Rabbids Red Steel $20 Target Giftcard (free with purchase of 3 games) More to come... Just in case you haven't gone to the website yet, I will answer those questions to the best of my ability: 1. Does it come with memory to save games or do I need the SD card? 1a. It comes with 512 MB of memory to begin with. If you plan on buying a lot of the old Nintendo/Sega games to put on the system and/or you are going to have a lot of save files on the memory, I would definitely recommend getting an SD memory card. Since it seems that quite a few places are going to have good BF sales on the memory cards, I would say it wouldn't hurt to have one just in case. 2. How do I connect to the internet? 2a. If you have a wireless router, you should have no problem connecting to the internet, as the system comes with its own wireless card. Otherwise, you will either have to buy a USB to Ethernet adapter, which Nintendo has made, although I haven't seen any. What I have done, since I can't find one, is just buy a wireless router and connect the Wii to the internet that way. As of right now, though, you will be unable to access the Weather Channel, News Channel, or Internet Browser that comes with the Wii, as they have not finished developing them yet. You can find more information on dates on the Nintendo website. 3. Do you have to have the Classic Controller to play the old games? 3a. I have wondered this when they first announced the plans for the Virtual Console (which is what they call the old games). As far as I know, the Nintendo games can be played by moving the remote on it's side to simulate a Nintendo controller. Some of the Super Nintendo games can be played with the Remote, but other than that, you will either need the Classic Controller or a Gamecube controller to play the other ones.