Old-school controllers required to play old-school games on Wii

[Duder1no]

Nintendo dropped the ball requiring old-school controllers to play old-school games on Wii IMO, why not just make them compatible with the new Wii controllers?

 

[Beev]

Which new Wii controllers? You mean the Wiimote? How are you supposed to play SNES or N64 games with it?

 

[Queasy]

Because the Wii controller only has 4 buttons. The N64 had 8 and the SNES had 6. You'd have to go back to NES releases to have 4 buttons.

 

[JD50]

Why would you want to play an old game with the Wiimote? That sounds lame. The classic controller is only ~20 bucks IIRC.

 

[JD50]

Kind of OT, but I've been playing The Secret of Mana on the VC, damn that game is awesome. I think I'm gonna go buy an SNES so I can play some of those good old RPGs.

 

[darkewaffle]

Gamecube controllers can't possibly cost more than a few bucks these days too. Either works.

 

[Duder1no]

Because the Wii controller only has 4 buttons. The N64 had 8 and the SNES had 6. You'd have to go back to NES releases to have 4 buttons.

never thought about this

/thread

 

[dpodblood]

If you can afford the inflated price of virtual console games than you should certainly be able to afford $20 for a classic controller.

 

[Dumac]

never thought about this

/thread

rofl

 

[Dumac]

If you can afford the inflated price of virtual console games than you should certainly be able to afford $20 for a classic controller.

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_15h5sfjqqj_b

How is it inflated exactly?

 

[Thraxen]

http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...l_15h5sfjqqj_b

How is it inflated exactly?

Apples to oranges.

 

[Dumac]

Apples to oranges.

$10 for a 20 hour game superior to most modern games isn't what I would call inflated. I still don't see any reasoning here...

 

[ghost recon88]

This guy is boss, http://www.retrousb.com/index.php?cPath=22&osCsid=485f69ddce1ddd7e8f3bae8031178b55