Great news for you stinchy skeeners, I've recently bought a Black Wiimote and Nunchuck package for $24.98, thats right 25 bucks plus free shipping from Dealextreme.com (which is mainly known for selling authentic Flashcards at REAL low prices). As well as a Black Classic Controller for 11 bucks, again free shipping.
Buying all 3 at your local electronic store would run around $80 bucks not counting your local tax. I spent $35.98 on all 3 so your talking about a big saving here. Sure the wait isn't the best but spending half on controllers makes up for it. I will post a review once they arrive to see if they're the real thing and how it performs. So keep an eye
out to see if its really worth the deal...
Please NOTE that there are regular versions for sale as well (White), I just choose Black because my Wii's black yadayada...
Here's the links:
Black Classic Controller
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.24312
Black Wiimote + Nunchuck
http://www.dealextreme.com/details.dx/sku.29592
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Black Classic Controller Review
First item shipped was the Black Cassic Controller. The box came in good condition and sealed tight. There was some shipping bruises as usual, (especially if you ship overseas) but as long as your product is safe it really doesn't matter. Looks very authentic, it even provides the manual and Club Nintendo Points if you can actually read it
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Enough about how the looks, how will it perform? After playing through NFSN, Brawl and a couple Wiiware/VC titles its safe to say it responds well and accurate.
You would think at half the cost you'd expect a downside, well thats what I'm goin to talk about. The controller is great but theres a couple of small things that I'd like to point out. When the packaged arrive the controller has a clear sticker on both sides of the controller which is not big, but when I removed it it left the adhesive on the controller and was real annoying to get it out. Again, nothing real life threating just annoying.
Not sure why, but the controller has problems running most Wii homebrew, mainly emulators so to speak. Which really bites
! That alone kills this product.
If your the impatient type of person then your not goin to like this as it took me 2 days to process the transaction and 9 Business days to arrive in my doorstep (depends on your region of course)
Lastly the Zr and Zl make a rare click noise (not present in the US version) when pressed. Not complaining on this one just wanted to show what was different. Other than minor complaints shown above everything else works great.
I'll summarize the Pro's and Cons for recap:
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I'd recommend this to the average Wii player who knows jack about Wii Homebrew but to a homebrewer...you can pull the plug on this one. Please Note as well that Nintendo will be selling Black versions of their remotes this holiday season so I'd wait, pay the extra 10 and get FULL functionality than half.
Hope you like the review,
R3dfaction
Black Wiimote+ Nunchuck+ Classic Controller Review
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