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Thu 12/12/02 at 23:41
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Posts: 787
I never knew the Wavebird was released.

When did this happen?!?

It's just I noticed whilst in Dixons today and I said to my Mum "You gotta get me one of these".

"But you have three controllers" she said.

"Yes, and what is that open slot for?...the Wavebird"

"It's 35 quid!" she moaned.

"But it's a 'Wavebird' Mum".

So I explained to her what it was and she is probably going to get me one for Christmas. Wicked :-D

Then I remembered that it hasn't got a rumble feature and needs batterys. So I was just wondering if anyone owned the controller and could give me some feedback on it. Is it's worth it, How good is the battery life bla bla bla.

In other news, throughout a whole big shopping centre (the biggest in Essex) not one retailer had ANY GameCube pre-owned games. They had stacks of PS2 and Xbox ones though. Is this because noone is buying them? Or maybe because they are so great they don't get traded?

I leave you to decide (and anwser my question if you own the Wavebird).

Danke.
Fri 13/12/02 at 13:05
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"Brownium Motion"
Posts: 4,100
torticollis wrote:
> Mario party 4 I hear has some rumble based gaes, how does wavebird
> deal with that?

Well, with no rumble facility, the simple answer would be it doesn't deal with it at all!
Fri 13/12/02 at 15:37
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"In and out :)"
Posts: 272
Ive had my wavebird since August( imported) its the best contoller ever u chuck it up in the air and let it crash on the floor and it does nuting to the controller
Fri 13/12/02 at 15:49
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Posts: 96
Nintendoid wrote:
> Ive had my wavebird since August( imported) its the best contoller
> ever u chuck it up in the air and let it crash on the floor and it
> does nuting to the controller


ok, sounds fun
*throws GC up in the air and lets it crash to floor, bits of purple plastic flying all over the shop*
Fri 13/12/02 at 15:50
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"Festivus!"
Posts: 6,228
Unbeliever wrote:
> torticollis wrote:
> Mario party 4 I hear has some rumble based gaes, how does wavebird
> deal with that?
>
> Well, with no rumble facility, the simple answer would be it doesn't
> deal with it at all!

Actually !! appears on the screen. So ner.
Fri 13/12/02 at 15:56
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Posts: 96
i wouldnt know cos i cant syand playing games designed for rumbles without a rumble feature!

the one game that springs to mind instantly in MP4 is the climbing the cliff one.
2 characters have to climb the cliff and as soon as the pad rumbles they have to press a!

or indeed the fishing one, where as soon as your pad rumbles you press A to catch a fish!
hows that gonna work?!!?
Fri 13/12/02 at 16:01
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"Australian Person."
Posts: 280
*Reads the topic title*

Stupid Butt!
Fri 13/12/02 at 16:18
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"sdomehtongng"
Posts: 23,695
Monkey_With_Attitude wrote:
> Do you know what would suck though? If it ran out of batterys when you
> were on a roll or something.

----

Warns you before it runs out.
Fri 13/12/02 at 16:25
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Posts: 4,098
WebDVDuk wrote:
> i wouldnt know cos i cant syand playing games designed for rumbles
> without a rumble feature!
>
> the one game that springs to mind instantly in MP4 is the climbing the
> cliff one.
> 2 characters have to climb the cliff and as soon as the pad rumbles
> they have to press a!
>
> or indeed the fishing one, where as soon as your pad rumbles you press
> A to catch a fish!
> hows that gonna work?!!?

I dunno about the cliff one, but as soon as you see !! on the fishing game, you press A

I wanna know how it works for the heartbeat game though :S
Fri 13/12/02 at 17:58
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"Jog on, sunshine"
Posts: 8,979
They rule. I imported mine from Canada in August, have been playing constantly and haven't needed to change the batteries yet. The rumble-less feature doens't bother me- I normally tunr it off anyway.


If buying batteries every six months is a problem, get some rechargeable ones.

:D
Fri 13/12/02 at 18:02
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Posts: 3,937
Don't worry they are very good despite not having a rumble feature.

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