Viewers using thier nintendo wii’s should now see an optimization and the text should read much clearer. I have installed a plugin for this site which will automaticlly detect users connecting using thier Wii’s via the opera browser and will re-render the look of the site for much more pleasurable viewing. I can’t wait to get home to see what it looks like. Read more about Wordpress Wii Edition HERE on the developers website.

EDIT** So I went home and tested this plugin out with Opera and my Wii. Even though using the Wii to surf the net is not my cup of tea, this plugin allows for faster reloading of pages and seems to be working flawlessly. See the screen shots below, it kind of reminds me of RRS feeds when they originally were designed for pocket devices and mobile phones.

Original site viewed with the Wii

Original site viewed with the Wii using the zoom function

Wii-pressed site with use of Plugin

Wii-pressed site no zoom in required

Overall I really like this plugin and users will have the advantage when it comes to viewers utilizing their Wii’s.

Before I purchased my Nintendo Wii I read all of the horror stories about people throwing their Wii-motes through thier TV’s and such and I knew that I really didn’t want to be replacing my TV. After a few games with the family I decided that the wrist straps were not only flimsy, but also they took to long to take off and put on and I came up with this cheap and effective solution.

As you can see I simply used a small key-ring that attaches to the wii-mote with a larger key-ring attached to a stretchable wrist strap. The strechable wrist straps are available at walmart or you can probably obtain one from any automotive store. The cost of the key-ring with wrist strap was under $2 and makes life a lot easier when playing games where you are constantly handing off your wii-mote to the next player, it is also stronger than the original wrist strap that came with the initial shippments.

We finally got a second wiimote and nunchuck this last week, and let me tell you, it was not easy to come by. After calling many stores every day to see if they got some in, and always hearing them say, “No we are all out”, we finally gave up and were going to wait til after the holidays to pick one up.

We had to go shopping for other things this weekend and ended up walking by a GameStop and so we decided to give it a try on the off chance that they might have the wiimote and nunchuck. Guess what? They had the wii-mote, but no nunchuck, of course! We still bought the wiimote, I guess better to have that than nothing. Well after we left GameStop, we stopped by another one about 10 minutes away. I walked in and guess what? They had no wii-motes, but they did have ONE nunchuck. What are the chances?

Now we are really excited, especially our girls, cuz now they can play some games together. We get home and they pay the Wii Sports and both wiimotes work without a hitch. Then they wanted to play Monkey Ball – Banana Blitz. We put in the game and they went to pick out their character and the second controller would not work. After about an hour of trying, still nothing, so we gave up.

The next day, we decided to try again, and after lots of research, I finally found the solution to the problem of hooking up additional wiimotes to the system to work with all the games.

Here is what you need to do:

Inside the wiimote there is a little red reset button and on the Wii inside where the SD card goes into there is a red reset button also. I had no idea the Wii had a reset button on it also. Anyhow, you need to press both of the reset buttons at the same time to sync them together and all should be just fine. Lights will blink, blink and blink and then on the bottom of the wiimote either the second, third or fourth light will light up, depending on how many wiimotes you might have. But it should go in order, that little Wii is very smart.

Here is a diagram of where the reset buttons should be at:

Hope this helps!!!