PSA: Metroid Prime Trilogy is only $9.99 for one week

[dsheinem]

so....controller support?

[casterofdreams]

so....controller support?

I think these are straight up Wii Releases so like VC games require a control scheme similar to the past (like the Classic Controller for SNES games).

[Sarge]

My understanding is that it's playable on the GamePad if the game originally supported the Classic Controller. So Trilogy probably doesn't, or at minimum it requires the remote + nunchuk, which really doesn't improve things over the current vWii mode.

As far as physical copies are concerned, I'd just hack the Wii at this point and install a flash drive or something. That's what I finally did, and it's pretty awesome. I also snagged a spare Wii, although I paid double what mjmjr25 would have.

[dsheinem]

My understanding is that it's playable on the GamePad if the game originally supported the Classic Controller. So Trilogy probably doesn't, or at minimum it requires the remote + nunchuk, which really doesn't improve things over the current vWii mode.

If this doesn't give me added functionality over popping the disc in, I guess I'm out too. I just want to play Wii games on the pad. It is by far the worst-designed aspect of the system

[mjmjr25]

check your local craigs - I grabbed a bundle of 4 games and a system (as another backup) for $25. People are unloading them - if you can avoid shipping it, $10-15 is about right.

[fastbilly1]

Multiplayer?

[Sarge]

Ah, that's a little closer to what I paid. $26 total for two games, system, three Wii remotes and a nunchuk. In really good shape, too. Had to figure out how to unlock the parental controls (not that hard, apparently), and then I did the full hack job. It was even an earlier model, so I installed BootMii in boot2.

[ejamer]

Meh... I own the collector edition disc in SteelBook case, and am content to pay $10 just so that I don't need to take the disc out when I want to play. Prices are very low now between extra stock and the digital release, but will probably creep back up (at least for the collector version) so $10 for safe, convenient access that doesn't use the optical drive is ok by me.

Fully understand the other view though. If I didn't already own the collector edition disc I would also be buying physical while prices are low.

[retrosportsgamer]

My understanding is that it's playable on the GamePad if the game originally supported the Classic Controller. So Trilogy probably doesn't, or at minimum it requires the remote + nunchuk, which really doesn't improve things over the current vWii mode.

If this doesn't give me added functionality over popping the disc in, I guess I'm out too. I just want to play Wii games on the pad. It is by far the worst-designed aspect of the system

Likewise. If I could play this strictly on the pad, I'm in for $9.99.

[Flake]

Fairly certain there won't be pad support because this is not a WiiU game - it is a vWii game.