ukstokes.com » Nintendo http://ukstokes.com/blog tech stuff from a tech bloke Sun, 29 Apr 2012 19:13:14 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Where to get a Wii in the UK http://ukstokes.com/blog/2007/01/06/where-to-get-a-wii-in-the-uk/ http://ukstokes.com/blog/2007/01/06/where-to-get-a-wii-in-the-uk/#comments Sat, 06 Jan 2007 17:55:22 +0000 ben http://ukstokes.com/blog/?p=47 Nintendo Wii's have been out since the beginning of December but due to back orders and reserved consoles they have been out of stock everywhere since the release date. The only places they are always available are ebay and Amazon (Amazon marketplace) where the prices are hugely inflated - from £180 to around £250 (or more). I managed to bag myself one this week from Woolworths, they were in stock for about 15 minutes on their website before they all went. There are a few sites that keep an eye out for Wii's on your behalf and will notify you when they are available, I managed to get hold of mine this week using stocknetwork.co.uk:

http://wii.stocknetwork.co.uk

It should hopefully be delivered next week, I'm looking forward to a bit of Wii Tennis and Bowling with the wife, we'll just have to be careful to not get too excited!

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Superpass2 and Supercard

One thing you will also need in addition to the above is a Micro SD card to insert into the Supercard. You can't do anything without one of these. I've ordered a 2Gb one from Amazon.co.uk for £40, which is the cheapest I could find. Supercard does support 4Gb cards but you have to do take additional steps when formatting the card so that your NDS can read it.

Before you can flash your DS, you need to program your superpass2 card. Pictured above with the superpass2 is

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