Posted by Ub3rG33k on Sep 16, 2010 in
PS3 
Wow ! What a busy, and expensive week, only 2 days ago the Halo Reach XBOX 360S turned up (and I’m blogging instead of completing that fantastic game).
So what do I think of the Playstation Move, will it replace my Wii ? Well let me tell you.
First of all, the controller feels pretty solid. I’ve always found the Wii controller and Nunchuk to feel like toys in my hands instead of controllers. Now don’t get me wrong, I still use the Wii , probably a lot to do with the face that it runs a lot of the games from the external hard drive (You can find that post here)
The buttons on the Playstation Move Controller seem to be well placed, on the main controller you have all the 4 usual buttons, a select and start, a playstation button and a trigger on the back. There is also a “move” button in the middle, this seems to get used as the “Select” button
The Navigation Controller is simplified, and reminds me a lot of the Nunchuk. It has a D-Pad, Anagolue stick, the X and O buttons and the playstation button. There are 2 trigger buttons on the rear, very similar to the Nunchuk. Both devices feel solid in the hand, and benefit from the curved shape (instead of the squared off WiiMote).
I did notice one slight annoyance, there were no USB cables in either of the boxes, it’s a good job I bought the charger, otherwise I’d have been unplugged other USB devices to charge these.
So how do they work ?….Well, very well to be honest, the tracking is spot on ! I realised today, that the Playstation Move didn’t come with any demo games, so had to buy something on next day delivery just to try it out. I then decided to check out Playstation Store, only to find there’s a handful of demos on there.
So far I’ve only played the demo of Sports Champions, and it’s really good. it works very much like the Wii with the motion plus attached, however a lot better graphics. It did however want me to calibrate the controller every time I started a new game, however this could just be because it’s a demo. I played table tennis, and Frisbee, both of which were ultra realistic, (each of my frisbee’s would end up in the trees 
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You can also control the XMB with the Playstation Move, simply hold down the trigger on the back, and move up, down, left and right.
All in all, a good purchase, and look forward to more games to come out, and think that this could be the end of my Wii usage.
As always, unboxing photos below.
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Posted by Ub3rG33k on Jan 28, 2010 in
Nintendo If you are like me, and got very lazy and modified your Wii so you could play your games from a Hard Drive, then this takes laziness to the next level. 
Even with the mod, you had to fire up the homebrew channel, or fire up the CoverFloader, or WiiCoverFlow or whichever channel you had for accessing your hard drive, then select the game, then load….you can now remove a step, and have your games as channels, and below I’ll show you how.
Assumed prerequisites.
You have a Wii
You have a homebrew channel installed
You have your games installed to a compatible hard drive connected to the Wii
Assuming you have the above, lets continue.
Download the latest version of WBFS Manager if you don’t already have it installed.
Download the latest version of Loadstructor (Torrent link here)
and finally the common-key.bin (Torrent Link Here)
Once everything is installed, connect your hard drive to you PC. This should appear in my computer but you won’t be able to access it, this is normal.
Fire up WBPS Manager, and select the external hard drive with you games on it from the drop down box, and click load. You should see a list of your game, if so move onto the next step.
Unzip the Loadstructor zip file and copy the common-key.bin into the root of this folder.
Run the Loadstuctor.exe and you should be met with the below screen.
I personally left all the setting as default.
Click on Add from WBFS, and select the game you want as a channel, using the CTRL key you can select multiple games
Once you have your games selected hit the RUN! button, this will create the wad files on your chosen output folder.
Once complete (took around 20 seconds a game on my machine) you will have a number of wad files in the above folder. Copy these to your Wii SD Card into a folder called wads on the root.
Now we head back to the Wii, take your external hard drive and SD Card with you and plug them into your Wii
Fire up your homebrew channel, then run WAD Manager (assuming you still have this on your SD Card from installing your homebrew channel, if now version 1.5 can be found here or here
Select the newly created wads, and install, that’s it, jobs done ! You will now have Wii Channels for all you favorite games
Final Note :
If your game won’t load and you sat looking at a screen saying Loading ISO, try disabling the Fix 002 Error, as not all games need this, and it seems to be switched on by default, and secondly, I’ve found that I have to completely power off my Wii between games, I can only assume something gets cached.
Anyway, hope this of some help. If you get stuck, drop me a comment and I’ll give you a hand.
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