Wii U Gamecube Adapter Walmart.ca

The page seemed a little buggy. I had to refresh the page and quickly click add to cart before it disappeared. Hopefully my order goes through!

 
Well, woke up this morning to a "your ordered item is out of stock" email.

My first time using Walmart.ca to order and I find out they don't match inventory to orders prior to attempting to ship? Guess I'm sticking with Amazon.

Did anyone's order get shipped?
 
Ordered yesterday morning, and just got the out of stock email as well. I knew something was up when they didn't ship it yesterday.

 
eataburger said:
Well, woke up this morning to a "your ordered item is out of stock" email. My first time using Walmart.ca to order and I find out they don't match inventory to orders prior to attempting to ship? Guess I'm sticking with Amazon. Did anyone's order get shipped?
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Wow, that's bs man. I guess I'm never going to bother ordering from Walmart too.

 
Expecting my attempt to be futile, I walked into an EB to burn some time and asked the worker if they have any adapters. She said they have one left and sold it to me.

Did not expect.

Maybe your local stores have some back in? Give 'em a call

(mine was in Toronto, at Queen/Spadina. obviously that location has sold out again now, but...)

 
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Have to admit, I didn't know what OP was talking about, so I went to eBay and had a good chuckle. People's impatience always amazes me. I was casually interested in these, but I'll get one in the new year when the frenzy dies down a little.

 
I had asked at an ebgames in passing and the clerk said that they probably not get any more in and to be careful not to get gouged.
 
Jogurt the Yogurt said:
Have to admit, I didn't know what OP was talking about, so I went to eBay and had a good chuckle. People's impatience always amazes me. I was casually interested in these, but I'll get one in the new year when the frenzy dies down a little.
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Agreed. Just get a Pro controller and switch Shield from L and R to ZL and ZR, and boom! pretty much the same set up as the GameCube controller, AND if you've been playing SSB3D the face buttons shouldn't feel awkward. But for the sake of debate, nothing's better than the GameCube controller for Smash, and SSBU, atleast technically, is the best Smash since Melee.

I heard that they're getting restocked in the UK, so Nintendo's clearly aware of the demand, before the game comes out in Japan. Also, the price on Amazon's third-party retailers for the adapter went from around $160 down to $110 in two days, so this shortage does seem like it'll be, hopefully, a one time thing.

P.S. if you're planning on buying one of the new GameCube controllers, the L and R shoulder buttons don't have the same springs in them, but they still work fine, IMO. The controller's surface also feels different from the classic GameCube ones, but I can't tell if it's because I haven't put, like, 500+ hours of playtime into it, like the others. I would say, stick with the ones you have from back in the day OR, if you absolutely need a new one, order the 2008 white japanese edition off of Amazon for $5 more (it will have the crazy long 10 ft cable too).

 
sdesros said:
I had asked at an ebgames in passing and the clerk said that they probably not get any more in and to be careful not to get gouged.
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Maybe not right away, but there's no way Nintendo's just going to stop making these things with Smash selling the way it is.

VetraX said:
P.S. if you're planning on buying one of the new GameCube controllers, the L and R shoulder buttons don't have the same springs in them, but they still work fine, IMO. The controller's surface also feels different from the classic GameCube ones, but I can't tell if it's because I haven't put, like, 500+ hours of playtime into it, like the others. I would say, stick with the ones you have from back in the day OR, if you absolutely need a new one, order the 2008 white japanese edition off of Amazon for $5 more (it will have the crazy long 10 ft cable too).
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The original GCN controllers have analogue shoulder buttons. Perhaps the new ones don't, because the Wii U doesn't support them? (The GamePad and Pro controllers have digital shoulders.) Has anyone tested one of the new controllers on an original GCN?

 
Jogurt the Yogurt said:
The original GCN controllers have analogue shoulder buttons. Perhaps the new ones don't, because the Wii U doesn't support them? (The GamePad and Pro controllers have digital shoulders.) Has anyone tested one of the new controllers on an original GCN?
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That's probably why, then. Yep, worked fine on my friend's GameCube, and later on on the Wii when I tried.

 
if you do need one. EB will ship it to your store from any other store. So find a store that has it and boom call your store to call their store for the hookup.

 
VetraX said:
Agreed. Just get a Pro controller and switch Shield from L and R to ZL and ZR, and boom! pretty much the same set up as the GameCube controller, AND if you've been playing SSB3D the face buttons shouldn't feel awkward. But for the sake of debate, nothing's better than the GameCube controller for Smash, and SSBU, atleast technically, is the best Smash since Melee.

I heard that they're getting restocked in the UK, so Nintendo's clearly aware of the demand, before the game comes out in Japan. Also, the price on Amazon's third-party retailers for the adapter went from around $160 down to $110 in two days, so this shortage does seem like it'll be, hopefully, a one time thing.

P.S. if you're planning on buying one of the new GameCube controllers, the L and R shoulder buttons don't have the same springs in them, but they still work fine, IMO. The controller's surface also feels different from the classic GameCube ones, but I can't tell if it's because I haven't put, like, 500+ hours of playtime into it, like the others. I would say, stick with the ones you have from back in the day OR, if you absolutely need a new one, order the 2008 white japanese edition off of Amazon for $5 more (it will have the crazy long 10 ft cable too).
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The default layout for the wii u gamepad is dog shit. Honestly whoever did it did not play with it thoroughly and threw it together haphazardly as an afterthought. Originally I only changed the shoulders cause grab on triggers (really???), then i played a few sets with my friend and he gave me some tips aka told me i should stop being dumb and change more of the layout and needs further testing but maybe the changes I made might make the thing more tolerable. Also the fact that you can't change the default, and you have to make a name, change the controls for that name, AND you have to pick that name every time otherwise default controls (which are atrocious). Online mode not remembering what name you used last is pretty awful too. There's just a lot of oversight on the gui aspect of the game that was not done properly and it's embarrassing to see this kind of shit happening. Not even gonna go over how stuff like controls is buried under 3 levels of menus...

 
telepathy said:
The default layout for the wii u gamepad is dog shit. Honestly whoever did it did not play with it thoroughly and threw it together haphazardly as an afterthought. Originally I only changed the shoulders cause grab on triggers (really???), then i played a few sets with my friend and he gave me some tips aka told me i should stop being dumb and change more of the layout and needs further testing but maybe the changes I made might make the thing more tolerable. Also the fact that you can't change the default, and you have to make a name, change the controls for that name, AND you have to pick that name every time otherwise default controls (which are atrocious). Online mode not remembering what name you used last is pretty awful too. There's just a lot of oversight on the gui aspect of the game that was not done properly and it's embarrassing to see this kind of shit happening. Not even gonna go over how stuff like controls is buried under 3 levels of menus...
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The whole menu system of the game feels like something from a college flash game project in a videogame development course. It's so poor.
Honestly this game has nothing on project M, and CAGs should love Project M because it is a free upgrade of Brawl! If you don't know what project M is look it up!

 
[quote name="Naylord" post="12295564" timestamp="1417599532"]The whole menu system of the game feels like something from a college flash game project in a videogame development course. /quote]

Agreed. I still have no idea what half the games are or the best way to unlock stuff. It's a fun game but they really needed to focus on it's strengths instead of cramming so much onto the disc.
 
eataburger said:
[quote name="Naylord" post="12295564" timestamp="1417599532"]The whole menu system of the game feels like something from a college flash game project in a videogame development course. /quote]

Agreed. I still have no idea what half the games are or the best way to unlock stuff. It's a fun game but they really needed to focus on it's strengths instead of cramming so much onto the disc.
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I think it's great that they offer so much content for retail price unlike some games that are sold half done and then released as dlc later.

*cough* Destiny *cough* Unity *cough* advanced warfare

They just arranged it really poorly; they need to take a course in developing main menus lmao.

 
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Sorry for the bump, but it's available at GameStop in the US right now. It's bundled with the GameCube controller for a total of $50.

EDIT: Fack, my bad. It says US addresses only. Ugh. Amerifriend? 

 
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Even when you have an Amerifriend to receive it, I'm pretty sure Gamestop is super anal about shipping to an American address with a Canadian credit card.

I haven't tried in a couple years though, maybe they've added Paypal or something so the problem can be worked around?

 
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