I’m really getting bored with the Wii.  Do all games with online play require friend codes?  It doesn’t exactly help that you can’t tell what your friends are up to without firing up a game & logging in.  How well does the Wii Speak work?

P.S. Quick heads up.  When I clicked “Add Comment”, it set my name & address to Jonah’s (jgbishop at something dot com).

I’m really getting bored with the Wii.
Me too, except Guitar Hero.  If I was more interested in buying DLC I would be pretty annoyed by the super-small built-in memory.  I did get the new Tales Of Symphonia game, I’m hoping that will be fun.

Do all games with online play require friend codes?
Yep, it’s super annoying.  Nintendo is really afraid of a news story that says something like “Pedophile attracts young child through Virtual Animal Town game, keep the Wii away from your kids or they will be the next victim!”

It doesn’t exactly help that you can’t tell what your friends are up to without firing up a game & logging in.
I agree.  And you can’t really tell what they are up to then.

How well does the Wii Speak work?
We haven’t tried it yet.  Stephanie’s mom got a Wii and Animal Crossing, but they haven’t set it up yet.  Stephanie’s sister-in-law has it too, but I’m not sure if she got the game with the microphone thing.

P.S. Quick heads up.  When I clicked “Add Comment”, it set my name & address to Jonah’s (jgbishop at something dot com).
That’s really weird, I’ll look into that when I get home.  I’m not sure how that happened, that’s supposed to be set from a cookie.

ok it was a problem with server-side caching of the generated page, after the value from the cookie had been put in the field.  for the time being the name/e-mail fields won’t be auto-populated from the (except when editing a comment).  when i get more time, i’ll try to bring it back a little more safely.