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#261579
Topic
Eragon thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261579/action/topic#261579
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A few years out of high school? The guy was 18 when he published the damn thing, and only because he ran around from school to school promoting his book to grade schoolers dressed like a peasant. It is a weird world we have here. Charles Dickens? Never read him. Paolini? Hell yeah I know Paolini, his books are fricken awsome. I went to see Casino Royale with my wife yester day, and the Eragon trailer came on, and my wife said that it looked cool. I laughted at her, and said it looks pretty retarded. And I am the guy whose crown jewel of his books case a leather bound copy of The Lord of the Rings. It looks like something an eighteen year old would write. Also Nanner comment about it being basically a D&D fanfic sheds a lot of light on it the whole thing. Funny stuff.
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#261259
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Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261259/action/topic#261259
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker


you say, "I went from a console gamer, to a PC gamer, to no gamer at all because I suddenly woke up one morning and couldn't play any of the new games I was interested in, while a few months ago they all worked beautifully. It has absolutely nothing to do with graphics. " so if its not graphics than what is it? the only thing i can think of is a hardware problem or something may have went on your computer.. either way this has nothing to do with upgrading. maybe you have to reinstall?

as for the console wars things and people being biased, i do recall someone saying "Im hearing a sony fanboy crying right now or something along those lines" Sorry but if thats not being biased i dont know what is.

and when did i say anything about sticking to older games? seriously? i said that you can play any game on the pc without all the bells and whistles on if you dont care about graphics. and NO YOUR WRONG ABOUT HAVING TO BUY NEW STUFF TO PLAY ANY NEW GAMES! i've played every new game this year with a setup i made about 2 years ago. but at least with the pc you are given a choice! im not saying you will never have to upgrade your pc, you will have to one day, just as you will have to buy a new console.



Okay, when I said "suddenly I woke up one morning and couldn't play games anymore" I meant it as a figure of speech. I was refering to my system finding itself outdated. I do not need to reinstall anything, I do in fact need an upgrade if I were to want to play most modern games. This is a fact, there is nothing in denying it. Not every game has the function to turn down all the "bells and whistles" and even when they do, you can turn it down all the way and it still plays lousily. I would have loved to play Battlefront when it came out, but it is not going to happen. Not without buying new hardware.

"NO YOUR WRONG ABOUT HAVING TO BUY NEW STUFF TO PLAY ANY NEW GAMES!" Dude, calm down! Why are you getting so bent out of shape about this. Not everybody is as big into gaming as you seem to be. When I was in highschool I was big into games, at that time I owned a SNES and a N64 and felt the Playstation sucked (I owned one of those too, but never found any games half as good as my N64 games), at that time I would have been very happy to participate in console wars. High school is now a very distant memory to me, and I could care less about pissing on other consoles. The line Ric said about the PS fanboy crying somewhere, was more of a joke, not to be taken seriously. Just an off handed comment not meant to rough up anyone feathers.

"i've played every new game this year with a setup i made about 2 years ago"

If you have played every new game this year, then you have a hell of a lot more money on your hands than I have. I also do not have the money to buy a new system every two or three years. It is just my opinion that consoles, being just a few hundred with no extra troubles are a much cheaper than a $700 dollar system every three years or so. If you do not agree with this, it is not going to hurt you. The world is not going to end. We can all live in harmony. Your PC gaming experience is a good one. Mine ended when my system, which I am quite fond of and have no intention of replacing or throwing more money into, became outdated and could not handle new games. Yes it is my fault because I did not commit to buy a new system or a new graphics card. I would much rather buy a new console system than a new computer, thus PC gaming is not worth it for me. I know plenty of others who agree with me. But hey, it is okay. PC gaming is still there, your games aren't going anywhere. And some of us still feel that sony is going to lose this round. We might be wrong. That is part of the fun and beauty of making predictions like this, you might be wrong and you can look back and say, "man, I really thought the dreamcast was going to rule."
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#261257
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261257/action/topic#261257
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Originally posted by: MTHaslett
To throw in my cheap-ass two-cents worth, I say 108 min sounds fine, but I would consider trying the Padme "pleading to the senate" scene because I believe it may work at paying off the new, tighter opening and it may be valuable to establish that she's really a senator (you know, by seeing her in the Senate).

On the other hand, if putting it in grinds things to a halt-- 108 min. is fine. We want this to be a good movie first, a good "Star Wars" movie second. If making it a "good Star Wars" movie length makes it a bad movie in general-- then what's really been gained?

Thoughts about the final kiss:

The first thing I noticed, screening it, was how un-OT the preceeding "Clone Army" marching off to war scene was. That thing is a real killer because I find that to be the most obvious CGi in the movie. It's like watching a scene from Roger Rabbit to have to pretend Palpatine and those troops are really sharing the same space. The most crippling aspect, imho, is how the camera moves around so much-- those computer made mattes allow the camera to do things that weren't possible during the OT-- so we get stuck with footage that will never match (unless Trooperman pulls off some magic). Too bad there aren't static shots of those troops and ships. I think it would all look more real and feel more OT.

I mention all that because the failings of that scene spill over into the failings of the Anakin wedding/kiss scene. I'm already in a "bad mood" so to speak, fighting to stay in the movie as it keeps doing things that take me out.

But forgetting the troops and just looking at the wedding footage, I think a solution is there. What makes th wedding/kiss so bad? It feels awkward to me. They kiss like teenagers on a date. The sequence has no grace in its cutting-- a moving shot cuts to a static shot that starts moving a fraction of a second later, then to another static shot that starts moving a fraction of a second later. Then more awkward, hesitant kissing and "meaningful" glances that convey no meaning. The result of all these bits of awkwardness make me dislike the scene for seeming to want to be more than it is. Is it just a happy wedding? Or is something brewing underneath? The awkwardness hints at something a little wrong-- but the awkwardness is the only hint.

Solution? I say, edit out the awkwardness.

FIRST SHOT: Pulling back from the sun in the mountains, then to the wide shot of the couple exchanging vows.
The priest steps away, Anakin reaches for Padme. CUT ON MOTION as his golden hand also reaches for her-- make these movements be graceful; all in one.
They move in for the first kiss-- and just after their lips touch for the first time, CUT to the droids moving and congratulating each other. Then CUT to the close-up 2 shot of Padme and Anakin kissing with sunlight behind them-- as they FINISH their last kiss (so the effect is that they had one LONG kiss -- not twenty hesitant awkward kisses).
Then as Padme and Anakin manage to separate and look at each other, let Padme look at Anakin ONCE, then CUT TO the final long shot as they turn together to look at the sunset. (the idea here is that we should be Cutting away before she awkwardly looks at his eyes, looks down, looks up, looks down and basically communicates to us "Who is this guy and what am I doing here?").

To me, that improves this final scene a lot by eliminating a lot of weird "static" that comes in because of the clumsy filmmaking/acting choices. It won't be half-so objectionable if it is simply graceful.

Them's my thoughts.

And if possible, figure out a way to make the Clone Army stuff seem to contain more still shots.

Glad to hear progress is being made, TM!


If TM can pull it off, it sounds like it could be a huge improvment. I like the idea of one long kiss rather than them making out. It would have a much less modern feel to it this way.
Post
#261163
Topic
Episode II: Shroud of the Dark Side (the TM edit) (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261163/action/topic#261163
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Originally posted by: Dantha Fodder
There's nothing wrong with being blunt at all mate. I agree with you. This scene is bad (sorry Marvolo/musicman/C3PX et al). I think the more you watch AOTC, the more there is the risk of becoming (in a way) desensitized to some elements of it (the hopelessly executed romance scenes for example).


I have only scene the film twice, and once was on a ridiculously poor quality VHS screener. Because where I lived at the time Star Wars never came to the cinema, but there was an abundance of bootleg video shops. I guess the reason that scene has never stuck out and bothered me was that there was a lot of other crap that came before it. I am not saying it isn't bad as far as film goes, I am saying it is not bad for a Star Wars prequel film.

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#261153
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A Date Which Will Live...in Infamy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261153/action/topic#261153
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Idolization like that that can't help much. It is better you try to be your own man and hold your own opinions from your own research. We have a lot of Rush Limbaughs (sp?) running around, but it doesn't do them any good because all they are doing is regurgitating Rush. Even if they did come up with something on their own, they have regurgitated Rush so often, it is impossible to distinguish the original thought from the regurgitation. Which is ashame, because they might have something good to say. I have nothing against Rush or Savage, and I even enjoy listening to them from time to time. But extremes are never a good thing. And bias is never a good thing. And I think you will find a little of each in both of them. Original thought, that is th way to go. It makes you much more credible. The insulting thing doesn't help at all either. Calm and cool drives the point home better than extreme over the top enthusiasm ever could.
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#261150
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261150/action/topic#261150
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Originally posted by: Luke Skywalker


Hm... I don't know what to tell you, Sage. I've enjoyed PC gaming, but anymore it's so hard to keep up with the technology curve that I really can't get into PC gaming anymore.


i agree with him 100%! more than 100% because this is my major gripe with games today. however there is a major flaw to his argument which many people fail to notice.
earlier he said.

I understand full well the Wii is nowhere near as powerful as the PS3, and I don't care. I played a PS3 at Wal-Mart and well, it was a PS2 game with better graphics. (Some NBA or NCAA Basketball game)

Graphics aren't what made me want a GC--Super Smash Bros Melee was. And online Smash Bros Brawl is ultimately what sold me on the Wii. (It's my email address for crying out loud.)



Yeah, Chaltab! Why do you have to be so flaky? J/K! This would also be my complaint. And I really don't care a thing about graphics. One of my most often played games is still Dark Forces for the pc. Trust me, I do not care about graphics. And yet my biggest gripe about PC games is that you cannot keep your technology updated enough. In my case, and I can easily imagine in the case of Darth Chaltab, this has nothing to do with graphics. This has merely to do with the fact that we would like to be able to PLAY them, period. With computer gaming they are constantly making things better, it seems every few years it slows down for a little while, then they start making huge leaps again. I went from a console gamer, to a PC gamer, to no gamer at all because I suddenly woke up one morning and couldn't play any of the new games I was interested in, while a few months ago they all worked beautifully. It has absolutely nothing to do with graphics. In this manner PC gaming gets to be pretty expensive. Also, I don't think anybody has really gotten into any console wars crap, we are just saying our opinions of the new systems. Just because we say that we think Sony is in trouble, doesn't mean we are pissing on Sony because we are Mario or Microsith fanboys. In my opinion Sony, always releases mostly decent products, for quite a bit more money because it bears their brand name. I don't think in any product they are particularly worth it. My friend spend a considerable amount more on a Sony DVD player that he would have on any other brand, and he got less features for it, my little apex DVD player could play discs without any challenge, while his Sony skips with little provocation. I am not saying apex is better than Sony, but that Sony has a pretty bloated price tag for what it is. I think it is the same with any of their products, including the PSX, PS2, and yes the PS3. Looking at the game selections and the systems, I would give my vote to the 360, but then again, the wii looks pretty impressive in the new technology section, while the other two seem like they just have a larger processor and graphics chips. There have been no extremely bias opinions of anything to complain about. If you would like to mediate a console war, I think IGN's forms may be the place to join up.


Ah, your argument against the PC gaming bash, is that you should just stick to the older games, but we are not talking about that. Of course there will always be millions of games to play on the PC, but if you would like to play anything new, then you DO have to upgrade, so there is sort of a rule about it, if you want to play you have to upgrade. There is probably hardly a single PC release this year (other than some stupid casino games) that my system could even consider running.
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#261006
Topic
Discussion: Awful Star Wars Collectibles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/261006/action/topic#261006
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"...your faithfull droid won't mind a bit. In fact he would be delighted."

Judging by his pose, and what I have learned about him from the tape despenser, I am sure he would be delighted!
Did these ceramic makers in 1983 have a threepio fetish or something! Those are two positions I never expected to see a proticol in in my entire life.


http://www.neweyestudio.com/ebayJ/ebj567.jpg

The only thing missing from this scene is the handcuffs.


Wow, that Darth Vader "waterball" is awsome! I really, really, really, want one! And I am not kidding eaither. That is one of the coolest things I have ever seen. It is like that sweet and annoyingly innocent (I always imagined Anakin Skywalker would have been a trouble maker in his youth, not little goody two shoes. Oh well.) little boy has climbed out of his evil dark menacing shell, and is living out his fantasy of playing in the snow. In context of how lame the prequels are, this snow globe makes perfect sense. In a galaxy where Darth Vader likes to do Frankenstien impressions, this fits amazingly well.
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#260938
Topic
.: The XØ Project - Laserdisc on Steroids :. (SEE FIRST POST FOR UPDATES) (* unfinished project *)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260938/action/topic#260938
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Originally posted by: vbangle
Originally posted by: netgurucr
XØ Guys and SW Fans: have a great Christmas and New Years. Enjoy it to the fullest with your Family and Friends. May the force be with you, always!

What? No lame threats demanding the X0 team refund your money back? Refreshing.


Yeah, and for more than an entire page also! Extremely refreshing.

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#260898
Topic
Discussion: Awful Star Wars Collectibles
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260898/action/topic#260898
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Ha! That is so funny. I actually had that Darth Vader cake kit. My mom would make me chocolate birthday cakes in it. It looked really cool until you put icing on it and covered up his face. Wow, that C-3PO tape despenser was way too much! It is hard to believe they would ever make that thing in that position, and with that facial expression too! Great stuff!

Darth Tader? That is nothing, check this out:

http://www.thinkgeek.com/computing/bags/817c/

The Yoda packback. I think I am going to send my first kid, whether it is a boy or a girl, to their first day of school wearing this. Would that be too mean?
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#260887
Topic
Do you have a gun?
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260887/action/topic#260887
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When I was seven, me and the other kids in the neighborhood would ride around on our bikes with our BB guns across our handle bars. It was a rare occasion for any of us to go out and play without our BB guns. When I was around eleven I got a BB pistol, then I would ride my bike around with the pistol in my pocket and the BB gun across my handel bars. When I was 14 I got a paintball gun and my friends and I would shoot each other. In America guns are not even so much weapons, they are tools. For Thanksgiving I went to visit an old friend of mine. He now owns 20 some acres in Tennesse. It was pretty cool seeing the place were he lives. His neighbors are nuts, they rarely go out onto their front porch to enjoy a relaxing evening without their shotguns. My friend is nothing like his neighbors, but he owns his fair share of guns also. He has on occasion had trouble with dogs attacking his chickens, in cases like that if you wish to keep you chickens, having a gun is a good thing. It is a very different culture. But I think it is silly to treat guns as evil inventions that were only made to kill people. Like I said before, if we didn't have guns then we would still have knifes. There would still be armed robbery, and there would still be murder, there would still be war. Guns have very little to do with any of these things, other than the fact they are the most advanced and well suited for these in most cases. If the gun had never been invented, something else would have. There are even plenty of gun phobic Americans. In the part of the states I live now, if I told people that I had a BB gun (wasn't a toy, plenty strong to kill small birds and squrrels) when I was just seven, they would go into shock. Where I grew up (in the Northwest US) it was quite typical.
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#260826
Topic
A Date Which Will Live...in Infamy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260826/action/topic#260826
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Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
I'm sure many reasonably aggrieved parties today cannot honorably defeat the Empire of the United States. Should they resort to defeating us by nuking Los Angeles and Pittsburgh?


You're a funny little man. To answer your question, most likely. Is that not what they are doing right now? It is likely to happen sooner or later.

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#260768
Topic
A Date Which Will Live...in Infamy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260768/action/topic#260768
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Originally posted by: Obi Jeewhyen
Perhaps if our government was the totalitarian regime it aspires to, I would not hold myself or my countrymen responsible for its actions.


I wish you knew what a totalitarian regime was really like. Then you would not compare America to one. All you know is that it is not a good thing, and you don't feel the American government is a good thing, so in your mind they might as well be the same. America is the complete opposite of everything any totalitarian state would stand for. Where my wife is from, when she was little she was always told that she lived in the most prosperous country in the world. They would tell everyone how poor America was and how America wanted to invade them. All the people knew how much the Americans and the Russians lusted after their country, but they didn't fear too much. After all, they were the most powerful nation in the world. They would liken America to a cartoon tiger, it didn't realize it was a cartoon, America thought it was the real thing. It went around growling and snarling, threatening everyone, while it was really completely harmless. Everybody laughed at the idea of a cartoon tiger running around making threats, when in reality it was just a colourful little kitten. In the morning you would stand in line to get your milk ration, at some point, without fail the milk would run out. When this happened nobody would say, "Hey, the milk is out, everybody just go home. Better luck tomorrow." No. You knew the milk was out, you saw people walking away empty handed. But you didn't say anything. If you did any number of things could happen to you, but none of them would be pleasant. No. You waited in line, once you got to the front of the cue they would tell you the milk was out, and wish you better luck tomorrow. Then, you would go home. To say the milk was out and to leave the cue before getting to the front would be to admit that there was a problem, a milk shortage. But in your society there are never any problems. Never. Your society is perfect!
This is what it means to live in a totalitarian state. I am not saying that America could not one day succumb to such a regime. If it did, it would be a very long ways off, and some very large changes in the way we think would have to take place first. To say America aspires to be totalitarian is the sheerest of ignorance. I take it George Orwell is no longer required reading in American High Schools? That is truly a shame.

"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows." - Nineteen Eighty-Four.
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#260694
Topic
Army of Darkness - The Primitive Screwhead Edition (Released)
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260694/action/topic#260694
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I have always been partial to the S-Mart ending, the other ending was alright also, but I much prefer the S-Mart. It is also better suited for the possibility of a sequel. What would be interesting, though I am not sure how it could be done, would be to go about with the apocaliptic ending, then to fade to the S-mart scene where Ash is telling the guy his story. It has been a while since I have seen the movie, so I am not sure of the actual dialogue there, so it may be impossible to do. This way it would be like Ash was making his story more elaborate and adding things to it. Though I think I would give preference to the dream sequence then waking up and realizing he over slept over the regular over slept ending. The more scenes the better when it comes to evil dead.
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#260686
Topic
A Date Which Will Live...in Infamy
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260686/action/topic#260686
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Thank you for that observation tiptup! I get very annoyed with all these "ashamed to be an American" people. There are a lot of things shameful about America, but by saying I am ashamed to be an American, you are tossing all the rest of the American people into that very same bowl of shame. You could be ashamed of your government, but stop dising America as a whole. I agree, there was plenty of provacation, and plenty of right to attack. Another thing that annoys me is how everybody in America seems to think of the universe as this:

America | Rest of the world

There isn't such a gap, the rest of the world is right beyond the door whether you want to admit it or not. The problems in the rest of the world are our problems too, and everything one of us does effects the rest. China wants nuclear weapons? Well, we have the right they have the right, right? After all they live in a different universe than us! If Iraq wants WMDs, let em have em! They have every right to them as we do! After all they live in a different universe than us! Wake the hell up!
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#260683
Topic
Video Games - a general discussion thread
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https://originaltrilogy.com/post/id/260683/action/topic#260683
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Originally posted by: casualimp
I've been thinking it over these past couple of days and decided to trade in my PS2 in hopes to get Wii in the new year. I've got an old 32" 4:3 and the PS2's graphics cut off significantly at the sides giving it a pincushion look that drive me absolutely nuts. I tried a Gamecube on the same TV with not such effect. Plus, there's no point getting a PS3 or 360 as they're best for HDTV's and I don't see myself getting one within the next couple of years. I think Nintendo's approach this generation's of consoles is experimentation in the way the game is played. I think they'll be the first to come out with the next console after this current generation because they probably designed and priced the system with that in mind that most households aren't going HD in the foreseeable future. Sorry, I'm going all over the place with my opinion here. I'm just hoping I'm choosing a console that'll give me an enjoyable gaming experience.


Don't trade in your PS2, you'll never get back out what you put into it, and the trade in amount will probably barely make a dent in the price of the wii. I have done this a couple of times, and always felt sorry for it later. I did this with my Gamegear, I traded it in for a Gameboy. Gamegears suck, but later when I though about how much I had spent on my Gamegear and all my games, and then thought of how little the Gameboy had actually cost and that I now only had two games for it and that the GG trade in price didn't even cover it all it. It would have been worth it just to keep my Gamegear and spent a bit extra on the Gameboy. I also lost my SNES in this way in order to help pay for my N64. That is the one I really regret. Especially with how much SNES and games sell for now.