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Welcome to the first, and, hopefully, many of this series of articles. Almost all of these will take up some money and/or time. Today, I will be teaching you how to record matches to upload so you may put them on YouTube or in combo videos. Many of you probably either:

A) Use a camera/camcorder
B) Know what a capture card is, but have no idea how to set it up.
C) Use a DVR system.

Well, I’ll be here to teach you how to use a capture card. There are obviously many forms of capture card; for those who are good with computers and have a computer near a TV, (If you want to play and record at the same time) I would recommend getting an internal one. For those of you who aren’t good with computers or have laptops, I would recommend getting an external one that uses a USB port, such as:
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8853797&st=dazzle&type=product&id=1209166068373 

But before you go out and buy a capture card, ask yourself these questions:

Does my computer/laptop have good speed?

Does it have good memory?

Does my computer/laptop have some hard drive space?

Is my computer/laptop near a TV or can it be near one?

What I mean by good speed is: does your computer lag all the time? If so, you’re going to have problems recording matches, so don’t get a capture card if your computer lags frequently. Memory is very important since it takes up a good bit amount of memory to record. As for hard drive space, you need a good amount, but not like 50 GB. You probably need about 2 GB open, since each recording is saved to about 100 to 500 megs (depending how long the matches are). As for your computer/laptop being near a TV: do you want to be able to record and play at the same time? If so, you need to do this. This is no problem though if you have a modded Wii and can record a whole match.

Now that that’s taken out of the way, let’s talk about hardware. You didn’t think it would be that easy, did you? Just buy a capture card and you’re good to go? Well if you’re just going to record, there is no problem doing in this or you could just play delay lag; though, if you want to play (without the lag) and record at the same time, you’re going to need more hardware.

Well, here is a check list of what you need and a few examples (going to the actual store you may be able to find a cheaper version of what I am posting up).

-Capture Card

-Y-Adapter (or Y-Splitter) 2 Female and 1 Male (3 of them) :
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8425661&st=y+splitter&lp=1&type=product&cp=1&id=1181832624724
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3526364

-Composite Cable (3 individual ones or one of them that has all 3, make sure they aren’t too short) :
http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?skuId=8426946&st=composite+cable&lp=4&type=product&cp=1&id=1181832626776
http://www.radioshack.com/product/index.jsp?productId=3463238

Now, once that’s settled, install your capture card. I am not going to teach you how to do this. There’s an instruction manual with the product; use it. After you get the capture card installed, you then need your Wii composite cable (the thing you hook up to the TV to). Put the yellow plug into one of the Y-adapter, then one of the composite cables into the other side of the Y-adapter. After doing this, plug in the Y-adapter where the yellow cable to the TV should have gone, and the same cable to the yellow slot on the capture card. Repeat with all colors.

Now that it’s set up, open the program that came with the capture card. Before you begin recording, you should tell it where you want the file to be saved to. You should be able to record your matches from here on out.

I know that most of the videos I record are in .vob. I am not sure if YouTube now takes .vob, but, from what I’ve experienced, it does not. So, to get around this, just get a video converter. If you’re too lazy to look for one, I have one down below that I use.

http://www.any-video-converter.com/

Next Lesson 102 for the Wii : Playing on HDTVs without lag.

Please give me requests of some ideas to do.

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On this day, two years ago, the earth stood still as it watch a tiny little white box make its way into our homes.

Through trials and troubles with broken wriststraps and windows to joyful flinging of arms and swinging of hips, the Wii has become a breakthrough piece of technology in the gaming industry. It has brought us many games that we love... one in particular but I can't seem to remember its name ;)

Now, 24 months later, OVER 36 MILLION Wiis have been sold worldwide and it is currently on top in the console wars. So make sure to wish your Wii a happy birthday today by playing some good old Wii Sports and that one little fighting game... what was it called again?

With 2 years down, what do you think the next 12 months hold in store for the Wii?