NOOO! The Wii is DEAD....Wait, no it's not....

When we first got the Wii last christmas, we didn't even think of the issues we would have bringing it to Africa, and then trying to play it here. It's a very lengthy story. Here you can find the "readers digest" version. For a longer version, just ask and we can tell you the rest of the story.

First when we first got here, going though customs we wish we would of had a camera. Kevin was showing the customs agent what the Wii was, having no Arabic skills, and the customs agent having no English skills. Very funny. Second was finding the necessary means for playing the Wii. Adapters, transformers, voltage regulators, and the list goes on and on.

After getting all the supplies we thought we needed, we set aside a night to play and unwind a bit. Well, there was a problem. The voltage regulator/transformer wasn't what was advertised. It was neither regulating or transforming the power from 220 to 110. The Wii didn't like this. It let us know with a very loud pop. The Wii was dead....or so we thought.

A friend told us there was this "gray" market in a different city a train ride away. We say "gray" because it is not truly a black market (everything's stolen or fakes) nor is it all legitimate retail stuff. Upon arrival to this place, there were rows and rows of electronics. More than you could have ever imagined. The Best Buy of Africa so to say. We were thinking that we might have to have someone work on the Wii. This could be done for cheap, and we figured if its already fried, could it get any worse?

To our suprise, there was a guy that sold Wii's, Playstations, Xboxes, etc. We asked if he could fix our problem. He figured out it wasn't the Wii, but the power cord had fried. He simply sold us a 220 power cord and the problem was fixed!! So the Wii wasn't dead, just taking a rest. There was much rejoicing.