frankie's Journal: Cheaper ways to play GameCube game on Wii?

I managed to score a Wii this fall, much to the delight of the little folk in my house. The boy is a Pokemon fan, so he got Battle Revolution for his birthday, but we soon discovered it's only arena fighting with no story.

I've learned that there are Pokemon CRPGs for GameCube. However, this Wii is our first and only electronic device from Nintendo. In order to play GC discs on Wii, we'd need native memory card and controllers, which are in the vicinity of $20 each according to Froogle. In other words, it would cost ~$90 total for a $30 game.

Are there reliable ways to play GC on Wii less expensive than what Google found? Swap meets? Third party brands? Secret landfill in Utah?

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[frankie]

Thanks for the pointers. Weird that the items on Amazon didn't show up in Google Shopping.

Figured out the price differential

[frankie]

Google Shopping displays the full price + shipping; Amazon doesn't. This leads Amazon's sub-merchants to post their items with a skewed cost structure, such as $2.99 for a GC controller, plus $8.97 shipping. :(