Nintendo WaveBird (platinum)

Pros: Great battery life, great wireless communication and range.

Cons: Paint comes off just a bit after a while, looks like. Doesn't always work well with Virtual Console on Wii.

Summary: I bought two of these on eBay to go with the new Wii, so that we could play Virtual Console games and good old Gamecube games. For Gamecube, it's great and it's worked great with some Nintendo 64 Virtual Console games too (I've used it with Super Mario 64, Zelda: Ocarina, and Mario Kart 64). However, it wasn't too great when I downloaded the old Super Nintendo Donkey Kong Country to have a good platformer to play with the wife. The reason for that is that the X and Y buttons on this controller are really small and located in a place where it's nearly impossible to press either of them at the same time as you press the A or B button. That was not the case on the Super NES controller, and it's really critical to some games ... including Donkey Kong. A little scared to try any other Super NES games with this for fear of the same problem, but I'd feel free to go for old NES games or N64.