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[Lindstrom]

Thought about this last night, and well, what the hell, I figure either it'll be a hit or no one will be interested and no big deal. Anyway, I was thinking of organizing a monthly fun tournament for Super Smash Bros. Brawl and Mario Kart Wii, one at the beginning of the month, the other at the end. Pretty much, the rules (or lack thereof) would change each time to keep it interesting. If this catches on, perhaps I can organize some kind of rewards for the winners.

The tournaments will pretty much take place on weekends since most people here are busy in the week with school. Brawl tournaments will pretty much be a series of fights in a tournament style while Mario Kart will be a series of races including anyone participating, Grand Prix style (I'll probably have some battle matches sometime too).

Anyway, post here if you are interested. Also it would be good to post your Brawl and/or Mario Kart numbers unless you've posted in the Online Code Thread that's already got a heapin' helpin' of numbers in it already. The prize for winning is 1000 Wii points, which I will be paying for so the winner may get whatever they want from the shop channel.


--SEPTEMBER TEAM TOURNAMENT--
This second Tournament will start either this weekend or next depending on sign-ups, and is a Team Tournament. If you want in, please find a teammate (can be someone on the site, a sibling, a friend, whatever you want). The prize will remain the same, and if the teammates are using separate Wiis then they both will receive 1000 points each.

The rules are as follows:
- 3 Stock
- Best 2 out of 3
- No items
- Stages: WarioWare and Mario Bros (the one with the turtles and crabs) aren't allowed
- Team Attack is OFF

Find a teammate and get practicing, or try out the With Anyone Team Battles!


BRAWL CODES
Toaster Boy: 4167-4569-4762
Darth-Paper-Boy: 2921-8768-0724
Twilight Wanderer: 3050-9660-1536
LaCubanaLoca: 0645-6730-3837
Kozunai: 1289-8065-7799
007: 2148-7817-7933
Lindstrom: 1547-4921-4435
Grizzly Wing: 2835-9751-3496
Katie: 5112-3315-7360
Charmy: 2492-6650-4925
Gil is #1: 1762-4458-0524
Ecode: 3265-6923-3636

[Lindstrom]

I don't know what that is.

Anyway, here's the information on port forwarding/DMZ, written by a friend and revised by my brother. PLEASE READ ALL OF THIS BEFORE SCREWING AROUND WITH YOUR INTERNET, YOU COULD KNOCK OUT YOUR INTERNET FOR LIKE A WEEK IF YOU TAKE THE WRONG STEPS.


First you need to set up a static IP address. To do this:

http://www.portforward.com/networking/staticip.htm

Pick an OS. I'm working off XP, so that's what I describe.

Basically, follow the instructions. You need to follow steps 1 - 4. By that time, you need to have written down your IP address, the Subnet Mask, the Default Gateway and the two DNS servers. You do not need to do the rest of the steps for your Wii, since you'll be doing them on the Wii itself. After you have written down the stuff you need to, scroll down, and you'll see this thing after Step 10 that boxes you can enter numbers into. Enter your Default Gateway and your IP address, click the button, and it'll give you five IP addresses. Pick one of the IP addresses you know isn't set up statically on some computer in your house (pick the fifth one if you're not sure if anyone's using any) and write that down with your other stuff. Label it "Wii IP".

Here's your list of stuff you've written down should looks something like:

IP Address: ###.###.###.###
Subnet Mask: ###.###.###.###
Default Gateway: ###.###.###.###
DNS1: ###.###.###.###
DNS2: ###.###.###.###
Wii IP: ###.###.###.###

Now that you have all that info, you need to figure out what router you're using. Look at it, figure out the name brand, and the model number (not the serial number, the model number). Then look here and find it, then click the link for that router.

http://www.portforward.com/routers.htm

After you pick your router, it'll give you a massive list of games and stuff. Smash Brothers isn't currently listed cause they're lazy and haven't finished the walkthrough, but it's fairly easy to figure out anyway. Just pick any game, I use Empire Earth for simplicity's sake. (here's an example of a router + Empire Earth combo, your page will look slightly different if you're not on the same router. Use the page you pulled up for YOUR router, not this page, it's just an example).

http://www.portforward.com/english/routers...mpire_Earth.htm

At the top, it'll have a spot that says:

Do not skip this step!
Please enter the static ip you want to forward to:

and give you part of your IP, with a box to enter the last section. Enter the last section of what you marked as the "Wii IP" earlier.

Follow the instructions on whatever page router you have, and it'll bring you the port forwarding screen. It might be called something else, but it'll just be a big list of stuff you can enter numbers into and click enable.

The page tells you to enter for ports 33334 33335 33336, don't do that. That's the Empire Earth stuff. Instead, enter the same way for these ports:

28910, 29900, 29901, 29920, 80, and 443

Save the settings, and you can exit out of the page. Congratulations, you've just portforwarded the stuff, only one more step and you're home free.

Turn on your Wii, at main menu, select the thing at the bottom left corner "Wii Config"
=> Wii Settings
=> click right arrow
=> third option Internet
=> Connection Settings
=> choose whichever you're currently going to be using, I'm guessing it'll be the first for most of you
=> third option Change Settings

Scroll around the menus til you find "Auto-Obtain IP Address", it should be currently marked "Yes". Change it to "No". It'll give you a screen, enter in what you've labelled as "Wii IP".

The next screen after that should be "Auto-Obtain DNS" set to "yes". Again, change it to "No" and enter in the two DNS Servers you've written down earlier. Save it all, exit out, and it should do a connection test. Provided you did everything right, and entered in the correct numbers, then you should have successfully completed the port forwarding process. The only thing that could go wrong at that point would be if someone else had set up that static IP earlier in your house that you weren't aware of. At which point you just do the process over with a different IP from that calculator thing you did earlier and try again.


- Some browsers cause your router to crash when you try to access them. If FireFox or something doesn't work, try Internet Explorer or something else (my router requires Internet Explorer). If the router crashes, you'll probably need to reset your router manually.

- Alternatively, you can set your Wii up for DMZ (Demilitarized Zone), which pretty much has the same results. Somewhere in your router's config settings should be something that mentions a DMZ Host. If you put your Wii IP in this field and then enable DMZ, that should work as well (if not better) than Port Forwarding.

- If none of this stuff is doing anything, it's possible that you need to configure MAC addresses on your router. First, we need the MAC addresses, so turn on your Wii
=> Wii Settings
=> click right arrow
=> third option Internet
=> Console Information

Write these two numbers down. Go to your Router settings stuff again and look around for something along the lines of a MAC Address (or just MAC or whatever). If you find the page, put in the two numbers you got from your Wii under the MAC Address fields, then put the Wii's IP in the IP field. There should be a box that asks for you to enable MAC Address control or something like that, go ahead and enable that. Save the settings and restart the router if necessary.

Again, please read the whole thing before taking any actions. If you are uncomfortable making changes to your internet, show this to someone you trust who is capable or just not worry about it.

Darth, send me a PM when you wanna test to see how well you Brawl upon finishing, my phone gets my emails so even if I'm walking my dog or something I'll know to go back and get online to test it.