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What Games Can Be Played on a Wii With GameCube Remotes?

The top of the Nintendo Wii includes four GameCube controller ports as well as two GameCube memory card slots. While the main purpose of these features is for the console's backward compatibility with original GameCube games, you'll find a handful of Wii games that utilize the GameCube controller. Note that you still need a Nintendo Wii Remote to navigate the main Wii channels menu.

"Super Smash Bros. Brawl"
- "Super Smash Bros. Brawl" features compatibility with the GameCube controller so series' veterans don't have to change up their play style too much. You can also use the Wii Remote turned sideways, a Wii Remote and Nunchuck combination, or the Wii Classic Controller. Series' veterans will find that "Brawl" offers quite a bit more than its predecessor, "Super Smash Bros. Melee," with an updated roster of 35 playable characters and over 40 stages. In addition to the classic versus mode, where you'll pit Nintendo characters against their brethren in a fight to the death, it features a lengthy campaign mode, level creator and online multiplayer game play.
"Mario Kart Wii"
- Like "Super Smash Brothers Brawl," "Mario Kart Wii" is only the latest in a long line of games in a series. The Wii iteration offers gamers the chance to use the GameCube controller if they liked the control scheme from predecessor "Mario Kart: Double Dash." You can also use the packaged peripheral, the Wii Wheel. Your Wii Remote plugs into this wheel-shaped piece of plastic so you can steer just like you're driving a real car. Like its predecessors, "Mario Kart Wii" involves over a dozen Mario characters racing around 32 different stages. "Mario Kart" races aren't all about speed, though, as you'll have to contend with treacherous courses and game-changing power-ups. Classic power-ups such as the banana peel and Koopa shell return, along with newcomers like Bullet Bill, which automatically bumps you from last to first place, or close to it.
"Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time"
- Another series carried over from the Nintendo GameCube, "Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Echoes of Time" offers support for the GameCube controller in addition to the standard Wii Remote/Nunchuck control scheme. This action role-playing game also allows you to wirelessly connect a Nintendo DS for use as a special controller. The game offers a four-player story mode where you and three friends can explore dungeons, battle large monsters and visit villages as a team. Other players can drop in and out at any time, so you don't have to wait for the same group to get together before playing again.

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