Topic: That Internal Speaker...

[Pale]

People seem to be talking like it's possible to shut the speaker off AND have the sounds that would have come out of it come out of the main speakers in Zelda.  I do not see this option.

[DAaaMan64]

Pale, almost all of thesounds will come out of the speakers when you just simply turn the speaker all the way down.  It is in the home button menu in-game.

[D_MaN87]

I personally do not mind the speaker.  It is not the best quality (especially zelda), but it gives it a nice touch so I can overlook the poor quality of the speaker sounds.

[King of Twitch]

Anyone notice the plastic on the remote strap has a corner flattened off - just like the back of the wii? There should be a thread for all these little things.

[wandering]

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Pale, almost all of thesounds will come out of the speakers when you just simply turn the speaker all the way down. It is in the home button menu in-game.

Right. The only thing that doesn't come over, as far as I can tell, is Minda's laugh.

[Rhoq]

The speaker sounds fine. What do you honestly expect from something shoehorned into a controller? It's just not going to be able to handle full-quality sound fidelity and maintain acceptable battery consumption. I have found that if you set the Wii-mote speaker volume to "3" it sounds crystal clear and is more of a compliment to the audio coming from the TV/Home Theater system than when it's at the factory default volume of "8" and overpowering the audio coming through your main speakers.  

[TrueNerd]

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Anyone notice the plastic on the remote strap has a corner flattened off - just like the back of the wii? There should be a thread for all these little things.

Also on the power brick. And the sensor bar input plug. I like it, it's an homage (or a blatant lack of new ideas) to the NES' controller plug. Or an homage to Battlestar Galactica, but they have all four corners on everything flattened off. Maybe Nintendo is admitting they're only 1/4th as awesome as Battlestar Galactica.  

Anyways, back on topic. I turned the speaker back on for Zelda, but I turned the volume to the lowest possible setting. It's a bit better that way, but I think it's used too much and relied upon too heavily in Zelda. I like the sword unsheathing, Midna's laugh and the slingshot wind-up sound, but the "I found a secret!" jingle is awful. That speaker should be entirely supplementary and used very sparingly. It should work in that role.  

[MarioAllStar]

To bump my own topic, I would like to add that my opinion has changed a bit. I no longer cringe when I hear the speaker and the quality does not bother me. In fact, I enjoy to hear some of the sounds come from it (like the bottle cap being inserted after capturing the fairy). So the speaker does have its uses .

[Crimm]

I've found that by lowering the volume of the speaker the crackle and popping is decreased.  The end result is it does sound better.

[Ceric]

I would like that speaker more if I could make it quieter.  Even on the lowest setting the speaker easily overpowers the actually audio in Zelda and all the games that use it, except for the one mini-game you need it in Rayman go figure.  I have it on the 1 bar setting.  I just don't need my system that loud to hear everything.  I like it a lot more if I could make it softer.