Nintendo Wii Fanboy

I'm somewhat in between, but all those Brawl screenshots and replays seem to add up.

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I've got just over 1000 blocks left, but but that could drastically decrease with the additional channel on Mario Kart and Kirby 64...

...to be honest, I play a lot of games but I really don't see how people have already maxed out their Wii memory via VC games. But I speak from a strictly selfish perspective as I already have many of the better VC games on the GBA/Mega Drive, so...

But I do honestly believe, for the average person, the amount of space the Wii has is fine. It's mostly the saber rattlers on the internet who complain.

Though, I would like to know how much space an average WiiWare game will take up. Not too much one hopes.

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I have 158 blocks free. A new VC game might be the death of me.

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ive got like 100 but i have a 2GB SD card which is like 14,000

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Well on my wii i have about 200 blocks left.
But thanks to my sd card 7500 :D

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I've got about 30 blocks left, enough for one more tg16 game, or a small nes title. I started to back them up onto my SD card, but the transfer rate is sooooooooooooooooo SLOOOOOOOOOW that its easier and quicker to delete and download.

Anyone know why its so slow? Even a USB 1.1 card reader can transfer files faster. Sigh...

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I have....*checks*

1475 Blocks available. But i also use a 1GB SD Card which has 4181 Blocks available.

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I've got about 900 to 950 blocks left on my Wii left.

I'm currently still playing Brawl and Bully: Scholarship Edition but with me wanting Pinball Hall of Fame - The Williams Collection, Mario Kart Wii, and Okami next month and with releases of games like Battle of the Bands, De Blob, Wii Fit, Wii Ware games and probably more VC games to come I'm starting to get worried and will have to invest in a SD card.

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260

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I ran out of blocks on my wii, (darn you VC games!!!!) so i picked up a 1 gig wii SD card at gamestop the other day. Now i have over seven thousand blocks on that thing. I love it, because I can easily transfer my brawl pics from the wii to the PC.

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I think i'm at 1200 or so, but thats because i've been very conservative about what gets bought, only 7 VC games so far, plus the Internet Channel and Check Mii Out (which i haven't used in forever and will probably delete)

All my Brawl junk is going right to the SD Card

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I have 99 blocks left :( And all I do is make custom stages in Brawl, plus all my save data and two VC games.

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Before Brawl came out I had 7 blocks free. Upon starting Brawl I learned that I needed 128 for my save, so I deleted Lords of Thunder (although now I really want to play it again, so I'll probably delete something else today), and so now I have 86 blocks free.

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I've got plenty to go around since i have downloaded 2 NES games and 1 SNES game.
I'm not an internet saber rattler, but the Wii really needs to upgrade somehow it's memory through a hard drive add on or been able to put more internal memory through Nintendo or whatever method since the transfer rate from SD cards is so slow and so and wiiware games are meant to be big, at least N64 big.

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I got 360 blocks left. They really need to open up the SD Card capabilities. The problem with deleting/moving your VC games right now is that:

A: You can't PLAY the game off of the SD Card, which everyone already knows.

and...

B: You lose your suspend point on any game other than N64 games.

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I have plenty of space left, just a few N64 games. All my Brawl pics go to SD cards.

I am using a high speed sd cards and transfers are quite fast.

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Mainly due to N64 VC games, I ran out of internal memory about two months ago. I've been swapping games around to the card and back, and I don't enjoy it.

Nintendo, let us play VC games from the card. It needs to happen.

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I've got about 30 to 40 blocks free on my Wii's internal flash memory. I did have 3 pages full of games on the Wii menu but SSBB's save file takes 128 blocks so I had to clean out some stuff. My SD card is a 1 gig & I haven't come close to filling it. But, I'd like to have another just for digital pictures and music.
Nintendo desparately needs a plan to expand on the Wii's memory. About 1 year after launch, Mine was completely filled with VC titles. And now, here comes Wii Ware... wtf?

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hahaha, strangely enough, i have exactly 777 blocks left

guess that means im lucky :)

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I have 65 blocks left :-( I have to keep surrendering VC titles everytime i download a new one, or try and save a new game!! Really, really, really need more storage! NOW!!

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Well I just deleted a bunch of saves from games I rented and cleared up like almost 300 blocks, now I have 1042 free blocks.

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Mine's pretty much empty, since I have only the Internet Channel, Metroid Preview, and Check Mii Out channels. I think VC games are ridiculously priced, because $5 for an NES game....you can buy a whole NES plus tons of games for that price at some yard sales! Anyways, got most of those on emulators and when Wii Homebrew gets better, won't need VC at all.

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I have 303 blocks left. and I want a Hard Drive support or Flash memory support or Just being able to play games off an SD card.

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I just had an idea: To let people have their games on SD Card, but still patently disable piracy:

Keys! Like the key i had to download when i bought WinRAR, you download a key with every VC game that is tied to the console, and completely immovable and impossible to copy, but a separate file. To run the VC game, you have to have the key

The game could be run from anywhere, but the key, a very small file, would be needed to run it

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Actually, the Wii probably has the best storage option of any of the current consoles. Don't agree? Read on...

Sure it isn't a lot of space, but if Nintendo would get off their ass, and help 3rd party's use content off of the SD card in a game for DLC (heck, even play VC games off of the SD cards), it would be great!

Lets hope they actually do this, and offer new race tracks (or classic ones) for Mario Kart! That would be awesome!

Just download new/classic characters, karts, tracks all to an SD card through WiiWare, and it could be HUGE!


SD cards are FAR more reliable than Hard Drives. And really the Wii really has unlimited storage space, where most xbox's are stuck at 20GB. At current SD prices, LESS than $20 will match that amount of space. It is a bummer that the Wii doesn't fully support SDHC cards though. Next console, though.

So you will end up with many SD cards, big deal. I can easily manage which SD cards have what game data on them.

If Nintendo would get off it's ass and help 3rd parties with SD access, specifically for DLC (think Rock Band / GH here). Companies would actually make DLC, between that and convincing them to sell DLC through WiiWare, they really could have a HUGE market here if they actually thought about it.

It's a real shame they appear to be so short sighted here at this point.

With the Wii's standard game price still being $50 (xbox & ps3 are $60). Just take that extra $10, buy a 1GB SD Card for DLC. Seems pretty simple for users.

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I have 36 blocks left. I had more, but I just downloaded R-Type III.

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Channel Total (5): 451
Virtual Console Total (5): 137
Save Files Total (23): 408

Total Used: 996
Blocks Open: 1177

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I went and cleared out a bunch of junk files like old saves and stuff about a week ago, so I'm back over the 100 block mark again with 105 blocks total. I'm trying to keep those 100 blocks open for more save files and smaller VC games/VC games I absolutely cannot pass up (SMRPG, Illusion of Gaia)

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i have about 8 blocks left... what can i say, i love the VC. i have two 2gig sd cards taht aren't even close to being filled. i plan on (hopefully) using my old 20gig ipod as a hard drive when there is support for HDs.

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