Nintendo Wii Fanboy

You'd expect a hacker based solution to be software-based, out the TP bag of tricks. Basically, all the Wii needs is a driver to enable your average USB drive to work and some other hackery to make the console "think" that that extra memory is part of the system flash. Alternatively, apply the same hackery to make the system think that SD cards are part of system memory.

mian's on the wrong track. You, though, are on the right track, but unfortunately usually there's a setting or variable in the firmware that has the size of the flash memory chips. Replacing it (with an identical model but larger size) would probably only let you store up to 512mb anyway. And who knows what's actually on that chip, the system might not just 'format' a new one.

In related news, someone's made a preliminary USB mass storage driver for homebrew, or something like that.
http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=Main_Page
Of course this doesn't help until they can either a)integrate it into the Wii Menu, which would require massive hackery and a chance of bricking, or b) Nintendo uses the guy's code and adds it to the Wii Menu themselves. Of course, they're probably working on this already.

Same here. I bought a SD card specifically for the Wii, because I thought games would use it for downloadable content, the ability to move saves (which works for most games, but the game I want it to work for, Guitar Hero, it doesn't), and etc. It pretty much just stuck in there and doing nothing now.

Umm... did you read the article? Crap is what he is not giving.

Because they keep downplaying it like it's not a real issue. He's in no way committing to these words; "We're looking into it" could simply be equivalent to "Yes we know people are complaining." Not to mention that the fact that we have had to wait for something like this is ridiculous in itself.

The "small numbers" are still large in an overall-look... but Ninten just wants to make sure the "large numbers" are heavily catered to before they take care of us.


Because if one thing's obvious: We, the "small number", are more forgiving for late products from them. While the "large casual numbers" are easily distracted and can easily forget.

In other words, they know we can wait for improvements... the main casual crowd however - not so much.

lo-friggin-l @ FCs. You aim high friend. I like that about you.

LMAO @ Tomorrow's headline: Iwata: "Friend codes, what the f*ck were we thinking?"

I don't use the space we have =/ Obviously if they released free game demos or something along those lines(i.e free) I'd need the storage but right now I only need the space for game saves........

xD

Imagining Iwata say that is so funny. Or at least one of the TV translators...

xD

Imagining Iwata say that is so funny. Or at least one of the TV translators...

Give him 3 stars!

Saturday's headline: TheOverlord#2: "Double posting, what the f*ck was I thinking?"

nope.. you wish. only up to 2 gigs.

still the problem, as i said above, is that putting the files on the card is just as bad as redownloading it as no game can be booted from the card itself.. you have to wait a looong time for it to be put on the wii's system memory, then after you save your game, save over the original on the card. it's kinda tedious.

I suspect one of the solutions they are considering is making SD stored games accessible to the system to run, so you won't have to play the SD shuffle anymore. It's not that much more work to enable SDHC on the system, and really give users tons of space. SDHC is not different from SD in terms of hardware, just software.

Probably the most clever avatar I will ever lay my eyes on... EVER.

I think the entire internet called it.

There were about 100 gamers in the world who were caught off-guard by this complication. They all work at Nintendo.

1 down, 99 to go.

While we're at it, how about actually advertising games like MP3C, and encouraging development on games that are actually games--not exclusively, but a little core loving would be nice.

Take some of that massive pile of dough you guys are building forts with and use it back/publish developers who might be willing to give Wii some exclusivity on serious AAA titles. It isn't as if there's not serious profit to be made that way. Nobody's asking for charity.

how in the world are friend codes easier in any situation?

Um...instead of making Nintendo and the ESRB worry about people being jerks, why don't you just turn the voice chat off? It stops us people who want things badly that much from ever getting it.(No disrespect towards you or your family)

I didn't realize you loved racial slurs so much.


Or were 12.

I am 15, thank you very much!

I'm just saying I would love voice chat in games like Mario Kart where you can smack talk your friends. I just want voice-chat friend only. And if the FCs keep kids safe(there's no perverts asking kids for their friend code) then there wouldn't need to be alarm at voice chat.(I don't think people should get cocky and yell racial slurs either, that's a waste of air)

Jesus christ, I hate tweens and their stupid petty insults about some person's mother... It makes me wanna beat the shi* out of them in brawl, which is probably what I'll be doing if said situation comes up.

I thought it already had... like four firmware updates ago...

Yup, just type it into Google.

@rimbaud: Well, just adding it to the software is not really enough. I don't care about typing URls in the internet channel because I rarely use it and the message board is not exactly my most favorite application either. I'm talking about keyboard support like in text chat between MK Wii races or something like that. This I'm still waiting for. The MS guys even attached a freaking keyboard to their controller for in(between)-game communication. But I guess Nintendo's marketing thinks most of their customers can barely read at all or are still learning to.

AHA! I'll trade you my 130 gig SD stick for your charizard! No wait! I have to beat you first, then, if I win, THEN I get your charizard!

I'm pretty sure SDHC is a hardware thing, not software.

I agree, right now I only own 5 VC games and can easily navigate between the two pages but I know there are some enthusiasts out there that will get most of the games for nostalgias sake (otherwise we wouldn't be having this discussion) and I'd hate to scroll through a third or even fourth page on the Wii dash. I'd much prefer a seperate VC channel like they've organized everything else. There you could do fullscreen preview, thumbnails, games list and much more.

Just move the channels and order them by system. Hold B over a channel then press and hold A to move a channel.

Moving channels around to organize them isn't an effective system at all. There should be a Virtual Console channel and here is how it should be set up.

Horizontal link bar listing the different systems to sort through.
On the left have a text list of all the games you have purchased, and when you hover over them the title screen appears as a larger thumbnail to the right of the text listing of games, and when you select the game it loads. Easy. Organized. =)