The Wii is Here.

[lord_carbo]

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Nintendo claims Wii has a 512MB internal memory. Either they're lying, or the Wii software and updates takes a massive toll on memory space. My Wii currently has 2132 free blocks, whereas my inserted SD Card has 3840 blocks. Both have my game saves and the Bonk's Adventure channel on them.

Ouch.

Can't you save stuff to a flash drive?

[animerulz96]

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Hey! is any one here that's new?

[meno_rocks123]

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Im buying the Wii tomorrow when Best Buy gets their next shipment.
In the meantime here's a vid of someone actually doing something remotely amusing with a PS3. PS3 vid

[Grandiagod]

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Nintendo claims Wii has a 512MB internal memory. Either they're lying, or the Wii software and updates takes a massive toll on memory space. My Wii currently has 2132 free blocks, whereas my inserted SD Card has 3840 blocks. Both have my game saves and the Bonk's Adventure channel on them.

Oh, wow.

Does Nintendo have an external storage solution coming out?

[blitzmage]

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Going to have to use alot of SD cards =P

[Pyroshock]

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Got Pro status in Wii Bowling last night.

The ball is really shiny when it's rolling.

And on another note, is it possible to save Wii game saves onto GCN memory cards when you run out of space on the Wii?

[nforcer06164]

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Ok this sucks, I was gonna buy this mostly for thr VC games (and Metal Slug and LoZ and....) but if space becomes an issue then Im messed.

Here's hoping that this isnt as bad as it sounds

I'm hoping that it's mostly the software itself, and not just the software updates. I didn't check my block space before the updates, so I can't really say for sure. All I know is that the code got a couple hefty changes with those updates.

Ouch.

Can't you save stuff to a flash drive?

In theory, yes. But, you need to use an SD Card first. Why not e-mail Nintendo and see if they can add support for USB storage, flash drive or otherwise?

Got Pro status in Wii Bowling last night.

The ball is really shiny when it's rolling.

And on another note, is it possible to save Wii game saves onto GCN memory cards when you run out of space on the Wii?

Nope. You can't transfer GCN saves to the Wii, or vice-versa. That's not to say an update couldn't change that. For now, let's take a wait-and-see attitude, and I'll let you know what happens to my free space once the Wii Weather Channel launches and I perform a system update.

[SethSquall]

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Nintendo Official Magazine gave Red Steel like 90% (maybe 91% I can't remember). I know it sounds quite Nintendo Fanboyish of them but there not really like that. There not scared to dish out low scores to Nintendo made games. Still I kinda got a feeling Red Steel won't live up to my expectations, although I'm sure I'll still love it. Im just going to lower my expectations like. I still can't wait to play it. Zelda got 97% and Monkey Ball got like 87ish%.

I'm iching to play Zelda so much now, I've never looked this much forward to a game before. Oh yea, I noticed that people are letting info on Zelda slip a bit. Could you guys please slap a spoiler warning on stuff that might give parts of the game away please. Cheers.

[lord_carbo]

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Ouch, after reading a lot of that I'm fairly disappointed by Nintendo. Time to e-mail Nintendo as if they care!

Nintendo Official Magazine gave Red Steel like 90% (maybe 91% I can't remember). I know it sounds quite Nintendo Fanboyish of them but there not really like that. There not scared to dish out low scores to Nintendo made games. Still I kinda got a feeling Red Steel won't live up to my expectations, although I'm sure I'll still love it. Im just going to lower my expectations like. I still can't wait to play it. Zelda got 97% and Monkey Ball got like 87ish%.

It's a Nintendo magazine, they probably don't know how to rate FPS games rofl.

[MixMasterLar]

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Ouch, after reading a lot of that I'm fairly disappointed by Nintendo. Time to e-mail Nintendo as if they care!.

aint that the trurth, I stoped mailing them a long time ago.

It's a Nintendo magazine, they probably don't know how to rate FPS games rofl.

rofl that's right, when did Nintendo do fps?


Keep us posted on updates, the you-can-play-GC-games-but-no-GC-card thing kinda tissed me off.

[nforcer06164]

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Oh, you can use GameCube memory cards... you just can't transfer your saves from a GCN memory card to an SD Card or Wii memory. Sorry if I was unclear about that.

[banditcom]

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Some hope!

I called a number of places and got nothing. So I called a different area (30 min drive vs 15) and the Best Buy there said they do have some but can't sell until tomorrow morning because it's in their ad. They open at 10 am.

I called the Toys R Us right next to it and they said it's probably on the truck that will be there tonight, so check back when they open tomorrow at 9 am.

I think I'll head to Best Buy around 5-6 am and wait it out. X(

[Squeek]

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Nintendo claims Wii has a 512MB internal memory. Either they're lying, or the Wii software and updates takes a massive toll on memory space. My Wii currently has 2132 free blocks, whereas my inserted SD Card has 3840 blocks. Both have my game saves and the Bonk's Adventure channel on them.

My empty Wii has 2,172. It's 2,157 with Save Games for my four games so far.

The games are tiny. Chill.

Carbo, the deal was for used games just like you said it was in your GameStop.. There was no used collection of all three. I did see the new one, but the deal was for used games and if I bought the collection, I had nothing to get with my Metal Gear Solid. So I asked which was better: Zero or the original, and he said it was a bit of a tossup, so I just went with Zero. I didn't want three Resident Evils and no Metal Gear Solids.

ps - gl bandit

[nforcer06164]

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Squeek, I'm really not worried about the size of games or game saves, just updates and patches, either Wii-related or game-specific. Those are the items that will take a toll on available free space.

[blitzmage]

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I imagine it takes a huge part of that internal memory as reservation for updates and such, a la xbox 360 hard drive style. Hopefully.