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Official Worldwide Nintendo Wii Launch Thread
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oh this is just great. now suddenly the connection test worked, however, i was pretty sure the connection wouldn't last long since something's obviously wrong here. but no, you can't cancel after a 'successful' test, the system instantly starts downloading the update and now the progress bar is stuck at the very beginning. awesome. it doesn't move at all. that's some brilliant design, i don't even get to choose if i want to update or if i want to use the connection.
WHAT THE **** AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW
WHAT THE **** AM I SUPPOSED TO DO NOW
platypotamus
Member
Jarosh: If the progress bar stays stuck for awhile, I suggest just rebooting the Wii. I was afraid to do it, for fear of bricking the system, but after waiting like 3 hours, I just went for it. I ended up rebooting twice on "stuck bars" once at about 15%, and once about 90%, and it worked out fine.
The bad news is, now that it connects, you can't "avoid" that update (or at least, I couldn't).
The bad news is, now that it connects, you can't "avoid" that update (or at least, I couldn't).
platypotamus
Member
jarosh said:
I tried doing that, both with my router and my actual cable modem, and it just remained hung up where it was at.
I admittedly did NOT try turning it back on with either switched off, so that might be a way to avoid the update.
MrSardonic
The nerdiest nerd of all the nerds in nerdland
kick the shit out of your wii
DefectiveReject
Banned
Importing sucks Jarosh!
TheIkariWarrior
Member
somone probably already posted this, but maybe not
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z2509fk1j8o
web browser not released yet, but look, someone using Google on Wii by doing something with DNS.
in the comments
http://youtube.com/watch?v=z2509fk1j8o
web browser not released yet, but look, someone using Google on Wii by doing something with DNS.
in the comments
Buggy Loop
Gold Member
!@%!@#^!
My region's out of stock from today's shipment already, and this is in quebec for christ's sake, there's no black friday or any shit like that, and its 12pm to boot, im one of the rare few who finish work at this time on friday, DONT PEOPLES HAVE LIVES? Those who dont work on a friday morning, i want to slap them with jealousy.
My region's out of stock from today's shipment already, and this is in quebec for christ's sake, there's no black friday or any shit like that, and its 12pm to boot, im one of the rare few who finish work at this time on friday, DONT PEOPLES HAVE LIVES? Those who dont work on a friday morning, i want to slap them with jealousy.
i've been playing the console for a few days now and my overall impressions are mixed. imo:
the system itself is awesome! an excellent interface, easy to navigate and the remote is everything i expected it to be and it's really comfortable to hold. the console also looks great. the whole mii concept is amazing and a brilliant move by nintendo.
haven't tried online stuff yet, being in the uk i didn't want to risk it until things settle down, but i'll give it a go when it becomes more robust. not sure if i'm going to be buying many vc titles, but i am interested in new games if they become available.
graphically, through 480p, it looks great and the sound, through a surround sound setup, is also excellent. on a tech level i'm more than satisfied with it.
zelda tp: wow!! i expected this to be the greatest videogame ever made, and it is, but the most amazing thing is the quality i anticipated for this level has been surpassed several times over. twilight princess is a masterpiece! the controls are also excellent, and having distance between hands is such a freeing experience. overall, the controls are far better than wind waker's, to the extent i wouldn't want to go back to the old claw gripped controllers.
wii sports: again, i expected to enjoy it, but i wasn't prepared for how brilliant the game actually is. it really is a remarkable piece of software. nintendo has managed create a game with a huge appeal, everybody who's played it loves it, both gamers and non gamers. so far, tennis is my favourite, followed by bowling, but they're all great fun!
in zelda, wii sports and their ds games, nintendo has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt their original strategy, which began during the nes, is one which allows them to excel. returning to their old ethos, and abandoning their crappy early gc strategy, has created two of the most amazing games i've ever played. wii sports has the same design characteristics as nintendo classics like smb, duck hunt, mario kart, etc. reading through the iwata asks interviews, it's obvious nintendo is a much happier and more confident company than they were when they developed titles like wind waker, luigi's mansion and mario sunshine, and i couldn't be more pleased they've left this failing strategy behind.
basically, the nintendo i love is well and truly back!!
as for the third party stuff, well, that's where the real disappointment is.
monkey ball: the single player is good, and has great music, but it really is just more of the same. even though adding motion controls to the game works well, it still feels like playing monkey ball 3, and the problem is i'm not a big enough fan to be satisfied with a third version of the same game, but it's still fun. however, the multi player mini games are terrible! if this is what we can expect from third parties in terms of mini game fun, i'm not interested in any way.
rayman rr: while these mini games are better than those in monkey ball, the problem i've found is they're fun the first time you play them, but once the initial newness has worn off, they're all a bit meh...
excite truck: average, at best. it's sometimes fun, but most of the time a clumsy experience which i don't have any desire to become good at.
red steel: wow! this game is bad! really bad! it's only decent when you're stood still and play the game like a light gun game, the rest of the time it's not fun at all, and the sword fighting is terrible!
if i just consider the console, wii sports and zelda, it's the greatest thing i've ever bought and an incomparable gaming experience, but when i figure in the third party stuff, it becomes a mixed bag. thus far, it's obvious they have no clue what they're doing. all this talk of, 'oh yeah, we love innovation' and 'we can't wait to create games with this new functionality', is complete bollocks! from my experience it looks like third parties are in it for a quick cash in, while they devote the bulk of their resources to ps3 and 360. hopefully the quaility will improve over time.
overall, imo, wii's success or failure lies in the hands of nintendo and its internal teams, just like the ds. if they can deliver enough compelling content over the next couple of years, wii could be a huge, HUGE, success
the system itself is awesome! an excellent interface, easy to navigate and the remote is everything i expected it to be and it's really comfortable to hold. the console also looks great. the whole mii concept is amazing and a brilliant move by nintendo.
haven't tried online stuff yet, being in the uk i didn't want to risk it until things settle down, but i'll give it a go when it becomes more robust. not sure if i'm going to be buying many vc titles, but i am interested in new games if they become available.
graphically, through 480p, it looks great and the sound, through a surround sound setup, is also excellent. on a tech level i'm more than satisfied with it.
zelda tp: wow!! i expected this to be the greatest videogame ever made, and it is, but the most amazing thing is the quality i anticipated for this level has been surpassed several times over. twilight princess is a masterpiece! the controls are also excellent, and having distance between hands is such a freeing experience. overall, the controls are far better than wind waker's, to the extent i wouldn't want to go back to the old claw gripped controllers.
wii sports: again, i expected to enjoy it, but i wasn't prepared for how brilliant the game actually is. it really is a remarkable piece of software. nintendo has managed create a game with a huge appeal, everybody who's played it loves it, both gamers and non gamers. so far, tennis is my favourite, followed by bowling, but they're all great fun!
in zelda, wii sports and their ds games, nintendo has proved beyond a shadow of a doubt their original strategy, which began during the nes, is one which allows them to excel. returning to their old ethos, and abandoning their crappy early gc strategy, has created two of the most amazing games i've ever played. wii sports has the same design characteristics as nintendo classics like smb, duck hunt, mario kart, etc. reading through the iwata asks interviews, it's obvious nintendo is a much happier and more confident company than they were when they developed titles like wind waker, luigi's mansion and mario sunshine, and i couldn't be more pleased they've left this failing strategy behind.
basically, the nintendo i love is well and truly back!!
as for the third party stuff, well, that's where the real disappointment is.
monkey ball: the single player is good, and has great music, but it really is just more of the same. even though adding motion controls to the game works well, it still feels like playing monkey ball 3, and the problem is i'm not a big enough fan to be satisfied with a third version of the same game, but it's still fun. however, the multi player mini games are terrible! if this is what we can expect from third parties in terms of mini game fun, i'm not interested in any way.
rayman rr: while these mini games are better than those in monkey ball, the problem i've found is they're fun the first time you play them, but once the initial newness has worn off, they're all a bit meh...
excite truck: average, at best. it's sometimes fun, but most of the time a clumsy experience which i don't have any desire to become good at.
red steel: wow! this game is bad! really bad! it's only decent when you're stood still and play the game like a light gun game, the rest of the time it's not fun at all, and the sword fighting is terrible!
if i just consider the console, wii sports and zelda, it's the greatest thing i've ever bought and an incomparable gaming experience, but when i figure in the third party stuff, it becomes a mixed bag. thus far, it's obvious they have no clue what they're doing. all this talk of, 'oh yeah, we love innovation' and 'we can't wait to create games with this new functionality', is complete bollocks! from my experience it looks like third parties are in it for a quick cash in, while they devote the bulk of their resources to ps3 and 360. hopefully the quaility will improve over time.
overall, imo, wii's success or failure lies in the hands of nintendo and its internal teams, just like the ds. if they can deliver enough compelling content over the next couple of years, wii could be a huge, HUGE, success
Restarting the Wii also helps. This is what I had to do when I updated my Wii.jarosh said:
Don't worry, interrupting updates by restarting or connection dropping in the middle of it is like dropping a download in a browser - more often than not you can just restart the update at the beginning just fine.
JoshuaJSlone
Member
Has anyone else noticed how much the pointer stability changes from application to application? In the Wii main menu it seems pretty steady, but in the Mii Channel it's jittery. I guess even among the included apps their anti-jitter code differs, or is just not there in some cases.
Miis can be saved on their own, but considering they're supposed to work with multiple unknown future games and already have a fixed file size for fitting on the remotes, they can't possibly store all the save data relevant to each game. So I believe the actual game save data would be in the Wii Sports (or whatever future game) file, which for each character links it to a Mii. If you've copied both the Mii and save file, I'd think the Wii Sports save file would detect the familiar Mii and things would work, but I can't confirm this.Lavpa Jasai said:
Heh. That would be clothesist.koam said:
We don't know. It sounds like the Wii Shop is using some early version of the Opera browser, though.PotatoeMasher said:
Restart it. First, since it's still in the download phase it won't actually be in the middle of updating your system files yet. Second, the only other possible action is waiting infinitely. I was worried about doing this on the first night when it stopped about 2/3 of the way through, but once I turned it off and back on it immediately retried the download and was quickly successful.jarosh said:
This isn't bad, chief. It's good!neptunes said:
Good for Nintendo! Good for gamers! Good for the industry! Bad for Sony! :lol
Don't be afraid to take one for the team. If you want a Wii in the third shipment, expect to camp out. For now, chill out and play something you've not finished yet.
It's what I thought I'd be able to do. It's what I've been able to do with every single nintendo launch I can remember. N64, GC, DS..... even SNES, I think my parents just walked into a store on launch day and got one (Although they might have pre-ordered, for all I know)Snaku said:No, just at GAF's general attitude towards Wii launch a week ago.
TheIkariWarrior
Member
Maxrpg said:
I wanna know too, damnit......
On the matter of transferring saves :
http://www.wiisave.com/faq/index.html
Have no wii, dunno if it works
http://www.wiisave.com/faq/index.html
Have no wii, dunno if it works
Christberg
Member
Still can't seem to find one either. It's ridiculous, even the nice lady at the out of the way as heck little game store said she'd been asked like 75 times today when I was there at like 8am.
It's never been anywhere near this crazy getting a Nintendo anything at any point in the past. I'm baffled about it, either they shipped way less than usual or the demand for the thing is ludicrous.
I think I'm just going to give up on it for the time being. I'd like to have one for the Christmas holiday school break- but then I just got some sweet used PS2 games on the cheap so I'm probably set for a while.
It's never been anywhere near this crazy getting a Nintendo anything at any point in the past. I'm baffled about it, either they shipped way less than usual or the demand for the thing is ludicrous.
I think I'm just going to give up on it for the time being. I'd like to have one for the Christmas holiday school break- but then I just got some sweet used PS2 games on the cheap so I'm probably set for a while.
GaimeGuy said:
I walked into a Best Buy 2 hours after opening and got a Cube on launch day. I had some trouble finding an N64; a couple weeks after launch I tracked one down at a Nobody Beats The Wiz. I had Genesis instead of SNES so I have no idea about SNES, and I got my NES in 1987 so they weren't hard to find.
We had 10 systems in and there were at least 30 people in line. At 7:00 AM.
All day we've been getting calls for it. At least 10 per hour.
When the first guy paid for it, he held up the bag and everyone cheered. Like it was launch or something.
I don't get it. I really don't.
All day we've been getting calls for it. At least 10 per hour.
When the first guy paid for it, he held up the bag and everyone cheered. Like it was launch or something.
I don't get it. I really don't.
The Innocent X
Banned
AniHawk said:
Once the fever hits, there's no stopping it!
JoshuaJSlone
Member
I think Nintendo discovered why their portables were more popular than their console hardware. It was a simple matter of the amount of Nintendo per cubic inch being spread too thin on previous consoles.AniHawk said:
so i love my wii and i LOVE zelda. but goddamnit, the wiimote speaker is CRAP.
it's so awfully lo-fi - all i hear is noise and more noise. it hurts my ears and there's really no 'immersive' effect thanks to the stark contrast between the audio coming from my surround speakers and the below walkie-talkie quality sound of the remote speaker.
i really dig the idea behind the speaker and i hope there will be a 3rd party remote with a much better speaker.
oh and i thought i could adjust the volume of the speaker? i couldn't find any such option - neither in the system settings nor in zelda's options menu...
it's so awfully lo-fi - all i hear is noise and more noise. it hurts my ears and there's really no 'immersive' effect thanks to the stark contrast between the audio coming from my surround speakers and the below walkie-talkie quality sound of the remote speaker.
i really dig the idea behind the speaker and i hope there will be a 3rd party remote with a much better speaker.
oh and i thought i could adjust the volume of the speaker? i couldn't find any such option - neither in the system settings nor in zelda's options menu...