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Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Mon, 19 May 2008 21:32:18 GMT

"Atlantis1982 United States 08 May 2008, 07:57 GMT

I also happen to have around 20+ VC games, all the channels excluding Mario Kart, and the big 'ol Brawl save file. Here is the thing that I do; I keep a certain amount of games on the memory. Problem solve. :D"

No not really, you're taking the solution that many of us want to avoid donig, deleting games to make space for others, it's a pain in the ass, I'd like all my games available at once, without having to move them around on a SD card or re-downloading them! Hence why we want a HDD or something.

Nintendo channel takes a hefty 200-300 blocks so I deleted it, as I dont have a DS anymore and the videos are useless as I can see them on my PC quicker and easier.

By ouenben

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Tue, 13 May 2008 19:27:19 GMT

I'm confused. The Nintendo Channel was updated this week but I didn't get any messages about it. How am I supposed to know when the channel gets new updates? :confused:

By morphballer

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Sun, 11 May 2008 19:03:35 GMT

I love the Nintendo Channel, its the best channel on the Wii yet! :)

By Versus22

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Sun, 11 May 2008 11:37:36 GMT

I wont this just to add a new channel to my wii!

By Rossi

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Sat, 10 May 2008 03:48:32 GMT

I, for the first time in my life, deleted some games due to no MEMORY!!! Metroid Prime 3 channel (useless) is now gone, and so is Kid Icarus. Not great games, but just the fact that I had to delete them just sucks. I WANT A SOLUTION TO THIS!!!!!

By HOT-ROD

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Sat, 10 May 2008 03:44:06 GMT

That's just what everybody needs on their Wii consoles: ADWARE!!! I get most of my unbiased opinions from the Internet.

It's whopping bloated - 122 blocks of Wii data, plus 126 blocks for the save file, WTF? I had 402 blocks before, now reduced to 150-something. That, and also they spy on your gaming history (your daily play history is saved to the message board). Uhhg! This channel is going into the trash for me. It's bad enough that the Super Smash Brothers save file was 128 blocks (over 100 of which is useless wasted space if you opt to save all data to the SD card). I will most likely also have to dump "Sin & Punishment" once Wiiware is released on Monday...

By StarDust

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Fri, 09 May 2008 22:16:43 GMT

I hope they allow the reccomendation feature for all games. So far all the Nintendo games can be rated. Carnival game could as well and its not from Nintendo. I have played Resident Evil UC and Metal slug for over an hour but it still does not let me make reccomendation. Hope that changes in the future

Also add VC demos

By Tony

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Fri, 09 May 2008 13:00:20 GMT

I, too, have noticed games missing. Like Metal Slug Anthology, Bust-A-Move, and Elebits, to name a few. This memory issue is getting rather irritating. I've deleted about 10 VC games now because of Brawl, Mario Kart Wii and now this. I have an SD card, but I like to have a plethora of games available to me and since I have to copy them back and forth, I have a few games that haven't been getting the love they deserve.

@Master K :
That would be absolutely amazing. If it had that - even a crappy timed one like Brawl - it can potentially save people points. I know if I had a chance to play it beforehand, I wouldn't have bought The Dynastic Hero as it's an inferior clone of the great Wonder Boy in Monster World - ironically worth the same amount.
Although 30 seconds of play time might not suffice. XP I think simple games could go for about a minute, more complex ones 3 or 5. I'm sure it'd be easy enough to do, but considering the back catalog they'd have, I don't know how many resources would have to be pooled for that.

@Objection Blaster:
I was allowed to rate Carnival Games, Boogie and MySims, all not made by Nintendo. Granted, only one of those is decent, but that's not important. Also, I can't rate Pokemon Puzzle League, despite having played it for about 8 hours already. It seems to be the only VC game missing (from the ones I have) but I'm not sure if that's true as I have quite a bit now.

@DaVeMaN99:

Me neither. Maybe they're waiting till they've got enough data for display?

By Big=Sexy

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 22:49:15 GMT

I reviewed a game, but i don't know how i can see other peoples reviews or rating for a game.

By DaVeMaN99

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 19:31:51 GMT

Yes it takes 123 blocks as said PLUS ANOTHER 122 blocks FOR SAVE DATA! And you can only rate Nintendo made games/channels. (At least for me, I cant rate Rayman, red Steel or Trauma Center)

By Objection_Blaster

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 16:15:19 GMT

i really wanna download this channel, but that means i have to delete some games........... shit.

By MrPoo6321

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 15:33:08 GMT

Still waiting for this thing to show up in Europe...I'm not in a big hurry since Wii Fit is keeping me entertained.

By Viral

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 14:46:28 GMT

Best channel ever!! Nintendo channel FTW!

By TheWiiMan

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 13:35:25 GMT

I noticed that not every single Wii game is displayed in this channel. Specifically Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles, and Manhunt 2 are missing... I wonder why? lol
Some companies entire catalogues seem to be unratable. Capcom for instance insert conspiracy asbout bionic comando etc...

There are also some weird ones like Rayman Ravid Rabbids 2 being up for rating but nots its prequel :(

By Starwolf_UK

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 12:30:04 GMT

@ Cigawoot
I played Umbrella Chronicles for over an hour, but it won't let me do the rating feature either.

I really like this channel, but I am really running out of memory after downloading it. I have 250 blocks left.

By Tony

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 06:57:23 GMT

By Atlantis1982

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 05:03:48 GMT

I noticed that not every single Wii game is displayed in this channel. Specifically Resident Evil 4, Resident Evil Umbrella Chronicles, and Manhunt 2 are missing... I wonder why? lol

By Cigawoot

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 02:41:06 GMT

@Atlantis1982- I'd just like to mention that I have 34 VC games, 4 of which are N64, and I also have every Nintendo channel released except for THE Nintendo Channel. At that rate, it is VERY difficult to manage my memory well, especially since most of the games I'm currently playing are N64 games (most of the rest are SNES, but I'm also playing Kid Icarus and SMB3). Also consider Brawl's whopping 120+ blocks of memory. It is hard for me to handle my memory "more better" than everyone else. Fortunately, I got a ten dollar SD card that can hold all of my VC games and then some, so I can shop freely.

By Clayfrd

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 02:39:55 GMT

maybe they'll anounce phoenix wright as a wiiware

I'd pay a ridiculous amount even for one case

I'll keep my eyes peeled on the WW lineup here

By poggydude

Re: Nintendo Channel for Wii now available in North America

Thu, 08 May 2008 02:16:58 GMT

I like this channel a lot. There's a lot more videos than i thought, it makes me happy. Not like how the check mii out channel only had one contest avalible when it was released. But you can download or buy games right from the channel. To download, it takes you straight to the wii shop channel, to buy wii games, it takes you to a online buying site.'

So far you can only recommend titles, not write reviews for them. Like you can only say who you think best suites this game and what score you would give it, you can't actually write a review.

And the videos are nice quality, and take maybe 15 seconds tops to load a video. Usually it only takes 3 seconds. Also there's tons of videos, a few interviews a few comericals, and a lot of reviews. And you can chose to watch it in full or half screen.

And you can look up every single wii, VC, and DS game, and watch a video of them. So it's quite the worthy channel.

By The shoemaker