Official Nintendo Fanboy Smugness & Gloating Thread

fog · Post by **fog** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:34 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:Anyone who followed the original freeloader knows what their idea of "very soon" is

Ah bugger

PumaG · Post by **PumaG** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 9:40 pm 0

HGFB wrote:Hmm. Let me think. Shitty composhite in 567i or much nicer colours and detail in 480P. Tough choice.

C'mon. Is it really that hard a choice? Even if your TV doesn't have component you should really get yourself an RGB cable. Unless your TV doesn't support RGB in which case what the hell are you doing wasting money on a Wii when your TV needs upgrading?

I know we've been through this before, but the colours on my T V are perfect from the Wii in composite (comparing with Gamecube and Xbox360 via component)

HGFB · Post by **HGFB** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:03 pm 0

I'm using a HDTV and I've just compared component GC games to running my GC with an RGB cable. No contest. Component hands down. Sharper. More vivid. I suppose it all depends on your TV. I've got a 21 inch CRT in here at the moment that looks utter gash no matter what sort of cable you use.

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:26 pm 0

Any idea of GC games through the Wii output in 480p?

Don't own a GC component cable but as I understood it only *some* of the US GC games supported 480p and no UK ones do.

I guess your telly will tell you what mode it's outputting in at any one time?

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:42 pm 0

Nintendoâ€™s Swedish website has announced that the Opera Web Browser for the Wii should be released within the next two weeks. The Opera Browser (Channel) will be available for free download until June 2007. With these reports coming from their Swedish site they may be for Europe only, but even if they are a US release shouldnâ€™t be far behind.

Alternately, the Forecast Channel should start on December 20th with the News Channel appearing on January 27th. Keep it here for all the Wii news as we get it.

http://mygamer.com/index.php?platform=& ... ws&id=2195

GeeZa · Post by **GeeZa** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:45 pm 0

Yeah the obvious Opera logo on the side of the box kinda gave the game away. Expect my next post about Zelda to be via Wiimote input. It's going to be extraordinary.

Governmentyard · Post by **Governmentyard** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:45 pm 0

Cheers HGFB.

So how do I tell if a cable is RGB then? Apparently pins don't always mean anything...

disciple · Post by **disciple** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 10:50 pm 0

Have a look on the box?

Or alternatively just grab the official Ninty one when it comes out.

Bubba · Post by **Bubba** » Wed Dec 13, 2006 11:49 pm 0

goatboy wrote:I've already been advised not to get a 360 for Dead Rising because you can't see anyhting properly. Hmm...

I know this is the wrong thead for this, but can I just say that an RGB cable made dead rising's small text completely readable on our Â£100 ebay widescreen TV

So you don't need an HD TV after all - just something better than composite!

I'd expect the Wii to look a whole load better by RGB too, I'll pick one up as soon as I can find one for sale

Cheers

Bubba

grue · Post by **grue** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 8:31 am 0

Mercury Meltdown
http://wii.ign.com/articles/750/750920p1.html

xav · Post by **xav** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:40 am 0

A utility for tranferring Miis between a PC and Wii remote via bluetooth:

http://wiihacks.blogspot.com/2006/12/ho ... using.html

Once this matures a little it should make it easier to share Miis over the internet.

For anyone that's interested there's a link on there to this page that details the data format of the Miis:

http://www.ch0p.com/wiiki/index.php?tit ... e/Mii_Data

Unfortunately it looks like there's little or no scope for modifying the Miis beyond the capabilities in the Wii's Mii editor. I'm particularly disappointed that they've implemented colours as simple indexes rather than RGB triplets - it scuppers any thoughts of being able to alter a Mii to have pink hair or green skin

grue · Post by **grue** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:44 am 0

I believe that could be fixed through an update. I won't hold my breath though.

xav · Post by **xav** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:48 am 0

grue wrote:I believe that could be fixed through an update. I won't hold my breath though.

I'm not convinced it could. I'm sure the remote doesn't care about the data format, so the issue isn't in storing it there. The problem is that you could create a "new format" Mii on an updated machine, store it on your remote, and then take it round to a friend with a non-updated machine which would barf at the "wrong" data format.

Similarly Wii Sports and Wii Play would need to be patched to make use of the new data.

Anyway, there's also a GUI version of the up/download tool here:

http://wiidomain.net/forum/viewtopic.ph ... c7d1a55878

Darkflame · Post by **Darkflame** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 11:57 am 0

You could simply have data on the Mii's that not all games use mind.

xav · Post by **xav** » Thu Dec 14, 2006 12:17 pm 0

Darkflame wrote:You could simply have data on the Mii's that not all games use mind.

If you look at the data format page I posted it says

Setting invalid facial features, or colors over the limit (with the exception of Favorite color) in any fields appears to invalidate that Mii, and it does not show up when the Wiimote slots are viewed on the Wii

This pretty much rules out the possibility of adjusting the current format, as I doubt the games have been coded to be any more tolerant of "invalid" values than the Mii channel itself.

There would be the possibility of having an additional "extension" file associated with a Mii for games that are aware of it, but I don't see it happening. If Nintendo had any plans to extend the Mii system I think they would have made the existing data structure more flexible in the first place.

Personally I would rather be able to store only four or five Miis on a controller if it had meant that they used the space for a more flexible format. It would have been great to be able to set any hex value for the colours, or override the size and positions of the eyebrows, for example. But I think we're stuck with what we've got. It's good and it's fun, but frustratingly it makes you think about how much better it could have been, if they'd left things flexible enough for the hackers to have a play.