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Offline Svevan

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Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« on: November 18, 2006, 11:05:22 AM »
Don't worry, the Wii is ready to go online as soon as you hook it up.

Both Chris Kohler of Game/Life and Brian Crecente of Kotaku are reporting that their Wii was spontaneously able to go online today in the early afternoon. All members of the press, our Jonathan Metts included, were not able to access Nintendo's Virtual Console channel or any other online feature of Wii for the past week, but in preparation for tomorrow's midnight launch Nintendo has taken baby steps towards its full online implementation that will not be complete until early next year.    


Both Mr. Kohler and Mr. Crecente are reporting that an update was downloaded when they accessed the online features, and both were able to purchase Wii points with their credit cards and buy NES games. Mr. Kohler noted that no TurboGrafx games were available for download, indeed only 12 games were listed.    


Both sites have videos of the Wii Shop Channel in action. Click here for the rest of Chris Kohler's coverage, and here for the most recent posting by Brian Crecente.    


Thanks to Kairon for the heads up.

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RE: Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« Reply #1 on: November 18, 2006, 12:16:54 PM »
I...I...I'm so happy!

Edit: After watching Chris Kohler's video of DLing and starting up Zelda... I am so TOTALLY SOLD. launch game.

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RE: Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« Reply #2 on: November 18, 2006, 12:38:01 PM »
I like how it shows Mario running and collecting coins as your game downloads.  It's basically Nintendo saying "we're taking all your money and you love us for it"!
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RE: Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« Reply #3 on: November 18, 2006, 12:41:13 PM »
I love how long it took to save Donkey Kong to an SD card.  I don't understand how Nintendo can somehow store that game on a few pieces of cardboard to be put together by a gameboy, but it takes their console like TWO MINUTES to save it to an SD card.

Not that I'm really going to ever need more than the internal flash memory, but still.  That sucks
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RE: Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« Reply #4 on: November 18, 2006, 12:49:06 PM »
Accessing each menu seems to take forever aswell especially compared to Xbox live arcade. The mario download screen is cute but a % indicator would be a good improvement.

The fact that you get to pick your region at the initial instance of going online is interesting.  
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RE:Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« Reply #5 on: November 18, 2006, 01:28:12 PM »
I the background music.  Reminds me of the Earthbound department stores or Mario Paint.
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RE:Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« Reply #6 on: November 18, 2006, 02:01:23 PM »
Or some odd Animal Crossing music.

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RE:Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« Reply #7 on: November 18, 2006, 03:23:32 PM »
Yeah that looks to be the world's slowest interface. Demanding firmware updates right now.
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RE: Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« Reply #8 on: November 18, 2006, 05:40:10 PM »
Downloading was fine on time.  Copying data was painful.
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RE: Wii Internet Servers Are Up!
« Reply #9 on: November 18, 2006, 06:21:53 PM »
The fact that you get to pick your region at the initial instance of going online is interesting.

... so tempted to set that to USA ...
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