Gaming Forums => Nintendo Gaming => Topic started by: trip1eX on November 18, 2006, 02:49:46 AM
Title: USB Thumb Drives compatible with Wii?
Post by: trip1eX on November 18, 2006, 02:49:46 AM
Be nice if they were. Probably easier for most folks to transfer music and photos from their pc to their Wii.
Oh and how about networking. Can I transfer music and photos over the network to an sd card inserted into the Wii or to the built-in flash memory?
Some how I think the answer is no given that Nintendo is very cost conscious.
Title: RE: USB Thumb Drives compatible with Wii?
Post by: Edfishy on November 18, 2006, 04:02:15 AM
I thought at one point Nintendo suggested that you could connect any type of USB hardrive, but they'll probably code in some sort of a restriction so that only Nintendo(And Perlican, of course) branded USB drives work.
Title: RE: USB Thumb Drives compatible with Wii?
Post by: BigJim on November 18, 2006, 04:28:37 AM
They confirmed the possibility of using USB-based media for storage, but never announced any actual support or products.
The safe answer is "no" for now, but we'll see what happens in the next year.
Title: RE: USB Thumb Drives compatible with Wii?
Post by: Bloodworth on November 18, 2006, 05:01:15 AM
At this point the data manager only recognizes internal memory, SD cards, and GameCube cards. You can't even transfer saves from SD cards without connecting to the network first, so I guess there's some firmware update needed. They can likely update the firmware again if they want to make USB storage compatible.
Title: RE: USB Thumb Drives compatible with Wii?
Post by: NinGurl69 *huggles on November 18, 2006, 07:16:57 AM
Is this another news item for the "NINTENDO PHAIL REPORT"? =D
