The enhancement that will affect users most, particularly those who download a lot of WiiWare and Virtual Console games, is the significant speedup of reading from and writing to SD cards. Wii owners have long griped over the inexorably long transfer times, particularly from Wii to SD. The update reduces copy times of larger files from minutes down to seconds.
The Wii's Parental Controls have also been enhanced. Furthermore, though it's not very text-centric, USB keyboard support has been added to the Mii Channel. Nintendo claims that the update also improves disc reading.
It appears Nintendo is now on the offensive against Wii hacking. Version 3.3 made an attempt to block the "Twilight Hack" method of homebrew loading, but a couple of bugs in their approach led to a second compromise days later. This update patches that exploit as well as the newer exploit, the PatchMii hack. Furthermore, Nintendo has changed their Terms of Service regarding Wii updates, allowing for future automatic updates of the console without notification:
We may without notifying you, download updates, patches, upgrades and similar software to your Wii Console and may disable unauthorized or illegal software placed on your Wii Console to ensure that your Wii Console is operating properly and efficiently, comply with applicable laws, assist law enforcement, protect us and our customers, or prevent the use and distribution of software obtained through improper channels.
i'm still hoping for saving and reading from sd card. Moving it back and forth might be easier now but still why not just go all the way.
don't punish me for all the pirates. I pay for all my games and i have a SD card, why can't i just read and write to that. Have like a little tab that pops up on the wii menu with SD card saved games and have channels like that too. That way I can have several SD cards and buy more games.
They can force you download wiiware/ virtual console KEYs to the system hardware that cannot be copied onto anything, and to use x game you need y key. You can have x game on SD card or on Internal Memory, but you need the keys. The keys would be tiny maybe just a single block size.
is my idea that far fetched ? I'm no computer nerd but I think it makes sense in theory.
| Copy time | To Wii | To SD |
| Pre-update | 1:21 | 9:16 |
| Post-update | 0:47 | 4:00 |
| Percent faster | 72% | 132% |
Half-hooray for Nintendo. The other half happens when I can load a game from my SD card through a VC channel of some sort.
Half-hooray for Nintendo. The other half happens when I can load a game from my SD card through a VC channel of some sort.
HBC?
Half-hooray for Nintendo. The other half happens when I can load a game from my SD card through a VC channel of some sort.
HBC?
You lost me. What's HBC?
Now how about something useful like SDHC support? Homebrew does it, but not Nintendo.
Finally, a useful system update! I was pretty shocked last night when I tried copying Tetris Party to the SD card, and it only took eleven seconds.
I'm not surprised they have taken this step first, as it's probably necessary for them to later implement the Shop Channel's "download to SD" option. Otherwise, that feature would take an incredibly long time to finish (download + transfer).
Now how about something useful like SDHC support? Homebrew does it, but not Nintendo.
Finally, a useful system update! I was pretty shocked last night when I tried copying Tetris Party to the SD card, and it only took eleven seconds.
I'm not surprised they have taken this step first, as it's probably necessary for them to later implement the Shop Channel's "download to SD" option. Otherwise, that feature would take an incredibly long time to finish (download + transfer).
I'm confused. I thought all the online games can't be copied because online data or whatever. That's why Brawl saved data can't be copied. Or is that just saved data ?
I don't think it affects the game files even if the savegames are locked.
Yeah for Nintendo from going from the stone age to the Chalcolithic age in SD card copying.
