By CaptainSeagull. Sunday, 4. May 2008, 15:25:43
news, flash, discussion, hardware
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Many people complain about the tiny bit of internal memory the Wii has. Many people haven't run into any problems, I myself still feeling that the built in memory is decent, still feel really good with the 2 gig SD card. The problems arise for everyone though, that "one day" we are going to have to move things between the SD card and Wii, deleting and re-downloading VC games, and backing up our gamesaves on the SD card and deleting them off the Wii temporarily.
I think all games should allow direct reading and writing to SD cards, this would greatly improve things for a while. Especially if a simple downloadable update gave us the option to use higher capacity SD cards then 2G. I hear some of these things are getting near 8G! Another simple downloadable update could allow us to use one of the USB ports on the back of the Wii for Jump Drives, or better yet - External Hard Drives. Well Nintendo is beginning to look at options like this, as they do hear what their fans are asking for, and while i think they downlplay the amount of fans asking for it a little bit, it still isn't a huge issue - just yet.
Statistically speaking, it is true that there are a small number of customers who feel that the flash memory is too small, while many others find that they have plenty of memory. However, because this small number of people are none other than the most avid players, we know we have to review the best possible solution to eliminate their inconvenience.
- Satoru Iwata (President of Nintendo)What are your thoughts? I think that if they let direct reading and writing to an external hard drive happen this would solve all problems. Hacking would become easier I am sure, but all Ninty needs to do is every once in a while release a software update that disables "popular mods" from working, thus rendering hackers time and money investments null.
By DotEd. Monday, 21. January 2008, 17:55:09
online, flash, .ed, nintendo
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Last week we found the new Phoenix Wright Apollo Justice in playable online demo form. This week it's Exit DS's turn.
Play Exit DS
What do you guys think of these demos? Would you rather be downloading them from your Wii to DS or is this easier (but less cool) distribution?
By DotEd. Thursday, 28. December 2006, 02:16:59
wiicade, remote, games, Wiimote
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WiiDark Sent us a message to remind readers about Wiicade, a site that lets you play some snazzy flash games through the Opera Browser on Wii using the Wii Remote to control the action. Nothing like dozens of free games right?
It's a good site to add as a favorite... Just like N +!
Now go get your game on!
By DotEd. Thursday, 28. December 2006, 00:10:00
news, ambient, flash, aesthetics
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So, the Opera powered Wii Browser Trial Version launched, and everyone is scrambling to get sweet Wii related, TV compatable, and couch friendly sites up as fast as possible. We've got SofaTube and Wiicade recently providing video and gameplay for free, but what about the people who can't have fun unless thier reading news stories and can't wait until January 27th for the News Channel to launch?
I present Newsmap (again, because it is a few years old actually). Not only does it fill the screen and look beautiful, but it is fully customizable, updates on its own via the Google news aggregator, and it's exactly what you're looking for. I've left this site up on my Wii during my downtime, and it's a great ambient display/conversation starter.
Try it out, you can have it display news for 11 different countries, and the colored sections represent World, Entertainment, Sports, Technology, Health, Nation, and Business. These can also be turned on or off. The stories get darker as they get older, too.
The Concept: "Newsmap is an application that visually reflects the constantly changing landscape of the Google News news aggregator. A treemap visualization algorithm helps display the enormous amount of info" ... "Treemaps are traditionally space-constrained visualizations of information. [Newsmap takes that] further and provides a tool to divide information into quickly recognizable bands which, when presented together, reveal underlying patterns in news reporting across cultures and within news segments in constant change around the globe." ... "Its objective is to simply demonstrate visually the relationships between data and the unseen patterns in news media. It is not thought to display an unbiased view of the news; on the contrary, it is thought to ironically accentuate the bias of it."
How awesome is that?!
Credits for Newsmap.
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