Welcome to our first episode of Gold Pants Get! where we bring you QR codes or report on special events where you can get the elusive Mii characters who wear gold pants! Why are these Miis so special? other than being the best thing to happen to gold pants since disco, they are 100% official Miis created by or endorsed by Nintendo. You may have a Mr. Mii-amoto you are pretty proud of in your 3DS, but if it has gold pants - it means it's the real deal, the one made by Miyamoto himself. Remember, if you ever get these radiant characters, do not delete them! you can only scan them once!
In this episode I have four gold pants Miis for you to scan! They are the four leading characters in Resident Evil Revelations, and while they all have their Japanese names when you scan them into your system, they are the official Capcom created Miis. They were distributed in Japan via promotional posters, thankfully someone photographed crooked photos of them and posted them up. I straightened everything out for you though. While most regional gold pants Mii QR codes are locked out of other regions, these ones are not! so read more and start scanning!
While at E3, I bumped into a guy you may have heard of who tried to help me out of a tight squeeze... (WARNING: DO NOT READ MORE IF YOU HAVE NOT MADE IT TO THE END OF THE SAVE MII GAME IN STREETPASS MII PLAZA)
If you liked the recent fan art of .Ed fountaining the children who are most obviously enjoying their rain dance, with Play Ass Coins a-plenty. Then here is a special treat, QR Codes for those little butt-heads!
Yes, now these little stars and starlets are ready to go out into the world, and they need your help! just scan the QR codes from within the Mii Maker application on the Nintendo 3DS. There is only one guy missing from the lot, and thats because he's my cousin and was entered into the artwork as a guest for funnies LAWL. Anyways please welcome: Natusha, Colin, Maximus, and Heiny.
Using the QR Code option in the 3DS Mii Maker application, its really easy to share your Mii's with the world! We have already uploaded a few to our Share Your Mii Forum, so go and drop off some of your awesome creations, and pick up a few while you are in there! I thought it would be cool if every time a some awesome video game star (or movies, comics, cartoons, etc) gets uploaded to our forum, we may decide it's so cool we have to feature it. Let me start by featuring: Travis Touchdown, from No More Heroes. Scan the QR Code, and Travis will join your Mii ranks!
Holy Crap, Batman! Some enterprising Japanese folks use math and then Illustrator to create a huge 3DS AR card which produces a three story tall Mii! Brilliant. I can't help but think that if the 3DS was here before there that Ed would have done this already. It looks like something he'd do.
If anyone is wondering what the awesome statue is of there it's Tetsujin 28, better known as Gigantor to those old enough to know of its adaptation for Western audiences.
Late Monday night your Wii's blue light should have flickered to your delight. With all your might... ah who cares any more.
Anyway, the Wii firmware was updated to version 3.3 on Monday, with the update citing a new feature in the Mii channel: the ability to drag and drop Miis from the Mii Plaza to the Mii Parade, allowing you to store more than 100 Miis.
The update also, somewhat stealthily, kills the Twilight hack, meaning if you don't have the Homebrew Channel installed already and want to run homebrew on your Wii, do that before updating. Fortunately, the update does not appear to disable/delete the Homebrew Channel if you already have it installed. It does, however, make the Wii Freeloader completely obsolete...
Bummer. Check after the break for the full message.
Announced at this year's E3, the Check Mii Out channel is now live. The newest channel is available for free in the WiiWare section of the Wii Shop Channel.
Check Mii Out allows you to show off your various Mii creations, download new ones, participate in contests, and vote on other Mii creations. "It's yet another way that we're building fun, interactive communities of Wii owners without charging them extra for the privilege," says George Harrison, Nintendo of America's senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications.
The first Mii contest is already live: create Mario without his cap.
Be sure to let us know and/or send us a picture if you're participating!
Check it out. (See what I did there?)
'Read More' for the official press release from earlier this week.
Check Mii Out, the new Wii Channel that lets you share and rate Miis, is set to be launched on the 11th November. Although at the moment, this only appears to be in the US, all the other channels have been launched pretty much simultaneously across the globe. I'm hoping that this remains the case, and the rest of the world will be getting this for next week too.
REDMOND, Wash., Nov. 8, 2007 — It’s no secret that fans of Nintendo’s Wii(TM) system love their Mii(TM) characters — those adorably cartoonish caricatures of friends and family members that can be used in games like Wii Sports(TM). Some of the more artistic fans have even taken it upon themselves to make Miis of celebrities, politicians and fictional characters. Nintendo supports consumers’ creative spirit with the Nov. 11 evening launch of the Check Mii Out Channel. This free new channel can be downloaded from the WiiWare(TM) section of the Wii Shop Channel by people who have their Wii systems connected to the Internet.
“The Check Mii Out Channel lets people show off their Mii creations and vote on those created by others,” says George Harrison, Nintendo of America’s senior vice president of marketing and corporate communications. “It’s yet another way that we’re building fun, interactive communities of Wii owners without charging them extra for the privilege.”
In the Posting Plaza, users can submit, exchange or just browse Miis posted by others in their region or worldwide. The channel offers the ability to look at a random selection of 1,000 Miis or to see just the current or all-time favorites. Players have a variety of ways to search for specific Miis, including by the name of its creator or by a number specific to each Mii. Once users have found that “special Mii,” they can even tag their favorites or import them to their own Wii systems.
The contest section of the Check Mii Out Channel challenges users to submit Mii creations to represent a specific person, character or theme. These could include historical figures (Abraham Lincoln or Vincent Van Gogh), fictional characters (the Tooth Fairy or the New Year’s Baby) or descriptive themes (”the biggest bully ever” or “the overbearing boss”). Users can then vote on Miis submitted by others to determine the Mii that best fits the challenge. Each contest will generally last two weeks: one for creating and submitting Miis, and the second week for people to vote on the results.
The Check Mii Out Channel is the latest addition to other fun, interactive informational channels, such as the News Channel, Everybody Votes Channel and Forecast Channel. Remember that Wii features parental controls that let adults manage the content their children can access. For more information about this and other Wii features, visit Wii.com.
I love the sound of the contest section - there could be a lot of fun to be had with that.
Football (proper football, a.k.a. soccer for some) is the best sport in the world. Anybody who tells you otherwise is WRONG. The FIFA football games have been a mainstay on consoles for an age, but have sadly been going downhill for some time. FIFA 99 was the best incarnation, in my opinion, and one of the best football games made. It's sad for me to say that I have now gone away from the FIFA series, and headed to the greener pastures of the Pro Evolution games. Unfortunately they have not yet made it onto a Nintendo home console, but the release of Pro Evo on the DS shows that there is some light at the end of the tunnel.
The Pro Evo series has always been more realistic, and the last FIFA game on the GameCube had been completely redesigned to combat this. So obviously the next game was going to be even more serious, and include a party mode for you to use your Mii's with. Wait a minute! That doesn't sound right...
It saddens me that this is true. Yes, the Wii is fun, and I like party games as much as the next guy, but I really don't want the Wii to be a machine that is a breeding ground for tacky party games. If the main FIFA game is good, then obviously the party game will be an added bonus, and you won't see me complaining too much more. Let's just hope that they haven't put all their effort into the " Footii Party" side of the game.
They've chosen Ronaldinho to be the face of the game, and have created a special Mii just for him. Some say he's the best player in the world. I say they haven't seen me play. Read more for some screenshots and more details of this addition to the FIFA family.
One of my favourite aspects of the Wii Channels has to be the music. I think that Nintendo have got it spot on with regards to the feel and style of each channel, be it the cheesy easy-listening classic that is the Wii Shop, or the so-very-catchy tune that plays whilst I create my Mii army.
A group called ROBOTOBOTS obviously feel the same, and have produced remixed versions of some of the channel music. The tracks they have created are:
Breaking Points (Wii Shop Channel)
Built To Diistroy (Wii Mii Channel)
Revolve Around Planets (Wii Forecast Channel)
To listen to the tracks, head over to ROBOTOBOT's Myspace page. I think they're great, and currently have them playing in the background as I type this. I think my favourite is definitely "Built to Diistroy" - gotta love them Miis.
I woke up this morning to the bright blue light of a Wii message. "Someone's sent me a Valentine's message", I thought, but no! The message was from Nintendo. Out of the blue, the have announced a brand new channel for the Wii! EDIT: I've only just checked my PMs, and it seems that WiiDark found it also, and sent me some details. Ta! DOUBLE EDIT And I've just seen that StrawHousePig mentioned it in the forum. I am so slack!
The "Everybody Votes" Channel is downloadable from the Wii Shop after you have performed a system update, and lets you cast your vote on a series of polls.
You have to first set the region that you live in, and then select your Mii that you want to represent yourself. Once this has been done you have to choose an active poll to vote in. They're not that serious (as yet), and include topics such as "how do you prefer your eggs? Boiled or fried?". To cast your vote you have to drag you Mii to the correct space and vote.
Pretty neat stuff. You have a set time to cast your vote on the active poll, and you can even predict what you think the outcome will be. It's not the greatest piece of software made, but I think it's a great idea, and will lead to hours of amusement. it's very well presented, and I love the use of the Mii's. You can have up to 6 different Mii's loaded onto the channel at once.
What use is it? If you like people's opinions and facts and figures then it's very interesting. I have a sneaky feeling this'll help Nintendo do some market research too!
I love the Mii Plaza. I can loose several hours creating Mii's, sorting them, picking them up and shaking them. The Mii Parade, however, doesn't provide me with as much joy. I like the celebrity Mii's people create, and the weird and wacky ones that amble across my screen. I get disappointed, however, when "boring" Mii's turn up. Mii's like "Mum", or "Colin". Who are these people? Why do I want them to watch me bowl? I don't mind that I've got 5 Hitlers, 3 Jesus's, and a couple of Jack Blacks. I do mind that I have dozens of unknown people, who don't even look funny. Maybe I'm just grumpy, but this has stopped me checking the Parade on a more regular basis. I don't see much point, as I rarely find a Mii that I think is interesting enough to add to my Plaza. I have made sure that only my finest Mii's have the illustrious honour of being granted "Mingle" status, and any Mii's that I think people wouldn't appreciate stay grounded at home. Maybe I'm a bit of a Mii snob
My parade has been growing steadily, and I have around 70 Mii's that grace my Wii. I thought that was an admirable effort, but then I saw the clip, which you can find after the break. Now my opinion of the Mii Parade has changed. I want more Mii's, boring or not. I want a constant stream of mini people running towards me. I want a Mii army of such magnitude that I can begin to try to take over the world! Muhahahahhahahha
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Welcome to our first episode of Gold Pants Get! where we bring you QR codes or report on special events where you can get the elusive Mii characters who wear gold pants! Why are these Miis so special? other than being the best thing to happen to gold pants since disco, they are 100% official Miis created by or endorsed by Nintendo. You may have a Mr. Mii-amoto you are pretty proud of in your 3DS, but if it has gold pants - it means it's the real deal, the one made by Miyamoto himself. Remember, if you ever get these radiant characters, do not delete them! you can only scan them once!
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