McWhertor @ Kotaku is teasing the Wii storage solution announcement as well as a game called Rock & Roll Climber: http://kotaku.com/5168485/esrb-expla...n-roll-climber

Check the comments here:

http://gonintendo.com/?p=76796

Looks like a Wii update just came out that allows you to launch channels (including Virtual Console and WiiWare games) right from the SD card. Nice!

I can't confirm right now, so I guess it's a rumor for now.

I'm hearing it elsewhere too.

Hmm.

About fucking time. That is a storage solution, though merely a stop-gap. Eventually 2.25gb won't be enough either.

That's where the rumored SDHC (SD High Capacity) support figures in.

Apparently those go up to 32 GB.

Ah, I didn't see that on your post. Guess I must be blind

SDHC support has been confirmed too.

Virtual Console Arcade. Arcade games are supposed to be up (in Europe, so far).

PLEASE SEGA. WONDER BOY IN MONSTER LAND.

NOW NOW NOW NOW NOW.

SD card supports 240 channels - 20 pages of 12 channels/page.

Up to 32GB

That should be more than enough for the Wii, unless the Arcade games are enormous. Can download directly to SD card as well.

FINAL FANTASY ON VC!

Other titles in the future.

Oh shit, son.

I'm buying Tower of Druaga when I get home, immediately.

Where are you watching?

32GB SD card support.

VC Arcade: Space Harrier, Gaplus, Star Force, Solvalou, The Tower of Druaga, Mappy and more

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Dark Lord is coming to WiiWare.


Also, Final Fantasy IV: The After Years.

The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks.

The new Zelda above is for DS (DSi?) (so wrong thread, haha).

Figures they announce this new higher capacity SD card support after I just bought one. Ah well, at least it was only $6.

All awesome news!

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Jesus, Nintendo, is it so hard to treat the card as an extension of the storage rather than a step-child? Doesn't matter much, but you're going to have to make sure you have enough room on your Wii's main storage for whatever you're "streaming" from the SD card. Unnecessary hassle, but we'll overlook it because it's better than what we had.

SD or SDHC? Edit: yes, it does support SDHC


On another note...

Has anybody experienced their Wii overheating? A year or so ago, my Wii wouldn't turn on, I unplugged it, plugged it back in, tried different outlets, etc. and nothing. Tried it again 20 minutes later and it has worked fine since.

Last week, my neighbor's Wii quit working (3 months old). He tried the same things I had (at the time I didn't realize what actually fixed mine) and nothing. I was going to bring my power supply over to have him try it before he turned it in for warranty service, but he then found a blog on the internet that said the power supply overheats and trips a fuse. You have to unplug it from the wall and let it sit for several minutes and then it resets...this solved his problem.

Is this common?

I assume its because of the differences in speed between the SD cards. I have a few different ones here that I played with after the last update where they boosted the SD speed a little bit. World of Goo tranfers back to the wii from the card in about 30 seconds on the one I'm using, while another of my cards is about two and a half minutes. Copying it to wii temp memory allows them to not have to worry about a user using a card that is too slow.

The new SD thing works great. Very fast to load up the games. I loaded a 320 block game and it was ready to play in seconds. I can definitely deal with this for a workaround to the space issue. This will get me buying Wiiware and VC games again.

Yup! I can't see how somebody could complain about it.

Oh wait, the internet.

I think my Wii bricked last night during the update. It hung for like 20 minutes on the update screen after it finished with the download and install part. I turned off WiiConect 24 ages ago so didn't have an email about the update. I cut the power since it was toast and then plugged it back in and nothing, goes green but no output to the TV. This would be my 3rd repair back to Nintendo, assuming they would cover it since it was a launch unit.