Wii: A failure

[gtmtnbiker]

I have no problem running all my VC titles (I hundreds of them on an 8GB SD).

What program are you using to run them? Triiforce? I have about 15 VC titles and would like to run them off the SD card to keep the NAND free for game saves, etc.

[ZeroAX]

um nintendo has patched the wii so it runs vc games off the SD card

[gtmtnbiker]

um nintendo has patched the wii so it runs vc games off the SD card

I think it does it by copying the game to the NAND and then running it, no?

EDIT: I confirmed what I what thought. See this FAQ: http://techforums.nintendo.com/nins/boa ... ad.id=4694

9. Can I run games off an SD card?
No. But you can save the data on an SD card which can later be transferred back to the Wii. Once this is done, you can play the game again!

[ZeroAX]

no no no. that's how it used to be when the wii launched. i'm positive of that one.

[pepharytheworm]

ZeroAX is right I play my games off the sd card.

[Niode]

ZeroAX is right I play my games off the sd card.

Yep, just straight off the card. Later firmware versions support SDHC SD cards and booting from the SD card. I'm not sure if it's directly off the card yet, but when the feature was released it just copied them temporarily to the Wii and when you were done playing it would delete the file.

[Niode]

now you are going to make me cry :'(. I don't know if i'm doing something wrong with the settings, but I've read online that a lot of people are having the same problem, and nintendo's solution amounts to this "oups. too bad".

I have this tv http://www.amazon.co.uk/LG-32LG5000-Widescreen-Ready-Freeview/dp/B0015X615E btw. (strange I bought it for 500€ over a year ago and this is really expensive)

Prepare to cry more. My 1080p Panasonic Viera 42" cost me £425 (490€) a year ago.

Nintendo's response is probably due to it not being Nintendo's fault. If your PAL TV doesn't support 50hz mode then there is something very wrong with your TV. That's a very fundamental flaw, since all SD PAL broadcast TV is in PAL 50hz. If the TV can't support 50Hz on anything but coaxial, that's a pretty big design flaw.

My only solution for you is to softmod your Wii and use the NTSC VC titles. The PAL Sonic (I bought from the shop channel) and the NTSC Sonic (I downloaded from BG) run in 50Hz and 60Hz respectively. Why they couldn't just release the superior NTSC version in all territories is beyond me though... I hate the slow as fuck music/controls on the PAL version of Sonic it makes me feel like I'm tripping or some shit.

[gtmtnbiker]

ZeroAX is right I play my games off the sd card.

I'm glad to be proven wrong on this one. I'll try it out tonight.

[ZeroAX]

no you see my mega drive works. and as I've told you it works when I use the old wii cable. it doesn't work with componetn

[Niode]

How very strange. Like I said, it works perfectly fine on 50hz games on my component cable. The system just switches to 576i mode (it tells me what mode the TV is displaying in the top left corner when it switches).

Can you display the non-progressive mode when using the component cable? IE go into Wii System options, go to display and change from EDTV to SDTV.