The Internets were ablaze earlier with a rumor that Excite Truck 2 would feature a display that shows off the driver’s Mii.
As Joystiq reports though that Nintendo has confirmed the report to be fake. Boohoo! Well here’s a cool screenshot anyway:
I’ve just added a new form so you can easily submit Famous Miis here.
My original post about it is also up in the Mii Channel.
A company called Datel has released software for the PC called My Mii Manager that allows you to edit your existing Miis and create new ones.
Truth be told, you can already work with your Miis by importing them onto your PC using a combination of steps that you can follow here (and oh yea, you’ll need a bluetooth USB unit to do it). Once you get your Miis onto your PC, you can even use the cool web-based Mii Editor to edit those files.
Probably the coolest thing about the My Mii Manager is that it comes with a bluetooth adapter that works with the software so you don’t have to worry about getting the right stack for your current bluetooth adapter and piecing everything together.
And for $20 for the whole package, that sounds good considering prices for a bluetooth adapter alone.
If anyone ends up trying out the My Mii Manager, please let us know how it turns out!
EuroGamer.net has an article about Scottish exercise master Zander Urquhart, who is using the Wii to help his clients get a work out.
What’s interesting is that as the clients lose weight, they change their Mii’s waistline as well. Maybe there are some kind of psychological benefits to reinforcing physical changes with the Mii? Or not…
Some images with links to the originals:
So it turns out that the original Mii channel had been developed for the Nintendo DS.
In this page from the Japanese Wii.com site, Hisashi Nogami explains how the Mii Channel was indeed developed first for the DS (image to the right). Supposedly, Miyamoto had heard about the new system for creating and working with gamers’ avatars and requested that the system be developed for the Wii.
It turns out that Miyamoto had actually been trying to create a Mii-like system for two decades, beginning with the NES. At the recent GDC conference, Miyamoto explained that they had created a 2d version of a Mii-like platform for the NES but that the avatars couldn’t be used in games. The next version was for the N64DD, in which gamers could actually create an avatar from a photo of his or herself. And supposedly the avatars could then be incorporated into games. But this version was also scrapped.
So looks like it took the Wii to get a Mii!
Source: N-Sider, Nintendojo
You can now subscribe to FamousMii.com’s Mii News channel and receive the latest updates via email.
The service is provided by FeedBurner which has a great reputation and will not sell your email address information.
The subscription form is to the right of the page at the top of the sidebar.
Here is hilarious video on the Japanese Wii.com site.
Even though it’s in Japanese, the fun is universal!
Source: addict3d.org
Came across this on digg. M & M seem to have a very similar system to the Mii creator, Create your own M&M
Twilight Princess — literally. Although the numbers are as of yet small, the glitch is far from being minute as it permanently blocks their way forward that they have to start again.
Now, nobody likes being forced to start back from scratch for no apparent reason, especially when you’ve already gone so far ahead. The bug appears when saving your progress at a specific point in the game. This here is the tricky part. If you don’t want any more spoilers, you better stop reading right now. But as it concerns a glitch, and we don’t want anymore of you guys tripping over the same stone, we’re gonna say it anyway.
So, right after thawing out the frozen Zora’s domain, it appears that the glitch is activated. The following cutscene is then blocked, so to speak. The thing is, this next cutscene is where a new path is opened. So, if the cutscene is blocked, you can’t get to the next path, which essentially keeps you from progressing in the game.
While waiting for Nintendo to give its comments on the matter, just be careful with your saves, i tend to save everytime i just finish something time consuming or i try every 30 minutes, what i do is alternate save slots so i always have 2 recent game saves with me in case this ever happens. I normally do it for every game.
Here are some screenshots from the downloadable version of the classic NES game, Baseball. This version here is for Nintendo’s Virtual Console service.
Now, for those of you still not in touch with this version, you might want to try it out. After all, it does offer nine innings of tight sandlot competition in this NES sports title. There also are six teams for you to choose from as you play through all nine innings. So, while the players are certainly not Mii-made, it’s just as fun. After all, you can never get enough of classics.
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Source: Wii.Qj.net
Time for your daily fix of the WiiCR Team’s latest media player app release. Going hand-in-hand with their WiiCR player, the Windows Vista skin WiinVi just got an upgrade. The theme is now up in v0.3 Alpha and one of the biggest features is that you can easily allow you to select different drives through the interface by clicking on the computer icon on the QuickLaunch Bar.
Here’s the full changelog for the WiinVi v0.3 Alpha theme:
* Icon Backgrounds Transparent
* Made the Forward and Backward buttons on the image page stay mostly still
* Made the Image on Imageview Clickable (jumps to next Image)
* Made mp3 player look like rest of the theme
* Several other random tweaks and fixes
* No Internet Radio yet
Note that you first need to have a copy of the WiiCR media player itself installed. Once that’s done:
1. Extract the files in the WiinVi v0.3 Alpha theme to the themes directory (C:Program Filesxampphtdocswmcthemes)
2. Access the Settings section in WiiCR
3. Click the Theme Selection Box, Change the Value to the Theme you want to use
4. Press the “Change Theme” button
Download: WiinVi-0.3a
It seems completely frivolous, but you can’t deny how cute it is. Some enterprising fellows are offering different sorts of services that’ll help you show off your Mii to the outside word. In one case, it’s not only a way to show it off, but also a way to exchange your Wii numbers with your new real-life friends for a virtual round of Wii Bowling.
It’s called Mii Buttons. Basically, someone is taking orders from people who want to have a pair of buttons with their Mii avatars on it. These one-inch Mii buttons will also carry your 16-digit Wii number, so if you wanted to trade Wii numbers with someone, you can just loosen up that button and show them your invitation.
The only thing we have issues with right now is that there’s no name behind the person making it. While the idea is cool, some additional form of public disclosure would make it seem a lot less like a scam or an attempt to amass Wii numbers (for what purpose, we’ve no clue). Still, if you’ve got US$ 3.50, some time, and don’t mind taking a chance for some new buttons to adorn your pack, then it sounds like a worthwhile trade.
Source: Mii Buttons Blog
News about people taking responsibility for circumstances, or about people taking steps to address a concern is always good. No matter how depressing the moment, or the history behind the situation, it is always good. A bit of follow-up research leads us to this message on endonline.com:
All of you are probably aware of the tragic death of a contestant, Jennifer Strange, following her participation in a contest on the Morning Rave last Friday.
First and foremost, our thoughts and sympathies go out to Jennifer’s family and loved ones.
I also want to assure you that the circumstances regarding this matter are being examined as thoroughly as possible. We are doing everything we can to deal with this difficult situation in a manner that is both respectful and responsible. In the interim, the Morning Rave is off the air indefinitely.
Thank you.
John Geary
Vice-President & General Manager
107.9 THE END
Thank goodness that so far, no entity has spun this story and blamed video games or the need to play them. More importantly, thank goodness the folks from the radio station are doing something about this.
There is a message on their website which was taken down READ IT HERE.
When the Wii first came out you may have heard of the “Wii Sports Experiment.” Some average joe decided to play Wii Sports for 30 minutes everyday for 6 weeks. In the process tracking all vital health statistics. His results are finally up, and they’re pretty interesting. Being the jerk that I am… I’ll ruin the ending for you, he lost 9 pounds!
Clearly the man was really getting into the games, bouncing around for boxing and taking full, tennis swings that would make plasma televisions shudder… but it’s still pretty damn impressive. I suppose this will draw the inevitable comment “Of course he lost weight, he’s moving for 30 minutes a day.” To which I say, shut up!
This post is devoted to the countless female Mii’s that this man surely beat up on during Wii Boxing Matches, all in the name of losing weight. I hope you’re proud of yourself sir.
I know this post should probably go under News Get! because I’m pretty sure that in terms of news, “Gaming-related Bead Crafts” falls right in between “I just ate corn dog” and “Man crosses street unhurt.”
But flickr user “foglera” has a gallery full of game characters made from those beads that you iron together after arranging them in a pattern. They are apparently called “Perler Beads.” I remember making hearts for my mom in every fluorescent color in the damn box. Which, looking back, I’m sure she instantly threw away for their sheer uselesness.
But these things, they’re so COOL! And so pixelated! And there are a ton of games and characters represented. And they’re PIXELS! Like they had on the SNES! PIXELS!
Source: Infendo
