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
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Here is hilarious video on the Japanese Wii.com site.
Even though it’s in Japanese, the fun is universal!
Source: addict3d.org
Wii
January 15 - WarioWare: Smooth Moves
Virtual Console
Xevious (NES, 1-2 players, 500 Wii Points)
R-Type III: The Third Lightning (SNES, 1-2 players, 800 Wii Points)
Moto Roader (TurboGrafx16, 1-5 players, 600 Wii Points)
Nintendo DS
January 15 - Underground Pool
January 16 - Fossil League: Dino Tournament Championship
January 16 - Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney Justice for all
After a very slow month of releases the shelf is back. This week there are two games worth mentioning for Nintendo fans: Phoenix Wright: Justice for All on the DS, and Wario Ware: Smooth Moves on the Wii!
Hi everyone, Just want to let everyone know of the major forum change in the forum, but i never thought the website would take off the way it did. Featured on main page of digg and then covered on G4 Tech Tv’s attack the show.
I had only installed phpbb2 forum as it was a free board and didnt want to spend some money on a board that would get no traffic and since the site deserves so much more I have bought a license to vbulletin. I have over 5 years of experience with vbulletin and can run and administer this site a lot better now.
Thanks for everyone for understanding and being patient I will try and bring most things from the old board over.
Please dont feel frustrated and give up, give it some time it will be a bigger hit!
Found the box art for the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Game, not much info on the game yet besides it being made by UBISOFT. Click the image below for larger view.
With the Combination of Datel’s Actin Replay, software called SDload, and the official Nintendo SD card adapter you can boot any of your emulators (that where built for GameCube) on your Nintendo Wii. It might not be major to some people, but it shows the possibility to run homebrew on your WII. Laymens terms… Anything homebrew that was made for GameCube can be loaded on your WII!
Play emulators on your Nintendo Wii
What you need: (Hardware)…
Welcome to the famousmii.com
Please be patient while we upgrade some functions of the site. New forum system will be much better then the current one. This should help me add new mii’s and make it easier for you to share your mii’s. In the meantime the Famous Mii section still points to the old site, i will be updating this page with the latest Wii and Mii news from hacks, mods to misc. news.
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