Wii firmware update available now

[Shpeshal Ed]

Wii Update: New Gift Feature, Photo Channel Update and Pokémon Snap

Available now, Wii Shop Channel has a new gift feature which allows you to send a Virtual Console game or Wii software to a friend as a present.

Sending gifts works in the same way as making a purchase from the Wii Shop Channel. Simply choose the software, select gift, and choose a friend from your Wii Friends Roster. You can even personalise the gift by attaching your own Mii and a message.

You can find out more about the gift feature in the Shopping Guide on the Wii Shop Channel page.

Also available now on Virtual Console is Pokémon Snap. In Pokémon Snap, you can capture Pokémon not with a Poké Ball but with a camera!

Originally a hit on Nintendo 64, the Virtual Console version of Pokémon Snap has been enhanced to work with the Wii Message Board - so now you can share your favourite Pokémon pictures with friends.

A new version of the Photo Channel is also available. This version is free to download simply by visiting the Wii Software section.

This Photo Channel update includes:

● Option to customise the Photo Channel icon on the Wii Menu with any photograph you like, transferred from an SD card
● New file format for background music played from an SD card. The previous format of MP3 has been replaced with AAC, which benefits from higher sound quality in the same file size
● Shuffle play of background music during a slide show

People with launch Wiis can delete the new photo channel and go back to 1.0 if they want.

[Aeron]

Nothing too special. I'm wondering when we'll get the ENC.

[Shpeshal Ed]

Waa Waa, what VC christmas present you sending me bitch?

[Neohamster]

I cried. I thought we were getting the Everybody's Nintendo Channel

[Red-Blue]

What happened in here? I posted a Leonidas contradiction quote, and now I got a warning, and everything's gone? Wtf.

[Rainbow]

Originally Posted by Red-Blue

What happened in here? I posted a Leonidas contradiction quote, and now I got a warning, and everything's gone? Wtf.

I removed the posts in order to prevent the thread to go off-topic, is it that hard to understand?

[Red-Blue]

Originally Posted by Rainbow

I removed the posts in order to prevent the thread to go off-topic, is it that hard to understand?

I sense hostility, I sent a PM.

Also, what's with region-locking the gifts? Teh crap?

[EDIT] What the hell? The gifts are COUNTRY-locked. .___.

[Sim88]

Yay! Next nintendo console to be country locked ftw! then city locked, then person locked.
Hope I will be the person to get Wii Sports 3 in a DVD case...

I downloaded the update this morning, will check it out more thoroughly and come back with a better post.

[Mallhew]

Ooh!

Does Pokemon Snap use Wii pointer function?

[Shpeshal Ed]

Originally Posted by Red-Blue

What happened in here? I posted a Leonidas contradiction quote, and now I got a warning, and everything's gone? Wtf.

I've copped 2 infractions, one I deserved, one I didn't.