January 1st, 2007 is a day that will be very interesting. According to this video, that is the day when the author of this video is going to open the flood gates and upload his "Wii Backup" program to the internet. According to the video, the way it works is to put a backup copy of a Wii game, then go to the Photo Channel, insert your SD Card with Wii Backup on it, run the Wii Backup program via the slideshow, and then you will be brought back to your Wii Channels to see your backup copy running.
Like I said, January 1st will be a very interesting day.
Neil Hickton, Andy Buick and Alan Mollison from This Is My Joystick get together to talk about November’s notable (and not so notable) game releases and beyond.
In this episode, Neil H, Andy B and Big Al talk about:
■What they’ve been playing
■Wii U ”Bricking” update issue
■Wii U launch titles
■Sonic & All Stars Racing Transformed Wii U
■Mass Effect 3: Special Edition Wii U
■New Super Mario Bros. Wii U
■Nintendo Land Wii U
■Rayman Legends Wii U
■ZombiU Wii U
■Trine 2: Director’s Cut Wii U
■Toki Tori 2 Wii U
■Nano Assault Neo Wii U
■WWE 13
■Need for Speed Most Wanted
■Football Manager 2013
■Just Dance 4
■Silent Hill: Book of Memories
■Halo 4
■Curiosity
■Little Big Planet Karting
■Call of Duty Black Ops 2
■Call of Duty Black Ops Declassified
■Wonderbook!
■Epic Mickey 2
■Hitman: Absolution
■Assassins Creed 3
■Lego Lord of the Rings
■Baldur’s Gate Enhanced Edition
■Far Cry 3
■GTA5
■One Eyed Monsters
Talk about being 100% backwards compatible… or just being 100% backwards in general.
That's not 100% backwards at all. At least you can play your Wii games on the Wii U. Yes, upscaling would be cool, but I would hardly call that a real dealbreaker.
Hmmm. I'm still debating whether I'll get one right away.
I'm so excited by the Wii U, but at the same time there are no real 'deal breaker' games at launch that I don't have on 360 and PS3.
I got to play NSMBU, and it was much funner than I had anticipated. I'm eager to find out what ZombiU will turn out like as well.
I'll probably just succumb to my own excitement and get one a few days after it launches (Provided it doesn't sell out). I'm sure many others are super excited to see what Metroid, Zelda and many of the JRPG's will be like on the Wii U. It has the potential to be better than both the Xbox 360 and the PS3.
I don't like how Nintendo does backwards comp, but its the same as it was on Wii for playing game cube games. You had to boot into game cube mode to play GC games and all Wii functionality was turned off because you were basically playing a game cube.
I'm not buying a wii u for backward compatibility. I'm buying to for forward/New gaming experiance. I'm sick of people wanting backward compatibility consoles. Why so you can play your old games on new hardware? Here's a thought for you cry babies, don't sell your old console and use it for your old games.
Why Nintendo's new game system is completely useless to anyone over the age of 12. A parody.
I love the concept behind the OS , it looks well integrated, haters will be haters tho, watch the rest copy nintendo again.
This is the reason you havent heard anything from the other 2, they are watching how nintendo do there thing, then they copy
all the gizmos built into the gamepad including video chat Wii u gamepad makes ps3 and 360 controllers look like dinosaurs
wow, that was very funny. Amazingly the article tries so hard to put down the Wii U in ways that actually make it look good instead. Very well written parody!
The film seems to jump in too many places to think this isn't faked. Also, it wouldn't surprise me that instead of a bootloader, this guy created a Wii destroying virus and is disguising it as something a lot of people will download. It wasn't worth making a console virus before because they were all isolated, now that they have gone online, console viruses have become viable. Nintendo will also likely do a firmware patch to block this thing from working if it is legit, so once you have this program installed on your Wii, you can't ever patch your system again.
I can't see the video from work, but these "coming soon!" type hacks are almost always fake. They don't release the hack right away because it's not real.
While there are many possible splice points in the video, I'm more than excited to see the possibility of a homebrew scene for the Wii. The benefit is great enough and the wait is short enough to warrant diconnecting my wii from the internet for a while to stop any automatic updates by Nintendo.