Wii SD card problem

norrie rugger

anyone have trouble getting their cards to work?
trynig to copy to the card but it will not work.
they switch is not locked

qwertplaywert

its a bitch

you need to update the firmware by connecting online with it before being albe to copy data to sd cards

its so unfair for people who cant get broadband , and therfore cant get online with it

1huge1

I blame eircom...Will be heading up to my bro with my console so im expecting a heavy update considering ive never done it before
1mb connection wonder how long it will take

what can you use the sd card for besides putting music in excite truck and viewing pics?

qwertplaywert

watching videos
but the video converting prgogram always times out when im installating it cause of my slow internet speed

christophicus

MAy I suggest going to an internet cafe and seeing if they can fascillitate you and your Wii.

you can also put VC games opn them as far as I know.

lordgoat

Don't think you can put VC games on it. Else you'd be albe to transfer them from console to console. You can store save-game info on it as far as i know.

Rhyme

Virtual Console games are encoded onto your console, transferring games between console is impossible. Don't know about transferring game saves, i've no means to test it anyway.

Star Lord

You can put your VC games onto your SD card, as a kind of "backup" or to create more room on your console, but you have to copy them back on to the console in order to play them. You can't play from the SD card, and you can't play it on another console.

Save games can be transferred, but the game needs to be played at least once on the console before you caqn copy the save on to it, ie - the console must have had the space allocated already, even if you delete the save after.

christophicus

Yeah you can use SD cards to hold VC games . THere is a kind of DRM that prevents you from using them on another console though.

norrie rugger

qwertplaywert wrote:

its a bitch

you need to update the firmware by connecting online with it before being albe to copy data to sd cards

its so unfair for people who cant get broadband , and therfore cant get online with it

update the Wii ware or the Card?
and how?

christophicus

HE means that you have to do one of those Nintendo updates of the Wii, not the card. As I dont have a Wii Im not shure how you do it, but you need to have it connected to the internet and then i think a message comes up when you turn it on to do an update.

qwertplaywert

YES that is right christophicus
hopefully nintendo will make the updates avaible through the net in the future, so they could be put on sd card,and manually put on wii

christophicus

Yeah that is a good idea, i never even thought about that.

qwertplaywert

also, ive heard from alot of people online that the updates arnt big[ in terms of file sizes]
so would only be a couple of megs an update,which would suit dial up peeps

christophicus

Hmm these are all very valid point you make , although it does take around an hour to download a 5 meg file on dialup i think.

qwertplaywert

im on dial up,it dont take that long
but i use a download acculerator , and when downloading when broswing say 2 webpages, i will get speeds of about 4 kp/s, so it takes me about 20/30 minutes to download 5mb

norrie rugger

why can you not use a card bigger than 2 gig?

1huge1

just something nintendo chose to do, like many things with the wii im sure if they bothered to do a firmware update they could change that