Wii U : new update incoming? 5.1.0J (Japan-only?)

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Just saw this on the page for the SUICA promotion.

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It basically says you need firmware ver. 5.1.0 to be able to use SUICA cards on the Nintendo eShop. Yet... we're at 5.0.0 right now.
Pretty sure that means a new update will be released on Tuesday (or late Monday for US folks), to allow Japanese users to use SUICA cards on the eShop. I actually wouldn't be surprised if the update was Japan-only, as this feature is Japan-only (for now).
 
cvxfreak said:
Suica on Wii U would be awesome, actually. Just tap and buy instead of fiddling with internet codes.
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You mean it's awesome. The funcionality comes out on 22nd. There's a thread about it as well.
 
Salmonbottle said:
Is your entire console non-functional even if you unplug the USB, or is it just that most of your games are on the external hard drive?

I got a little bit of the Mario Kart glitching during replay videos recently and it made me pretty nervous.
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Console works if the drive is unplugged, but all my games/saved games are on there.
 
Where's ma folders Nintendo at?

Neo Child said:
gamecube virtual console AND region free comfirmed?

wow
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Sylverstone14 said:
Pretty cool.

Channeling Cheesemeister: "does it come with region lock?"
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Those post are very annoying. If the console wasn't region free at the start then it won't be region free at all period.

Maybe it's time to take the hint?

Seiru said:
I'm praying that this bug gets fixed:
http://techforums.nintendo.com/message/132849#132849

Haven't been able to use my Wii U for over a month.
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Oh so that's why my external harddrive was playing up lately. Yeah Nintendo you need to sort that out.

Salmonbottle said:
Is your entire console non-functional even if you unplug the USB, or is it just that most of your games are on the external hard drive?

I got a little bit of the Mario Kart glitching during replay videos recently and it made me pretty nervous.
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Mine did the same until I moved Mario Kart 8 save data from the external memory to the internal memory.
 
When will Nintendo make the gamepad buttons work like a classic controller pro in Wii mode :P It's silly that I have to put the gamepad on a stand and use another controller to play wii games on the gamepad.
 
Trashdinner1 said:
When will Nintendo make the gamepad buttons work like a classic controller pro in Wii mode :P It's silly that I have to put the gamepad on a stand and use another controller to play wii games on the gamepad.
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Never. The way that WiiU's backwards compatibility works makes this extremely difficult to do. And it would have to be done game by game. It's simply not worth the trouble to go back and re-emulate each game for this.
 
Mr-Joker said:
Those post are very annoying. If the console wasn't region free at the start then it won't be region free at all period.

Maybe it's time to take the hint?
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XBONEr changed this due to backlash.

Whats to say Nintendo can't do this with a simple firmware update?

I mean we all know it's just a simple on/off switch for them. Literally. (cant find the screenshot from this years E3 to show it, but seriousely, they have an option on the dev kits to change from region to region)
 
Riki said:
Never. The way that WiiU's backwards compatibility works makes this extremely difficult to do. And it would have to be done game by game. It's simply not worth the trouble to go back and re-emulate each game for this.
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That's sad :( Don't you think they could find a way to update the vWii firmware to recognise the gamepad as a regular classic controller pro? They were able to make it stream on the gamepad so I'm sure there's another solution?
 
That'd be awesome if somehow the code was left over and you could use Suica on EU and US accounts, but they just never expected anyone to use it. Forgot to use about 1000 yen on my Suica when I left Japan.

Then again that'd mean I'd need a Wii U.
 
Off topic but is there any way to transfer just a game save to the System Memory from an HDD?

I've been trying to get my digital game saves to the internal memory so that my saves are safe in the case my HDD dies.

If not is there a chance that this could be rectified in an upcoming update? I'm pretty sure it's smarter to leave your saves on the Wii U since there's a higher chance of your HDD dying than it is your Wii U bricking.
 
Trashdinner1 said:
That's sad :( Don't you think they could find a way to update the vWii firmware to recognise the gamepad as a regular classic controller pro? They were able to make it stream on the gamepad so I'm sure there's another solution?
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The classic controller is an add-on that plugs on the Wii remote and adds a bunch of extra buttons to it, not a standalone controller. The Wii is still talking with the Wii remote, even if the game being played can be fully controlled using only the CC and you'll need to use the rest of the remote's functions if you navigate to a game or channel that doesn't support the CC.

Displaying the Wii image into the gamepad was trivial, because the whole thing is handled by the GPU after the Wii video hardware has produced an image. The bluetooth communication is handled by Wii-mode software, so it's much more dangerous to tamper with specially when Nintendo messed up with the Wii and there are several versions of it (the infamous IOS versions) that would need to be patched and tested.

The gamepad doesn't even use bluetooth, so the small bit of Wii U firmware that's still running alongside the vWii firmware would need to take the inputs and inject them into wherever the bluetooth driver stores it's data. It's not impossible, but it would require a lot of work and testing of virtually all Wii games to make sure it brakes none (beyond games that use wii remote + nunchuk, as they wouldn't be playable correctly anyway).
 
M3d10n said:
The classic controller is an add-on that plugs on the Wii remote and adds a bunch of extra buttons to it, not a standalone controller. The Wii is still talking with the Wii remote, even if the game being played can be fully controlled using only the CC and you'll need to use the rest of the remote's functions if you navigate to a game or channel that doesn't support the CC.

Displaying the Wii image into the gamepad was trivial, because the whole thing is handled by the GPU after the Wii video hardware has produced an image. The bluetooth communication is handled by Wii-mode software, so it's much more dangerous to tamper with specially when Nintendo messed up with the Wii and there are several versions of it (the infamous IOS versions) that would need to be patched and tested.

The gamepad doesn't even use bluetooth, so the small bit of Wii U firmware that's still running alongside the vWii firmware would need to take the inputs and inject them into wherever the bluetooth driver stores it's data. It's not impossible, but it would require a lot of work and testing of virtually all Wii games to make sure it brakes none (beyond games that use wii remote + nunchuk, as they wouldn't be playable correctly anyway).
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Wait, I have a question.

I never had the Classic Controller for the Wii, but if it works the way your saying it works, can't I get a Wiimote for the Wii U, connect the CC to it, and play whatever game allows CC on it?
 
Veelk said:
Wait, I have a question.

I never had the Classic Controller for the Wii, but if it works the way your saying it works, can't I get a Wiimote for the Wii U, connect the CC to it, and play whatever game allows CC on it?
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Yeah, that's how the classic controller works. It plugs into like a nunchuk, and if the game supports it, it just works. Not all games are compatible with it, but plenty of wii and wiiu games have supported the thing.


The WiiU pro controller and the wii classic controllers are different things. The pro controller is the one that is a completely separate wireless controller that costs like 50 dollars and doesn't work with wii mode. The classic controllers were made mainly for virtual console games but also work with some actual wii games and don't work without a wiimote. The confusing thing is there's a version of the classic controller called the classic controller pro that is just a different-shaped classic controller that people find more comfortable.
 
micster said:
That'd be awesome if somehow the code was left over and you could use Suica on EU and US accounts, but they just never expected anyone to use it. Forgot to use about 1000 yen on my Suica when I left Japan.

Then again that'd mean I'd need a Wii U.
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Code will definitely be there, but it won't matter because you can only use Yen on the Japanese eShop, so unless you get a Japanese Wii U...
 
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