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Wii U Release Day Thread

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EatChildren

Currently polling second in Australia's federal election (first in the Gold Coast), this feral may one day be your Bogan King.
Do you have to do anything special to get the WaraWara home menu to update with the games you own snd online Miis instead of the basic system stuff and Nintendo's Miis?
 

axisofweevils

Holy crap! Today's real megaton is that more than two people can have the same first name.
Downloading the internet update.
Had no problem using my TV or importing my Mii from my 3DS.
Really impressed so far.
 

pestul

Member
My update failed after a while. I accidentally clicked away the text before I could read the reason. I can't try again because I'm leaving for work in an hour. Worried as fuck now. :/

If it was just downloading you'll be fine. My update failed as well and I just cancelled out the dialogue and it reinitiated the download from the same spot. No problems. I only crashed once during browser usage so far due to a gmail compatibility issue.
 

Jucksalbe

Banned
Does anyone know if you can do the Wii->WiiU system transfer with multiple region? I've bought Axelay from the Australian store and everything else is from the UK store. Can I just switch the region to Australia and do the transfer a second time?
 

EDarkness

Member
Do you have to do anything special to get the WaraWara home menu to update with the games you own snd online Miis instead of the basic system stuff and Nintendo's Miis?

Man, my home menu only shows the basic stuff, though I do see my mii and my wife's mii wandering around. Not sure how to get the games I own to show up, but I guess it's all good since I've found some great art.
 

SnowyFack

Neo Member
Hi guys, i have a problem with the home screen. In the left i have the screen cut, but only in the left!!! in the option menu where you can change tv options there isn't an option that permits of regulate home screen dimensios. Instead for example in miiverse or shop menù there is the possibility of regulate the screen dimension. I don t know what i have to do. Please help me.

Is there some kindly soul who can help me? thx
 
I noticed something interesting yesterday. I purchased two brand new black Wii U branded Motion Plus Wii Remotes and one of them is missing access to the sync button on the battery cover and on the rubber grip. The boxes and everything else is identical except one of the boxes has a "USZ" marking in small text on the top flap of the box. I'm not sure if this is significant nor am I sure which one came out of which box.

Can someone who purchased one of these that has access to the sync button on the battery cover and a hole to access the button on the rubber grip, tell me if you have the "USZ" marking? Additionally, is there any way to tell which boxes have the possibly 'updated' Wii U Remotes?
 
Do you have to do anything special to get the WaraWara home menu to update with the games you own snd online Miis instead of the basic system stuff and Nintendo's Miis?

I think it took the US 24 hours to get rid of the blue shirt NINTENDO PR Miis and Apps and show games. Don't remember what time on Monday or Tuesday it was but it is in this thread.

also your Miiverse settings should be checked, post on a few communities as well
 

deleted

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Went around this morning to find a pro-controller and Saturn (B8), Media Markt, Real and Gamestop all had Wii U Premiums to sell that were not preordered. So if you are looking to find one in Düsseldorf, you chances are pretty good.
 
I noticed something interesting yesterday. I purchased two brand new black Wii U branded Motion Plus Wii Remotes and one of them is missing access to the sync button on the battery cover and on the rubber grip. The boxes and everything else is identical except one of the boxes has a "USZ" marking in small text on the top flap of the box. I'm not sure if this is significant nor am I sure which one came out of which box.

Can someone who purchased one of these that has access to the sync button on the battery cover and a hole to access the button on the rubber grip, tell me if you have the "USZ" marking? Additionally, is there any way to tell which boxes have the possibly 'updated' Wii U Remotes?

Nevermind. Found my answer:

So it turns out that SOME of the boxes have the old model and SOME have the new ones. The boxes with the NEW model have the letters "USZ" written in small letters on the TOP flap in the upper right-hand corner (you can actually see this if you zoom in on the product image), and the surface of the boxes are glossy, while the boxes with the OLD model have a matte surface and no letters on the top. I found this information in a forum post, went back to the store and found that half of the boxes had USZ, and the other half didn't, so I re-bought the remotes with USZ labels and they DO have the external sync button.
 

jarosh

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YouTube app is complete crap. YouTube in browser, however, is pretty awesome. Why did they even better with such a useless app.
 
Transferring over all my Miis from the original Wii got me all nostalgic. It still has the gaffers from launch day that bought the system. Oh how excited everyone was back in the day. What a pain in the ass it was to register friends on that thing and in the end it didn't really do anything.
 

Nibel

Member
Why did you order at redcoon.de? D:
Sorry to hear that, i hope you'll find a Wii U today.

Ehh, btw the update is still going; EVERY MINUTE I have to restart the damn process but fortunately the goal is near...

Deluxe Set + NSMBU for 384€ seemed really good

Fuck them, seriously

From now on you can refer to me as "The Man Who Has Been Fucked On Launch Day"
 
First 24 hours owning the Wii U

My play time

Nintendoland 3:42
NSMBU 1:39
Miiverse - 4:24

Still yet to play ZombiU. Really need to get off Miiverse lol

Edit - Anyone know if Wii games count on the log book?
 

jonno394

Member
Nintendoland update scheduled to take longer than my firmware update :/

Is the fact I was downloading Trine 2 in the background before I popped in NL making the difference, are they downloading concurrently?
 
Alright I'm now at 2/3 of the update and the errors are getting less frequent! Yay!

I have the system, a pro controller, and these games:
- Nintendo Land
- Tank Tank Tank
- New Super Mario Bros. U
- Assassins Creed 3 (special edition)
- ZombiU
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2
- Sonic & All Star Racing Transformed
 

Danielsan

Member
Contacted Nintendo customer service. What a shithead. Yeah Nintendo servers are probably getting hammered which is why your device can't connect to the internet. Give me a fucking break.
 
I have the system, a pro controller, and these games:
- Nintendo Land
- Tank Tank Tank
- New Super Mario Bros. U
- Assassins Creed 3 (special edition)
- ZombiU
- Tekken Tag Tournament 2
- Sonic & All Star Racing Transformed

Wow, you have a huge backlog already, now you must be at a loss about which one to play first.
 
Contacted Nintendo customer service. What a shithead. Yeah Nintendo servers are probably getting hammered which is why your device can't connect to the internet. Give me a fucking break.

Its the truth though. Had a lot of problems two hours ago but now Im almost done downloading and almost never getting error messages. Its getting better.

Edit: on second thought, you cant connect to the internet? So its not a problem with downloading the update but you cant connect at all? Maybe contact your internet provider then?
 

Mistle

Member
Do you have to do anything special to get the WaraWara home menu to update with the games you own snd online Miis instead of the basic system stuff and Nintendo's Miis?
Crazily enough, I figured out that by pressing L/R to scramble the Warawara plaza Mii's, it must have refreshed some, because now I have gaf friends standing around chatting. Still no game icons though so they're not crowding around anything
 
Contacted Nintendo customer service. What a shithead. Yeah Nintendo servers are probably getting hammered which is why your device can't connect to the internet. Give me a fucking break.

Try holding down the big button (light/logo) on the side until wifi stops flashing - then I can't remember but hold it down till it flashes and it should restart or click it after. Muck about with that button :D

The super hud is a cunt; instead of just unplugging everything to reset it fucks around trying it itself.

Not helpful at all.
Worked for my laptop. But is a fiddle.
 
I noticed something interesting yesterday. I purchased two brand new black Wii U branded Motion Plus Wii Remotes and one of them is missing access to the sync button on the battery cover and on the rubber grip. The boxes and everything else is identical except one of the boxes has a "USZ" marking in small text on the top flap of the box. I'm not sure if this is significant nor am I sure which one came out of which box.

Can someone who purchased one of these that has access to the sync button on the battery cover and a hole to access the button on the rubber grip, tell me if you have the "USZ" marking? Additionally, is there any way to tell which boxes have the possibly 'updated' Wii U Remotes?

Ah crap dude! I had purchase a Wii one at Walmart because the black one I ordered from Amazon never came in until 2 days ago. Both have similar boxes so seeing your post I opened the black on it has no easy reach button you have to open the battery plate to reach it.

MAA RVL A WR USZ CO on the black with no easy button

MAA RVL A PN USZ CO on the white with easy button

they must have just been re-boxing old Wiimote Pluses to go into Wii U branded boxes the black one has a very thick Wii brand instruction book while the white one has a smaller Wii U branded single page folded paper

the boxes on the outside are identical besides the color of the Wiimote

the codes on the bottom are different from the codes above with I got from the papers inside

MAA RVL A PNKA USZ CO on the black box
MAA RVL A PNWA USZ CO on the white box

so PN would be the indicator for the new version but we are being cheated with older vision WR in some PN boxes

edit: okay I see the USZ on the flap for the white one with the easy button damn Amazon resellers :( that black on really is useless
 

DrLazy

Member
Nintendo Land isn't very good, is it? No idea how it got such good reviews.
Couldn't disagree more. The key is local multiplayer. You have 12 games, six of which are really fun high score games, 3 awesome cooperative adventures and 3 great party multiplayer games. Its an absolute blast with family
 
This is the complete haul (without the console).. forgot Game Party Champions that I have to review for work, oh joy! ;)

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Oh, and the system update has been downloaded right now! YES!
 
Nintendo Land isn't very good, is it? No idea how it got such good reviews.

Have you even delved beyond the first level for each section? Pikmin Adventure, Metroid, Zelda, DK's Crash Course, Balloon Fight, and F-Zero are all pretty challenging, and many of them even unlock bonus levels once you've completed their main missions. This game is jam-packed with content, much more than Wii Sports.
 
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