I have a Wii U - General Discussion.

Allyall

Andrew76 wrote: »

@ShadowHearth - do you know if you can transfer MH3U saves back and forth between Wii-U and 3DS? Or is it just one way from 3DS to Wii-U? I was tempted to pick up the handheld version if I'm able to continue my game on that.

THink you can do it both ways - http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/03/guide_transferring_your_monster_hunter_3_ultimate_save_data

Andrew76

ShadowHearth wrote: »

No clue on that m8. In a way I am happy that I can start it again from a scratch. That feeling of getting your Full G. Jaggi set is pricesless.

Cool. Looking forward to creating armour sets in time. Think I've killed my first G. Jaggi alright but not enough items yet to start crafting.

Allyall wrote: »

THink you can do it both ways - http://www.nintendolife.com/news/2013/03/guide_transferring_your_monster_hunter_3_ultimate_save_data

Cheers. Seriously tempted to get it, although then I'd have to fork out for the Circle Pad Pro XL too.

TrustedApple

Is there any problem using a USB powered hard drive with the Wii U ?

ShadowHearth

Andrew76 wrote: »

Cool. Looking forward to creating armour sets in time. Think I've killed my first G. Jaggi alright but not enough items yet to start crafting.



Cheers. Seriously tempted to get it, although then I'd have to fork out for the Circle Pad Pro XL too.

G.Jaggi set us fantastic and you will be using it a lot. It gives very handy skills, which make it one of the best sets. Attack, extra stun resist, and extra food from each meal. I even take it when fighting fire based monsters.

I actually played a big part of it with no circle pad pro and was doing fine. Just centering camera with bumper. At one stage I was not even bothering with circle pad.

I have to say, that after playing wii u version I won't be back to 3ds version any time soon. Plus 3ds has no online.

I wish more boardsies would play monster hunter on wii u. I would love some online game with others.

Allyall

samapple789 wrote: »

Is there any problem using a USB powered hard drive with the Wii U ?

No, but they recommend using one with a dedicated power supply as there are so many, and they vary in performance.

To ensure maximum performance between your Wii U and an external storage device, we recommend using a hard-disc drive (HDD) with a dedicated power source (i.e., using an A/C adapter). Due to the wide range of external hard drives, usability and performance will vary.

THESE ARE EXAMPLES

ShadowHearth

What you use had for? I know you can have games on it, but prices are not great. Surely snes ports are not heavy?

Or you use it for something else?

Allyall

ShadowHearth wrote: »

What you use had for? I know you can have games on it, but prices are not great. Surely snes ports are not heavy?

Or you use it for something else?

Storage mainly. Some games can be over 10GB..
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/latam/en/systems/wiiu/system_external_storage.jsp?menu=general_info&submenu=wup-external-usb-storage

ShadowHearth

Allyall wrote: »

Storage mainly. Some games can be over 10GB..
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/latam/en/systems/wiiu/system_external_storage.jsp?menu=general_info&submenu=wup-external-usb-storage

I guess you buy digital versions of wii u games so. Something that I won't be doing though. Unless some snes games.

TrustedApple

Allyall wrote: »

No, but they recommend using one with a dedicated power supply as there are so many, and they vary in performance.


THESE ARE EXAMPLES

Thanks i have a hard drive docker. One hard drive has my old mac backup and one with tv shows. I have another old hard drive will the WII U let me use that kind of set up ?. As it needed to be powered to be used.

ShadowHearth wrote: »

What you use had for? I know you can have games on it, but prices are not great. Surely snes ports are not heavy?

Or you use it for something else?

I have 4 WII U games to download next week thank you mario kart codes so i need somewhere to put them as i only have a 8GB myself as i picked it up extremely cheap on one of the things for sale pages on Facebook

Allyall

ShadowHearth wrote: »

I guess you buy digital versions of wii u games so. Something that I won't be doing though. Unless some snes games.

Yep, you can, but some games you can ONLY buy digitally.
If I can buy the game on disc, that's the version I'd get, but some have to be downloaded.

http://www.nintendolife.com/wiiu-eshop/games

Allyall

samapple789 wrote: »

Thanks i have a hard drive docker. One hard drive has my old mac backup and one with tv shows. I have another old hard drive will the WII U let me use that kind of set up ?. As it needed to be powered to be used.

I can't see why not, but somebody else may be able to tell you which drives are better for the Wii U.

Allyall

Mega Man 5, Mega Man 6, and Mega Man Battle Network are all out this Thursday?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Virtual_Console_games_for_Wii_U_%28PAL_region%29#Future_releases

CiDeRmAn

I have Megaman 1 through to 8 on the PS2 compilation.
It's pretty nice but, boy, are those games tough!

Allyall

CiDeRmAn wrote: »

I have Megaman 1 through to 8 on the PS2 compilation.
It's pretty nice but, boy, are those games tough!

Yeah, and keep you hooked

I couldn't find any info earlier, but there's a bit here about it. €4.99 each.

http://www.explosion.com/63977/mega-man-5-and-6-launching-later-this-week-on-wii-u-eu-virtual-console/

Nollog

Andrew76 wrote: »

@ShadowHearth - do you know if you can transfer MH3U saves back and forth between Wii-U and 3DS? Or is it just one way from 3DS to Wii-U? I was tempted to pick up the handheld version if I'm able to continue my game on that.

There's an app on the wii u's eshop to transfer your save back to the 3ds, but a friend of mine had some complaints about how clunky back and forth saving is, I think it was something to the tune of:
If you do anything after transferring the save, you can't transfer back
I dunno what that meant, but yeah.

samapple789 wrote: »

Thanks i have a hard drive docker. One hard drive has my old mac backup and one with tv shows. I have another old hard drive will the WII U let me use that kind of set up ?. As it needed to be powered to be used.

The wii u will format an entire drive to it's own format.

cherryghost

cherryghost wrote: »

Just got the 2 controllers. They feel amazing in your hands. Cheers vestek!

Well that didn't last very long. Something blew on the board leaving both horizontal axes in the analogue completely broken. Opened everything up to find some extremely shoddy solder work on it. Just got a pair of official controllers instead.

Allyall

I think the only unofficial controller I'd buy (After reading that) would be the Nyko Pro Commander for the Wii U (As they get good reviews).
But I haven't been able to find them over this side of the Atlantic for a decent price. Always €80 or some crazy price.

I have seen the identical Android version - Playpad Pro but I don't know if it would work with the Wii U, or be made to. So I haven't bought it.

There is no way in hell I would pay more than the official, for an unoffical controller, €80 is a ridiculous price.

MrVestek

cherryghost wrote: »

Well that didn't last very long. Something blew on the board leaving both horizontal axes in the analogue completely broken. Opened everything up to find some extremely shoddy solder work on it. Just got a pair of official controllers instead.

Ohh? Mine has been fine. That's pretty bad as the manufacturer are normally pretty solid.

TrustedApple

Been waiting for the WII U shop to update for nearly the last hour . Is the Wii U always this slow ?. Like it updated the system software in like 20 mins this mooring so i have no clue really.

Picked up a 500GB HD 2nd hand yesterday for €15 and it works and does the job on the WII U for storing the free games i got with my 4 copys of mario kart.

Only thing i am not looking forward to downloading them on the WII U as the thing is extremely slow

Banjo

/\/ollog wrote: »

There's an app on the wii u's eshop to transfer your save back to the 3ds, but a friend of mine had some complaints about how clunky back and forth saving is, I think it was something to the tune of:
If you do anything after transferring the save, you can't transfer back
I dunno what that meant, but yeah.
.

One of the transfers (WiiU to 3DS or 3DS to WiiU) effectively wipes the data from your game on the system you transferred from. The other keeps a backup and you can recover the backup. But the idea is that you move your data from one to the other, play, then save and move it back. You are not supposed to have 2 concurrent sets of game data. (I think the 3DS is the one that keeps the backup you can revert to.) - Anyway, I think the issue is that if you move your data off, then revert to the backup, you can't copy the data back from the other console. It becomes frustrating because at the end of every WiiU play session you feel obliged to move your data back to the 3DS just in case you decide you want to play MH between now and the next time you're in front of the WiiU. And it's not quick or trivial to do that.

In keeping with this, when you move data from one to the other, it moves ALL data - your 3 saves and all DLC content.

It is clunky as ****. It's lazy. It also makes no sense - you are far more likely to only want to move 1 character back and forth than the whole set of them. A DLC Synch rather than out-right overwrite would have been a decent compromise to accomodate that.

Andrew76

/\/ollog wrote: »

There's an app on the wii u's eshop to transfer your save back to the 3ds, but a friend of mine had some complaints about how clunky back and forth saving is, I think it was something to the tune of:
If you do anything after transferring the save, you can't transfer back
I dunno what that meant, but yeah.

Banjo wrote: »

One of the transfers (WiiU to 3DS or 3DS to WiiU) effectively wipes the data from your game on the system you transferred from. The other keeps a backup and you can recover the backup. But the idea is that you move your data from one to the other, play, then save and move it back. You are not supposed to have 2 concurrent sets of game data. (I think the 3DS is the one that keeps the backup you can revert to.) - Anyway, I think the issue is that if you move your data off, then revert to the backup, you can't copy the data back from the other console. It becomes frustrating because at the end of every WiiU play session you feel obliged to move your data back to the 3DS just in case you decide you want to play MH between now and the next time you're in front of the WiiU. And it's not quick or trivial to do that.

In keeping with this, when you move data from one to the other, it moves ALL data - your 3 saves and all DLC content.

It is clunky as ****. It's lazy. It also makes no sense - you are far more likely to only want to move 1 character back and forth than the whole set of them. A DLC Synch rather than out-right overwrite would have been a decent compromise to accomodate that.

Yeah, after reading the link posted by Allyall, I couldn't be bothered getting the 3DS version, too much hassle to swap between the two. Should just involve uploads & downloads to work.

samapple789 wrote: »

Been waiting for the WII U shop to update for nearly the last hour . Is the Wii U always this slow ?. Like it updated the system software in like 20 mins this mooring so i have no clue really.

Picked up a 500GB HD 2nd hand yesterday for €15 and it works and does the job on the WII U for storing the free games i got with my 4 copys of mario kart.

Only thing i am not looking forward to downloading them on the WII U as the thing is extremely slow

I don't find it that slow, although I'm using the LAN adapter rather than Wifi. The update only took 15mins in total for me (5 min download, 10 update).

Nollog

samapple789 wrote: »

Been waiting for the WII U shop to update for nearly the last hour . Is the Wii U always this slow ?. Like it updated the system software in like 20 mins this mooring so i have no clue really.

Picked up a 500GB HD 2nd hand yesterday for €15 and it works and does the job on the WII U for storing the free games i got with my 4 copys of mario kart.

Only thing i am not looking forward to downloading them on the WII U as the thing is extremely slow

Change your wii u's MTU to match your modem/router, and disable the firewall/make the wii u's mac/ip address whitelisted.
I have no idea how to do that on your setup, but it'll make it a tiny bit less slow ime, still slow as balls compared to something like steam.

nix

Question, if yer gamepad breaks, what to do? They dont sell them separately from what i can see, is it just tough **** use your pro controller?

Deano7788

nix wrote: »

Question, if yer gamepad breaks, what to do? They dont sell them separately from what i can see, is it just tough **** use your pro controller?

As far as I know you have to contact Nintendo. I'm not sure just using the Pro Controller is even an option to be honest.

nix

Deano7788 wrote: »

As far as I know you have to contact Nintendo. I'm not sure just using the Pro Controller is even an option to be honest.

It has been for all wii u games ive played so far, battery life on the gamepad isnt the best so ive had to switch to pro a few times and it works.

Nollog

nix wrote: »

Question, if yer gamepad breaks, what to do? They dont sell them separately from what i can see, is it just tough **** use your pro controller?

http://www.nintendoservicecentre.co.uk/ talk to the guys here on the livechat, my gamepad broke a month or two after launch, the replacement and everything to do with the whole experience was painless.

It was horrible, the console was basically useless because everything required the gamepad to work apart from the only non-zombiu/nintendoland game I had, which I think was trine.
And at the time I think trine didn't support the pro controller.

They quoted me €90 I think, because it sounded like it was my fault, but they never charged me (one morning i woke up to the whole screen bleeding all over the inside), because I assume it was a manufacture problem.
I think they asked me to take pictures and send them in with it and stuff, I'm not sure.

CastorTroy

If you're bored and looking for something to watch, Nintendo are streaming live from SDCC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Idw0P5x5b14 or
http://www.twitch.tv/nintendo

richymcdermott

Not really worth posting here but I feel this when I see people say Nintendo do not make brand new IPs AND rehases.


http://playeressence.com/nintendo-has-made-71-brand-new-franchises-since-2001/


Nintendo Gamecube

Pikmin
Eternal Darkness: Sanity’s Requiem
Animal Crossing
Battalion Wars
Geist
Chibi-Robo
Odama
Nintendo Wii

Art Style
Wii series
Endless Ocean
Disaster: Day of Crisis
Pandora’s Tower
Kiki Trick
Xenoblade Chronicles
The Last Story
Zangeki no Reginleiv
Wii-Ware

Bonsai Barber
Rock N’ Roll Climber
PictureBook Games: Pop-Up Pursuit
You, Me and the Cubes
Eco Shooter: Plant 530
Snowpack Park
ThruSpace
Line Attack Heroes
Fluidity
Wii U

Wonderful 101
Splatoon
Game Boy Advance

Golden Sun
Magical Vacation
Napoleon
Kuririn
Horse Racing Creating Derby
Stafy
Tomato Adventure
Drill Dozer
Rhythm Tengoku
bit Generations
Nintendo DS

Polarium
Nintendogs
Jump Super Stars
Electroplankton
Big Brain Academy
Brain Age
Clubhouse Games
Magnetica
Elite Beat Agents
Hotel Dusk: Room 215
Trace Memory
Master of Illusion
Slide Adventure MAGKID
Soma Bringer
Jam with the Band
Fossil Fighters
Style Savvy
Glory of Heracles
Friend Collection
Walk with me! Do you know your walking routine?
Cooking Guide: Can’t Decide What To Eat?
Dsi

Aura Aura Climber
Art Academy
Kappa Trail
Pinball Pulse: The Ancient Beckons
Nintendo 3DS

Codename S.T.E.A.M
Steel Diver
Tomodachi Life
3DS Ware

Harmo Knight
Freakyforms: Your Creations, Alive!
Pushmo
Sakura Samurai: Art of the Sword
Dillon’s Rolling Western
Ketzal’s Corridors


Guess that debunks everyone who says otherwise further :P

I Voted For Kodos

So I've owned mine about two weeks now. What a console. Sold my PS4 to buy it since I've no interest in the PS4 for the time being. Will probably end up buying one again when it gets it's inevitable slim revision and price drop. But my God, the Wii U. Played it more in two weeks than the PS4 in three months.

Just got around to getting a Wiimote and chuck and installing Wii flow today which has opened up a whole other world for me since I never owned a Wii. Love it.

ShadowHearth

I Voted For Kodos wrote: »

So I've owned mine about two weeks now. What a console. Sold my PS4 to buy it since I've no interest in the PS4 for the time being. Will probably end up buying one again when it gets it's inevitable slim revision and price drop. But my God, the Wii U. Played it more in two weeks than the PS4 in three months.

Just got around to getting a Wiimote and chuck and installing Wii flow today which has opened up a whole other world for me since I never owned a Wii. Love it.

Funny enough I am in love with it too. If there is one thing that annoys me, its Tablet controller battery life. Its just as bad as PS4, but at least Wii U got excuse of having a huge screen on it lol.

I was sure that Ninty offered bigger batteries for it?

I discovered today that wii U got stylus lol. Played pikmin 3 and all instructions were with Stylus. After flipping controller for few times I found it!