The Wii gives you no way to control where the channels are located. However if you have a SD card, you can move thing around a bit. You can move your channels to the SD card and then move them back 1 by 1 in the order you want them. The Wii will add then right to left row by row as you add them. So you could add all your NES games followed by SNES and so on. You could also do this by deleting and then redownloading, but that would take quite awhile.
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Any way to "group" channels on the Wii menu?
This is probably more of a wish than something that you can actually do right now.
I've downloaded a few VC games from diff consoles and would like to be able to group them on the Wii menu by console. So instead of having 4 different NES games on 4 different channels, it'd be great just to have a NES channel. Then when you click on it, you can select the NES game you'd like to play. This would clean up the Wii main menu a bit and help greatly w/ my OCD.
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I've downloaded a few VC games from diff consoles and would like to be able to group them on the Wii menu by console. So instead of having 4 different NES games on 4 different channels, it'd be great just to have a NES channel. Then when you click on it, you can select the NES game you'd like to play. This would clean up the Wii main menu a bit and help greatly w/ my OCD.
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You can also grab a channel by putting the cursor on it and pressing A+B simultaneously. Then move it wherever you want.
Or you can grab it with the "b" button and place it where ya want.
This is something like #3 on the laundry list of seemingly easily granted wishes Wii owners have that Nintendo will probably continue to ignore.
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instead of having 4 different NES games on 4 different channels, it'd be great just to have a NES channel. Then when you click on it, you can select the NES game you'd like to play.
This is something like #3 on the laundry list of seemingly easily granted wishes Wii owners have that Nintendo will probably continue to ignore.
You may be right, MOngo....but I did read on a couple of sites in the last few days that a couple of companies/developers have apparently been contacted by Nintendo to develop "USB devices" for the Wii. Sorry...no link handy, but if I dig one up, I'll post.
If one "USB device" were perhaps a "Wii Drive", I could see mapping/grouping certain things like VC games happening.
E3 will likely tell us more.
Nice to know about the grab & move option for channels. Did not realize that - thought I had to (and have done it) copy a channel to SD, delete from Wii internal mem then re-copy.
Using that lengthy process, I got my Wii Fit, MK, Nintendo channels all as part of page 1.
Drag n drop would have been so much easier!!
If one "USB device" were perhaps a "Wii Drive", I could see mapping/grouping certain things like VC games happening.
E3 will likely tell us more.
Nice to know about the grab & move option for channels. Did not realize that - thought I had to (and have done it) copy a channel to SD, delete from Wii internal mem then re-copy.
Using that lengthy process, I got my Wii Fit, MK, Nintendo channels all as part of page 1.
Drag n drop would have been so much easier!!
jwebb, I read the same article about the "USB devices" job positions open at Nintendo, but they also just made a statement reaffirming that they have "no plans" to release an "external solution." Now, given the wording, I hope they mean they just don't plan on releasing an external drive themselves with its own branding...which of course would be different from enabling support for generic drives via a firmware update. Probably just wishful thinking at this point, but the dream still lives.
Haha, I didn't know that. I never really had the urge to move things around much. Of course now I'm totally out of space on the Wii, so I'm about to have to play the shuffle game if I buy anything else.
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You can also grab a channel by putting the cursor on it and pressing A+B simultaneously. Then move it wherever you want.
Haha, I didn't know that. I never really had the urge to move things around much. Of course now I'm totally out of space on the Wii, so I'm about to have to play the shuffle game if I buy anything else.
Is it a matter of pride, honor or something? Issuing a Nintendo brand "wii drive" means that they failed in the initial Wii design? I wonder.
Then again, maybe they feel they'd "save face" by allowing for 3rd party USB HDDs to work with Wii. Plus, it becomes an option for the likely minority of Wii owners that want such a thing.
If no Wii Drive is coming (still on the fence regarding Nintendo's "announcement" though), what other USB devices would we be talking about? LAN adaptor, keyboard capability or karaoke mic.....all of these exist for Wii already. What else is there?
If we are stuck w/ SD cards, Nintendo could at least (if possible) allow for cards larger than 2GBs. With the increasing amount of DLC coming for Wii, SOMETHING needs to happen, even if just upping the SD limits. And as flash prices get lower, the SD could end up a more viable option, esp in the DLC/WiiWare dept.
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Originally Posted by ThisOneKidMongo /forum/post/14100981
jwebb, I read the same article about the "USB devices" job positions open at Nintendo, but they also just made a statement reaffirming that they have "no plans" to release an "external solution." Now, given the wording, I hope they mean they just don't plan on releasing an external drive themselves with its own branding...which of course would be different from enabling support for generic drives via a firmware update. Probably just wishful thinking at this point, but the dream still lives.
Is it a matter of pride, honor or something? Issuing a Nintendo brand "wii drive" means that they failed in the initial Wii design? I wonder.
Then again, maybe they feel they'd "save face" by allowing for 3rd party USB HDDs to work with Wii. Plus, it becomes an option for the likely minority of Wii owners that want such a thing.
If no Wii Drive is coming (still on the fence regarding Nintendo's "announcement" though), what other USB devices would we be talking about? LAN adaptor, keyboard capability or karaoke mic.....all of these exist for Wii already. What else is there?
If we are stuck w/ SD cards, Nintendo could at least (if possible) allow for cards larger than 2GBs. With the increasing amount of DLC coming for Wii, SOMETHING needs to happen, even if just upping the SD limits. And as flash prices get lower, the SD could end up a more viable option, esp in the DLC/WiiWare dept.
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