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Lestrade · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:37 am Post subject: Forecast Channel!

I woke up this morning to a delightful little update. I never thought checking the weather could be so much fun. Come on, News Channel....

The fact that Iqaluit is only -23 is frightening. It should be that temperature here!

Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Yeah! It only took a month!
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david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

Humbug!
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dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

Yes! I predict that I will be turning my Wii on daily now.

david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

I wish it would show the expansion of the Twilight...
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SuperWes · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 11:08 am Post subject:

My fucking Wii is messed up. Every time I try to connect to the internet I have about a 5% chance of it actually working. Today I hit retry around 10 times before it even attempted to download the update. Then I sat and looked at the download bar for 5 minutes as it sat still, then left for work with my system on. I hate it that this stuff doesn't happen automatically while my system is turned off. It doesn't make sense that they would connect to the internet to let me know that when I've got the time I can manually sit for an hour and download the update. Just download it while the system's off!

Trash.

-Wes
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Tim · . Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 54 Location: Millersville, MD

Yeah, I have that same issue. My Wii is configured with the same router and connection settings as my always-working-online 360, but it never works. It kind of tries once in a while, and then doesn't do anything. Not even my Wi-fi USB Connector works with it (kind of does the same thing. It'll connect for like 5 seconds, then disappear).

I'm guessing that either the firewall and security stuff on my family's computer is preventing it from doing anything, or...I don't know.

I brought my Wii to work and installed the USB adapter software, and it worked perfectly, system update and all.

So I don't get it. Maybe we have too many microwaves, watches, alarm clocks, whatever, and the Wii's signal isn't strong enough.

Lestrade · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 12:21 pm Post subject:

Weird. I have the occasional connection issue with the Wii, but not constantly.

player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

I'm pretty sure that the Wii is hyper sensitive to networks. Try going into your network settings and changing your wireless router's channel to either 1 or 11 (it's probably at 6 right now). It worked for me
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GSL · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 4:27 pm Post subject:

So I found a frustrating glitch with the weather channel: If you have WiiConnect24 (the general internet service) turned on but have your system set to power down instead of going into standby, the channel complains that WiiConnect24 itself is turned off. I have the machine powering down because its internet connection is through my WiFi USB adaptor running on hacked drivers (to, you know, make the damn thing actually WORK), and wireless waves floating around the house creep me the fuck out, so I turn the thing off when I'm not using the Wii. It's too uncomfortable to wear my tinfoil hat to bed, and if I have no internets beaming towards the Wii I don't see the point in having it on standby. It's annoying to have to turn the standby mode on and off just to use the weather. On the bright side, the weather channel is really cool, and it was the same temperature here last night as it was in Sapporo, Hokkaido! Now that's neat!

I just can't wait for the LAN adaptor, tho.

Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

The weather channel is incredibly useful to me, I'll be turning my wii on every day now.

I have had zero problems connection my Wii to the internet, it took me five minutes. I find this odd since I usually have mountains of trouble connecting anything to my network because I have a z-grade router.
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Shapermc · Hot Sake! Joined: 14 Oct 2004 Posts: 6279

Ok, seriously, I'm actually a little impressed with this. It's much better than I figured it would be.

Now I want news... yeah I'm greedy.

Opera Wii Browser beta starts on Friday! Flash games will be playable.
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dessgeega · Posted: Tue Dec 19, 2006 6:34 pm Post subject:

the forecast channel is amazing. giving the globe a spin and watching it revolve in space is delightful.
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Is this out in the UK yet? I left my Wii with my dad while I do work. I'd phone him to see but it's 1am and by now he will be on the sauce.

helicopterp · . Joined: 13 May 2006 Posts: 1435 Location: Philadelphia

And hopefully playing Zelda while on the sauce.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

So apparently some Wii games actually use the forecast channel to replicate the real actual weather conditions in the real actual world right now. So if it's lightly snowing in Texas, and you play Madden and pick the Texas stadium, it will be actually lightly snowing in the actual Texas Stadium in the actual game. That is some oh shit-type shit to get your mouth watering as the Wu-Tang Clan would say.

And this isn't crazy theoretical future talk that probably won't happen- this is in a game people are playing right now.

!

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

aerisdead · . Joined: 03 Dec 2006 Posts: 254 Location: Toronto, Canada

It only lists Edinburgh in Scotland ;_;

Where is the love for Glasgow
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Slonie · . Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 141

Japan gets different iconography for their weather, Not Japanese Wii users, but actually the map seems to show different icons for Japan than the rest of the world!

Seriously, look at it...The cloud over Tokyo is a cute little line-art cloud and the one over San Jose is pseodo-photorealistic. Strange and sort of funny if you start to consider possible reasons for it. Japan probably requires a different icon set anyway, to represent Mothra attacks, etc.
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Tim · . Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 54 Location: Millersville, MD

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player 2 · . Joined: 10 Jul 2005 Posts: 585 Location: Madison, WI USA

Just in case anyone missed Slonie's awesome post:

Tim · . Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 54 Location: Millersville, MD

dmauro · . Joined: 20 Jul 2006 Posts: 303 Location: Brooklyn

Oooh... since it plays some sfx based on the weather when you click on a city, perhaps the next time you click on Tokyo you'll get the Gamera theme song!

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Mister Toups · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 10:42 am Post subject:

Also Nintendo really needs to replace the cloud/sun graphics with the sprites from Super Mario Bros.
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ApM · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:00 pm Post subject:

Pijaibros · Posted: Wed Dec 20, 2006 2:47 pm Post subject:

I was hoping that Mario and Daisy would be doing a newscast with Bowser being the weather guy.

"Hi, I'm Daisy"

"It's a me, Mario"

It then cuts to Bowser all growling and pointing with his little stick to your hometown and roaring out the weather. All identified by little Mario World weather icons.

purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

It seems really pointless, but it has so much potential. And not just skins and things! (Personally, I want to be able to switch the, er, inertial resistance off, so you can set it spinning FOREVER, like Google Earth).

But, like, imagine if it tied in with the News channel, and you could set it to display global headlines on little labels, with lines pointing to the place on the Earth where the story was taking place!

Or if they started using the globe to display Nintendo-related information. Like if there was a global Mario Kart ranking, you could click on a region and see leaderboards. Or look at release dates for that region, and stuff.

And things!

(I doubt any of this will actually come to pass, of course.)

purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

purplechair · . Joined: 28 Mar 2005 Posts: 378 Location: in my pants

Or VIEWING YOUR ADDRESS BOOK AS WAVING MIIS ON THE GLOBE (omfgggg!)

Tim · . Joined: 08 Feb 2006 Posts: 54 Location: Millersville, MD

Persona-sama · Posted: Thu Dec 21, 2006 8:10 pm Post subject:

Guys, yesterday I discovered 32 degrees F is the freezing point when I left a drink outside during a party and later came out to discover it had turned into a block of ice.

Also, it's a chilly 9 degrees at the South Pole today.
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Cycle · Mac daddy Joined: 08 Sep 2006 Posts: 2767

I read PA for the first time in months today, and it really reminded me of why I stopped reading it and how they no longer speak for me as a gamer. The weather channel is totally where it's at.
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david · . Joined: 03 Mar 2005 Posts: 170 Location: b, md

Guys, I think it is going to tie in with the News Channel. I think the News Channel has an identical globe that gives you news instead of weather.

We'll see, won't we!
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Harveyjames · the meteor kid Joined: 06 Jul 2006 Posts: 3636

Hey the forecast channel started up instantaneously this time, which is a little more like it. Maybe it only has to download the weather information once a day. In that case, I wish it would download whatever it needs to download in the background of the wii menu instead of just waiting 'til I want to use it.