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Title: Wiimote documentation for third-party devs Post by: Yegolev on September 07, 2006, 06:12:07 PM Nintendo finally gives third-party devs some details on the Wiimote. More IGN thievery:
Quote Apparently the Wii-mote provides a paltry 4,000 byte storage capacity that can be used to store controller settings and preferences. However, the Wii-mote's internal memory can only store saves for one game at a time. So, in practice, if a user saved their play style preferences for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption to the device, the information would be overwritten when they attempted to do the same thing for Excite Truck. Again, hardly news. It's either this, or answer that text page about tnslsnr not running. Title: Re: Wiimote documentation for third-party devs Post by: Trippy on September 07, 2006, 06:25:19 PM Quote Apparently the Wii-mote provides a paltry 4,000 byte storage capacity that can be used to store controller settings and preferences. However, the Wii-mote's internal memory can only store saves for one game at a time. So, in practice, if a user saved their play style preferences for Metroid Prime 3: Corruption to the device, the information would be overwritten when they attempted to do the same thing for Excite Truck. If the Wiimote can send and receive data from the console, which it presumably can, that won't matter -- the game will just upload the controller settings when it starts up. Also 4K to store controller settings is enormous.Title: Re: Wiimote documentation for third-party devs Post by: Yegolev on September 07, 2006, 06:32:01 PM I agree with you, and I don't get the Chicken Little act that is going around the Nintendo sites lately. I think people might be bracing themselves for a VirtualBoy. Compared to, say, any other controller, 4k is huge. And a speaker. You can do a lot of stuff with that.
Edit to confirm that it must receive data from the console; bow sounds in Zelda, remember? Title: Re: Wiimote documentation for third-party devs Post by: Yegolev on September 14, 2006, 01:59:36 PM I have read, first, that you will be able to design a little avatar on your Wii. This was seen in Wii Sports at E3. Second, this avatar can be uploaded to the Wiimote for travel to friends' domiciles.
Title: Re: Wiimote documentation for third-party devs Post by: Morfiend on September 14, 2006, 02:16:21 PM I have read, first, that you will be able to design a little avatar on your Wii. This was seen in Wii Sports at E3. Second, this avatar can be uploaded to the Wiimote for travel to friends' domiciles. They are called....Mii (http://wii.nintendo.com/images/07_wii_channel/feature_main_img_mii_channel.jpg) Quote Fun 3-D caricatured portraits of users, or Miis, created in this channel can be used on characters across a variety of Wii software. In addition to storing Miis on the Wii, several Miis can be stored in a user’s Wii Remote and taken to a friend’s house to play on another Wii console. Each member of the family can have his or her Wii Remote personalized with their own Mii. (http://wii.nintendo.com/images/02_game/feature_main_img_wii_sport.jpg) Quote Players can use their own Mii caricatures in the game and play them against their friends' Miis for a more personalized experience. As players improve, their Miis' skill levels will increase, so that they can see exactly how much better they've become. |