The VC boys test out the latest Wii firmware, it seems it should improve the speed of transferring items to the SD card.

If you haven’t already seen an inviting blue flashing light emitting from your Wii then you might like to know that Wii firmware version 3.4 is now available.

This update vastly improves the time taken to transfer WiiWare or Virtual Console games to a SD card. Some have said it is now around 5x faster with a 320 block game such as World of Goo taking around 20 – 30 seconds to transfer (depending on what brand your SD card is).

Transferring back to the Wii was pretty speedy to begin with, it is hard to say if it is now any quicker. Maybe with the next update Nintendo will add one-click functions to transfer games from the main Wii interface. If this is the case then we might forgive them for not yet releasing a HDD solution.

Having noticed the incredibly slow speeds myself I'm hoping this is a turning point, there is no technical reason why it should be so slow, maybe Nintendo were cheap.

Now, let's hope they can speed up the bloody Wii Shop Channel, sloweth!