adrenochrome

what's the must-buy feature of this adapter ?

• cigarette lighter socket outputs 12v
• WiiU take 12v in input
  ( WiiU provide 4 usb ports and do the convertion from from 12 to 5v for the usb )
  2 wires between the plugs arn't enough ?

@PinkSpider

flash player is still outdated, videos from tudou.com cant be watched
and tests from http://www.chemgapedia.de/vsengine/info/en/help/requirements/flash.html
http://www.adobe.com/fr/software/flash/about/
http://www.adobe.com/swf/software/flash/about/flashAbout_info_small.swf
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player/kb/find-version-flash-player.html
http://helpx.adobe.com/flash-player.html
are failing too

but its not a major problem : flash is no longer supported by adobe and html5 is going to replace it entirely

10 to go to settings, 20 to go back to main menu
15 to go to eshop, 2 to go back to main menu
goong to downloads take nearly 1 or 2 secs, going back to main menu take the same 1-2 secs

downloading !!!!

4 day later there's still no wiiu update in eu :/

@ChaosAngel : yoshi screenshots look a lot like kirby epic yarn design, sound enough to call it "yarn yoshi"
i just hope it wont be targetted for 5year old children, kirby epic yarn was way too easy

i dont care about apple, regarding about the phone&multimedia part, android is much better
regarding games i dont known how a how a single touchscreen could be compared to a dsi (no need to talk about 3ds here)

sounds perfect, all those fixes were required but i didnt expect to get them all at the same time in the first update

how can it be possible that some are already playing it when it'll be released only tomorrow ?

very good news, ~30secs to wait to acces settings is unacceptable

another good improvement would be to add an option to : switch off at end of download while screen blanking on gamepad, currently you cant do both at the same time

ho.. and allow auto-download of game updates instead of forcing us to start them manually and wait

@CoffeeWithGames : where did you post it ?

i'll never download a title that is available on disc as long as Nintendo maintain the stupid hardware-tied system
i can admit that Nintendo forbid us to resell games but it's a shame not to be allowed to change hardware

are there screenshots of the new version ? i only see gfx with floydsteinberg-like dithering :/

why not fix all the bugs reported (at least the major ones for beginning) in Fez instead of spitting on the 3ds ?

please, capcom, make at least one announcement for wiiu

@rjejr
the screenshots seems to be the 2 years old version since there's no antialiasing on them
according to the current news the gfx of the wiiu version should be better

dressing cats like this is a shame
anyway i never liked super meat boy

@klautrec : thanks for your answer, i'll try this trick

i have another question :

• into the gamepad settings there's an option to blank the screen
• into the download manager there's an option to switch off the wiiu at end of the downloads
  is there a way to get both at the same time ? (screen blanking & switch off when finished)

is there another way than launching a game to trigger the download of his update ?

someone know if by giving some money to the project there's :

• possibility to add a comment about wanting a wiiu version ?
• possibility to get the money back if, at end, no wiiu version is released ?

it seems that the wiiu gamepad is becoming new recurent excuse (

they could at least put all the ingame maps&menus&huds on the gamepad with little efforts (for me that's already enough for a much better experience using the gamepad)

-edit: petition signed-

i hope the engine will evolve because the current cellshading effect combined to the wiiu resolution is not looking as good as the gamecube one, currently it only highlight the lack of polygons :/

@ UnseatingKDawg
it's not a matter of game playing, look at this scenario :
going to settings -> wait 30sec, going back to main menu -> wait 30sec, launch browser -> wait 30sec, going back to main menu -> wait 30sec, going to eshop -> wait 30sec, going back to main menu -> wait 30sec

what would you say if you had to wait 30sec on your laptop before going to settings or before launching a web browser ?
it sound evident that the wii-u can do better

when you know exactly what you want to do, you can reduce the amount of 30sec waits, but when exploring everything -eg : the first time you unbox your wiiu- some could be easily shocked

it's undeniable that navigation inside Wii-U menus/apps is too slow (
loading a disc based game is faster
it's undeniable too that Nintendo can do better, let's hope they will address this point in next update

@AlphaIchimoru
it's not a matter of xbox/playstation being wrong, it's a matter of lazy ports :
ok this time the port was fine-tuned (opposed to batman and cullofduty), but the WiiU regarding his capacities diserve something better than xbox/playstation, if not, then what would be the interest of the WiiU ?

despite being a huge fan of indie eshop content i wont get this game if his content is denatured.
Nintendo did setup a restrictive systeme for mature contents so they should allow indie content to use it instead of trying to censor the products

@ rogerwilco : so there's no adhesive substance on it ? it's sticking on it's own because of his shape (like original wiimote protections) ?

ok, found the info :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=yODjl6tHtJQ
http://www.decalgirl.com/info/faq.htm

it's not at all like a thin wiimote protection, it's more some kind of gummy stickers :/
it must be really difficult to cover perfectly the corners of the gamepad with this kind of sticker

@ Bluezealand : i perfectly understand what you are explaining but i was thinking that Nintendo did use some kind of age verification (according to the undeletable parental control channel)

If all what you say is exact, using a profile of a 3 year old child i will be able to download(but not to play) zombiu between 23h and 03h ?
i completely agree that it's not a German specific problem, but Nintendo did a really toughtless implementation of the european laws

"Under German law, content rated 18+ must be made available only at night."
so zombiU is not available in UK&D shops ? are there really games-shops that are opened in the "legal" window ? or this game has to be sell in sex-shops ?

strange that the only hours mentioned in usk pdf are
16+ : 22h-06h
18+ : 23h-06h
anyway it's a very stupid law :/
anyone living in Germany can confirm that this restriction is only for video games and not for, eg, paying porn tv channel ?

going to the FNAC (a french vendor) right now, usually they close their doors at 19h30, but today is a special day : i will be able to enter the shop after 19h30 (with my preorder paper) to get my wiiu

it seems to be a real problem is both call of duty and batman suffer from bad frame rate.... i cant imagine the developpers being aware of this an releasing bugged games.
Let's hope it's only a common problem from the system and that it will be fixed by a forthcoming sytem update

anyone know what eurogamer is using to count fps in cod and batman ? (both really have such option avaible in settings menus from the public versions ?)

no netflix in france, majors are too powerful here : they make us pay separately for each episode of any serie
so i dont have any hope to see tvii release in my country

it seems to be the perfect case to see the first online update/patch, let's see how long it will take for activision to do it (it seems other consoles already have several updates)

since it's a very early game on wiiu there may be potential troubles :
-if fps display is in game it may be computed wrongly (my eyes are not accurate enough to notice fps differences in eurogamer video comparisons)
-eurogamer says other console have some barely noticable tearing which the wiiu dont, perhaps some internal settings are not perfectly tweaked yet (vsync?)
...

this page is more natural to access while browsing Nintendo website
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wiiu/en_na/system_external_storage.jsp?menu=how_to&submenu=wup-usb-ht-connect
and illustrate a single plug
for me Q&A is what i read only if i run into troubles
be sure my insistence is nothing against you but i only want to reassure the numerous worried Nintendo fans from the current comments

(the above page has another important warning, imho, about not to power off WiiU or external drive while writing data)

@zipmon, thanks

according to #12, Nintendo tell us to try our drives as is, and if it dont work with 'i'-cable, only then, try a 'y'-one
so Wii-U really support all usb drives, that's really a good news !
maybe this article should be a bit less "directive" ( "for a USB drive to work" is too strong and not really accurate : i cant even work without the enumerated conditions )

@Zipmon : could you tell the source of the informations about power supply in this article (why no picture of this info ?) ?
because it seems you frightened a lot of non-tech people
i really doubt Nintendo said the external power supply or the y-cable is mandatory for any 2.5" usb drive.
The Wii-U is advertised as supporting external usb drives -not a specific subset of them- and most of [250-750]gb current drives dont need that(i've the same drive as on your picture and it was sold with a single "I" usb cable).
Advising a good power source is a thing but it's only an advice

SteveW : does it really exist 2TB disk in 2.5" size ? only the 2.5" disks are external-power-less

@Kirk
as it was said the gamepad power plug is the same as the nds one, maybe you could build a usb cable yourself or wait for a third party product
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYZoF8kX1eI

why Y-cable ? with computers, Y cable is requiered for some very old disks using obscene amount of power, or with very old laptops which didnt provide enough power through usb.
The original wii always delivered enough power for any modern 2.5" disk through a a single usb plug.
So, the Wii-U is delivering less power (than original wii) on usb plugs like a very old laptop ?

external power adaptors sucks : you need one more power plug and you need to to not forget to switch the disk on/off by hand if you dont want to shorten his life

i dont know xbox and his gpu at all, but if the gpu support natively stereoscopy then it would cost almost nothing to render
as far as i know the wiiu gpu dont support natively stereoscopic 3d

@BJQ1972 :
inficolor=anaglyph=low resources eating (it's only a kind of 3d filter)

polarised=stereoscopic=high resources eating (typically you have to render the whole screen 2x), i doudbt the wiiu has enough power to render high quality gfx in full hd with such kind of 3d technology

good to see that the article has been corrected so there's no more mention about internet cuts
this one should be corrected too : https://www.nintendolife.com/news/2012/11/halting_wii_u_system_update_may_brick_the_system

A drop in internet connection should never be a problem for system update : it's clearly a lame bug from the system.
The correct behavior should be : system detect there's no more connection and it abort the update process in a clean way.

i was expecting "batman arkham city" to have anaglyph/inficolor 3D support on tv screen like on the ps3 version ....

did i miss something or the pro controller has disappeared from the premium zombiu pack ?
in france it not listed in the package, it seems to be only the black wiiu premium + a game

@akabenjy
thats because 3DS only support FAT and not exFAT (default factory format for SDXC cards)
that's a good news, it mean that WII-U will, more than probably, support SDHC/SDXC
now the question is : will WII-U support a filesystem allowing >4GB files ? ntfs, ext, exfat, proprietary one ?
if not, perhaps the games files are sliced in parts under the filesystem limit (like on video-dvd or tricky usb-loaders using fat32)

@akabenjy
filesystem has nothing to do with sd-card capacity, eg : you can format a sd-nonhc card in ntfs or ext-fs and format a sdxc in fat if you want

sdxc cards should work with sdhc interfaces

poor pachter who seems to ignore that everyone will be able to extend the console storage with external hd
hey mr pachter ! the wiiu design allow unlimited additional games purchases

i expect nothing from unity : it is only suitable for phones or browsers games(if you are not too much regarding on the accurateness of the controls), they're not even able to release a linux port

maybe Thursday, we will learn that WiiU will be forbidden in US because of some "rectangular-shape with round edges" patent infringement