Feb 25 2008
Wii System Update 3.2 now available
For those of you who don’t currently have your Wii consoles within your field of vision (shame on you!), it’s probably blinking with the call of a Japanese bush warbler. Why? No, it’s not a Check Mii Out Contest, you actually have a new system update waiting for you.
You can check out the full message after the break, but what Update 3.2 essentially does is allow you to update your Wii console before playing a game that requires newer firmware than you currently have. Might this have to do with Nintendo of America trying to avoid the same bug that Japan suffered with the launch of Brawl? (or one of the bugs, anyway…)
We would like to inform you that you can now update your Wii Menu to version 3.2. To do this, please press the Update button at the bottom of your screen.
Once installed, if a Game Disc is inserted into the Wii console and an update is required, a notification message will be displayed across the Disc Channel alerting you to update your system.
If no update is needed, the title of the Game Disc inserted will be displayed.
After February 26th, those who have already done the update will not need to update again.
Thank you for updating your Wii console!
Nintendo
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What happened to Brawl?
It was having some issues loading on the Japanese Wii. The reason is that Brawl is the first dual-layered disk and smoke and dust that had accumulated inside the Wii was giving the laser issues. It would still play the game, but you had to click through an error screen to get to the game.
That’s just one of the issues it was having. Another issue was that the game was forcing players to update their Wii and claiming that it wouldn’t work unless the update that didn’t exist was installed.
In reality, every Brawl owner could bypass the error and play as normal (provided the dust issue wasn’t compounding), but they distributed leaflets with the game at launch just in case players didn’t bother trying to bypass the error.
I was praying (ok, not praying, but hoping) for the Everybody’s Nintendo Channel. I haven’t turned on my DS in awhile - this would give me a perfectly good reason to.
Interesting, Christian. I wonder…Y’know y’all ought to do a write up about the Gamestop Tournaments.
Er, not a write up about it, but…generate interest. I’m encouraging all the Nintendo News Sites too. I want decent players to play against and not children.
@ Kelso
Isn’t there going to be an age requirement at the tournament? The Best Buy tourney was 18 and older.