Knibble.com has been getting a little bit of buzz in the last few days for releasing “5000 Flash games for the Wii”, at wii.knibble.com. I’ve always figured that a small industry of Flash games targeted specifically to the Wii would develop over the next few years, since there a so many Wii’s happily integrated into living rooms all over the world. The market is there to be filled, it’s just a matter of someone working make a decent product. Take for example my favorite Flash application specifically designed for the Wii, moowee.tv. The interface of this social video application fills up the screen nicely on the Wii, doesn’t require any zooming in a out, allows control via Wii Remote buttons and just works.
There were four Virtual Console releases in the Australian Wii shop this week … but one that matters more than most …. Wave Race 64 !!
Other regions have had this game for a while, so it’s nice that Australian Wii owners finally have the chance to play it. Wave Race 64 was a release title for the original Nintendo 64, and is considered a classic in terms of playability.
The blue slot light on my Wii was flashing this morning … I turned it on, checked the message board with excitement … and … all that was waiting was another Wii system update. This is the second system update pushed out by Nintendo in about a week, hot on the heels of the recent Wii system update to version 3.0.
According to Nintendo, no real new features here, but they claim to have fixed problems with LAN adapters that they broke in the upgrade to version 3.0, and have fixed ‘hangs’ in the Internet Channel.
I always find the Internet Channel cannot play Flash videos longer than about 10 mins .. I wonder if this update fixes it ? Or does it fix the Flash player ‘crash’ bug uncovered by Symantec, that some have speculated could be exploited for running homebrew Wii software ?
I hope this will not become a recurring pattern of “ship update, break (or worse brick) some Wii’s, ship update for the broken update”.
