Wii U Update 4.0 Out

[Xexyz]

Wait what? How the deuce does that that work!?

It streams vWii to gamepad.

 

[kristianity77]

Wait, I got a legit question: will Wii games actually look better on the WiiU gamepad? Games like Skyward Sword turn into a pixelated mess because of the Wii's poor video resolution, but I was wondering if the smaller screen would somehow benefit the games better.

They of course wont technically be any better. But squashing that image down onto a 6 inch screen will certainly make things "appear" sharper and more defined thats for sure.

Take the Vita for example. Uncharted on that 5 inch screen sure looks nice doesnt it, yet IIRC that game is rendered at 720x408, which is less than a typical Wii game....

 

[Motobug]

I just thought about something. Remember how nintendo wanted us to move our VC games to the Wii U versions for the second screen? That's kinda pointless now, as we have the second screen now.

 

[picano]

Wait what? How the deuce does that that work!?

At the screen where it normally asks you to point and click with a wiimote, it now has two selectable options: On TV or On TV & Gamepad.

There is no difference in handling of controls, gamepad controls are inoperable (it will flash a message saying so), but you can use its sensor bar.

 

[the_randomizer]

It streams vWii to gamepad.

That's what I thought, but too bad it wouldn't work with VC games or the HBC lol. Does it at least work with the old Virtual Console stuff?

I just thought about something. Remember how Nintendo wanted us to move our VC games to the Wii U versions for the second screen? That's kinda pointless now, as we have the second screen now.

Huh, yeah, I mean, do VC games even stream in vWii mode? The upgrade version has better control options and save states. I wish the HBC would stream lol.

 

[Clarky]

I just thought about something. Remember how nintendo wanted us to move our VC games to the Wii U versions for the second screen? That's kinda pointless now, as we have the second screen now.

You miss out on save states and using the game pad as a controller for vc games though

 

[the_randomizer]

You miss out on save states and using the game pad as a controller for vc games though

Okay, so it acts as a second screen, which is cool, but you pretty much still use the classic controller or wiimote, etc? What about HBC, that doesn't stream does it or since it uses some other iOS, no HBC stream?

 

[picano]

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That's what I thought, but too bad it wouldn't work with VC games or the HBC lol. Does it at least work with the old Virtual Console stuff?




Huh, yeah, I mean, do VC games even stream in vWii mode? The upgrade version has better control options and save states. I wish the HBC would stream lol.

VC and HBC stream fine ... though HBC seems to revert to 4:3 display.

 

[the_randomizer]

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VC and HBC stream fine ... though HBC seems to revert to 4:3 display.

That's really cool that HBC gets steamed, so I can use emulators, etc on there. That's nucking futs man. That's gonna take a million years to download on my connection though I thought the Wii mode didn't have enough available memory to stream AV data to the game pad. Still, that's neat. Hey, with Wii64, we can finally run it on the game pad without using Nintendo's paltry 21 N64 games lol.

 

[loco365]

I found that the aspect ratio settings in the Wii U settings affect the size of the screen on the Gamepad. Kind of annoying, but oh well. Is it possible to run the vWii with the gamepad without hooking it up to a TV?

Also madworld on a gamepad because yes.

 

[Xexyz]

I found that the aspect ratio settings in the Wii U settings affect the size of the screen on the Gamepad. Kind of annoying, but oh well. Is it possible to run the vWii with the gamepad without hooking it up to a TV?

Also madworld on a gamepad because yes.

Does the gamepad act as sensor bar?

 

[the_randomizer]

I found that the aspect ratio settings in the Wii U settings affect the size of the screen on the Gamepad. Kind of annoying, but oh well. Is it possible to run the vWii with the gamepad without hooking it up to a TV?

Also madworld on a gamepad because yes.

Can't 16:9 be forced on vWii as well as game pad? Either way, it's one helluva update, finally, we can play N64 games on there without waiting for Nintendo to release them Sure, you have to use a Wii controller, but still, pretty awesome running unofficial emulators on there

Wasn't running the game pad in Wii mode deemed "impossible"?

 

[loco365]

Does the gamepad act as sensor bar?

If you look at the photo, on each side of the camera, there's a white dot. From previous experience, IR can show up on a camera. I've never seen those dots, which means, there are IR sensors in the gamepad. That's how it tracks the controller.

 

[nukeboy95]

Does the gamepad act as sensor bar?

the gamepad has a built in sensor bar

you can see the sensor in Team Fail's pic

 

[Xexyz]

If you look at the photo, on each side of the camera, there's a white dot. From previous experience, IR can show up on a camera. I've never seen those dots, which means, there are IR sensors in the gamepad. That's how it tracks the controller.

I saw those but I was unsure.

EDIT: Why is the pic such a HUGE resolution?
2560x1920!!!

 

[the_randomizer]

If you look at the photo, on each side of the camera, there's a white dot. From previous experience, IR can show up on a camera. I've never seen those dots, which means, there are IR sensors in the gamepad. That's how it tracks the controller.

Man, this is the first time I've been excited for a firmware update, because it doesn't kill homebrew but allows it to be played off-screen. Nice, nice indeed. Only issue is waiting for the download, my connection sucks lol.

 

[loco365]

So holding B will make it default to TV and Gamepad when starting it up. Awesome. I now have a complete replacement for a legal Wii.

(Not gonna jailbreak vWii because I kept my old Wii)

 

[2ndApex]

Wow this is actually amazing.

Picked up a Zelda 3DS 1/2 Black Fridays ago and it looks like I'll be picking up a Wii U this year

 

[the_randomizer]

So holding B will make it default to TV and Gamepad when starting it up. Awesome. I now have a complete replacement for a legal Wii.

(Not gonna jailbreak vWii because I kept my old Wii)

That is even more awesome, so I don't even need to turn the TV on when someone else uses it . Wow. Quite the firmware update, and though big, still smaller then than the Monster Hunter 3 demo (which was around 800 MB). Maybe someday it will be possible to use the game pad controls for using it, but for now, need to simply prop it up and use the classic controller.

 

[DonkulousPrime]

With the sensor bar in the pad, it seems as though Nintendo had this update in mind from day 1, too bad it took this long. lol Happy we're here though and looking forward to the next VC update.