I decided I wanted to play NES Metroid today. Once that would've meant pirating a ROM, firing up an emulator, and wrestling with my lousy USB controller. Now, in the era of Wii-- hey! I can just go download it all legal-like.

So I fire up the Shopping Channel to buy me some Metroid, and ... oh, look! I can't download it, because Wii needs 95 blocks of internal system free. Back to the Wii menu, into data management...

First I delete some stuff I bought for review purposes that sucked. That takes me to... 92 blocks free. Magnificent. So, I yank my SD HD card out of my camera, a bad boy with 4 gigs of storage space.

Oh, but wait! My Wii can't recognize SD HD cards! I'd have to go out and buy, presumably, a small crappy $20 SD card for Wii use. Awesome! Nintendo is penalizing me for not liking low-capacity storage media.

The SD cards Nintendo seems to insist are the cheap and easy way to store Wii DLs are already lousy out-of-date technology I'm not interested in owning. Give us a real storage solution, Nintendo, an external hard drive or SDHD support or something practical.

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Xander_RKos

It doesn't recognize SD HD? That does suck...thankfully I got one of those crappy $20 SD cards (originally for my camera).

Blackbolt

Maybe you should go back to pirating...Just kidding!

You are not the first to complain of the so called "storage problem". Nor will it be the last. I don't know why Nintendo is taking so long to solve the problem. It's a very simple solution.

Patch up the Wii and use the USB ports to read flash drives or create a cheap portable hard drives. I just don't understand why they are just sitting on their pile of money.

Personally, I hate SD cards. It's a horrible storage medium. Everything today has USB ports and everybody has flash drives today, so why not use them.

masterhibb

I had to clean my fridge the other day, and believe me, the SD card is not the way to go anyway. You've probably heard this already, but it really is a lot faster to just delete the old games and re-download them when you want them again. You can't play off of your SD cards anyway, and there is something seriously wrong with their SD drivers, because it is excruciatingly, painfully slow to transfer anything to the card. It took me at least 10 minutes to transfer Sin & Punishment to SD; It's just not worth it.

Xander_RKos

Yeah...the whole delete and re-download thing is probably the way to go...that's what I did with Lost Winds and Star Fox 64.

Einherjar

I've had to do quite a lot of cleaning myself. It was terrible when it was just Virtual Console... but with the Wiiware out as well, it's just over the top. I can't keep more then a couple of Virtual Console games on my Wii without meeting the dreaded space crunch, and that really hurts the whole "pick up and play" aspect of it.

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