Topic: Everyone, man your F5 keys. It's time for another Nintendo Conference & Reveal

[Protoman Blues]

Nah, next comes The Legend of Zelda: Spectral Shuttlecrafts.

LINK. IN. SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCEEEEE!

[Pringer X]

More like "All aboard the Cole Train baby!"

Seriously, am I like the only one that got that joke in my head first? <.<

[STM]

I imagine the flash memory in the Wii has at least a decent read/write number before it begins to go bad (or else I'm convinced Nintendo's crack team of tech monkeys are retarded as hell.) You shouldn't worry too much... just know the potential risk of using the feature a lot.

[VixyNyan]

I had my Wii since Japanese Brawl, so I think the flash memory will last longer than the Wii's on launch day (I hope). ^^

[Jericho]

Nah, next comes The Legend of Zelda: Spectral Shuttlecrafts.

LINK. IN. SPAAAAAAAAAAAAAACCEEEEE!

[tornado fang] this, the collective and I have come to the agreement that the next Zelda needs blimps.

[Pringer X]

I imagine the flash memory in the Wii has at least a decent read/write number before it begins to go bad (or else I'm convinced Nintendo's crack team of tech monkeys are retarded as hell.) You shouldn't worry too much... just know the potential risk of using the feature a lot.

Wait, what? what's this about the memory now?

[Kieran]

Bleeeeeh.  I gave up on Phantom Hourglass halfway through.  There's no way I'm going to touch this new one.

[Hypershell]

Wait, what? what's this about the memory now?

ANY flash memory has a limited number of rewrites that can be done before it starts to crap out (at this point, you can no longer write to it, but the existing data can still be read).  That includes the Wii's internal flash.  Obviously it takes a long, long time for this to happen, but the concern is that since playing games off the SD card actually copies them into the Wii's flash for your play session, people who use the feature a lot are liable to speed up the "decay" of their memory, so to speak.

Eh, not like I care.  With how often I play Brawl I'm sure my launch flash will crap out soon enough anyway.

[Kieran]

What's Brawl got to do with it?  Does it write to the flash really often?

[Hypershell]

Pictures, stages, replays, records, all that jazz?  Yeah, plenty of writing there.

Come to think of it, with how often scores and records are updated in virtually any game, the concern is kind of rubbish anyway.  The Wii doesn't erase a "temporary" VC file written to its memory until you choose to play a different one off the SD card, so you're not really increasing wear-and-tear on the memory unless you're constantly switching games.

[Protoman Blues]

What's Brawl got to do with it? 

WHAAAAT'S BRAWL? BUT A SECOND HAND IN MOTION!
What's Brawl got to do with it? Got to do with it?
WHO NEEDS A HEART, WHEN A HEART CAN BE SO CHEAP!

[Kieran]

You're a sick man, PB.