Wii Menu update 3.2 now available – What does it do?
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 at 7:48am by David
Your Wii’s slot may be flashing blue today. There’s a new Wii Menu update, version 3.2, now available. According to Nintendo’s site:
This update does not affect any prominently-used features or menus; however it does provide some behind the scenes updates that will improve system performance.
So, uh, yeah .. let us know if you notice any performance improvements!
February 26th, 2008 at 8:09 am
The message from Nintendo mentions that, if you insert a game and an update is needed it will be displayed on the channel before you start the game. If no update is needed then then games icon will be show in the channel.
February 26th, 2008 at 8:59 am
After completing the update a message was shown stating that there were new parental controls under the system options.
Other speculation is that this closes the recently discovered vulnerability where you could hack a Twilight Princess save file to make Epona’s user entered name too long and thus run arbitrary code on the Wii. I have no way of knowing if thats the case or not, we’ll just have to wait and see.
I haven’t heard this anywhere else, but I speculate it is an update that is necessary to run Brawl. I remember reading something about how the game wouldn’t work on some Japanese systems until an update was performed.
All in all, nothing big.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:15 am
Wrong. Sly Nintendo left out the best new feature: single person online voice chat!
I can now safely and securely talk to myself while playing online. I don’t even need a headset!
February 26th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I think Joe and Jack both nailed it.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:13 am
Maybe I missed the boat on this, but when I checked the Wii Shop Channel it said there was an update for that available. Is this possibly related?
February 26th, 2008 at 10:14 am
^Whoops, sorry, I meant to say an update for the Check Mii Out channel.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:40 am
Maybe this was to fix that Twilight Princess hack? i dk, I didn’t update yet tho.
February 26th, 2008 at 10:56 am
Feels like Nintendo needs a blog, so thousands of us can post a comment and ask WTF?!?!?
February 26th, 2008 at 11:24 am
“After completing the update a message was shown stating that there were new parental controls under the system options.”
Not “new”, I don’t think. EVERY time you update the system, it reminds you that there are parental controls, and I’m pretty sure this message was the same as every single other time I’ve updated the system.
February 26th, 2008 at 12:14 pm
Is it just me or does the channel icons appear a bit more sleek when compared to before the update?
February 26th, 2008 at 1:20 pm
My Wii’s slot is ALWAYS glowing ever since I subscribed to the “Check Mii Out” channel…
February 26th, 2008 at 4:21 pm
@ InvisibleMan
Yeah, I hate how I think I got a message from my friend, or a system update, but its just a stupid check Mii out channel message
February 26th, 2008 at 4:56 pm
@ InvisibleMan
You’re not the only one. I was wondering what the heck that was.
February 26th, 2008 at 9:14 pm
@Kingbad and others .. you can turn off the Check Mii Out channel messages. Next time you get one, there’s an “no more emails about Check Mii Out” icon that appears when you read those messages. I’m getting pretty tempted to turn that one off. I wish they’d email me when there are new polls to vote on, though!
February 27th, 2008 at 7:15 am
@Invisibleman:
You can select “unsubscribe,” ‘yaknow!
February 27th, 2008 at 9:27 am
I think this is a preemptive patch to prevent the boot bug that Japan experienced with SSBB that was not a huge deal and by using the workaround provided by Nintendo did not prevent the the game from being played, but put a scare to some.