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Most of us heard the news this morning that the Wii Forecast Channel launched a wee bit early, so with that, I decided to go ahead and make a quick walkthrough of the whole thing. There's not much to it, but some of the globe and zoom functions are kinda neat. Enjoy!

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dorock's Avatar
dorock at 12/19/2006 11:47
Spiffy, now I see why everyone is talking about the globe feature. Looks freakin sweet.
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Cruds at 12/19/2006 11:47
Would be nice if the showed the forecast in the forecast-icoon on the Wii-channels. Something like ever 10 seconds it goes on to the next day.
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Topher Cantler at 12/19/2006 11:52
What part of Manhattan are you in, Summa? I used to live in Inwood, waaay the fuck uptown.
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World Famous at 12/19/2006 11:55
UWS, in the 80s next to central park.
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JamesSorensen at 12/19/2006 11:57
don't know it just doesn't excite me with the weather channel, it would excite me if i could leave teh blue light on when i play a game.

saw the light on this morning, so figured after work ill turn on teh wii and update (after not being powered on for 2+ weeks )
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Topher Cantler at 12/19/2006 12:04
Cool, same subway line, but I was about 120 streets up, in the land of cheap rent and ugly bridges.
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BlindsideDork at 12/19/2006 12:07
You noticed that when you hit that "Today" button on the bottom it said it was Sunny. So perhaps the day temperature is more accurate than the current.
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Knives at 12/19/2006 12:07
No tj weather u.u .

Oh well, san diego will do.
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World Famous at 12/19/2006 12:11
Ah, yes, you're right blindside. I will change that.
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tim at 12/19/2006 12:39
Hooray, no cancer!
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Tempus at 12/19/2006 12:46
Yeah, no death from cancer today w00tage!
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fromagex at 12/19/2006 13:22
omg! this was the 1st time i ever woke up to the blue light. i was so excited. then, when i found i couldnt get accurate (but close, instead) weather info, i got sad.
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BlindsideDork at 12/19/2006 13:25
That blue light is ALWAYS fun!
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subnet6 at 12/19/2006 13:33
When I checked mine at 9:30 AM, it said the temperature was 17 degrees at 6AM. The temperature had already risen 10 degrees since the 6AM update. If they are going to offer current temps, it will probably need to update more than every 3-4 hours.

Although, I did like how you can change the display on the globe view from todays CURRENT to todays HIGH to tomorrows HIGH to the weather ICON. Nice quick easy way to track systems as they move through.
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subnet6 at 12/19/2006 13:34
Yeah, I dig the blue light as a notifier. I went down to my basement to work out and had no idea until I saw the blue light. I was like, hey, who sent me mail!? And I opened it up and it was Nintendo. Cool.
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electroplankton at 12/19/2006 13:54
The background music is FRACKIN' AWESOME. That is all.
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BlindsideDork at 12/19/2006 14:07
Electroplankton is fricking awesome! Got it with me in my Castlevania 20th anniversary case!
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deanhatescoffee at 12/19/2006 14:41
Summa, you and your Elebits... lol

I actually got 'Bits for Christmas because I figured if it's good enough for my Robby then it's good enough for me. You better be right! :)
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World Famous at 12/19/2006 14:47
I am right. I'm always right.
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bassbeast at 12/19/2006 14:48
I learned that you don't necessarily need to pinch the A and B buttons to move the globe. As long as you're not over a city, the A button does it as well.

It'd be nice if the globe could display weather systems or something like that. Maybe in another firmware update?
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World Famous at 12/19/2006 15:06
I'd like to see some Google Map type function.
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Rainbowblack at 12/19/2006 15:25
omg lookit all those VC games you downloaded IM SO FRIKKIN JEALOUS BECAUSE I HAVE TO WAIT FOR THE DAMN LAN ADAPTER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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bassbeast at 12/19/2006 15:37
Agreed, Rob. Considering they show a google image in teh Wii Ware section of the Shopping area, you'd think they would be licensing some of that tech.
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Sir Jimbob at 12/19/2006 15:53
Why doesn't the info show up in the channel menu, rather than a stupid forecast channel icon, like they showed as a feature in the promo videos?
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Ballistic90 at 12/19/2006 20:55
I think they plan to make updates for this channel. Starting simple, and then adding cities and (hopefully) the info on the channel icon.
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