17th January 2007, 2:01 PM
Quote:ABF the squares are meant to show you that you're in the correct wide screen mode. If you had Wii set to 16:9 but had your wide mode on 4:3 the squares would appear as skinny vertical rectangles. If you had Wii set to 4:3 and your TV on 16:9 mode they would appear as horizontal rectangles. If they're perfect squares, your Wii and TV are in the same wide mode and the correct ratio. Its also used to calibrate gamma and contrast with the designs inside them. Only downside is that you cant calibrate color and tint.
Except I have the GC version, which doesn't support widescreen... (or, in any case, a widescreen TV)
As for the shield, I do wish that they had kept the separate shield button, the auto-shield isn't as good...