13th November 2007, 3:52 PM
http://wii.nintendo.com/photo_channel.jsp
Seems like Nintendo is adding AAC format music support to the photo channel. Interesting. Also they are taking out MP3 support. Hmm? That's kinda dumb. I wonder why? Did they run out of space in the firmware rewritable flash or something? I was actually hoping they'd add a proper MP3 player mode to the thing instead of taking it out completely. In fact in my secret dreams I had hoped for XBox style music replacing in games with MP3s. Or, with level editing those could be imported into custom levels along with images for texture files. Those are the duller dreams though, because to be honest I almost never use that feature anyway, and I play my music on my PSP or PC, not my consoles.
All in all, a bit of a shame, and a kinda bizarre move on Nintendo's part, but really I never used MP3 playback in that form anyway. Partly because I never really use the photo channel... that thing looked a lot cooler in video but then I realized it isn't actually a game and moved on to Twilight Princess.
Seems like Nintendo is adding AAC format music support to the photo channel. Interesting. Also they are taking out MP3 support. Hmm? That's kinda dumb. I wonder why? Did they run out of space in the firmware rewritable flash or something? I was actually hoping they'd add a proper MP3 player mode to the thing instead of taking it out completely. In fact in my secret dreams I had hoped for XBox style music replacing in games with MP3s. Or, with level editing those could be imported into custom levels along with images for texture files. Those are the duller dreams though, because to be honest I almost never use that feature anyway, and I play my music on my PSP or PC, not my consoles.
All in all, a bit of a shame, and a kinda bizarre move on Nintendo's part, but really I never used MP3 playback in that form anyway. Partly because I never really use the photo channel... that thing looked a lot cooler in video but then I realized it isn't actually a game and moved on to Twilight Princess.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)