1st February 2013, 10:43 AM
Addendum: My friend got a new HDTV, and as described above, it has no latency issues on HDMI. This is good as there's a surround sound system in the mix there too.
There was an issue with transferring data from the Wii to the Wii U. Purchased software wouldn't start correctly, requiring their deletion and reinstallation (the saved data would be unaffected). An update appears to have fixed this. When my friend was transferring data, instead of actually copying over the program data itself, it downloads all those programs again during the second step onto the Wii U. This also speeds things up notably, but as you can imagine only works when you have an internet connection. If you do not, it will still transfer the saved data. Since it is a fresh download, system specific game identifiers are recreated so the games work fine.
Unfortunately, the bigger problem, the need to boot into the old OS to launch Wii programs at all, still isn't resolved. This is rather annoying, considering that I never needed to boot into the DS or DSi OS in order to launch those games on my 3DS.
There was an issue with transferring data from the Wii to the Wii U. Purchased software wouldn't start correctly, requiring their deletion and reinstallation (the saved data would be unaffected). An update appears to have fixed this. When my friend was transferring data, instead of actually copying over the program data itself, it downloads all those programs again during the second step onto the Wii U. This also speeds things up notably, but as you can imagine only works when you have an internet connection. If you do not, it will still transfer the saved data. Since it is a fresh download, system specific game identifiers are recreated so the games work fine.
Unfortunately, the bigger problem, the need to boot into the old OS to launch Wii programs at all, still isn't resolved. This is rather annoying, considering that I never needed to boot into the DS or DSi OS in order to launch those games on my 3DS.
"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)