Wii now runs things stored on SD

[0iD]

http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/wi...red-on-sd-card

Nintendo has updated the Wii system software with the ability to download games directly to - and run them from - SD cards, and now supports SD cards larger than 2GB.

Although save-game data must be stored on the Wii, any channel - Nintendo's umbrella term for Virtual Console and WiiWare games, and other bits of software like the weather pages - should run from SD.

The line-up of content stored on your SD card is visible once you click a new "SD" icon in the bottom left of the Wii system software homepage, with up to 20 pages (240 titles) to fill.

Good for some of the older NES & N64 games

[finlay666]

What do you recon there will be a new jailbreak method for playign imported games or homebrew now?

(If there is I fancy giving it a shot to run the uni project I did from last year to see how it looks )

[0iD]

Hexus playing catch-up
http://gaming.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=17781
http://forums.hexus.net/gaming-news/...-solution.html

[Knoxville]

Good news

[Goost]

Not as if I couldn't already
But anyway, it's a good development I guess

[Cap'n Sharkbait]

Running games from an SD card... Just seems like they've dropped their guard, here come the pirates. And not the nice kind like me, I'm talking the dirty robbin' thievin' kind.

[Agent]

Pirates have been doing things like this for a long time already though!

[finlay666]

Running games from an SD card... Just seems like they've dropped their guard, here come the pirates. And not the nice kind like me, I'm talking the dirty robbin' thievin' kind.

Well, you can run them from an external hard drive now too according to some sites, and it isn't a new thing, just more 'mainstream' now you can use SDHCs in the Wii

[pulverizerlinus]

That will make getting games a lot easier, but pirates will probably have the time of their life now unless Nintendo has some surefire way to protect against it.