New mystery Wii slot

[Ikohn4ever]

I was reading Blogs and came across a picture where new speculation arises. There seems to be a expansion port located at the bottom. It seems to come from a Spanish Forum called Canal Nintendo but the picture has been removed from that forum. The blog where i found it is called Wii-Spain. There is an article in the Blog That i have Translated from Spanish to English.


http://theboard.zogdog.com/index.php?automodule=blog&blogid=11&showentry=1863


when will the mysterious Wii but fully understood?

 

[megaseadramon]

Well its definetly not the SD slot seeing as thats the front. Dought it would be a DS sort of adapter. Perhaps just a future expansion port like the bottom of cube has?

 

[Blues]

I thought this was going to be one of those orange port topics.

 

[elwood731]

Nintendo has the habit of building expansion ports into the bottoms of their systems...just in case. I think they've been there since the SNES, but only been used for the GBA player on GameCube and N64 DD, and that was only in Japan. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I suppose it could connect to the fabled hard drive that's rumored.

 

[Puffa469]

your wrong.

those expansion slots have been on the bottom of Nintendo systems since the NES.


[quote name='elwood731']Nintendo has the habit of building expansion ports into the bottoms of their systems...just in case. I think they've been there since the SNES, but only been used for the GBA player on GameCube and N64 DD, and that was only in Japan. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

I suppose it could connect to the fabled hard drive that's rumored.[/quote]

 

[SpazX]

That's where you put your Wii

 

[David85]

It looks like some cable thing that on computers you attact to other things. I'm hot and no shit about computers so you all.

 

[SpazX]

[quote name='David85']It looks like some cable thing that on computers you attact to other things. I'm hot and no shit about computers so you all. [/quote]

Hahaha, that's ing classic dude, my first sig quote .

 

[epobirs]

By all appearances it's just a location for a standard battery for the system clock. Nintendo wants people to leave their Wii in standby when not playing but realistically a major portion of owners won't do that. Plus losing the time and date settings if there is a power outage is annoying.

 

[Vinny]

[quote name='epobirs']By all appearances it's just a location for a standard battery for the system clock. Nintendo wants people to leave their Wii in standby when not playing but realistically a major portion of owners won't do that. Plus losing the time and date settings if there is a power outage is annoying.[/QUOTE]

I think you misunderstood that.. as long as the Wii is connected to a power source, it's on stand-by. It uses enough power to receive info and store it.

I wonder what it could be for..k

 

[Strell]

Awesome. Awesome awesome awesome.

Now I really can buy two Wiis for the sole purpose of having sex with one of them. Thank you Nintendo. You always put the consumer's best interests first.

 

[epobirs]

[quote name='Vinny']I think you misunderstood that.. as long as the Wii is connected to a power source, it's on stand-by. It uses enough power to receive info and store it.

I wonder what it could be for..k[/QUOTE]

No, I understood it fine.

There have been many articles in recent times about people noticing the amount of power consumed in their homes by devices that are never truly turned off. Pretty much anything that can be remotely made active needs a trickle of power. Collectively this can add up to a notable amount in agadget oriented household. Not enough to pay your kid's tutition but enough to justify having all the stuff on power strips with real on/off switches.

A bigger issue is the guilt factor for people concerned about their contribution to wasted energy production, especially if they believe in human causation of global warming.

Nintendo isn't ignorant of these concerns.

 

[daroga]

[quote name='epobirs']No, I understood it fine.

There have been many articles in recent times about people noticing the amount of power consumed in their homes by devices that are never truly turned off. Pretty much anything that can be remotely made active needs a trickle of power. Collectively this can add up to a notable amount in agadget oriented household. Not enough to pay your kid's tutition but enough to justify having all the stuff on power strips with real on/off switches.

A bigger issue is the guilt factor for people concerned about their contribution to wasted energy production, especially if they believe in human causation of global warming.

Nintendo isn't ignorant of these concerns.[/QUOTE]
But one of those little disc cells isn't nearly enough power to maintain the Wii in a standby mode. Heck, those little batteries can't even keep my Dreamcast on the right day for more than a few months. That being said, this could likely be an easy-access port to change the clock battery. It just has nothing to do with WiiConnect24.

 

[elwood731]

[quote name='Puffa469']your wrong.

those expansion slots have been on the bottom of Nintendo systems since the NES. [/QUOTE]
Oh yeah? I don't remember them on there, but that's interesting. Maybe the Wii will connect with all the other systems through those ports? Maybe that's how their "Virtual Console" works

 

[David85]

[quote name='SpazX']Hahaha, that's ing classic dude, my first sig quote .[/QUOTE]


Thank you, thanks you!

If you use it as a quote I want $200 otherwise it's stealing.

In short it looks like something to connect to a computer.

 

[Vinny]

[quote name='epobirs']No, I understood it fine.

There have been many articles in recent times about people noticing the amount of power consumed in their homes by devices that are never truly turned off. Pretty much anything that can be remotely made active needs a trickle of power. Collectively this can add up to a notable amount in agadget oriented household. Not enough to pay your kid's tutition but enough to justify having all the stuff on power strips with real on/off switches.

A bigger issue is the guilt factor for people concerned about their contribution to wasted energy production, especially if they believe in human causation of global warming.

Nintendo isn't ignorant of these concerns.[/QUOTE]

Ok, whatever you say.

 

[epobirs]

[quote name='daroga']But one of those little disc cells isn't nearly enough power to maintain the Wii in a standby mode. Heck, those little batteries can't even keep my Dreamcast on the right day for more than a few months. That being said, this could likely be an easy-access port to change the clock battery. It just has nothing to do with WiiConnect24.[/QUOTE]


I think I made it clear it wouldn't be for standby mode. Just for the clock/calendar, which in a PC can be maintained for years by such a battery. Sega tended to have very bad implementations of their SRAM, which is why I soon learned that a Saturn save game had to be on a flash cart if you really wanted it to be there when you came back to the game.

Keep in mind that there are multiple power levels for standby. PCs have long had a 'Wake on LAN' feture that allows a PC to use just enough power to receive an Ethernet frame that causes a bootup. This bootup state doesn't require the PC to be fully active. Just enough for IT personnel to remotely do whatever they need to do. A casual observer would believe the PC to be entirely turned off until the hard drive and fan noise kicked in. This is more than a little valuable when a corporate campus is measured in square miles or might be hundreds of miles away.

The WOL can be found on most motherboards in the form of a three-pin connector adjacent to one of the PCI slots.

Similarly, a Wii in deep standby can maintain its clock and just enough awareness to bring the system up to a more active state if a remote network signal is received. Having more than one standby state can keep the power draw down considerably and win Nintendo good PR in regard to a growing issue. This remote access state of the Wii would still use much less power since portions of the chipset would be unused and could remain in standby while the rest became active.

Don't forget that this isn't necessarily an expendable battery. It could be a rechargeable intended to maintain the system at its most minimal state for days to weeks at a time. A Wii that goes longer than that with no external power source will need its clock rest on the next use but that isn't unusual in consoles.

 

[epobirs]

[quote name='elwood731']Oh yeah? I don't remember them on there, but that's interesting. Maybe the Wii will connect with all the other systems through those ports? Maybe that's how their "Virtual Console" works [/QUOTE]

What would be the point of the VC if you needed the original hardware to use it? The idea is to get people to buy the games anew, not cruise thrift shops for old carts. People who still have the old machines around likely have most of the games they ever wanted for them by now.

The bus connector is just a way to allow for add-ons that weren't already in the works when the system shipped, just like card slots in a PC. On the SNEs the connector would have been used with the SNES CD and Satellview, along with a passthrough cart. On the N64 in Japan, as mentioned, the connector served the 64DD add-on drive.

For the Wii, it would probably make more sense to use the USB ports for a hard drive add-on. From it becomes a question of Nintendo's DRM requirements and how that affects user supplied storage. SD cards have DRM support built-in but the system used was cracked a long time ago and would be just a token measure, like WEP on a WiFi network.