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#180339 Which Wii U Do You Have?
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on 07 March 2013 - 02:31 PM
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#178996 Reductio ad Dreamcast
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on 04 March 2013 - 11:54 AM
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Nintendo is like apple and is sitting on a hefty bank account
#178994 Reductio ad Dreamcast
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on 04 March 2013 - 11:51 AM
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Xlink kia still has servers made up for it
#178149 Activision "Very upset" with sales for Black Ops II for the Wii U.
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on 02 March 2013 - 05:40 AM
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I blame Activision for being greedy they tried forcing us to by early or two copies different consoles and we won't get nuke. They basically boned Nintendo on this by not including nuke town. The way they approached this in sales was oh everyone only owns one console. When really they own 2 or more when they play games like cod. If they would have included nuke town in Wii u version I would have waited. Bit since they didn't i got it for another console and I don't even play it
#176740 Wii U gamepad for $140?
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on 26 February 2013 - 03:23 PM
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There also may be a game update for Mario to allow two players to use a pad
#171357 EA CEO says Wii-U is not in part of their next gen console plans
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on 14 February 2013 - 04:38 AM
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I'm not gonna lie that report sounds fishy to me like a reporter miss understood or is just a trollin garden monkey meat wackerOh and one more thing. If the used games market ever leaves we will start seeing demos but not gonna lie a demo doesn't really make me want to buy the game at full price... Game sales for consoles without that ability to trade are going to drop unless they provide digital games for 20 bucks cheaper
Pretty sure they were just riding Nintendo well trying to at least so they could get origin on a console too bad no one likes it
#169130 Ways to boost Wii U sales without a price cut!
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on 09 February 2013 - 06:02 AM
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I personally buy external drives normally because I have found it to be cheaper than buying a regular drive and the I can turn around and sell the enclosure
#166805 Wii U found one!But
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on 04 February 2013 - 08:16 AM
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#166797 Wii U found one!But
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on 04 February 2013 - 06:20 AM
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Yeah if you want call nintendo and have them chdck the serial out its on the box and on the console dont take his word make sure you preform that step. Meet in a public place during busy hours just incase he trys to mug you
Meet at a gaming storw or something that way it can be plugged in.
Have someone go with you as well
#166116 Iwata: "More unannounced Wii U games coming at the end of the year."
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on 02 February 2013 - 07:42 PM
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#165398 First Update
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on 01 February 2013 - 04:58 AM
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Yeah dial-up sucks for gaming...Mine took 7 HOURS to complete.
#165179 Gamepad looses full charge after a few weeks.
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on 31 January 2013 - 08:06 AM
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#165169 Iwata says he may resign if they don't make 100billion yen in profit this...
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on 31 January 2013 - 07:32 AM
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#165167 Iwata says he may resign if they don't make 100billion yen in profit this...
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on 31 January 2013 - 07:29 AM
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#164532 wii u issue
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on 29 January 2013 - 08:36 AM
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#164527 Have you had experience disconnecting external HDD?
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on 29 January 2013 - 08:11 AM
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If you put a 1v battery in its place the light is dimmer. The longevity of the light being on maybe the same because the mA burn at the same rate but the light fails to produce the correct brightness because its underpowered. Basically if you underpower a drive it will function slower or possibly not function at all or loose power. Im literally just trying to get him a set up that will work best. From what I recall the usb ports on the wii u are slightly underpowered causing these issues. To have his 2.5 work for sure he would need to match the mA or the drive to the wii u mA which is 500mA depending on the resistors leeway inside so if the drive requires 1.1mA just barely out of reach of two ports you will run into that issue of the drive turning off or not properly spinning up
#164467 Have you had experience disconnecting external HDD?
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on 29 January 2013 - 01:56 AM
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When u run a drive at 10v you forfeit the drives write and read speeds the drive also runs at a lower rpm in order too accommodate for the voltage loss when a sata drive is put in sata 6 and or slave mode or masters on a 10v circuit the drive runs the risk of not maintaining a proper reading speed thus showing it being disconnected. On a 12v circuit the drive speed maintains optimal read and right speeds all hdd are built for 12v
As for the hdd with yhe built in usb connector I believe its called pdi or something for those there is nothing that can be done but those should work no matter what since its built with that in mind
#164442 wii U hd wind waker is now pre orderable at Gamestop
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on 29 January 2013 - 12:26 AM
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Just notice I posted this in the wrong section if a mod would please move this topic for me please.
#164439 Have you had experience disconnecting external HDD?
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on 29 January 2013 - 12:22 AM
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On a harddrive by where the sata connections are there is a little 4 to 8 prong selector
http://www.google.co...biw=360&bih=615
the drive should show u what the settings are sometimes its printed directly on the circuit board. it needs to be set to master most or the time in externals there isnt a pin connector with the drive which makes it defalt to cable select in which we dont want.
Sorry about not direct linking the picture im on a cell phone typing this
#164344 Have you had experience disconnecting external HDD?
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on 28 January 2013 - 07:59 PM
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the whole eco friendly thing was created for the hibernation feature that pcs use. not to many people actually use it.
#164214 Have you had experience disconnecting external HDD?
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on 28 January 2013 - 02:22 PM
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Do you have all game data copied over?Mine uses 2usb ports and I've never had a problem since day one.
All hdd main operating level is at 12v... im not saying they cant operate at 5v just they operate better at 12vAgain, I'm pretty sure ALL external HDDs turn off the drive when its not in use as most HDDs do that automatically, its just when in a normal PC they are rarely left idle long enough.
Mine is a Seagate desktop drive in a PlusCom caddy, it turns off, but its only given me that error once as I mentioned above so I think it was just USB connector being knocked.
Also there are plenty of people using USB powered drives that works absolutely fine. With both USB cables plugged in, it shouldn't be any different to having it externally powered (which few 2.5" externals are as USB 3.0 has enough power with one cable and the Y adapters work fine for older USB).
Also the PSU the external comes with is also irrelevant, as it should come with whatever voltage it needs. If its designed for 9.5V and you plug in 12V, you are going to fry something, either the caddy electronics or that AND the HDD.
A 2.5" HDD certainly doesn't need 12V, they only ever use 5V.
As for hdd i wasnt meaning for him to plug in a 12v into a 9.5v i was stating it would be best for him to change the enclosure to fit best operating levels.
The Y cable wont always solve it. Believe me i tried. Then i just when with PC Power specs and now it works perfectly the normal voltage for the HDD on usb is 5V using a Y cable increases the Power to 10V but still peek operating levels are at 12V which would be the best way
If you are using to much power drain on the HDD it will cause it to drop out when using a Y Cable
And as for the USB3.0 the power that is given to the device is dedicated by the power source not the cable in which all usb ports on the Wii U are 2.0 which are 2.0
Im literally just trying to get this guy the best quality he can get that way he wont have any issues to come
also check the drives RPM and see what its rated at as well that will change the amount of mA needed to run the drive
with the right specs you can basically make any encloser work on it
#164195 Have you had experience disconnecting external HDD?
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on 28 January 2013 - 01:43 PM
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the drive i found that works best are the seagate free agents im using a 3tb housing and a 1tb drive inside its a usb 3.0 drive with dedicated external power source
if it is a wall powered external hdd make sure its a 12v plug that it came with. I had a wall powered one that was a 9.5v hdd and it didnt work. make sure the enclosure supports 12v as well dont just go plugging a 12v cable into a 9.5v or whatever v device or you will fry it.
a 3.5 and a 2.5 hdd needs a minimum of 12v to be powered correctly to not cause drop outs these drop outs cause that screen. Basically dont get any Eco Friendly drives because they have an automatic power saving mode which turns off the drive when its not being wrote or read.
oh and eco friendly drives inside as well is a no go
#164051 How to make wii U new and shiny once again *Update
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on 28 January 2013 - 04:39 AM
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#163648 Can the Wii U support Frostbite 2
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on 27 January 2013 - 10:13 AM
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you are quite correct being that they are both built into eachotherand if im not mistaken, its my understanding that (basically without going into the details and specs) the Wii U's gaming performance is going off of its GPU primarily than the CPU, correct me if im wrong though... The gpu in the Wii U is actually quite nice and powerful.
#163523 DO NOT put External HD USB 3.0 close to Wii U
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on 26 January 2013 - 08:31 PM
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