HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH.....(takes breath) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA

Awesome.

Besides being a nice April Fool's joke, it also really shows they are confident with the path their company is taking.

So much doom and gloom, yet Nintendo finds a way to turn it around and laugh about it.

Respect.

I think it was fan made.

Should have checked the link  

Ah well, if so, then it's still a nice joke and I still agree with the message ^^.

For sure, awesome joke, it would have been awesome if Nintendo did it themselves, but I think that we'd see it from Reggie before Iwata-san.  Something along the lines of, "the Wii U's body wasn't ready for the power we wanted to put into it, so now we have for you the Super Wii U, and along with all that extra power comes a fully rendered facsimile of yourself to guide you in Super WIi Fit U!  Pikmin will come off the screen and attack creatures in your living room, and the upcoming title, Super New Super Mario Brothers U 2, will feature a fully photorealistic environment and characters.

I want two of them hooked up together, so I can get the two kinect's to fight over my TV, which will probably end in the universe exploding into EPIC dudebroedness.

Zelda 1

I recognize the DorothyII avatar...

LMAO

In New Zealand, there are no land snakes. Heard that one on the radio, lol.

Poor guy, I've known that feeling for the past few years. I would have more
Pretty ladies if I was a jacka**, but I would hate myself so it's not worth it.

You don't have to be a jacka**, you just have to be assertive. Men are just as responsible for the friendzone as women. If you never level with them and tell them, in words, how you feel, you won't get anywhere with romantic gestures.

Zelda 25th Anniversary Main Theme Medley.

sarsperilla is a very old soda pop sort of like root beer! I like the sound of it and at the time a was a little kid so I spelled it the way I felt like. Thats the story of how I got MrSazperilla!

Sarsaparilla in the US is root beer for all intents and purposes.

I don't even really know where I conceived Trite...

 

I think I was trying to think of the most originally unoriginal name in existence... and that's where Trite came from, I suppose.

Fortunately Trite is not a trite alias. 

First my name was Mr.Saturn90 named after a character from my favorite RPG Earthbound. I later dropped the 90 from my name and became simply Mr.Saturn. Then I went emo and changed my name to FallenSaturn and now since everyone always called me Saturn my name is simply Saturn now.

Very interesting story RB. I like it.

You should see the plaque my platoon made for me when I left.  The title read "Corporal Routerbad" and the message was attached to the motherboard of a bad router, lol.

Sounds like one of the classic memories that stick forever.

The Marine Corps is full of those, both good and bad.

Mine comes from a fantasy series by Steven erikson called The Malazan book of the fallen. It's an epic 10 book series which if your into fantasy is a must read. The 777 comes from a special date of birth.

I stopped on Deadhouse Gates, started reading Wizard's First Rule, book 1 in the Sword of Truth series.

My username comes from a something I was called early on in my Marine Corps career. I was performing an op-check (checking all of the components for functionality, running test configs on routers and servers to make sure all of the components worked correctly) on one of our DDS (Data Distribution System - basically a military network in a box) suites. Everything checked out in my DDS suite but the router (a Cisco 4000 series, if memory serves) would not boot. The NVMEM component was toast. On my op-check folder I marked in comments "router bad" and turned the book into our inventory NCO.

The next day when the Corporal came in and started checking the op-check logs he paused for a moment and barked at me to come over. When I got there he asked if my signature on the form was in fact mine. It was. He then, making sure everyone could overhear in the shop, said "routerbad?! Thats some **** a third grader would say f***nu*s! Are you a f**ing third grader devil dog?!"

From then on out, every morning when I delivered the appropriate greeting of the day "Good Morning, Corporal" he would respond "Good Morning, PFC Routerbad!" and it didn't take long for everyone in the entire squadron to catch on to it.

That was about 11 years ago, and I'm still Routerbad, though one of my peers when I was a seargent wanted it changed to wordpad, it never stuck quite as well. A google search only references me.

EDIT: Just as an additional FYI, when he called me Routerbad, he said it like you would expect a third grader to, in a high pitched, slightly slurred accent.

2 year old necro, nice.

Whats up with boicejupepect's post lol.

 

He was indeed hired by Microsoft after he made numerous Nintendo Wii Mote/Sensorbar videos.

 

It always surprised me that Nintendo never did anything with this, and even more so when they announced that they put a sensor bar in the Wii U Gamepad.

I was convinced they were going to come out with glasses free 3D for a home console. (Made a post about it here somewhere as well, back when it was still called Project Café)

It's still possible as all the material is there, here's hoping they'll drop this bomb at E3 or its an added feature in the summer patch ^^

Now that would be a show stopper, but I have to remain skeptical.

You all do know he worked at MS and built the Kinect right?

Got ACNL this weekend at best buy.

Picked these up today, strat guide was a penny, also preordered WWHD, splinter cell, w101, pikmin3, watchdogs

Great game! My wife and I each have a copy and love it. Good to see you on the forums again, hope all is coming along well after your accident.

I'm loving it as well.  Simply a fun game that you can play in bits and pieces, without requiring a big time commitment.  Although FE:A is still getting played until the batteries die.  I'm about twenty hours into that now, and on Chapter 12.

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Gameboy Color

I just encountered a strange Wii U networking issue.

I was trying to watch something on Netflix yesterday and noticed it was stuck on Medium SD quality after previously being on Medium HD quality. So I finally decided to order a Wii LAN adapter to see if it would help. It arrived today and its the strangest thing, as now Netflix is stuck on Low SD quality. So I decided to do a test.

I deleted the FIFA demo and set about re-downloading it.

First I tried the LAN adapter and was astonished to see it averaging 50K/s. After swapping between WiFi and Wired a few times it managed to sustain around 300K/s.

Now here is the odd part, WiFi does between 500K to 800K/s.

Neither is particularly good seeing as on the best client (my laptop) my WiFi can easily max out my 65Mbit broadband and even get 80-110Mbit from the LAN. I get at LEAST 30Mbit on my phone, often twice that.

So what exactly is going on here? It makes no sense for the LAN adapter to function slower than WiFi. At worst they should perform identical, if the slowdown is happening on the Internet itself or the Wii U networking stack.

Now for the record, this IS an unofficial adapter, but by its nature it HAS to be using the same chipset as the official adapter or it wouldn't work at all. I suppose it could be using a slightly different revision of the chipset that has compatibility issues with the Wii U driver, but it seems unlikely.

I must also note that I tested the LAN adapter on Windows 8 and got 100Mbit down, 81Mbit up, so its clearly not faulty.

Has anyone used the official Wii adapter and gotten better results?

Unless you have a dedicated OC line coming straight into your gateway, you will never get 80-100Mb throughput to anywhere outside your own LAN.  You will also never get more than 100Mb on FastEthernet within your own LAN, if you have a GigabitEthernet switch you would be getting 1000Mb within the LAN.  This is all great for network communications between the devices in your home, but once past the gateway, you will be limited to the rate that your ISP provides, anywhere from 1.5Mb to 25Mb down, and anywhere from 100Kb to 25Mb up.  500Kb to 800Kb is actually fairly good, to put it in perspective, you are getting between half to nearly a full 1Mbps on a single server connection.

 

I say again it is most likely Nintendo's own backend network that is slowing connections.  They need to work on it, because while not everyone is experiencing this, enough are to cause concern.

I am testing again now to see if anything has changed and also so I have a recent comparison to use against the new firmware which I am HOPING will improve things.

 

First things first, it still doesn't work properly without using a proxy server.  This used to be a problem with the PS3 too and still is with the PS Vita.  For me, the WiiU struggles along at 300-800K/s, well under 1Mbit, if I try to use the default settings.  This is pretty bad considering 99% of WiiU users will use this configuration.

 

Now, the latest tests using the proxy server with the data already cached:

Downloading to System Memory: 1.2MB/s (9.6Mbit)

Downloading to USB HDD: 1.6MB/s (12.6Mbit)

 

This SHOULD show us the maximum speed the Wii U can do as its bypassing my broadband entirely and downloading the file directly from my server.  I confirmed this by checking my router which showed very little traffic during the test and the proxy servers ethernet port showing the above outgoing speeds.  By all accounts, these speeds utterly suck.

 

Upon checking my WiFi access point it shows that the Wii U is only connecting at 65Mbit which probably means Nintendo are using low-power WiFi, a lot of mobile phones do the same but then they run on batteries so it makes sense.  Its more than a bit stupid for a games console where some titles will be 25GB+ in size, to limit your connection speed to well below your WiFis capability, even more dumb that the Wii ethernet adapter performs even worse.  For example, my laptop can do 4-8 times that speed on the same WiFi network.

 

The thing is though, even locked at 65Mbit the WiiU should be doing faster than this.  In fact, the PS Vita has the exact same restriction and can do 20Mbit from the proxy NOT cached, actually coming off the Internet itself.

 

If Nintendo hopes to make digital downloads of retail games practical they better get this sorted.  I highly suspect this is a bug in the WiiU firmware as the reason mobile phones/PS Vita only do 65Mbit is they do not support MIMO, usually down to only having a single WiFi antenna.  We know for a fact the WiiU has two antenna, so it not supporting MIMO would be very odd.

 

[UPDATE]
 

Hmm, this doesn't look promising as another product using the identical WiFi chipset is also limited.

 

Still, if they fix what is preventing us from even getting the full speed from 65Mbit WiFi then maybe it will also fix the dreadful performance of the USB ethernet adapter.

The proxy still cannot send data to the Wii U until it has received it from the destination server.  Again bandwidth within your LAN =/= bandwidth beyond the CDE.  Also, caching does not guarantee it will not reach back to the server to do a checksum.  What are you using to monitor traffic on your router?  Flying squirrel?  

Makes you wonder if Nintendo only enabled USB1.0 support in the ethernet adapter driver.  It wouldn't make much sense, but it performing slower than WiFi DOESN'T make any sense.

No it doesn't.  Hopefully they address that at some point.  I wonder if it affecting the UK more than US though.  I haven't had any issues on Wifi on a 35Mb ISP connection.  Nothing that couldn't be atrributed to Nintendo's end.  I haven't bothered with capturing any statistics on it because it hasn't bothered me personally, but I might just to see if results vary that widely.