Timeline for Wii game patches
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| Mar 14, 2017 at 17:04 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | @Hiccup This is a 6-year-old post. This was an uncontroversial and well-known policy at the time… and six years and two Nintendo consoles later, I'm not sure whether I can (or whether it's worth it to) find documentation of the policy. It wasn't a technical limitation, it was a policy enforced on their licensees, linked to their licensee QA policies. Yes, Wii DLC is a thing, no, the system's game loader doesn't provide a means of applying stored patch files to disc games at load time, consistent with the no-patch policy. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 11:27 | comment | added | Hiccup | Also, it seems that a small amount of games (maybe just 1 - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samba_de_Amigo#Wii) have DLC where the data is downloaded to the Wii (SD or system memory). It isn't clear if this (officially) allows games to run code from the downloaded data, but the game would have to be designed to do that anyway. | |
| Mar 14, 2017 at 11:19 | comment | added | Hiccup | Are you sure it is a policy? It may just be a technical limitation (Wii has a small amount of internal storage), or they are just not willing to take the time/money to implement a patch feature. It is indeed true that disc games don't (and maybe can't) have downloadable patches. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 21:29 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | @Hiccup A new pressing of an updated disc isn't a patch though, and Nintendo still has a no-patch policy for the Wii. One purpose of new disc revisions is to deal with the aforementioned “major embarrassments”, since there's no other mechanism. | |
| Mar 13, 2017 at 19:09 | comment | added | Hiccup | Wii discs do have "revisions", which often fix bugs - so this isn't technically true. | |
| Jul 23, 2011 at 8:43 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie | It's possible. I don't have any first-hand knowledge on that point. It seemed to me that it was doing the update over the network, but that might have been my own assumption. | |
| Jul 23, 2011 at 1:29 | comment | added | Fambida | It was my understanding that games which require a higher firmware version contain an update to that version. Is this wrong? | |
| Jun 6, 2011 at 12:12 | vote | accept | Drake | ||
| Jun 1, 2011 at 20:07 | history | answered | SevenSidedDie | CC BY-SA 3.0 |