Your Wii Has A Minor Button-Combo Secret
Go to the Mii Channel. Press A. Press B. Press 1. Press and hold 2.
Nintendo sent Kotaku copies of Personal Trainer: Walking yesterday, and while we think we don’t need that much training to walk (left foot and then right foot, yes?), we are in fact learning things.
We have learned, for example, that the Wii possesses a previously hidden talent.
Try the button combo mentioned above and the image you see here will appear. You won’t get Miis of Condoleezza Rice and Exclusives expert Geoff Keighley to appear. That’s just on my Wii. But you will get proof that your Wii is capable of emitting your Miis to a DS.
Since launch, the Wii has been able to send Miis to Wii Remotes so that the Miis can be transmitted to other Wiis. And Miis have been snaggable via non-Nintendo Mii-editing computer programs.
But Miis hadn’t made it to the DS. They can now that they have a home, as Nintendo informs us that Personal Trainer: Walking is the first DS game/walking-trainer) to support Miis.
On the DS, the Miis are used to demonstrate how far you walked. Like, you know, if you walked about 1000 steps between leaving your apartment this morning and getting to your downtown Manhattan office — with the help of the subway.
What other feats is your Wii capable of? Who knows. Start mashing some buttons.
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PONIES PONIES EVERYWHERE!
@Ken: Hold 1, hold 2, toggle switch off and on, up, up, up, up, left, left, left, left, right, right, right, right, down, down, down, down.
/obscure?
xot
old news is so exciting!
@TStodden: Oh my. How will we ever recover? Sorry this wasn't news to you.
@CI254: Kotaku has dropped the ball here (with this non-news) as this little "secret" has been out for months now with leaks from Japan about this.
The feature is NOW making its functional way to the US.
TStodden
So I heard if a female sticks the wii remote...
wait.
No, that wasn't what I heard.. it was.. If you push A+B, A+B, 1+2, 1+2, then throw the Wii remote at your Wii and make it hit the reset button, Resetti (from Animal Crossing) pops out of your disc drive and starts to lecture you.
: )
I think it only may work in dreams though. So good luck.
evilralphwiggum
Awesome! Low-res, ugly character models on my handheld gaming system, woohoo!
... :|
NO, FOOL! It's right foot THEN left foot!
Alright... Jokes aside, that's a cool little feature for the Wii. Lemme check if it works on firmware 3.2U, or if it's just a new feature in 4.0 that was never announced. Wii and DS homebrew might find some use in this new discovery...
@ShadowOdin finally got a copy of Suikoden III. Is upset wit...:
Erm, I believe so, but as an elderly white male I'm afraid that my grasp of Rapper to English is rather limited. If you read it as how a psychotic misogynist 4 year old would write things down I find you can wing it with a fairly high degree of accuracy.
Isn't the Wii also capable of handling up to 13 different Wiimote frequencies at once?
DRaGZ
@Atomsk88: ... :D
.... O_O
... :(
Ken
@Ken: Congratulations!
You have just received 30 Bill Rizer Miis!
@Derek Rumpler: I walk a lot.. really.. go to work walking everyday, so I'm quite interested in it.. It's obviously not a game.. but sounds like something cool to keep track of my walking :P
@Derek Rumpler:
'Play' being used very loosely here I think!
@Zenrick3.0: ICARUS TAPS MEDUSA ASS my nes password memory isn't what it used to be, but I think I'm close.
@Weirdwolf is SPEEEEDIINNNG!: Soulja is supposed to mean "Soldier"?
Because they decided to block all international viewers from their stream onsite just a few weeks ago.
@Ken: 007 373 5963. At least thats what I think it was...
Are you able to access further and further away areas in Home by walking more in the DS game?
Gam3r
@Ken: I gots 30 mans! Lemme test by jumping off this cliff...
@ShadowOdin finally got a copy of Suikoden III. Is upset wit...: Well, it says a DS which doesn't limit it to a specific brand. It wouldn't really be grammatically acceptable to refer to the DS family if you were to use "the DS".
Besides, why would it be limited to a specific brand?
@Ken:
Down, up, left, left, A, right, down.
@TaggarT6 coming soon to a theater near you!: You are talking nonsense! ;p
@Derek Rumpler: What do you think?
Nitro378
@ShadowOdin finally got a copy of Suikoden III. Is upset wit...:
Well I would have thought that he spells soldier incorrectly would have been your first clue.
As an aside, why are you annoyed with the Daily Show?
@Whydoesthisalwayshappentome: Or you know, use the giant A button on the front and the giant trigger B button on the underside.
:P
The only code I'm aware of is when you hold the + and - Buttons when you start u your Wii and press 'A'. This code opens your wii into Maintenance Mode.
It looks like this is the mii channel update they had a while back.
Maybe they will announce a mode to play VC games on the DSi...
Fernando Paramo
@Whydoesthisalwayshappentome: "They're on to us!"
so we get so unlock a loading screen?
...oh joy
i can't wait to unlock an error code next for my Wii
@laser beams: And that's why we don't send our children to study english under Soulja Boy
@John Rausch:
[en.wikipedia.org]
NSFW
@NeVeRMoRe666: Now Skeeter, he ain't hurtin' nobody.
I have one question for Kotaku (or anyone) who has played Personal Trainer: Walking:
Is it worth it?
@NeVeRMoRe666: What are you even talking about?
John Rausch
@Jump4816: I didn't think that combo worked on a Wii controller (the a and b buttons are renamed 1 and 2)
@Ken: Achievement Unlocked: Contra ReBirth Coming To North America
MrMister
@ShadowOdin finally got a copy of Suikoden III. Is upset wit...: As Soulja Boy demonstrated- the name is pronounced TortillO.
@Ken: Unlocks Contra REbirth.
Jump4816
Left Right Up Up Down, Hold A B simultaneously while holding your ass, spin on your head and....
OMG Mii's grabbing some "Hot-Coffee"!
That should put an end to "Not HARDCORE" trolls...
@ShadowOdin finally got a copy of Suikoden III. Is upset wit...:
Lawl, you like calling him Mr. Tortilla don't you? Can't help but giggle every time I read your comments ahah.
@Ken: KABOOOOOOM!!!!
Rompehamster
@CI254: No shit. That's why its called a "hidden talent." We don't take kindly to "Not News" posts around these parts.
@CI254:
It has hmm i never tried it i guess
gecko7jlk is enjoying the killzone 2 map pack
Mr.Tortilla, I wonder if this is just for DSi or work on DS as well. The lack of mention from the Apple-trademark would suggest the latter.
The fact that the code you mentioned don't spawn a CondoMiizza Rice is a bit of a letdown.
I miss button-combo secrets :(
Really? You JUST posted this now?
This has been around since the Wii came out...
CI254
Up Up Down Down Left Right Left Right B A Start
... *waits*
Ken
@CI254: I think the bigger thing was, you (or someone) was actually sad enough to figure this out when the Wii was launched. Because I'm sure as shit nobody gave a toss until now.
That high pedestal doesn't look so good now does it?
Svend Joscelyne
@karamashi: Can I pee in your cereal?
flclkris
@Ken: ABACABB? no, wait, that can't possibly work. Damnit... I guess Miis can't bleed after all.
Inzoum
@Boom-Chicka-Ah: Hopefully you were joking. If not, you're acting like my dog who stares at my hand when I'm pointing at something.
Raziel
@Stephen Totilo: Get him, Stephen! 8)
Raziel
@Stephen Totilo: Totilo, you rock. :D
@patapon: I know. I've only got 2 games that still use them from the past 2 years: Dead Space and Guitar Hero. And the latter of the two, only one is a real game.
With the entire history of gaming behind us, is the Contra code the only cheat you kids ever memorised?
And I do mean MEMORISED. As in, not having to open up gamefaqs or using a gamegenie to do something.
Ben Edwards
@Ken: lol
@Ken: *explodes*
Mesren_Makai
@Gemini-Phoenix said, "play" is being used very loosely here.
I just want to know how accurate it is. Wii Fit itself isn't very accurate and after buying the other two Personal Trainer "games" (after feeling Personal Trainer: Math was a bomb), want to know if I can use it to TRULY supplement my workout.
@NeVeRMoRe666:
We don't take kindly to people that don't take kindly to people 'round here
James2432
@Heliophage: Isnt that the Code for Mortal Combat the DULLARD code used in the sega genesis game?
dgelwin
@NeVeRMoRe666: HEY! WE DON'T TAKE TO KINDLY TO PEOPLE WHO DON'T TAKE TO KINDLY ROUND HERE!
Ryan from ElectricGorillas
@James2432: Someone already said that....
@CI254: O RLY? So? Was it used before this? no, so shut up that guy up there is probably right youre angry you found out and nobody cared before.
@Ben Edwards: Well, it's the only button-combo code I memorized. Which of course excludes things like power overwhelming, show me the money, black sheep wall, food for thought, operation cwal, or of course iddqd. OH, and rosebud for Sim City.
Spiffyness