I got a Wii at launch in 2006. The thing took some serious wear and tear, getting lots of use playing Wii and Gamecube games, as well as many Virtual Console games, over the next four and a half years. One of the first accessories I picked up was a component video cable. While the Wii doesn’t do HD resolutions, it can do enhanced definition, or 480p. That’s a more acceptable picture on my 42″ plasma set than standard definition, which is 480i.
Anyway, one of the coolest things about Wii is that it has more Castlevania games than any other home console. There’s seven of them. That’s the three Castlevania games for NES, Super Castlevania IV, Rondo of Blood, Adventure Rebirth, and Judgment. Only GBAs, using backwards compatibility, can play more games in the series.
I have, of course, picked up all these games, including the Virtual Console games. When my Wii started to have graphical issues, I was kind of bummed. It would overheat quickly when running in progressive scan, and the video would start to fail shortly thereafter. Since it was long out of warranty, I didn’t bother sending it in for a repair. Instead, I bought a new Wii, and called Nintendo to ask them to transfer my Wii Shop Channel account over to the new machine. After a bit of a song and dance, they told me to ship them both my consoles, and they’d take care of it for me.
And that they did. A day after my consoles got there, they had them back on their way here. They arrived with all the data from the two systems merged on the newer black Wii. Even the data that I wasn’t able to manually copy myself was copied over. So I kept my Animal Crossing town and all my Super Smash Bros Brawl data, for example. All my other saves were migrated, including save states for my Virtual Console games, and so were my Internet connection settings, which saved time. I hadn’t bothered to set up my new Wii to go online yet, since I figured anything I’d do would be lost anyway when I had Nintendo migrate. I guess that was a good idea.
The only thing I had to do was redownload the actual games from the Wii Shop Channel, which took a frustratingly long time. The copies of them I had on my SD card would not copy to the internal memory or run from the SD card. I figured it was worth a try.
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