If you’ve not heard about Nintendo’s press event from a few weeks ago, they unveiled lots of details on one of the features of the Wii: the Mii channel. Check out this video if you want to see an example of what I’m talking about. Stephanie was much more excited about this feature than I was, but it does seem kind of neat. You’ll be able to store your Mii avatars in your Wiimote, and use them in some games (noticeably the launch title, Wii Sports).
Someone has gone out and put together a Flash application to simulate the Mii channel, based on the footage of the menus that have been seen so far (source article). So Stephanie and I played around with it tonight. You can see Kiip over on the right, and Stephanii just to your left. Pretty cool huh? Make your own Mii and post a link, we’ll see how close we can get. It’s not quite as robust as the real one I’m sure (for example, it’s really tricky to position hair anywhere but the default location, and you almost indefinitely have to lower all the facial features). But still fun to play around with.
FYI: These were the reference photos we were kinda going off of: Kip, Stephanie. You be the judge.
October 3, 11:51 pm
Here’s mine based on my current appearance.
October 5, 10:30 pm
We redid my mii so it looks a little more like me now!