Mii Editor Blog

One of the most common issues received from the contact/bug report form is that the Mii Editor screen is Flashing. This happens when your version of the Flash player is not new enough to support the editor (this is Flash's default reaction to such an occurence - as expected) - this including trying to use the editor from the Wii since it's browser does not have a new enough version. I try to indicate in many places, including the contact form, which version of the Flash player is required. Granted, I don't expect everyone to know what version they are using (though the main page has a link to find out) so I mentioned this behavior in th FAQ. I guess I should have known better since a lot of people don't check it and seem to just send off the form anyway. It's human nature.

Anyway, that led me to pull up my pants and take action. What I've done is implemented a catch screen which should now prevent the Flashing should an older version of the Flash player be detected along with a link to the page where the newest version can be downloaded. Ideally, this is something I should have done earlier, but as with the rest of us, I didn't want to bother ;)

Labels: contact, error, fix, gui, links, update, website, wii

I have found some time to work on the Mii Editor this weekend. So far it seems as though it's compiling OK for now (Yippie!) even though its still pretty messy in there. But new features will include being able to select an output size and background color for images being exported, hopefully a fix for the noses (I am not sure if it's right now or not; some of you guys out there might need to help debug that further once an update goes live), and the inclusion of the 4th byte for the Wii ID field - originally I assumed that bit would not change but it appears newer Wii models (firmware?) has a different value for it. Now the Mii Editor will let you change it :)

I will hopefully be able to include selection highlights for feature buttons too, but I am not sure how to work that in just yet. Also, including a body is on the table, but it will take a while to get the scaling (tall/short, thin/fat) worked out right for that.

I'll be sure to post when this new version is live.

Labels: beta, fix, id, nose, upcoming, update, wii

I'm hearing random reports of Miis not being able to make it from the Mii Editor back to the Wii. If this is happening to you, please send me your broken Mii and idealy a Mii from your Wii to senocular at hotmail dot com so I can track down the problem. Thanks.

Labels: beta, binary, wii

Earlier I received an email informing me that a Wii console will recognize a Mii as being a specific Mii (and thereby replacing other instances of itself) not just by the Mii ID number, but also the Wii ID number. Only when both of those match will a Mii replace another Mii on the console. Before I had assumed it was only the Mii ID number.

Thank you Shannon for pointing that out. I will update the FAQ.

Labels: faq, update, website, wii