“Wii Transfer”:www.riverfold.com/software/… is now listed as part of the “MacSanta promotion”:www.macsanta.com/. Only $7 through Christmas day!
I also released Wii Transfer 1.5 late last night. The major change in this version is support for automatically backing up saved game data files from an SD card. The Nintendo Wii by default does not save games to SD cards, but it’s easy in the Wii settings interface to copy your saved games to an SD card or restore later. If Wii Transfer is running when you insert an SD card into your Mac, it will automatically copy the saved games to your hard drive (in Application Support), organizing them by date. Then there’s a simple UI for restoring the games back to an SD card. “Here’s a short screencast”:www.riverfold.com/software/…screencast_backup.mov if you are curious what it looks like.
One neat part of this that I was able to do – and this is consistent with the whole point of Wii Transfer, improving the experience of transferring Wii data – is to show the real game names in the restore list. The data files actually use a 4-character code, but “WiiSave.com”:www.wiisave.com is maintaining a list of codes to real names. I’ve baked a portion of that list into Wii Transfer 1.5, and the application also automatically downloads an updated list from the Riverfold web site so that as new games are released, Wii Transfer will know about them.
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