Since I got my Wii, two weeks after its launch, I realized some minor features it lacked of, specifically related with saved games and memory management.
The Wii has a SD slot where you can back up saved games, but those games can't be saved or read directly to or from the SD card, only from main memory. This is annoying because you always have to copy your saved games to the main memory from the SD card, play from the main memory, save there your progress and then copy everything back to the SD card, not before having to first manually delete old files from the card, given no overwriting is allowed. All this procedure is really a pain in the back.
The reason why I'm raging about actual memory management procedures is because, in the Wii, is utterly easy for a 3 years old kid to delete all items from memory.
My toddler plays Wii, he has his own Mii and amazingly plays all Wii Sports and Monkey Ball very well. At his short age he alone turns on the Wii, chooses the channel he wants and plays the game disc currently inserted (the Wii resides high out from his reach to avoid him to change discs and damage the hardware). He plays at the Mii channel, the news channel, the weather channel and every other channel, including VC games.
The problems arise when he hits the configuration option and gets to the memory management channel. He usually deletes all saved games just for fun (remember, he's just 3) when nobody's watching him. Every time I'm around and realize what he's trying to do, I usually avoid it by telling him not to do so, just before he deletes anything. But if I'm not watching, he deletes everything.
The Wii only asks you once to confirm if you want to delete something, and then everything is gone. The only way I found to keep my info safe is by painfully backing it up to an SD card, but sometimes I forget to back it up and you can imagine what happens next. The worst occurs when I leave the card forgotten inside, he doubles the slaughtering.
Thus, this is my very personal petition to Nintendo, please, please... pleeeease, make the deletion of memory contents a bit more difficult.
In the way parental control can be applied for making the system ask for a Pin for accessing to some channels and options, please make us able to apply the same parental control to the deletion of memory items. I beg you to implement this feature as soon as possible, after I had to start playing Zelda from the beginning for the fourth time. Not to mention the pain I have suffered after I lost all my records and points in Wii Sports.
By the way, you should also implement harder ways to reset games in the Nintendo DS, just like in
Nintendogs... because you know, my son assaults them too.
Thank you for listening...
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