It’s one of the most asked questions about the Wii U: how do I bring my Wii purchases and data to the Wii U?
Well, thanks to the US media getting their Wii U consoles and them reading the manual included, we now know how. It’s pretty simple and only takes a few steps though and if you’ve ever transferred from a 3DS to another 3DS, you’ll know the drill.
Here’s how it goes;
- Make sure you have a SD card in your Wii U
- Run the Wii System Transfer Application (on the Wii U)
- The program will do its magic then ask for you to put the SD card in the Wii
- The Wii will then need a transfer program downloaded from the Wii Shopping Channel (not available yet)
- The data on your Wii will be moved to the SD card.
- Then once your put the SD card back into Wii U, it’ll erase the card after.
You’ll be left with a Wii U full of your WiiWare and Virtual Console purchases, your Wii retail save games, downloaded content (like Guitar Hero songs), Wii Shop Points and your activity log. Your Mii’s will also be transferred.
Your original Wii will be left empty and gutted. Pass it onto your Grandma perhaps?
So are the purchases bound to the account?
What happens to Wii purchases that are already stored on another SD card in your Wii, or purchases from the Wii Shop that are not currently on your console? Can you re-download those from the Wii U once the account has been transferred?
So anyone know if you can transfer from more then one Wii? I have two would be good to have them merged. otherwise I might not bother.
What about those purchases that you haven’t downloaded, do I need to download them first before transferring to Wii U?
What about games on my Wii SD card? I cannot fit all the games on my SD card on the Wii. Can I use my exisitng Wii SD card for this process?
Will it copy the download data and I can just re-download them on the Wii U?
Another q, will games like r type 3, gunstar heroes and excitebike etc that cant b used with component cables work with hdmi or am I going to have to keep switching cables? Anybody?