The 9 Wii Games That Used The Forecast Channel

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[@PedroMatos482]

Greatly enjoying the "Jon talks about a random Wii feature" series

[@MFG1243]

Greatly enjoying the "Jon"

[@PedroMatos482]

@@MFG1243 Always

[@RappingNinja]

Same, very much!

[@mimikyulostatail4705]

When will random Wii features end?!

[@lucymorrison]

Yeah I’d like a running “Jon talks about X random console feature” series

[@PhirePhlame]

When I was a kid, I used to LARP as a weatherman in front of the forecast channel

[@chackbro1]

I remember setting up the weather channel in Mario and Sonic and thinking it was the coolest thing ever. It proceeded to never snow again because I live in Florida. I didn't notice, I still thought it was the coolest thing ever

[@cheesewombatTV]

Cant wait for next weeks episode, "10 Wii Platformers That Used the Japanese Dominos Pizza Delivery Channel"

[@GVG]

Don't leak my ideas

[@themement3616]

​@@GVGfirst an entire SpongeBob movie and now this!? These leaks are getting crazy...

[@StephanieAwesom]

When I played New Horizons I would always think "it would be cool if the actual irl weather was copied" and then I remember I live in Ireland and it would just be raining all the time, this is still such a cool feature though and I'd love to see it implemented nowadays

[@SamPearman]

"For a game underwater, it's a little bit shallow" caught me off guard with how good a joke it was.

[@fernando98322]

Animal Crossing with real life weather would go so hard, specially if you could change location depending on what type of weather you never get (snowy in my case)

[@Reyn_the_Insane]

While that would be absolutely awesome, there's also an element of you won't be able to experience all the seasons/weather, therefore be unable to collect season/weather specific bugs and fish

[@hisgrinningskull2122]

@@Reyn_the_Insanethey could have let you disable it if you didn’t want to use it

[@skyevlyn]

I can't include a link because of KZbin's rules but in the Animal Crossing City Folk Iwata Asks on page 5 they talk about how they wanted to include real-life weather but decided against it - "I really wanted to make it so that you could see the sky changing in different places. I even thought of somehow linking it to the Weather Channel, but unfortunately I wasn't able to follow this through. I researched the climate in each country, but you had places where hardly any rain fell, on the one hand, and then other places where it poured for most of the year."

[@PikKraken8]

In addition, people who lived in certain places would never get to experience any snow related content (or rarely get the benefits of rain).

[@mds_main]

To be fair they could have just made it optional, but I understand.

[@geo_101]

This is a feature i always dreamed would exist once games started using real time clocks sad we kinda moved away from both outside of a handful of rare games

[@StefiStarlite]

I wish more games did this, I think it's really neat! If I remember right, A-Life in NiGHTS Journey of Dreams and Sonic Adventure 1 and 2 actually originated in NiGHTS Into Dreams. It was much less complex than what ultimately was used for the Chao, but basic behaviors like how the Nightopians react to you and interact with each other were managed by the system. It was surprisingly advanced for the time and still is an impressive feat!💖

[@StefiStarlite]

Oh, and Wii Room asking for your blood type isn't all that strange. In some aspects of Japanese culture determining someone's luck or fortune on a given day used one's birthday and blood type. That's why (especially in Japanese media from the 80s and 90s) characters would give their blood type along with talking about themselves. Other than than just being for fun fortune-telling, it can be helpful knowing your blood type in the case of emergencies.

[@Dairunt1]

I remember reading on a gaming magazine (yeah, remember those?) that the Weather Channel could be used to mimick real-life weather into games but I kind of forgot about it. Glad to see it was actually a feature. 7:34 In Japan, it's believed that your blood type affects your persoanlity. It's like a zodiac sign or an MBTI personality type.

[@Pensfan5919]

I know what games you're talking about! The Madden, Tiger Woods, Fifa, and the NCAA Football games from I think 09-13 used TWCs broadcasts through the EA servers (sadly since discontinued, at least officially 😉) to imitate real life weather. If you wanted to play out Steelers-Bengals with the weather from March in Pittsburgh, you actually could. Far and away one of the more immersive things those games have done. Edit: For clarifying, I own FIFA 11, Tiger 11-13, Madden 13, and NCAA Football 10 from this list.

[@MathiasWolfbrok]

"I wonder what the Forecast is! [...] Let's find out with our Nintendo Wii!" - Chadderz, 2012

[@gaminglakitu]

Jon never fails to give us only the most essential videos on this channels

[@tintinfinite3388]

I remembered around in the early 2010s, I was playing around with the Wii Forecast channel in M&S Olympic Winter Games. At one point, it was raining at my location, and actually happens in-game.

[@DuskusCB]

I remember playing NiGHTS JoD on rainy days so I could get water to flood a crater that sometimes formed in the ground in My Dream, thus making a little swimming hole

[@ColonialSun-mg6tq]

Finally another installment in Jon shows us new ways to use our Wii

[@LeroyJSmith]

I like the Panel De Pon music playing toward the end, Jon. Nice touch.

[@Thndrstrike]

I love this concept, I used to google the weather at the specific stadium before every game in MLB The Show to determine what time and weather I played in lol, makes it a little more fun than just picking random

[@nindieboy4194]

WHAAAAAAAAT? That's my dream feature and I missed this? I love this kinda stuff. Maaaaan...I really hope Nintendo will do quirky stuff like this with the switch 2..

[@otaking3582]

Having NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams connected to the Forecast Channel just reminds me how terrible the weather in Texas is.

[@gabrielgoes0]

Am I really getting to watch a Jon video just as it's up? What a joyous moment

[@Sizzyl]

Another W for Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games. Truly one of the best games of all time.

[@amesstarline5482]

As someone who grew up on the Mario and Sonic Olympics, mostly the 2010 and 2012 ones (although I also did 2014, 16, and briefly the DS version of 08), never expected there to be a connection of the Wii Forecast Channel and it. Fun Fact. The DS version of Vancouver also has a smaller version of a forecast option.

[@twinkpeaks9993]

Need this to be a series of Jon rambling about random console features

[@LolaliciousSmiley]

In middle school, my friends made fun of me for being excited for the Forecast and News channels. There's a pretty good picture of us all doing thumbs up in front of a CRT with the News Channel on.

[@raviolifordays]

I could listen to Jon talk about the Wii forever. Keep up the great work!

[@yoinkylive]

my partner adores the my aquarium series, i set it up on dolphin for them to muck around it and it's their favourite! surprised i never knew about that.

[@Soonjai]

I know they are not Wii games, but Project CARS 1 & 2 (don´t know about the 3rd one) have this type of feature too. For any race you create, you can select the "Real Weather" Option and the game do just that: Set the ingame weather to whatever weather the current, real life location has.

[@PrinceMallow]

I think I remember the topic of Animal Crossing using the Forecast Channel came up back when the game came out and Nintendo said they chose not to implement it because they wouldn't want people who never get snow or the weather is the same where they live year round to miss out but, man, that's why it should have been an optional feature!

[@JPHarringtonJr]

Yeah I'm with ya, I'd love more integration like this. I also would really love more real time clocks in games. I love in gen 2 Pokemon when it gets dark in real life, the game gets dark too and yellow light pools out from the monochrome blue buildings in towns. Or in World of Warcraft when night time hits, it just changes the feel of the whole area. Throw in some weather with that and baby you got yourself a stew!

[@leesalee1540]

Hahaha I love how Mario Wonder is in your theater. Across all Nintendo Home consoles, I still love the Wii the most 💙 (despite my parents never letting me own one 😢)

[@Akfamilyhome]

I'm stuck in Jon's Wii now and can't get out please send help

[@ledojaeger7474]

My needless pipe dream for Switch 2 is that they bring back some sort of weather awareness and work it into the menu - just charming little things like a symbol that shows the current weather, or a little menu concierge that makes pop up comments like ‘wow, sure is snowy today!’ Like gimme that Nintendo charm back pleeease

[@eeveemaster243]

Fun fact, the Off-brand Chao in Nights into Dreams are called Nightopians, and were the predecessors to SA's Chao Garden as the A-Life system that Chaos use originated in the first Nights into Dreams game's Nightopians.

[@bananabike279]

Really interesting, I never even know about Wii Room!

[@BenryTheMii]

I wish that city folk could connect to the forecast channel and give you real weather

[@WastelanderLucky]

I spent soooo much time with My Aquarium as a teen, man. But I don't remember this feature...pretty cool! NGL this series of vids has really been motivating me to rearrange my apartment and finally get out my old consoles again, so thank you for that!!

[@zandershepherd4746]

Wow. I legitimately thought I knew about all of the Wii's features. I even knew about the SD card music thing. But I had no idea that games could work with the Forecast Channel. That's really cool

[@bland9876]

I just randomly remembered about that channel that let you download demos to your Nintendo DS. Very odd.

[@SonictheHammons]

Fun Fact: The little guys with the halos (Nightopians) in NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams were SEGA's first crack at making Artificial Life in the original NiGHTS into Dreams. They would later become the main inspiration for the Chao and the Chao Garden

[@TheBoneHeadClan]

I know some areas of the world don't get certain weather, but won't it be sad if one day we don't get snow anymore? Imagine a change in environment and snow is just a relic of the past, experienceable only through legacy media. That's a sad thought. Imagine playing Animal Crossing on the Wii in the future, and in-game it's winter and snowing, and someone who's never experienced it is like, "I wonder what this (snowing) must have felt like?"

[@Some_Random_Guy]

I dunno why people complain about Nights: Journey of Dreams. I played back then and had a fine time with it

[@SPac316]

Imagine if Animal Crossing City Folk used the forecast channel. It would restrict all the seasonal features and items if it did, like no snowman or winter items for the southern states where it hardly snows, as far as I know. Unless you change your location of course. So I'm glad they didn't implement it.

[@bootmii98]

4:06 The Nightopians were there first. Both were called A-Life internally.

[@mongoose1billion]

Microsoft Flight Sim 2020 does this also. Although I think the weather data comes from somewhere else.

[@gars129]

I remember on christmas 2006 living in the tropics and seeing how cold it was the more to the north you went. Really wanted a white christmas here haha.

[@Stormkyleis]

I love this series of videos, and this was such a cool feature

[@MasterLYT]

Its a shame City Folk didnt use this, I used to think somehow the gamecube got the weather from real forecast from how often it was accurate lol

[@TheBoneHeadClan]

It's neat, but a lot of games have tailored experiences, and random weather might have disrupted that. Say, in Animal Crossing, having some things only available in Wonter when it's snowing would have been a pain if it was mandatory to the Forecast channel.

[@bland9876]

"your friend sensds you a message on the message bord it will light up blue"? I have 0 idea what he's talking about.

[@themothreborn]

they NEED to bring back my aquarium for the switch 2

[@Icyangel10]

Be interesting to see how you react to collecting all the tear things in NiGHTS. The one in the bootleg chao garden will take some time.

[@bubbledoubletrouble]

8:33 These days a game would just get the weather data on its own if it wanted it to affect gameplay, like Microsoft Flight Simulator

[@GoldenGrenadier]

Wii connect 24 fried quite a few launch model Wiis because the fan didnt spin while it was in sleep mode. Later models had a better wifi adapter that didn't cook the system iirc.

[@KittyLitterYT]

If this functionality was on the DS, or if mainline Pokémon games had come out on wii, you KNOW Pokémon would have used this. I mean cmon these guys made a Pokémon the you can only catch on Friday just because the ds calendar meant they could, they lived for this kind of thing in that era.

[@drewlincoln8110]

if some modders know what they are doing. it would be really cool to make a channel/game that uses it as a gameplay mechanic. idk how but it would be cool

[@MUSQUIZanimation]

Jon back at it again with the list I didn’t know I needed.

[@suntannedduck2388]

Pretty cool. Animal Crossing & Wii Sports Resort should have. It took racing games years (move over GT7 & others of the genre these days) to do this but the Wii did in particular ones. Some Devs don't try hard enough. Wii Room, Golf, the Bear anime. Sega wdid great with GBA minigames, PSP cross save (Outrun 2006 PS2/PSP) to Wii Forecast. Fish tank. Move over GT7 and other racing sims with their weather Mario & Sonic and more games have forecast channel weather effects years before you.

[@bigpboy1012]

Mario & Sonic was actually published by Nintendo in Japan and Korea.

[@TanteiRotana]

This was a very pleasant and interesting upload to stumble upon thank you for posting it online! I have heard blood types are kinda a big deal in Japan and are kinda treated like horoscopes in some days? Although my knowledge on this is extremely minimal. Also it feels like your webcam is a little too close, but I am extremely drunk while watching this video so it might just be a weird 'me' thing. It turns out I also watched your SD card music video recently. Again thank you so much for the uploads, I look forward to all your future content!

[@bobmcguffin5706]

It would be interesting to see what, if anything, your blood type affects in that app

[@bronwynknox3605]

Are you sure the weather changed in the games section of Mario and Sonic? I thought it only changed in the Olympic village! Though my memory may betray me

[@revand8011]

The Wii saga of videos is amazing. One day Jon will explain how some weird chinesse party game used the Wii Speak or something. I'm not surprised at this point

[@ninjapanda393]

Could you make a video talking about NiGHTS journey of dreams? The gameplay (for the most part) is actually pretty fun!

[@lukeshioshio]

This is so weird and cool, I had no idea about this

[@Crdavis1996]

Jon’s wife gotta watch out for competition with that Forecast Channel

[@usernamesareweird4880]

Thanks for validating my Wii obsession

[@alexfirth4885]

Would you do a video on the food channel Jon?

[@cringelord216]

I wish this was a feature in animal crossing. It would be so cool if it was raining in real life and on my island/town

[@Pehmokettu]

I was also very disappointed that Animal Crossing did't use the forecast channel. I had Nights but I never found the part where the weather channel had effect so I was very confused because it was not raining in the game when it was raining outside, etc. A game where every level would have a weather channel effect would have been nice.

[@non_one_c]

Cool! I never knew this and I even own a copy of Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.

[@ShadowXeldron]

Oh come on now. You already got me to buy Excite Truck.

[@Kritigri]

If we really believe it, the Wii era need never have ended

[@oscarzxn4067]

I hope that if you use the forecast channel with the weather of Saudi Arabia or something like that, the track in Mario and Sonic just dissapears

[@noahstreblow2642]

4:09 Heyo!!! Live action bit! 🎉

[@TheRedScizor]

the first day I got Animal Crossing the weather happened to match so I thought it was taking from the forecast channel but nope, just a coincidence :(

[@LoomDoom]

I love your content Jon. No matter the topic, it’s always delightful to watch.

[@guaco__taco]

I always wished Animal Crossing would do this.

[@thatJohann]

You should try doing a podcast, you have the voice for it.

[@JustJulyo]

Jon is an international treasure and must be protected at all costs

[@Robottsie]

Loving Jon’s decent into “Wii”

[@PikaLink91]

I too wanna look up at the sky like Jon and say "DO something". Especially on sunny days when I want rain.

[@F0XK1D]

Animal Crossing would be a great series for this!

[@LHSMeleeClub]

i love these kind of videos from you guys lol

[@yexx04]

Punching Weight energy video

[@siljeff2708]

If you play Mario & Sonic while a tornado is running by outside, will a tornado be in the game too??

[@b.w.k.64yt]

is that a puyo pop fever copy i see in the background

[@miker2000]

Arg. Your videos make me miss my wii... Sold it a while ago.

[@RappingNinja]

5:55 “Someone once said that Map No 7 uses the Forecast Channel, but it’s actually not true.” What on Earth is MapNo7??

[@skyevlyn]

Madden 07 c:

[@jvlivsakamaxiaid]

Animal Crossing would've been just the perfect game for this feature

[@nathonso_edits]

The wii had so many fun features, menu music, sound effects and just generally personality compared to the switch, I really miss all that stuff

[@gabrielgoes0]

Also I can't possibly relate to that "snow" thing living where I live (in the smack middle of Brazil)

[@Anthestudios]

Anyone know the outro music? It's so familiar!

[@tsukino_mahou]

Ha, it asks for your blood type because of 血液型性格判断, "blood type personality determination." You can think of it like zodiac signs, except that it's easier to remember what they're all supposed to be even for people who don't believe in it because there are only four of them.

[@AStupidID]

Waiting for: The Virtual Boy Feature Only 20 Games Used video 😛

[@GamerFunOriginallyAarush]

Worth the wait!

[@BOplaid]

9 games, 9 minutes.

[@chillbizz74]

This is exactly why I love the Wii over the Switch despite the Switch having a lot of good games, it lacks the Nintendo charm that makes me love the console.

[@Joeysan24]

It’s a shame Animal Crossing didn’t use the Forecast Channel.

[@awanada5555]

So I modded my wii wgen I was younger but lost the usb can I just put a random iso in the usb and play the games using wiiflow or do I need other files on the sd card

[@jumentoqueanima]

Awesome channel! :D