The 9 Wii Games That Used The Forecast Channel

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  • Опубликовано: 25 янв 2025

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  • @PedroMatos482
    @PedroMatos482 Год назад +665

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

    • @MFG1243
      @MFG1243 Год назад +18

      Greatly enjoying the "Jon"

    • @PedroMatos482
      @PedroMatos482 Год назад +5

      @@MFG1243 Always

    • @RappingNinja
      @RappingNinja Год назад +2

      Same, very much!

    • @mimikyulostatail4705
      @mimikyulostatail4705 Год назад +2

      When will random Wii features end?!

    • @lucymorrison
      @lucymorrison Год назад +2

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

  • @cheesewombatTV
    @cheesewombatTV Год назад +119

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

    • @GVG
      @GVG  Год назад +57

      Don't leak my ideas

    • @themement3616
      @themement3616 Год назад +3

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

  • @Michael_H_Art
    @Michael_H_Art Год назад +154

    honestly thankful for this little series of "Jon showing off something niche from the Wii Days" something nostalgic about these long lost features

  • @PhirePhlame
    @PhirePhlame Год назад +20

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

  • @Jake76667
    @Jake76667 Год назад +391

    7:31 fun fact: in japanese culture, people’s blood types are used similarly to zodiac signs, so that’s why it’s asking you for your blood type

    • @kociemleko1
      @kociemleko1 Год назад +50

      For those who are curious:
      🅰 is supposed to be kind and sociable, but also may be overly fastidious and shy.
      🅱 is supposed to be spontaneous and creative, but also may be self-centred and impatient.
      🆎 is a mix of traits of 🅰and 🅱, and is supposed to be flexible, but also may be critical of others, or indecisive.
      🅾 has neither traits of 🅰 or 🅱, and is supposed to be confident and strong-willed, but also may be selfish and arrogant.

    • @danielostrowski856
      @danielostrowski856 Год назад +15

      Fire Emblem 7 also asks you for your blood type in the Japanese version, which was removed in the west

    • @Mimi.1001
      @Mimi.1001 Год назад +37

      Quite funny how in the West people use Zodiac signs, mainly inspired by eastern astronomy/science, for their esoterical beliefs, while Japanese people or "in the East" they use bloodtypes, inspired by western science, for theirs.

    • @brittanymiller5585
      @brittanymiller5585 Год назад +4

      I remember this being an option in Star Wars Galaxies

    • @matt4193
      @matt4193 Год назад +4

      Can confirm 🅾 type is the best

  • @chackbro1
    @chackbro1 Год назад +58

    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

  • @bicenhower7
    @bicenhower7 Год назад +105

    I remember when I finally convinced my Dad it was safe to have our own wifi network at home, one of the first things I connected to was the Wii weather channel. I thought it was so cool to spin the globe around and look at different cities local weather. Simpler times…

  • @StephanieAwesom
    @StephanieAwesom Год назад +7

    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

  • @fernando98322
    @fernando98322 Год назад +67

    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
      @Reyn_the_Insane Год назад +13

      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
      @hisgrinningskull2122 Год назад +5

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

  • @SamPearman
    @SamPearman Год назад +4

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

  • @skyevlyn
    @skyevlyn Год назад +33

    I can't include a link because of RUclips'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
      @PikKraken8 Год назад +7

      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
      @mds_main 6 месяцев назад

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

  • @geo_101
    @geo_101 Год назад +26

    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

  • @Sizzyl
    @Sizzyl 11 месяцев назад +3

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

  • @DuskusCB
    @DuskusCB Год назад +1

    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

  • @Dairunt1
    @Dairunt1 Год назад +35

    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
      @Pensfan5919 Год назад

      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.

  • @Sithedd
    @Sithedd Год назад +4

    I appreciate there actually being something in this video that everyone didn't already know. Like "Sonic the Hedgehog was released in 1991 for the Sega Master System also known as the Sega Genesis in the west." or "Did you know Super Mario Bros 2 is ACTUALLY Doki Doki Panic?!"

  • @WiiCON-49000
    @WiiCON-49000 Год назад +6

    I will gladly watch any video of Jon talking about the Wii

  • @gaminglakitu
    @gaminglakitu Год назад +14

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

  • @MathiasWolfbrok
    @MathiasWolfbrok Год назад +5

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

  • @StefiStarlite
    @StefiStarlite Год назад +15

    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
      @StefiStarlite Год назад

      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.

  • @tintinfinite3388
    @tintinfinite3388 Год назад +1

    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.

  • @MrHumbuck
    @MrHumbuck Год назад +20

    I remember my Mum asking me whether Animal Crossing used the weather forecast. It seems like such an obvious use, shame it didn't.
    …Btw, did that aquarium game you showed seriously get a sequel?! HOW?!?
    AND WHY?
    WHYYYYY

  • @AbsolXGuardian
    @AbsolXGuardian Год назад +2

    7:31 Japan fell really hard for a puesdoscience about blood type determining your personality, similar to zodiac signs. A western equivalent here would be a game asking for your birthday and then caculating your zodiac sign from it. This is also why blood type is listed on the profiles of most anime or manga characters.

  • @gabrielgoes0
    @gabrielgoes0 Год назад +2

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

  • @ColonialSun-mg6tq
    @ColonialSun-mg6tq Год назад +3

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

  • @raviolifordays
    @raviolifordays Год назад +1

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

  • @snecolsslocens7498
    @snecolsslocens7498 Год назад +1

    Congrats on the double shinies! Never seen that happen in a raid before. Really cool moment to catch on video.

  • @twinkpeaks9993
    @twinkpeaks9993 Год назад +1

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

  • @bananabike279
    @bananabike279 11 месяцев назад +1

    Really interesting, I never even know about Wii Room!

  • @LeroyJSmith
    @LeroyJSmith Год назад

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

  • @NintenRob
    @NintenRob Год назад +11

    There's something satisfying about seeing Jon's random ass twitter post come together in a cohesive project

  • @Thndrstrike
    @Thndrstrike 11 месяцев назад

    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

  • @yoinkylive
    @yoinkylive Год назад +1

    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.

  • @bland9876
    @bland9876 Год назад +1

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

  • @nindieboy4194
    @nindieboy4194 Год назад +2

    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
    @otaking3582 Год назад

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

  • @WastelanderLucky
    @WastelanderLucky Год назад

    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!!

  • @Mapl3_Syrupp
    @Mapl3_Syrupp Год назад +1

    Loved the Puyo Puyo music, and you, as always, keep it up❤

  • @bland9876
    @bland9876 Год назад +1

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

  • @amesstarline5482
    @amesstarline5482 Год назад

    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.

  • @supersaiyanlucario
    @supersaiyanlucario Год назад +1

    Eagerly anticipating the day that Jon talks about the Everybody Votes Channel

  • @Akfamilyhome
    @Akfamilyhome Год назад +3

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

  • @ODISeth
    @ODISeth Год назад

    There’s something really unsettling about seeing ads for TOTK and Mario Wonder on a Wii app at 7:49

  • @JPHarringtonJr
    @JPHarringtonJr Год назад +1

    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!

  • @Jonnyuri
    @Jonnyuri Год назад +5

    If Sega released Shenmue back in the day on the Wii. I almost bet this game used this feature of the forecast channel and worked very well 😁

  • @Stormkyleis
    @Stormkyleis Год назад

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

  • @LolaliciousSmiley
    @LolaliciousSmiley 11 месяцев назад

    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.

  • @Soonjai
    @Soonjai Год назад

    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.

  • @607
    @607 5 месяцев назад

    I'm not the only one who checks out the settings menu first thing upon playing a new game, right? (potentially after listening to the title screen music)
    I did not know about this feature before seeing the video; it's quite cool, though!

  • @zandershepherd4746
    @zandershepherd4746 Год назад

    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

  • @eeveemaster243
    @eeveemaster243 Год назад

    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.

  • @Gloryzuki
    @Gloryzuki Год назад +1

    Now we need some games that use the News Channel

  • @grubby_tuesdays
    @grubby_tuesdays 21 день назад

    Just found out about this feature and tried to look up a list of games supported by it, of course Jon has already made a video on it

  • @okapi_q
    @okapi_q Год назад +1

    I honestly cherish the fact that Animal Crossing’s weather has never been beholden to the actual weather irl, it helps enhance the feeling that it’s an escape from reality. That said, City Folk not having an option to sync the weather to the forecast channel when freaking TIGER WOODS did is kind of shameful lol

    • @FigureFarter
      @FigureFarter Год назад

      I live in a city where snow happens like every 20 years. I was only alive for one so far

  • @gars129
    @gars129 Год назад

    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.

  • @PrinceMallow
    @PrinceMallow Год назад

    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!

  • @BenryTheMii
    @BenryTheMii Год назад

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

  • @MUSQUIZanimation
    @MUSQUIZanimation Год назад

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

  • @leesalee1540
    @leesalee1540 Год назад

    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 😢)

  • @SonictheHammons
    @SonictheHammons Год назад

    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

  • @LoomDoom
    @LoomDoom Год назад +1

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

  • @peaceelectronics2
    @peaceelectronics2 Год назад +1

    It’s an amazing feature I didn’t even know about since I never owned any of the games that featured it but I guess I would not have ever used it as I’m Spanish and it would always be sunny, not very exciting 😅
    Animal Crossing requires rain for certain fish and bugs for example, it would have to change the way the game works for it to be well implemented, but I’ve always thought about that. Great video!

  • @mongoose1billion
    @mongoose1billion Год назад +1

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

  • @Some_Random_Guy
    @Some_Random_Guy Год назад +2

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

  • @terran347
    @terran347 Год назад

    Nights will also track/display snow and rain weather in the My Dream (Chao Garden) mode.

  • @SerotoninSystem
    @SerotoninSystem Год назад

    Animal crossing would've been so cool with the weather channel! It definitely would've caused some problems with the whole winter system they have, but it still would've been cool since they already use the clock

  • @alexfirth4885
    @alexfirth4885 Год назад +1

    Would you do a video on the food channel Jon?

  • @ledojaeger7474
    @ledojaeger7474 Год назад

    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

  • @bootmii98
    @bootmii98 Год назад

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

  • @bubbledoubletrouble
    @bubbledoubletrouble Год назад +1

    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

  • @TanteiRotana
    @TanteiRotana Год назад

    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
      @bobmcguffin5706 Год назад

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

  • @themothreborn
    @themothreborn Год назад

    they NEED to bring back my aquarium for the switch 2

  • @TheBoneHeadClan
    @TheBoneHeadClan Год назад

    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?"

  • @usernamesareweird4880
    @usernamesareweird4880 Год назад

    Thanks for validating my Wii obsession

  • @Crdavis1996
    @Crdavis1996 Год назад +1

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

  • @SPac316
    @SPac316 Год назад

    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.

  • @tefnutofhoney2832
    @tefnutofhoney2832 Год назад

    Imagine if there were games that used the news channel. If you played animal crossing and the news was war, your villagers would be all paranoid about war.
    Mostly a joke.

  • @JustJulyo
    @JustJulyo Год назад

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

  • @noahstreblow2642
    @noahstreblow2642 Год назад

    4:09 Heyo!!! Live action bit! 🎉

  • @lukeshoo
    @lukeshoo Год назад

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

  • @revand8011
    @revand8011 Год назад

    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

  • @GoldenGrenadier
    @GoldenGrenadier Год назад

    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.

  • @MasterLYT
    @MasterLYT Год назад

    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

  • @Icyangel10
    @Icyangel10 Год назад

    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.

  • @LHSMeleeClub
    @LHSMeleeClub Год назад

    i love these kind of videos from you guys lol

  • @non_one_c
    @non_one_c Год назад

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

  • @TheBoneHeadClan
    @TheBoneHeadClan Год назад

    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.

  • @bobancirkovic2446
    @bobancirkovic2446 10 месяцев назад

    You have the download assistants for internet channel today and tomorrow channel & BBC Iplayer.

  • @Robottsie
    @Robottsie Год назад

    Loving Jon’s decent into “Wii”

  • @bronwynknox3605
    @bronwynknox3605 Год назад

    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

  • @drewlincoln8110
    @drewlincoln8110 Год назад

    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

  • @takwu0
    @takwu0 Год назад

    So as a few below have said Animal Crossing would not work with real weather... if it reflects in your main town, because weather is a function of the game there.
    but it would still be cool if it reflects in special areas you can visit that would not be functionally affected, just visually like these games are.
    maybe nintendo can implement that in pocket camp?

  • @ninjapanda393
    @ninjapanda393 11 месяцев назад

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

  • @poil8351
    @poil8351 Год назад

    okay so what if it is sunny and 35c does the snow melt.

  • @yexx04
    @yexx04 Год назад +1

    Punching Weight energy video

  • @justina1909
    @justina1909 Год назад

    I wonder what potential the feature has in mods and homebrew

  • @b.w.k.64yt
    @b.w.k.64yt Год назад

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

  • @suntannedduck2388
    @suntannedduck2388 Год назад

    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.

  • @Pehmokettu
    @Pehmokettu Год назад

    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.

  • @bigpboy1012
    @bigpboy1012 Год назад

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