Chuckpebble Posted June 18, 2009 Yeah, this is what happens some time after unlocking the snap shot tool in Metroid Prime 3 corruption. Some words of advice: If you like some of the photos you took in Metroid Prime 3, make sure and save them to your computer before this happens to you. "But how?", you say. Easy. Get yourself a tripod, turn out the lights, disable your flash and manually focus on your TV screen. Then go to the photo channel and Ansel Adams that ish. Sucks, I know, but its the only way to get those images out of your Wii. Why do this? Well, you see, what happens is this. When you take a screen shot in MP3, the image is "e-mailed" to your message board. Each shot is attached to a message that says "Screenshot from Metroid Prime 3". You can click the image and see it at about half size in the message if you wish, or you can hop over to the Photo Channel and flip through all of your pics conveniently under the Wii Message board browser. Nice looking and full screen. Except that you can in NO way manage the photos from here, only view them. Whatever, I can live with that. Fast forward to the "Wii Message Board is Full" message, if you don't have an SD card, you're hosed. The Wii will just delete everything prior to the current day. Nice. With an SD card, you're given the option to move all previous messages to the SD card. Not bad, right? Wait for it... You see, these messages include your screen shots. OK, seems sensible enough. Oh, but guess what, they are no longer viewable in the Photo Channel once moved to the SD card. The F*&%!, you say? Well, any message that was moved to the SD card now has a small SD card icon on it, and sure enough you can view the small images there, but thats it. Going to the Photo Channel and browsing the message board photos, it becomes apparent that those images are not showing up. OK, that kinda makes sense, they're on the SD card now. Lets hop over there. Wait, WHAT! Go ahead, pop the SD card into your computer, I challenge you to find those images. You won't. They're not images, they're some whacked out proprietary file that lumps each day's messages into one file that nothing but your Wii can understand. Sooooo nice. So basically, your stuck trying to shoot images that are half size once you've hit this screen. My other word of advice, once this happens, just delete the crap that got moved to SD. You see, I play Animal Crossing and I time travel. So when this message appeared, my Wii was chillin' back in the good ol' days of 2008. This means that there were a ton of messages between 2008 and now that didn't get removed. Without getting into the mind bending details of temporal anomalies, I'll just say that its possible to have a day on your Wii Calendar that has two logs of the days play times. You know what I mean, that annoying white envelope that shows up and tells your wife that you had Super Smash Bros. running for 7 hours last Saturday. Yeah, you'll have one on the Wii and one on the SD card for the same day. I can't be certain, it may have just been a coincidence, but I couldn't power up my Wii from the Wii-remote while this time paradox was going on. I powered up from the button on the console, found the little oddity that I just described, removed the SD card and everything was fine. So, I just deleted that stuff. If you're interested in finding this folder and deleting it from your SD card, or just mucking around with it, its not hard to find, its four uppercase letters and it contains a folder for each year that had a message board message in it. eg. 2009, 2008, 2007, etc. Then there's just a huge mess of 2 digit numbered folders to drill through. If you go down far enough you'll find the binary data. Cheers if you can do anything with that. I know, I know, TL,DNR! I thank you for being honest. and if you did read all of this, bless your pure little gamer heart. Peace! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
elmuerte Posted June 18, 2009 OMG They killed Kenny Those bastards! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
