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I was messing around with my Wii this morning before I had another shot on Final Fantasy CC: My Life as a King, a simplistic god sim based around the FFCC universe.

Anyway I decided to update my Wii’s SD Card with the latest photos I had taken and some new mp3’s. I noticed I had new mail so went to check it out and it seems that the Nintendo Channel had launched, which I duly downloaded. It was upon doing this I noticed, what with the addition of this and the new Wii-Ware games, that my channels list had gotten a bit messy (I also downloaded TV Show King recently, what is it with these ‘King’ titles?). So I went online using the internet channel to find out if it was possible to move the channels list around. In doing so I found a host of useful tricks that you can do on the Wii which I never knew, so here is a top ten:

1. To move just about anything on the Wii around you can ‘grab’ it by pressing the A + B buttons together on the Wiimote. This includes channels and message board items.

2. You can send email and text messages to your Wii message centre by adding mobile phone and email addresses to the friends list. The email address will be w(Wii Number here)@wii.com.

3. While your Wii is turned off you can press any button on your Wiimote and the number of lights flashing is the amount of battery charge left.

4. You can suspend and resume virtual console games simply by pressing ‘Home’ then ‘Wii Menu’. Now when you start the game again it will resume from where you left off!

5. You can get a 194 piece jigsaw puzzle by holding down the (1) button before selecting any amount, you can also play 2-player, co-op puzzles.

6. You can place the sensor bar upside down and doing so won’t reverse the directions of your movements, the sensor is on the remote not in the ’sensor’ bar.

7. Any of the options in Fun! mode (like doodles) can be applied to individual frames of a video as the photo channel supports QuickTime files of up to 848×480.

8. Wii Video 9 is a free video conversion application developed by Red Kawa. It allows you to convert your computer video files (like avi, divx, mpeg, etc.) into the specific video formats that are playable on the Wii.

9. If you have enough custom Mii’s then on various games the crowd or competitors will be represented by the custom Mii’s you have made.

10. In Wii Sports baseball, hitting the (2) Button before pitching will cause you to dip down and perform a sidearm pitch. You’ll continue to throw balls this way until hitting the 1 Button to switch back.

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