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xrl · Posted: Mon Nov 27, 2006 2:59 am Post subject: How about the speaker?

The speaker? Is it streamed or stored on the wiimote RAM? From what I've read in the gaming press the Wiimote RAM it's only for storing Miis. I don't know what makes more sense.
Some more package sniffing action needed in this department Question

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squeakypants · Joined: 09 Nov 2006 Posts: 99

Ha, I completely overlooked this (though I love the feature in games). I'm guessing it's streamed. The only other way would be for the Wii Remote to download the sound to the RAM, play it, and then delete it. However, there's only like 6k of RAM in the thing, so I doubt that.

I do wonder if we'd be able to stream things through it.

abeisgreat · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 107 Location: Hyrule

It must be streaming, cause there is no way to store enough sound in the wiimote

volsung · Site Admin Joined: 26 Nov 2006 Posts: 24

Streaming also sounds probable to me as well. You could only hold half a second of 8kHz, 8bit mono sound in the on-board memory, assuming you could use all of it, whereas that would be a relatively small amount of the total available Bluetooth bandwidth if you streamed it.

abeisgreat · Joined: 20 Nov 2006 Posts: 107 Location: Hyrule

Nintendo could have found a super super super compression for the audio, but im pretty sure its streaming.

hacking_secretly · Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 3

Would it be possible to upgrade the wiimote ram so it could be used a portable mp3 player like the ipod shuffle. Or Is that crazy? Would it be possible to put a small lcd screen to tell the wiimote stats (battery meter, signal strength meter, etc.)? Or is that also crazy? Or can you send ringtones from a bluetooth phone to the wiimote and also use the wiimote as a speakear accessory for the phone? Or is that past the limit crazy?????? Confused

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RandomInsano · Joined: 27 Nov 2006 Posts: 10

Definitely crazy. It's like asking of you could add a beater to a toaster and make it into a mixer. There's no processor powerful enough to allow it to play MP3 files, and the other options are way out of scope.

Although, if you didn't care about it being a controller anymore, I'm sure you could buy a cheap MP3 player and wire it to the speaker and buttons. But again, it couldn't be a controller at the same time.