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Create A Mii On Your Nintendo Wii

January 17th, 2009 by Adrian Hardmann
by Adrian Fletcher

The latest generation of game consoles are a marked departure from previous generations. The major distinction is that they are more than just a machine to play games but are a multi media device. To this extent the Nintendo wii is right up there.

With the Nintendo wii you can watch films and listen to music. You can store information, including photos on the Wii. You can connect to the internet and chat to friends, browse websites and download games. It opens up the possibilities that a games console offers.

One thing that can be considered unique to the Nintendo wii is the mii channel. This article will go into what the mii channel is and how you can create funky miis.

When your wii starts up, you are presented with a bank of small TV screens on your TV. These are known as the channels and they are effectively the main menu of the system. You can go to various functions of the console by selecting on or other of the channels. In the case of creating a mii, you select the mii channel.

I’d surmise that you don’t have to be Einstein to work out what the mii channel is all about. It’s about you ! Or rather how you look in the wii world. A mii is merely your alter ego in the wii community.

So you make a character in wii space that reflects your personality. If you want to play with a straight bat, this mii can look like you in reality or you can get creative and make a fantasy version that includes outlandish facial hair, facial ticks and bling wear. Your only limit is your imagination. You can create more than one mii if you like or want to experiment.

So how do you create a mii ? Well, you wander down to the mii plaza. This is where the mii hang out, waiting to be picked up for the next baseball game. There is a button on the left of the screen that lets you create a mii. From this point you can get creative.

You go through a series of screens that build your new mii character from scratch. The screens cover every detail of the new character, like gender, name and physical details. You can enter the height and weight of the character and how the face looks.

This is heaps of fun as you create your Dr. Jekyll or Mr Hyde (or should that be Frankenstein). Should it have a bouncy afro or a flouncy hippy hairstyle. You can select the color of the skin, hair and eyes. You can add all sorts of facial looks like the shape of the eyes, mouth, nose, eyebrows. You can add beauty marks, facial hair and accessories like glasses or earrings.

Once you have a few mini miis to play boxing or tennis or another game, it can really bring the games to life. You can identify with your character and enjoy the game play more.

You mii can mingle too. What this means is that you can send you mii off in the Nintendo wii community. It will pop up on other people game console and play then at tennis or boxing or such like. This can also add another element to the game play. You can also meet new miis and get ideas for creating your own mii characters.

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