Mii Transfer: Get Your Mii on Your Mac
I'm one of those sad souls who's dying to pick up a Nintendo Wii, but never can find one in stock. For those of you lucky enough to have one you might like to check out Mii Transfer from Mike Cohen. Says Mike, "Mii Transfer is a tiny utility which lets you copy your Miis from your Wii Remote to your computer so you can share them on sites such as MiiPlaza.net and edit them using Mii Editor." Well as soon as find a Wii, at least I know my Mii will be well looked after.Mii Transfer is open source and a free download from Mike's site.
[Via MacMegasite]
Update: Unfortunately, this seems not to be working for people. It would perhaps be best to contact Mike Cohen directly.
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I'm one of those sad souls who's dying to pick up a Nintendo Wii, but never can find one in stock. For those of you lucky enough to have...
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anyo0ne know how to get downloaded mii's from the net onto the wiimote from a mac?
May 02 2007 at 1:02 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyThanks Cristofer, your version allows me to get Miis from all the slots on my Wiimote.
Now if only they can make the MiiEditor site represent the Miis more accurately...
I can't even find a Wii in stock either... :(
No Wii for Mii...
The version listed by Cristofer Cruz seems to work well for me, although random miis I didn't send to the remote were in different slots. But it worked.
March 13 2007 at 3:11 AM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI tried this app and at first it did not run, after working with it in Xcode I got it to run. I relinked the Framework and made the app project aware of the framework project so there is no need to precompile it.
I tested it on G3 (crashed, perhaps due to the lack of Bluetooth), G4 (worked), and G5 (worked).
http://home.earthlink.net/~cruzcristofer/MiiTransfer-WiiRemoteFramework_Sources.zip
http://home.earthlink.net/~cruzcristofer/MiiTransfer_Binary.zip
Test it out
Mike, any idea why only slot 1 will transfer?
March 12 2007 at 11:11 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyI found out from several people that it won't launch on a PowerPC Mac. Since my only G4 Mac lacks bluetooth, I've only been able to test it on Intel Macs. I'll make sure it's properly linked to run on a PowerPC and get the fix out in the next few days.
March 12 2007 at 11:05 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyActually, this works reliably for me, but only when saving the Mii from slot 1. If I try from any other slot, the program bombs out.
March 12 2007 at 10:53 PM Report abuse Permalink rate up rate down ReplyHi, I'm one of the developers of the WiiRemote Framework Mike uses in his code. There are definitely "issues" with it at the moment. It seems to work for some people and not for others - especially others with G4 or single core CPU machines.
There is quite a long discussion over at the DarwiinRemote Sourceforge forum (http://sourceforge.net/projects/darwiin-remote/) trying to figure out exactly what's going on, and Apple has offered to take a look at things.
One bit of advice for now is to delete the Wiimote from your Bluetooth device list before running his software. That seems to help.
Again, sorry for the unreliability.
This worked for me once, but not again. The app launches fine, but when I sync my Wiimote and try to save a Mii, the program bombs out on me. Not sure why it worked the first time but failed thereafter.
But I am able to import my only successfully-imported Mii into the Mii editor:
http://www.miieditor.com/
Despite the buggy start, I'm still excited - I've been waiting for something like this for months.
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