Guitar Hero 5 for Wii can stream downloaded songs directly from SD card

In what's hopefully indicative of future trends, the upcoming Guitar Hero 5 for Nintendo Wii has the ability to stream content -- in this case, extra songs -- directly from the SD card. Up until now, everything from the card had to be transferred to 512MB internal memory before use, meaning you'd be pretty limited if making that near-endless set list of premium downloaded tracks. With 32GB of space now at your disposal, it looks like the only limit is your bank account and your predilection to Eagles of Death Metal. So when are we gonna see this trick in other Wii titles, eh Nintendo?

[MSM Posted Aug 13th 2009 4:37AM]

there is a guitar hero 5??

last I remember was 3 lol

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 13th 2009 4:49AM]

Guitar Hero World Tour was Guitar Hero 4 :)

[Smart People Play Tuba Posted Aug 13th 2009 9:28AM]

The dollar theater marquee by our local mall says "Terminator 4."

I said, "Terminator FOUR ? ? ? ? When did THAT come out? Did I miss something?" Then I realized the marquee dude had just been lazy, or maybe didn't have enough letters in his box to spell "Salvation."

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 13th 2009 4:49AM]

Thank goodness! My 512 MB is completely full already. :/
I need to get a big SD card, though.
Eagles of Death Metal is on GH5? That makes me happy inside.

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 13th 2009 4:58AM]

I call the wrongful use of the term "stream" here. It should just be "read".

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 13th 2009 8:37AM]

Just leave him alone cause the boy's bad news

[CZroe Posted Aug 13th 2009 5:42AM]

"So when are we gonna see this trick in other Wii titles, eh Nintendo?"

See "ExciteTruck;" released November 19th, 2006 (launch title).

[GingerFox Posted Aug 13th 2009 6:41AM]

Good for wii owners i guess, maybe they can dust it off and use it.....maybe

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 13th 2009 10:31AM]

hehe

[Yan Posted Aug 13th 2009 9:22AM]

Exceptional for us of the Homebrew crowd.

[ajw85 Posted Aug 13th 2009 11:19AM]

I LOVE EAGLES OF DEATH METAL

check it. tight pants. WOO!

[Davimation Posted Aug 13th 2009 10:25AM]

I thought the Wii's SD slot was limited to 2GB cards???

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 13th 2009 11:13AM]

A previous system menu update (4.0 I believe?) added support for SDHC. And if I remember correctly, The Homebrew Channel beat them to it!

[Trebawa Posted Aug 13th 2009 10:30AM]

Mmm, customs!

[tann Posted Aug 13th 2009 11:18AM]

It makes me feel like like crap when I that that 32gb sd card in the picture has more room than my whole entire 360 hard drive :'(

[tann Posted Aug 13th 2009 11:20AM]

That is not what I wrote -_-

'like crap when I SEE that...'
THATS WHAT I WROTE!

[(Unverified) Posted Aug 13th 2009 12:39PM]

Rock Band 2 for the Wii was able to do this since it hit stores a year ago. I've bought about 30 songs from the Rock Band store, and none of them are on my Wii's internal memory.

[CZroe Posted Aug 13th 2009 3:23PM]

Rockband 2? Bah. I already gave a more damning "not news" example: Excite Truck is a LAUNCH TITLE that supported custom MP3 soundtracks directly from SD card. It's just like all the news about MS "finally" allowing games to require the HDD when they have had an exception for MMOs all along (including FF XI).