Deleting Photos from the Wii Message board

Last Updated on Wednesday, 2 December 2009 12:00 Written by admin Monday, 9 April 2007 10:57

Having recently been lucky enough to purchase a Wii, I say lucky enough, because these things are scarcer than hen’s teeth – I had been trying to get one since November 2006.

Don’t get me wrong, I am not a game freak. In fact the last time I seriously played a computer game was way back in the days of DOOM – the original version, and remember nearly falling off my chair with fright when playing the game late at night and being jumped by a pink monster that was hiding behind a trapdoor in a darkened tunnel!

Anyway, I digress, I bought this Wii primarily to tempt my son off World of Warcraft, which he has been so addicted to that I hardly see him. From that point it has been a raving success and now I seldom get to watch TV, but at least he is out of his room.

My point is that after playing with the Wii for a bit I began to explore it’s other abilities and had fun doctoring a picture and then uploading it to the “Message board” only to find that there didn’t seem to be a way to delete it from the board. Searching the manual and Nintendo site didn’t help, but then I came across a message by “Player Joe” in a forum on “neoseeker.com” (http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/index.php?fn=view_thread&t=866035 ) which suggested that the day the picture was posted would be recorded in the Wii message log and deleting this logged message would also delete the picture. It works, so below I summarize the steps needed to do this:-

Procedure to delete a photo from the Wii message Board

1. Click on the photo in the message board and note it’s datestamp.
2. Go to the Wii menu
3. Select the Message Board icon at the bottom left
4. Click the calendar icon at the bottom right and navigate to the above datestamp
5. Find, select and delete the picture posting message
6. Go back to the Photo Channel and view the message board photos and check that your photo has been deleted.
Hope this helps