14 Facts About Mii

1.

Mii is a customizable avatar used on several Nintendo video game consoles and mobile apps.

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2.

Nintendo designer Yamashita Takayuki attributes his work on Talent Studio as having been foundational to his eventual work on the Mii, which was necessitated by the development of the game Wii Sports.

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3.

The Mii Maker installed on the Nintendo 3DS and Wii U can use facial recognition to generate a Mii, which selects facial features based on a photograph of a person's face taken with the system's and GamePad's cameras respectively.

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Mii Channel is the app that allows Mii creation on the Wii menu.

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For example, in Wii Sports, the Mii's body is stylized, with spherical floating hands and bearing no arms, and Mii audiences or CPUs floating with spherical bottoms with no legs instead, but in Wii Fit its body is designed to look more natural, and its weight will be determined by the weight the Wii Fit found of the player in Wii Fit tests.

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6.

Only the Mii's head is shown and it's shown in a sphere-shaped like the planet.

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The Mii Maker installed on the Nintendo 3DS can use facial recognition to generate a Mii, which selects facial features based on a photograph of a person's face taken with the system's cameras.

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8.

Mii characters appear in Pokemon Rumble Blast, Mario Kart 7, and in many more games.

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9.

Feature on the Nintendo 3DS, the StreetPass Mii Plaza makes use of the handheld's StreetPass feature, which data between nearby Nintendo 3DS consoles in standby mode.

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10.

Each Mii possesses a different type of magic depending on their color, and become more powerful if the player meets them more than once.

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11.

The Mii Maker installed on the Wii U can use facial recognition to generate a Mii, which selects the features based on a photograph of a person's face taken with the Wii U GamePad camera.

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12.

User accounts with Mii representatives are used for both games and apps such as Nintendo TVii.

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13.

The Mii Maker is located within the console's system settings menu and, unlike previous Mii Makers, provides unnatural hair and eye colors.

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14.

Mii characters created on the app initially resembled their Wii U counterparts, with a later update introducing Nintendo Switch standards, and use the same attributes.

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