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Removed "Pre-existing photos" entry, as it's clearly caused by importing a certain NAND dump available elsewhere, moved the Photo Channel 1.1 and corrupt SD card entries to Emulation Information and removed a lot of unrelated and unverified information (again, avoid adding "may occur/happen" stuff to the wiki, either you've verified it happens, or you didn't and thus should not be here)
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(Removed "Pre-existing photos" entry, as it's clearly caused by importing a certain NAND dump available elsewhere, moved the Photo Channel 1.1 and corrupt SD card entries to Emulation Information and removed a lot of unrelated and unverified information (again, avoid adding "may occur/happen" stuff to the wiki, either you've verified it happens, or you didn't and thus should not be here))
 
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|channeltype = Pre-installed
|channeltype = Pre-installed
|developer = Nintendo
|developer = Nintendo
|released  = {{vgrelease|NA=November 19, 2006|JP=December 2, 2006|EU/AUS|December 8, 2007}}{{vgrelease|KO=April 26, 2008}}
|released  = {{vgrelease|NA=November 19, 2006|JP=December 2, 2006|EU/AUS|December 8, 2006}}{{vgrelease|KO=April 26, 2008}}
|genre    = Utility
|genre    = Utility
|input    = Wii Remote
|input    = Wii Remote
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An update to the Photo Channel, named the Photo Channel 1.1, became available on December 10, 2007. It allows customization of the Wii Menu by letting users replace the Photo Channel icon with a picture taken from an SD card or a picture from the Wii Message Board. It also allows playback of songs in random order.
An update to the Photo Channel, named the Photo Channel 1.1, became available on December 10, 2007. It allows customization of the Wii Menu by letting users replace the Photo Channel icon with a picture taken from an SD card or a picture from the Wii Message Board. It also allows playback of songs in random order.
== Emulation Information ==
== Emulation Information ==
=== Pre-existing Photos ===
=== Photo Channel 1.1 Doesn't Show Up in Wii Menu ===
A common [[Wii Menu]] download has some user photos left in. These photos can be removed by deleting the [[Wii Menu]] data folder (Dolphin Emulator\Wii\title\00000001\00000002\data) (WARNING: This will erase all of the messages in Wii Message Board). This is ''de facto'' solved by instead installing Wii Menu through Dolphin's Wii System Menu online update functionality.
Although Photo Channel 1.1 runs when launched from Dolphin's game list, it will not show up in Wii Menu unless the ''Photo Channel 1.1 Dummy'' (title ID <code>0001000048415A41</code>) is also installed in the emulated NAND.
 
On early Wii consoles, where the ''Photo Channel 1.1 Dummy'' was not pre-installed from factory, users were intended to download the 1.1 update from [[Wii Shop Channel]] (since the shutdown, only accounts that previously downloaded the update when it was available can redownload it now). As Dolphin does not ship with the ''Photo Channel 1.1 Dummy'' either, Wii Menu believes the update is missing, and will only show Photo Channel 1.0 instead.
 
To make Photo Channel 1.1 show up in Wii Menu when run from the emulator, a full NAND dump from a Wii console that has the ''Photo Channel 1.1 Dummy'' pre-installed (or, alternatively, an extracted WAD of ''Photo Channel 1.1 Dummy'') must be imported in Dolphin. This is also required for the Photo Channel 1.1's "Post to Wii Menu" function to work correctly.
 
==="The data cannot be read. The SD Card is corrupted and must be formatted."===
Photo Channel is a bit picky and can throw this error when clicking on "Digital Camera/Cell Phone" with a [[Virtual SD Card Guide|virtual SD card]] that has been manipulated outside of Dolphin. Using "Convert Folder to File Now" (available since Dolphin {{revision|5.0-16891}} by going to Config → Wii) to regenerate the virtual SD Card will fix the problem.
 


== Problems ==
== Problems ==
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Disabled '''EFB Copies to Texture Only''' to fix this problem.
Disabled '''EFB Copies to Texture Only''' to fix this problem.


==="The data cannot be read. The SD Card is corrupted and must be formatted."===
===Photos Posted to Wii Message Board Are Completely Black===
Can occur when clicking on "Digital Camera/Cell Phone" with a [[virtual SD card]]. Both Photo Channel 1.0 and 1.1 are affected by this. It is likely caused by Photo Channel refusing to recognize folder-synced virtual SD cards.
In v1.1, photos posted from Photo Channel to Wii Message Board will be an empty black square when using default Dolphin settings. Going to Graphics → Hacks and turning "Store EFB Copies to Texture Only" off, will fix it for future photo posts.
 
Using "Convert Folder to File Now" in Dolphin's setup settings instead will prevent the problem.


=== <s>Corrupted Save File on Initial Launch</s> ===
=== <s>Corrupted Save File on Initial Launch</s> ===