The Nintendo Wii is a great console. It's family friendly, fun and allows you to customize your characters, called Mii's, used in many of the games.

The "Mii" is a brilliant concept. Instead of being some generic character in a game, you can be yourself. You can also make a celebrity look alike Mii. So the next time you are playing Baseball on Wii Sports, you might end up with a celebrity Mii on your team like Oprah, Tom Cruise or Dwight from the TV show The Office.

This tutorial will guide you through making a Mii and sharing it on the Internet as well as give you plenty of celebrity Mii ideas.

Requirements:

• Nintendo Wii
• Wii Remote
• Internet Connection

How to Make a Mii

Making a Mii is very easy and lots of fun.

1. Turn on your Nintendo Wii using either the Power button on the Wii Remote or the from of the Nintendo Wii.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Use the Wii Remote to select the "Mii Channel" from the main menu and press the Start button.
   
   
   
   
   
3. You will now be taken to "Mii Plaza." This is where all your Mii's hangout.
   
   
   
   
   
4. Press the New Mii button on the left side of the screen. You can also edit an existing Mii here by grabbing a Mii and dragging them into the Edit Mii button.
   
   
   
   
   
5. Do you want to make a male or female Mii? Select either the Male or Female button.
   
   
   
   
   
6. There are 9 buttons along the top of the screen (settings, body type, face, hair, eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, facial hair and glasses).
   
   Each button lest you customize the characteristics of your Mii. Everything from facial hair color to eye shape can be customized. Also many of the features can be fine-tuned by adjusting their size, position, and inward rotation to the center of the Mii's face.
   
   Go through each button along the top of the screen and make your Mii.
   
   If you want to make a celebrity Mii, then skip down to the next section of this tutorial called Celebrity Mii Ideas.
   
   
   
   
   
   
7. The first button in the Mii creation interface looks like a happy face with a caption above it. The options and settings available under this button allow you to name a Mii, assign it a birthday, change the gender, give it a favorite color, designate it as one of your 10 favorites (this puts your Mii first in Mii selection for some games) and make it Mingle.
   
   
   
   
   Mingling a Mii allows it to travel to other Mii's on the Internet. If you like your Mii and want to share it, then set Mingle to On. We'll go more into Mingling in the section of this tutorial called How to Share Your Mii.
   
   

Celebrity Mii Ideas

Besides Dwight Shrute (who is used in several screen shots above), here are some of the Mii's hanging out in my Wii Plaza. Use the videos and images below as guides to make your own celebrity Mii's.

Can you name all the Miis in this image below?

Click on any of the images below to zoom in.

Michael Jackson	Dwight Shrute (The Office)	Charlie Brown
Borat	Brandy (my dog)	Tom Cruise

Need more Mii ideas? It's pretty easy to find celebrity Mii's on the Internet. Flickr.com is a good place to start. Or try a Google image search for "celebrity mii." Here's a Tom Cruise Mii I found on Flickr while writing this article.

How to Share Your Mii

There are 3 ways to share your Mii's:

1. You can use the Transfer Mii feature to save Mii's to your Wii Remote.
   
   
   
   
   
2. Copy your friend's traveling Miis from the Mii Parade to your Wii.
   
   
   
   
   
3. Take a picture of your Mii using a digital camera or camera phone and post the image on the Internet like this picture below.
   
   
   
   

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