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bro2dragons

So, last night, I got back from spring break. My Wii had been left at school all week, because my roommate had to stay, and otherwise wouldn't have a whole lot to do. Well, a few of my friends and I were playing Brawl last night, when in the middle of one match, a couple rounds in, I got the traditional Wii error message. It's happened before, no big deal. We just turned it off, because it was getting late anyway. Well, my roommate and I decided we would start playing through Fire Emblem: Radiant Dawn together before bed. So we turned the Wii back on, played the first couple levels, saved, turned it off, and went to bed. This morning we go to play Fire Emblem again, and we play most of a level, lose a character, and shut it off. We pop in Brawl for one match because my roommate only has a few minutes before he has to leave for class. Twice, I put in Brawl and take it out, because the Wii won't recognize that there's a disk in there. The third time it recognizes Brawl, but before it can get to the title screen, I get the error message again. Again this happens. I wonder if something happened and it can no longer read dual-layered disks, so I pit in NSMBWii, and get the same response. Then Kirby's Epic Yarn, and it works... until about 30 seconds into the level I pick, at which point, you guessed it, error message.

I don't know what the problem could be, or what else to do. I played both Fire Emblem and Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes this morning with no problems. It doesn't seem to struggle reading Gamecube disks. But Wii games just don't seem to work. What do I do?

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bro2dragons

Yeah... I know that's the textbook answer. I just hate sending it off like that if there's any other safe way to fix it. Could it potentially be solved by a lens cleaner?

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zezhyrule

You can try the lens cleaner, but I did too once and it didn't help at least for that long. Sending it to Nintendo is probably always the best option, which is what I did. They sent me another Brawl disc and replaced the lens device thing. If you're still under warranty, I'd say that's the best way to go.

but y'know it could work... I'm sure it has for some

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Tasuki

Send it in or buy a new one thats the only real answers really.

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Raylax

Try if it reads PS3 disks. It may be having a teenage rebellion against its parents manufacturers.

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HeroOfTime007

Ahh, sad story bro.

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NIN10DOXD

this happened to me too. Only nintendo can fix it though and theyll fix for free and they get it ,fix it,and send it back in about three days and then youll never have a problem again.

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erv

Had that problem. Wasn't pretty, because my wii was way out of warranty (was an early adopter) and had to contact nintendo - and guess what, no 3 or 4 days, make them weeks. 90 euros.

Bought a new wii for 165 euro's including a wiimote plus. Hate the fact that my wiiware and saves are all messed up now, but considering the time it would take... 4 weeks without a wii! Fools.

But uhm, yeah, 3 days and back within the week for no additional cost would've been a different story altogether. Still, bad service for nintendo not having an account activation system to get your saves and wiiware games back on easily. Pfff.....

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rolLTheDice

Same as erv here, but i paid 70€ in the middle of the last year. It took them at least two weeks to send me a substitute Wii. And of course i had to re-download all of my games too.
I used the lens cleaner before, but it didn't for long either.
I guess the Wii must have been damaged when it fell down a couple of times before. But i could be wrong here
At first when reading a disc it got very noisy. Then it would always give me these error messages too.

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erv

Glad/sorry to hear I'm not the only one. Those 90 are excluding shipping costs, which would've been mine to pay as well. The noisy thing happens sometimes though, but moving the wii a little makes it go away. The wii is so much fun, but it's just that bit too compromising on robustness sometimes if you ask me.

And that save games/wiiware problem is just bad. Nintendo could just use an activated account for your wii system in order to get it back and make sure there is no account sharing either along the way... so big bad thumbs down for that one. I use my wii a LOT, so the service as well as the costs and the time really weren't an option.

Hope people with similar problems will find a way to speak up - here's to the next nintendo console having a better system to at least make sure your saves and games and purchases are not all out of whack.

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rolLTheDice

The whole WiiWare / Virtual Console situation wouldn't be that bad though ...
... if they would only give you the option to download all your games at once. Sure it would take a while too but at least you wouldn't have to go through all these "suboptimal" menus in the Wii Shop a million times.
That's what keeps me from sending it to them again because now i can't connect to the WiiConnect24 channels and services anymore.

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erv

It's not really the redownload that bothers me, it's the fact that I have to pay for them again to be able to download them to my new wii. Because your shopping account is linked to your other wii, and only nintendo is able to transfer all of that.

I'm having a lot of fun with our rerun of monster hunter though

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Funky_Gamer

My Wii has problems reading some disks, and others fine. Like earlier today, it wouldn't read Brawl so my (lifeless) brother sat there and kept trying to put it in until it read it, and eventually it did.

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wiigamer93

you can get a Wii Lens Cleaner cheap on play.com. I did and now Metroid: Other M works wish i knew this before because we had Super Smash Bros Brawl but we had to get rid of it because we thought we would never be able to play it again.

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Tylr

Which is why i can't finish DKCR and Epic Mickey now. Dang, my Wii AND DSi kicked the bucket on me in the same month.At least the 3DS comes out tomorrow...

My Pikmin are ready.

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NIN10DOXD

actually there is a certain poroblem ssbb because it is so thick and it is hard for your wii to read it. Ninty usually fixes for free well at least in the USA and it comes back quickly.(Nintendo of Europe seems to crappy customer service.)

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NIN10DOXD

@Erv
I got the wii at launch and they still did for bfree because it it a common. Their customer service in your country sounds like Sony's here in the states.

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