Topic: Inside the Wii

First off I have two questions:
1. When you open the Wii up what is that metal plate/cover for? The reason I ask is I have been having the notorious Wii Clicking problem, and I decided to take measures in my own hands, I tried all the basic Youtube.com fixes but none of them worked, but when I removed the metal plate/cover, all clicking sounds stopped, and I was just wondering if it might harm my Wii if I leave it off.

2. Alright, let's pretend that the metal plate/cover thing I was asking about in question 1 broke my Wii and I can't not use it anymore, and I decided to buy a cool new black Wii but I still want all my VC/WiiWare game and decide to send it into Nintendo would they still let me re-buy or put those games on my Wii?

I bet that if you had something holding/absorbing the movement of the plate; the sound would go away.

I asked Nintendo (well UK) about this a few months back...yep I wanted a black Wii, but the short answer is no - Nintendo will not transfer the downloads.

Toy R Us (UK) have it (Black or White) for £129.99 with WSR, WS and SSBB

If your Wii breaks, you would send it in and they would fix it for you. If it was unfixable, then they would send you a new one, in which you would download all of your games again, free of charge.

If you don't know what you're doing, send your Wii to Nintendo and let them fix it. Sure the repair costs may be high in some cases, but it's worth not losing all of your games and Wii. If they (Nintendo) mess up, then you'll get a new one; however if you mess up, you're screwed

Well, last time I had to fix something NOA had a flat rate for all repairs and that is about half the retail cost of the system and it's been that way for as long as I can remember. I've broken a lot of crap in my time, lol. GBC, N64, Gamecube, GBASP, Wii. Those that weren't under warranty cost me half their retail at the time and I've never received my own console back, they took my broken machine and sent me a re-manufactured machine. In the case of the Wii, my saves and VC licenses were transferred but I couldn't edit any one my old Miis. not that that matters. very painless and quite fast. you should have it back in two weeks.

Thank you all for the advice

... I've wanted to take my Wii apart for awhile now ... but I'm scared I'll brake it ... it does'nt read wii disks but it reads GameCube disks...

You'll void the guarantee if you open it I bet, leave it to the pros aka Nintendo.

This.

Now people will only want to buy 2D platformers if they are downloadable.

If it's under warrantee put everything back where it was and have Nintendo repair it for free. If they find out you took it apart, it will void the warrantee, so really be careful putting it back together. If it's not under warrantee and works without the metal plate, I'd say back up everything onto an SD card in case you eventually need to get your Wii repaired professionally, and, in the meantime, enjoy your Wii plate-free. Do keep the plate in case you need to send it in eventually. You're better off repairing it then buying a new one, since it's cheaper than a new console, and you'll get another year of warrantee.