Topic: Episode 24: Enjoy Your Podcast

[Kytim89]

Neal mentioned that his wii malfunctioned and this reminded me that my wii is strangely warmer than usual after playing games. It might be nothing, but it gor  really hot on top.

Do you mind me asking how you noticed this?

Neal was the one who said that his wii was freezing up and he was debating on whether to ship the wii to Nintendo for repairs, right?

[greybrick]

No, I want to know how you noticed that your Wii feels slightly warmer after using it. Do you routinely feel it after use?

[King of Twitch]

TWSS

[Kytim89]

No, I want to know how you noticed that your Wii feels slightly warmer after using it. Do you routinely feel it after use?

I put my wiimote and nunchuck on top of my wii when I am finished playing and I noticed that every time that the wii is warm. In fact, the area around the fan is really warm, too.

[Halbred]

Andy and I said our Wiis have been acting strangely.

This is the first time a Newscast thread has hit two pages (I think). What's sad is that a genuine discussion is not being had. Rather, we're somehow debating whether or not the Game Boy Advance, a ten year old handheld, had the same kind of market penetration that the Wii did and continues to have.

Here's the answer: It did not, and my word is law.

Now, let's discuss other things. Like daffodils and lemon drops.

[Kytim89]

Andy and I said our Wiis have been acting strangely.

This is the first time a Newscast thread has hit two pages (I think). What's sad is that a genuine discussion is not being had. Rather, we're somehow debating whether or not the Game Boy Advance, a ten year old handheld, had the same kind of market penetration that the Wii did and continues to have.

Here's the answer: It did not, and my word is law.

Now, let's discuss other things. Like daffodils and lemon drops.

Which games of this holiday season is everyone looking to buy?
 
I have a one hundred dollar budget this year and I want Metroid: Other M. I am still on the fence for the second game, but I am interested in the following:
 
Epic Mickey
Donkey Kong Country Returns
Conduit 2
Golden Eye 007
 
I should do some kind of elimination contest to determine which one of these four will be the final contestant.

[greybrick]

Now, let's discuss other things. Like daffodils and lemon drops.

Zach, did you know that a lemon drop is a sugary, lemon-flavored candy that is typically colored yellow and often shaped like a miniature lemon?

[Kytim89]

Zach, what was the name of the guy who lived with Grizzlies on an island?

[Halbred]

I did not know that, Nate! Kytim, his name is Timothy Treadwell. The movie is "Grizzly Man." Check it out!

[KDR_11k]

The Wii gets really hot in standby due to the WiFi antenna, if you disable Wii Connect 24 you can stop that from happening (when the system is on the cooling fans are running). I always hear some creaking from the Wii after I cut its power.

[NWR_Neal]

Neal mentioned that his wii malfunctioned and this reminded me that my wii is strangely warmer than usual after playing games. It might be nothing, but it gor  really hot on top.

Do you mind me asking how you noticed this?

LOL Kytim, my Wii always gets hot on top. But seriously, it does. It's never been a huge issue, and the worst that has happened is that one time the system was like "files corrupt" or something, and it occasionally freezes when I go into a channel.

[Kytim89]

I find it ironic that this guy's name is "Treadwell" considering that he was hanging around a bunch of bears. This guy was asking to be eaten by the bears.

[MegaByte]

Andy and I said our Wiis have been acting strangely.

Hmm, could the early Wiis be starting to fail?  Mine has always had some problems, but it's worse now -- it freezes up, especially at the Health screen.

[Kytim89]

Andy and I said our Wiis have been acting strangely.

Hmm, could the early Wiis be starting to fail?  Mine has always had some problems, but it's worse now -- it freezes up, especially at the Health screen.

I bought my wii in the fall of 2008, so I should not have anything to worry about, right? I hope so because I take good care of my wii.

[Enner]

I bought a black Wii in July and a handful of times I had a no-video boot up. My memory is a bit flimsy but I think even my Wiimotes weren't detected by the system. I had to power down and up to resolve the problem. It hasn't happened for about a month. I toss it up to some power issue.


The problem described in the podcast sounds to be much more than a power issue. It really sounds like something in the system OS is messed up. Shame you can't just format it and reinstall by yourself.

[MegaByte]

I think the no video thing happens to all Wiis.  I used to have the problem a lot more until System Menu 3.2 or so.  I think it's at least partly related to something getting stuck with the Wii mail service -- if you haven't turned your Wii on for a while, you'll notice it hang for a while, depending on how much mail you've got waiting.
With my last set of problems, I'm glad I had BootMii installed, so that I was able to bypass the broken System Menu and basically reinstall the system.

[Seacor]

Regarding the podcast broken Wii talk...

If you value any of the unnecessarily "locked" saved data on your Wii (the data that can't be saved to SD card) I would send it in for repair ASAP.  Your system is exhibiting similar symptoms as my last Wii had - namely the freeze on the boot-up screen.

My three year old Wii crashed a couple of months ago.  At bootup, the system would hang up on the Health and Safety screen and the press A to continue prompt would not appear.  I was never able to get into the Wii menu after hours of troubleshooting.

I drove it up to Nintendo (30 minutes drive from me) and the tech said that the graphics chip had failed and they were unable to access the system to recover any of my data.  All of my data was lost (game saves, Mii's, message board posts, photo channel images, address book friends, Nintendo channel game stats history, etc).

They ended up providing me with a new Wii (white), a one year warranty and no charge on the repair.

So, send that Wii in asap.  Copy your Mii's onto one or more of your remotes, copy as many game saves as you can that are allowed to be copied onto sd card (Unfortunately, Nintendo provides no way to backup your game saves for online enabled games).  Since you can still access the Wii menu, Nintendo should be able to copy over all your data onto a new Wii, so you shouldn't have anything to worry about as far as complete data loss.
 

[MegaByte]

My recommendation would be to get a full dump using homebrew.

[AV]

I thought zach would like this picture:

[Halbred]

I've actually done that before.

I don't have money for a decent tip, so here's a drawing of all currently-known centrosaurine skulls.

[FZeroBoyo]

IGN just put up an article saying that Nintendo said Golden Sun: Dark Dawn would launch on November 29 of this year. Said article also mentioned a 20 dollar price drop for both DSi models in September. =D