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Nintendo Gaming / Wii died...how to prepare for repairs
« on: February 25, 2012, 05:59:29 PM »
Well, my Wii which I've had since 2 months after launch appears to have finally died. It still works, just won't read the discs anymore. I'm somewhat lucky as I finally just finished up 3 months of playing Zelda: Skyward Sword last night. Started playing Fishing Resort today and a couple hours in my Wii got really noisy and the game music started skipping. On top of that, it was taking 3-4 times longer to load the game screens than usual. I finally got a disc read error.
I reset the game and started playing again, within 20 minutes the exact same thing happened. Frustrated, I quit playing thinking it was the disc. Then when I came back to it, the Wii won't even read the disc. I tried putting Zelda back in and it won't read that either. So I guess I'll now have to send it to Nintendo.
I have about 5 years of info saved on here. My question is, what all can I backup to an SD card in case the unthinkable happens and I lose it all in the process of it being fixed? Any suggestions?
I reset the game and started playing again, within 20 minutes the exact same thing happened. Frustrated, I quit playing thinking it was the disc. Then when I came back to it, the Wii won't even read the disc. I tried putting Zelda back in and it won't read that either. So I guess I'll now have to send it to Nintendo.
I have about 5 years of info saved on here. My question is, what all can I backup to an SD card in case the unthinkable happens and I lose it all in the process of it being fixed? Any suggestions?