I picked up a pair of Wii's over the weekend for $5 bucks at a flea market. I thought hell to complete working consoles for half a ten dollar bill can't complain. Well one unit works perfect I will be using it exclusively as a Game Cube since I have Wii U for the two Wii games I own, both digital copies.
Well the other unit has something wrong with the disc drive. If I select Disc Channel it gives a message saying disc is unreadable or something to that effect. When I hit eject nothing happens, the blue light comes on it makes a grinding noise and nothing spits out. Well I try to insert a disc, Game Cube or Wii and nothing it won't take the disc, same thing blue light comes on but that is it, nothing goes in or comes out. Is there some sort of trick to making this disc drive work? Is it broken and in need of repairs? If so are the repairs cheap, or easy to do on your own? Is there a special satanic ritual to get it to release like there was making NES games work?
If I can't get the disc drive to work I might just home brew the thing or see if Nintendo will let me transfer my Wii virtual console games to it at the very least. IDK I might just trade it to the used game store for the $2 they might give for it.