My Wii is bricked.

TheGameNinja · February 28, 2011, 07:54:49 PM

Black screen on start up and nothing else happens. I had absolutely nothing illegitimate on it. And it's bricked. And EFFin Nintendo wants me to pay $85 to fix the thing. Never before have I had a beef with Nintendo, but I sure do now. Odds are they won't be able to salvage my save data. At this rate I may as well buy a new one. /rageface

SmashFinale · February 28, 2011, 09:26:23 PM

Here's the good news....

O_o

damn... i hoped u saved most of ur data on a SD card

jkid101094 · March 01, 2011, 04:56:07 AM

You're kidding? Are you sure it's bricked? I'm not sure how it could be...and last time I checked $85 was better than paying $100. If I were you I'd sent it in and maybe you'd get lucky. I guess the Wii does have a version of the red ring...oh dear...

Tanassy · March 01, 2011, 05:14:03 AM

Are you sure something 'foreign' or 'unauthorized' wasn't put in? I've heard cases where bad SD cards or disks have bricked consoles, but I wouldn't be able to point at any specifics. Either that, or there could be a leak/malfunction in the hardware, which really could only happen if it was hit or if it has overheated. Ah well, Wii's are dirt cheap anyway..

Have a look around, see if it's fixable, or salvageable at least.

Hakudamashi · March 01, 2011, 09:20:29 AM

Thus proving that the PS3 is the only truly secure console

And y'know what else?
This thing with the black screen happened to me not too long ago
I dunno what being "bricked" was, so I just assumed that it was taking its sweet time booting up, so I just played my PS3 for a few minutes, then when I went to check if it was on.....it was on....so yeah......maybe its slow?

TheGameNinja · March 01, 2011, 09:34:34 AM

Nothing foreign/unauthorized/illegal/something-not-bearing-the-official-Nintendo-seal-of-quality was put in it. Heck, I've only ever had one SD card to put in it and it's never given me problems before. $:-\$

Gilly · March 01, 2011, 09:38:22 AM

Take THAT all you 360 haters. Shit happens on other systems, too.

Ryltohn · March 01, 2011, 09:49:09 AM

FINE John. *grumbles* IstillsayXboxsareshit

Try unpluggin it for.. an hour and then replugging it. Also, were there any power outages recewntly?

TheGameNinja · March 01, 2011, 10:40:33 AM

I was out of town last weekend. Here's what my little brother said happened. He wanted Super Mario RPG on his Wii. We had it downloaded on ours. He deleted the game on ours. He tried to re-download it onto the SD card. Something happened and it didn't work. He turned the Wii off. He tried to turn it back on. Black screen of death. And it's been like that since then.

Hakudamashi · March 01, 2011, 01:12:26 PM

Quote from: John Gillis on March 01, 2011, 09:38:22 AM
Take THAT all you 360 haters. s*** happens on other systems, too.

I didn't think there were any...

jkid101094 · March 01, 2011, 01:47:08 PM

Quote from: John Gillis on March 01, 2011, 09:38:22 AM
Take THAT all you 360 haters. s*** happens on other systems, too.

Yet, way less often.

Tanassy · March 01, 2011, 08:42:20 PM

I have all three consoles and have never had a problem. I must say though, Wind is right. xD

SmashFinale · March 01, 2011, 09:26:35 PM

Quote from: TheGameNinja on March 01, 2011, 10:40:33 AM
I was out of town last weekend. Here's what my little brother said happened. He wanted Super Mario RPG on his Wii. We had it downloaded on ours. He deleted the game on ours. He tried to re-download it onto the SD card. Something happened and it didn't work. He turned the Wii off. He tried to turn it back on. Black screen of death. And it's been like that since then.

...Maybe he should have just moved it to the SD card before he deleted it

Ryltohn · March 02, 2011, 02:08:16 AM

Did he turn of the Wii while it was downloading.....?

oshi-!~ thats just ASKING for corruption.

TheGameNinja · March 02, 2011, 09:56:59 AM

I said what I know. That's all he told me.