SSB now works on our Wii

I realized that Easter break for my Daughter is a week away. Guessing that it would take Nintendo longer than that to get a cleaned Wii back to me. I decided to try to clean it myself. I did just that and it works.

I vacumed it from the back with a small computer vacum, and took a can of air and blew it into the disk compartment. The disk now works. We were playing SSB after her homework was done.

I do intend to send it back, but now I can do it after the Easter break.

Happy Gaming.

Super Smash brothers give some Wiis a black eye.

On Sunday after breakfast and clock changing my daughter and I went to our local EB games to pick up our reserved copy of SSB.

We inserted the disk into our Wii received a popup about updating the Wii the Wii updated rebooted itself and then a message came up that the Wii could not read the disk. I thought my daughter hit a button or something as the disk was loading and made a comment to her about not pressing buttons until the game can up and then reinserted the disk. The game came up after the second disk insertion and we played for many hours.

Later that night after she went to bed I was about to do some late night gaming but I received the same “can not read disk message”. It turns out that according to Nintendo :

“Super Smash Bros. Brawl utilizes a double-layer disc which has a large memory capacity. A very small percentage of Wii consoles may have trouble consistently reading data off this large capacity disc if there is some contamination on the lens of the disc drive. Nintendo has specialized cleaning equipment that can resolve this problem. (Please do NOT attempt to clean the lens yourself, as you may damage the system.)”

Any with this problem Wii has to be sent back to Nintendo to be cleaned. Nintendo will cover all costs.

If you are having this problem you need to go to following link.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/repair/repair_form_us_ssbb.jsp

Well it looks like we will be dusting off and playing the old xbox over the next few weeks.

It will give me some time to catch up on reviews for games we have played.

I must give kudos to Nintendo for promptly acknowledging and addressing the problem at no cost to its customers.

Happy gaming