Anybody have their Wii break on them?

[Krome]

Mine was acting sketchy/freezing on Wii Sports, but Nintendo sent me a new Disc and everything is dandy now.

Anybody having problems?

[Oni]

Mine is a little loud (it's a launch unit) but other than that it's just fine.

Nintendo is pretty good about replacing dead units at any rate, and the fail rate is nowhere near what the Xbox 360's fail rate is.

[FudgeNuggets]

They have a fail rate that's even registerable? I doubted they'd even have a 1% defect rate...

Shamefully the 360's issues are MUCH worse (or at least much MORE publicized) than the PS1 and PS2s lasers.

[Krome]

Mine is a bit loud too, could be that I have it on top of one of my turntable's dustcover.

What is the best "sound" to put it on via my receiver [HTR-5950]? I have Dolby Digital/DDIIEX/DTS, they all sound sheisty to me right now and I'd like to know what y'all are using?

[sulretal]

Well I use DD or DTS.

My Wii gets really hot when it is idle, I am assuming because it is updating or whatnot, but it does get hot. Nothing has ever happened though; it's not loud and games run smooth.

[MasterTelia]

my wii works fine

though its a bit loud when the disc is spinning

[Blue Jester_2112]

Mine is a bit loud too, could be that I have it on top of one of my turntable's dustcover.

What is the best "sound" to put it on via my receiver [HTR-5950]? I have Dolby Digital/DDIIEX/DTS, they all sound sheisty to me right now and I'd like to know what y'all are using?

Does the Wii come with an optical out port or just the stereo rca jacks? If it's stereo rca then Dolby Pro Logic II or some other matrix surround sound setting would probably be best if your receiver supports it.

[Krome]

As far as I know, the Wii only has RCA out. So "Auto" decoding for digital is out of the question.

On the Wii itself, the only options for audio are "Mono/Stereo/Surround." Does anyone know what format "surround" is?

[xb1az3x]

My Wii started to get artifacts in twilight princess, but sent it to nintendo and got a new one back 3 days after they received mine. Brand new unit and has been working perfectly ever since.

[rainless]

My Wii started to get artifacts in twilight princess, but sent it to nintendo and got a new one back 3 days after they received mine. Brand new unit and has been working perfectly ever since.

Hey arlington heights!

Nintendo has been pretty good at making systems since the COMPLETE AND UTTER SHAM that was the original NES. (Although I hear Fudge's never broke on him. Just everybody else I know or have ever met.)

But other than that... I sold my N64 to a close friend of mine about six years ago, but I'm sure if I went over to his place it's still working. Ditto for the SNES. I just can't imagine a nintendo system "breaking."

Although obviously there will be defects... every company has occasional defects. But mos Nintendo products are built Honda tough.

[dicecca112]

Nintendo has been pretty good at making systems since the COMPLETE AND UTTER SHAM that was the original NES. (Although I hear Fudge's never broke on him. Just everybody else I know or have ever met.)

Mine nor at least 10 of my friends NES have broken, 5 of us still have our original nintendos that still work

[FudgeNuggets]

The reason mine never broke is because I didn't blow and slobber all over the cartridge contacts thus corroding them. I got a cartridge and slot cleaner and properly cleaned them with alcohol.

[rainless]

The reason mine never broke is because I didn't blow and slobber all over the cartridge contacts thus corroding them. I got a cartridge and slot cleaner and properly cleaned them with alcohol.

Aristocrat! I was growing up on the wrong end of "Reagan's America" and I'm lucky my family could afford the NES and the odd game or two... let alone "cleaner."

EDIT: And while I'm ranting anyway... What's up with needing "cartridge cleaner" anyway? My SNES is like 15 years old and I didn't need any F'ing cartridge cleaner. It'll start right up... right now. The same with my Atari 2600... and the collecovision.

[Oni]

My NES still works great. Hell, I even have the box it came in, along with the manuals and enough Styrofoam to murder a plethora of cute woodland creatures (ahh, those were the days, boy-os!).

The only thing that typically went on the original NES decks was the loader mechanism. You kinda had to jostle it and stuff to get it to work. Nintendo kinda solved that when they released the top-loading unit, but that was at the very end of the NES lifecycle, and it's kinda hard to find them.

[OC Noob]

The reason mine never broke is because I didn't blow and slobber all over the cartridge contacts thus corroding them. I got a cartridge and slot cleaner and properly cleaned them with alcohol.

The fact that almost everyone was blowing on their carts was the problem. If the loading mechanism wasn't flawed no one would have blown on the darn things.

Atari, SNES, Genisis and other top loading systems never had to be... blown or juggled by the majority of people who bought them.

The cart loading system would loosen with use and require jiggling or blowing on carts to get a good solid contact with the pins. Top loading systems never had this problem because they had much better contact and a little dust did not effect them. Its possible the loading system even damaged the NES console contacts.

So people who blow, suck, but its the loading mechanism thats the root of the problem.

Never the less they are cheap to repair and thousands of repaired systems can be had on ebay for a few bills.

ps My Wii is working fantastically, even though it endurs the punishment my children dishout. Its built like a brick... brick house.

[Niku-Sama]

i've got about oh...6 nes systems. 3 more out on loan and i havent come acorss many that are broken....only one acually because it say in water for a prolonged period of time.
i powered it up and functioned for a good 10 minutes before it just up and stopped but i got it in a lot.
my origonal doesent normally have any problems but some of the games (i have alot of them used) have more problems than others. white erasers work to fix the contacts just to let you know.

all 4 variants of 2600's i have always work, the system that seems to have problems i am noticing are N64's....their connector will loosen up it seems and a little bit of a jiggle on some systems will lock it up
i also havent had any problems with famicoms,twin famicoms and super famicoms and theyre from japan where its alot more humid, i would think contact corrosion beyond belif, but not so much

i collect this stuff i could ramble on and on

edit:
on topic my wii isnt very loud, (bought it day after thanksgiving release year for searchers) nintendos always been pretty solid except for virtual boys have a common problem when they get older and used a bit more but that was short lived any way

[rainless]

It doesn't really MATTER why all those NES systems were breaking: They were breaking.

And I personally didn't know of anybody who knew why they were breaking. (This includes pretty much everybody I met later in high school and in college.)

I knew people that were blowing in them, putting them in freezers... you name it. It was a flawed design.

I suppose if many people knew you could clean the contact or have the loading mechanism repaired, that would've changed things. But this was not common knowledge on the South Side of chicago. We basically got our first Funcoland (on 99th and Western) near the middle to end of the NES life cycle and they would always try to push cartridge and system cleaner with their damned magazine subscription so we always assumed it was a scam.

There isn't a single place on the south side of Chicago, that I can think of, that was doing actual system repair (you couldn't get THAT done at a funcoland). Though I would imagine in Suburbia you could get all kinds of magaical things done.

[sulretal]

I could swear Funcoland repaired my father's NES like 3 times.

[Oni]

We all blew in the carts though ('cept for Fudge). I was 8 years old, ffs. I wasn't a technological super-genius (like I am now). We didn't know why blowing in the carts worked, it just did. Game won't load? Blow in the slot. Pixels scrambled? Blow in the slot. We didn't know it was expressly bad for it, we just knew it fixed the problem (albeit temporarily).

[rainless]

I could swear Funcoland repaired my father's NES like 3 times.

Maybe they did. Maybe there was some guy at that particular Funcoland who knew how to do it. But he was either doing it on the side, under the table, or in the alley. Because there was certainly no Funcoland policy for repair. It was just like gamestop is today (as a matter of fact that funcoland from my childhood is still there: It's just a gamestop now.) How many funcolands do you know that do console repair? (And how many would you trust with your system.)

[Oni]

What the hell is a Funcoland? Were they like a US-only thing?

[rainless]

What the hell is a Funcoland? Were they like a US-only thing?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funcoland

[FudgeNuggets]

We had a couple Funcos in Knoxvile, they were just like any other game shoppe.