Comments on: Latest Wii Update Bricking Systems, Modded or Not

By: kit

kit — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 21:14:14 +0000

Well, I feel I must add to the discussion. I don’t have WiFi so I don’t update – I’m not big on the online experience – so I haven’t updated for well over a year. Frankly, with the battery recharging and all, I just went back to playing PS2 and GC.

For Christmas though, I wanted to introduce my kids to the Beatles and bought Beatles Rock Band. After spending the better part of an afternoon unpacking all the equipment and putting it together, came the moment of truth. The disc was unrecognized by my Wii and in its place was System Update (on the menu).

So, I updated. This was taking what seemed an abnormally long time and then – BLACK screen – completely dead. I couldn’t believe it. Since then it is just taking up space. I am SO annoyed – I’ve invested in extra controllers, balance board, instruments and whatnot and now it’s all junk.

I seem to remember reading somewhere that dual layer discs can be tricky but really! I don’t have a modified wii so I’m at a loss as to what the problem could be.

Nintendo France (where I live) hasn’t bothered to respond to any emails so I’m REALLY disappointed – I always used to root for Nintendo against the more sophisticated systems.

Anyway, has anyone else had this problem with Rock Band or dual layer discs? And what do you do about it?

By: Divine Insect

Divine Insect — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:48:32 +0000

Wow. Good think I have my Wii set up so it does not automatically update the system.

By: DoctorEggman

DoctorEggman — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 01:04:23 +0000

No, 360 had (and still has, somewhat) it’s share of RRoD.

By: Sonic Unleashed (SU)

Sonic Unleashed (SU) — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:58:08 +0000

Non of this has ever happened to the Xbox360 hopefully

By: DoctorEggman

DoctorEggman — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:48:21 +0000

Regardless of whether you have some warranty or not, Nintendo will pay for your console if they are the ones who messed it up. Like with Brawl, it did something to my Wii, so Nintendo fixed it.

By: Skai Cyan

Skai Cyan — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 22:45:17 +0000

Well I guess it’s a good thing my internet is off at the house huh? Knowing my luck, my Wii would’ve bricked.

By: Osnic

Osnic — Fri, 02 Oct 2009 13:20:49 +0000

I don’t care about the updates. I’m not going to update my Wii to 4.2. My Wii isn’t modded or something. But I don’t want to brcik my Wii and what does the v. 4.2 anyway!?
I only update my system if I really need it. And most of the time, you don’t need to update your system. If my Wii says I can’t do somthing cus I haven’t updated my Wii, I’ll go and update my Wii, if not I’m not updating. I hate updates for menus if it isn’t something really new and good that the menu needs!

By: Spider

Spider — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:44:18 +0000

Epic Mickey makes up for it though.

By: Crazee

Crazee — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:11:50 +0000

See, this is the problem. Instead of getting the modders, they inconveniance their loyal customers. I don’t bootleg new games out of principle, and I find it distasteful. But to be honest, it’s not worth the effort to go after them.

By: Spider

Spider — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 22:09:47 +0000

Holy F*** already? DAMN that was fast. About the Homebrew that is. However my Wii didn’t brick so yeah, I’m good.