Nintendo Repairing Bricked 4.2 Wiis

By Jorge Ba-oh 03.10.2009 4

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Nintendo has issued a statement for Wii owners whose consoles have bricked after installing system menu update 4.2.

Earlier this week the update was released to combat those who had installed unofficial applications (e.g. Homebrew) or modded their Wii in some form.

Unfortunately for some who installed the new firmware, the console stopped working completely. However, Nintendo will be offering free repairs to those who haven't tampered with their consoles - though it looks like homebrewers will be faced with a change to get broken Wiis repaired.

We are aware of a very small number of reported problems with Wii consoles after updating to the Wii System Menu 4.2

The symptoms described usually occur when a Wii console has been modified. However, there are a very small number of people reporting problems when a system has never been modified.

If anyone is experiencing problems with their Wii console after downloading Wii System Menu 4.2, and believe their system has not been modified, please contact our customer service centre. If we find that you have a normal system and the update has caused your system to not work, we will repair it at no charge.

Please do not return anything to our customer service department without contacting them first for advice.

Thanks to GamesIndustry.

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Modification isnt like the PS1 days when you had to open the thing up and mess around with the insides is it?

And some of this homebrew sounds interesting and more forward thinking then nintendo could cope with in one generation (in terms of what you can do with homebrew)

I would guess nintendo deliberately trying to break mod consoles and shame on them.

Seems the casual are not as dumb as I thought, one of my gf's friends was telling her about how she has homebrew on her console. I had to sit down.

The whole sterotype of casual is a myth.
Theres a large number of old gamers coming back (well more then half the owners according to a japanease survay), and a large number of people that havnt played games, but arnt newbies at technology. Simply people that wernt interested in FPS and Gore, which for a long time, was a average outsiders view of gaming.
Accessible games dont mean dumb gamers.
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Anyway, Good for Nintendo. About the only move they could do really.
I found their customer service pretty good really.

( Edited 03.10.2009 16:31 by Darkflame )

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From Nintendo's point of view - good. But from ours, not so good. I love homebrew! There's a load of great applications/home-made games to download on both the DS and Wii. Granted it is being used for illegal means with emulation and that, but doesn't harm them too much imo - well the Wii homebrew anyway.

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The main addition I thought Homebrew would bring me were DVD playback and a music player. However, I tried pretty much everything the Homebrew community had to offer for that, and they hardly worked. It wasn't worth it. I wish Nintendo would add those features (if hackers can do it, Nintendo should be able to do it) but I'd think they would've done so, by now. If they release an HD Wii, I hope it'll have these features added. A hard drive would be nice, too. Or at least make it accept my external hard drive, haha.

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