Wii are Having Some Trouble

Amazingly enough--or not, based on Nintendo's previous record--my Nintendo Wii has

finally

FINALLY

after seven years of hard work

hours gaming, being left on, tantrums and power outs

had an issue.

It's okay girl, I'll have you all better soon.

Symptoms: Patient arrived saying owners were attempting to give her a gamecube game, which she had trouble accepting. After several attempts to insert the disk, they tried inserting it a little off center, at which point the disk was not returned, but also not recognized. Owners went to watch pokemon movie.  Suggest immediate diagnostic surgery.

With minimal help from the internet, I got the top off.

If you look closely, you can see the orange bit is my Conflict: Desert Storm disk. A little more poking around and I had the disk drive free.

Soon after I had gotten the game out. Blowing off some dust, I couldn't determine what was causing the jam. So, I reassembled the important parts, and wired it up for a test.

Now for the fun part: I put a wii game in, gave it a little nudge like I always do. That worked fine. Eject. Next, instead of putting Conflict back in, I stuck it in just enough to get things moving, and noticed that the main roller looked like it was going up and down. Put the game in, jam. With a Sienfeld moment in mind, I nudged the game out and determined my issue: a worn down disk drive roller, the gout of the gaming life. Now I make a call to my brother (co-owns the console) to find out if he just wants a replacement drive or a J-tag type addition. He decided on a replacement drive, and I'm going to make that order so we can keep our trusty Wii.

A long post for a simple problem, but I'm trying to make the blag look....established so that people are more likely to take interest.

Until next time. -J