The Japanese
Super Smash Bros. Brawl launch has been successful, selling approximately a freaking
ton of copies, but not without a few issues. Rumored
supply constraints and a required system update (which was detailed on an
instruction sheet shipped with every copy) kept the launch from being called
perfect, and now apparently there are reports from the Japanese gaming public that some Wiis are having trouble reading the game.
Nintendo responded to this latest concern by stating that
Brawl is the first Wii game to come on a dual-layered DVD, and is more prone to read errors from dirty laser lenses than normal game discs. They have offered to clean any affected Wiis free of charge. In the meantime, quit blowing into the disc slot! Just because the Wii plays NES games doesn't mean it's an NES.
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2-04-2008 @ 12:40PM
Elijah the KING CHAOSDRAGON said...
Nice one, reminds me of cartridge gaming. Cigarrete smoke and dust can kill the inside of games.
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3-10-2008 @ 11:28AM
Kitana said...
It's not dust or smoke. Cleaning it yourself doesn't work. It's because there is a hardware problem with release or soon there after wii's. Nintendo doesn't want you to know. When they are "cleaning" your wii they are actually re-calibrating or replacing your lens. Ask customer service what they are doing to make sure it doesn't happen again. They will laugh and say it shouldn't happen again. Ask them why? They can't tell you. When you hound them enough they just say There is a year warrantee and if it happens again I am sure Nintendo can work with you to have it fixed again. Well guess what guys... Release date wii's are already out of warrantee. But your still fixing it cause you know you fucked up.
2-04-2008 @ 12:42PM
hvnlysoldr said...
I think my GPU is fried. GCN work well but in RE4 there are many artifacts. I might as well send it in before Brawl comes.
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2-04-2008 @ 1:27PM
Co said...
I have the same problem with RE4. That game just doesn't look good on a HD set.
2-04-2008 @ 12:45PM
Razor said...
You know I have been wondering how to clean the lens. We have an ultrasonic humidifier that leaves a fine dust on everything and I bet some of it is getting in the Wii.
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2-04-2008 @ 1:29PM
Co said...
More like "Common Sense demands a clean home"
People who live in filth don't deserve a damn home.
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2-04-2008 @ 4:09PM
roky said...
yeah, we should just ship em all to the moon.
2-04-2008 @ 1:37PM
Charles said...
Now they're gonna delay it again in the USA and everywhere else so they can "Fix the errors that occurred in the Jap game"...
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2-04-2008 @ 1:43PM
iveo said...
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
2-04-2008 @ 2:14PM
Rich said...
More like 8.5 tons in the first day.
http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=gmail&q=500000%20*%200.034%20lbs%20%2F%202000%20lbs
http://wiki.answers.com/Q/How_much_does_a_DVD_weigh
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2-04-2008 @ 2:16PM
Mr Khan said...
I wouldn't understand how the lens would get dusty unless you're cramming dusty discs up in there
And that can be alleviated by leaving them in their boxes
On another note, Brawl apparently needed more than 4.5 GB of space. That's good news. The one improvement from GC to Wii that is most underrused is the fact that you have about 7x as much disc space to work with
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2-05-2008 @ 10:07AM
Unbreakable_idea said...
Well, if you're a heavy smoker, your lens will get dirty quick. With the Gamecube and the Dreamcast, you could easily wipe the lens clean and it was good as new. It was a much sturdier and easier to maintain design. So they say they'll clean it for free? Will they reimburse the money you spend shipping it to them? How about the inconvenience of not having you're console for a few weeks? Oh, and Brawl didn't need more than 4.5GB of space. Early reports confirm that pretty much all of the extra space is just padding/dummy files. The use of a dual layered disc seems to be Nintendo's latest effort to squash modding and piracy, and appearantly at the expense of the performance of Wiis owned by their non pirating customers. This will likely not be fixed by the time this game reaches stateside as it is likely just a consequence of using a dual layered dvd disc. I can't blame them for wanting to squash piracy, but this is just a poor move on Nintendo's part considering how finnicky the Wii seems to be with dual layered discs. As for size restraints in the future, there's always the option of multi disc games (obviously not a first). Any word on how to clean it yourself or on a cleaning disc that works with the Wii?
2-04-2008 @ 3:29PM
Perverted said...
Some people are just to lazy to keep their house clean....So I'd presume over time a little dust gets in every so often till eventually it does get to a stage where it can't read the disc?
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2-04-2008 @ 4:14PM
roky said...
all these cottonpickin' lazies and filthy peoples are making me so furious! arrgghhh!
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2-04-2008 @ 8:28PM
Spekkio said...
Blowing in your NES == bad idea. Doing that rusted the contacts inside my NES and I had to have it professionally repaired. (This was years ago.)
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2-05-2008 @ 12:33AM
Waffala said...
Blow not spit.
3-09-2008 @ 6:44PM
M said...
Omg this happened to me im soooo mad! pls if theres ne ideas for cleaning it tell me...i waited like a year for this and now its dirty!!! AHHHH NOOO!!!!!!
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4-19-2008 @ 12:09AM
Will Weber said...
I had the same problem, I rented two copies of "Brawl" at Blockbuster and neither of them worked. So I went to my local electronics store and bought a Memorex DVD cleaner for $10 ... it has tiny super soft bristles. I stuck it into the Wii 3 times turning the power off after each insertion. After that "Brawl" worked fine!
W Weber
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