Alyn Family

Two weeks ago Xavier decided that he could double his fun by inserting an extra disk into the Nintendo Wii - in effect doubling his fun right? Well, it turns out that the slot load drive isn’t a big fan of dual discs and the drive was rendered incapacitated. Two weeks later, I finally got around to calling Nintendo Support to inquire about costs for replacing the drive. As it turns out, repairs (for drives anyway) are about $50! An additional shipping fee (via FedEx) is $7.50. All in all much cheaper than trying to replace one of these highly sought after systems. Today we’ll finish packing it up and drop it into the FedEx drop box for delivery. Nintendo said 7-10 days and we should have it back. So I backed up our saved game data and Mii’s onto the Wiimote and a SD Card I had here and hopefully it comes back with the data on it. I was surprised by the apparent lack of capacity of the card (32Mb) only holds about 250 blocks of game/channel info. I expect it to hold more.

If I could offer some advice to folks who are curious, do not put two discs into your Wii as it appears to break it. I’ve heard water also has a negative effect but that is as of yet untested and unconfirmed.