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I dropped the wii u, it stopped reading discs
- Thread starter EhoaVash
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opticalmace
Member
Oh so that's what cwalking is.
Northeastmonk
Gold Member
He "reversed his steps", duh. I always drop my console twice before sending it in. It allows you to reverse time. Actually you were lucky, your choice just so happenly fixed the problem.
Garcia
Member
Please never change.
ElectricBlanketFire
Member
OP dropped a console backwards?
I think it's time for Iwata to step down and let EhoaVash take over.
I think it's time for Iwata to step down and let EhoaVash take over.
I dropped my gamecube couple of times while taking it for walks around the neighborhood to play at my friends house, man the Gamecube handle came in handy. the thing was super sturdy too :3
maquiladora
Member
Proof that using movie logic to fix electronics works sometimes.
CouchMaster
Member
Haha clever. Although I wouldn't risk it with Wii U and 3DS since your digital games are tied to the hardware.
Funny! I remember when I got my wii and the wii mote stopped working. The fix I found online was to smack it on the table...hard... and it worked! No problems with it since '07. Brings me back to the NES glory days of blowing in cartridges and beating the console.
Edit: ^^
This guy knows what I'm talking about
Edit: ^^
This guy knows what I'm talking about
Everyone's flipping out, but it makes sense to me. I mean, you dropped it at some orientation, and probably jostled shit out of alignment, so you drop it with the orientation flipped, and the forces acting upon everything inside is reversed, hopefully knocking whatever it was back into place.
Plus, it was already not reading discs, may as well try that fix before calling Nintendo for repairs. If it didn't fix anything, he could still just call them. Good going OP.
Plus, it was already not reading discs, may as well try that fix before calling Nintendo for repairs. If it didn't fix anything, he could still just call them. Good going OP.
KoopaTheCasual
Junior Member
Bravo.
Drop it like it's hot?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaCodgL9cvk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaCodgL9cvk
Towel/oven fix for the 360 I think takes the cake in recent years.
Guys the Wii U is trending on twitter about the same time this thread existed, mmmh interesting.
So the Wii U will return in white and help defeat the villain? Sweet.
I got this image in head of you attaching a dog leash to your gamecube and dragging it around for walk.
So the Wii U will return in white and help defeat the villain? Sweet.
I got this image in head of you attaching a dog leash to your gamecube and dragging it around for walk.
Bboy AJ
My dog was murdered by a 3.5mm audio port and I will not rest until the standard is dead
Big deal! What would be the end result if the reverse drop didn't work? He'd still send it in for repairs. Good work, OP, you brilliant bastard.
Snkfanatic
Banned
I found this really scary. Well I wanted to move the wii u to the living room to play on the big tv, which I normally do on the weekends, this time I accidentally drop it ( on carpet ) from like one feet above while trying to move it. Nothing is wrong with it, looks fine so I plug it back in, and put in assassins creed 4 and the thing won't read the disc. I was playing it earlier this morning too, the disc is also perfectly clean. So I take out AC4, put in 3D world and the disc won't read, I'm like fuck fuck what do I do. the thing is clean etc but keeps saying disc error no matter what disc i put in.
so 5 minutes later, I retrace my step ..and drop the console again from on efeet but this time backwards cause I thought maybe something moved inside when I first dropped it. and bam the disc reads again
This console is fragile as FUCK.
I can't tell if you are serious with this...I mean really?
IdreamofHIME
Member
You dropped it backwards?
What kind of superhero power is that?
This Gif shows where Nintendo's problem really lies.
If that was a PS4 or Xbone or any other system, it would be the console as Gandalfs head.
...but for WiiU...it's the controller.
What kind of superhero power is that?
This Gif shows where Nintendo's problem really lies.
If that was a PS4 or Xbone or any other system, it would be the console as Gandalfs head.
...but for WiiU...it's the controller.
Fragile..? Try dropping your PS4 or One and see what happens lol.
Just after the Wii U launched there were a couple of people on YouTube that do these sort of daft things regularly with electronics equipment and the GamePad survived a drop of around 6 feet high onto concrete. When they went over that measurement though it was buggered. Think it was 6 feet, won't be far off if I'm wrong.
Just after the Wii U launched there were a couple of people on YouTube that do these sort of daft things regularly with electronics equipment and the GamePad survived a drop of around 6 feet high onto concrete. When they went over that measurement though it was buggered. Think it was 6 feet, won't be far off if I'm wrong.
Aces&Eights
Member
Actung! Does not work with small children.
SatoAilDarko
Member
Glad it worked out OP. Reminds me of all the old stuff I use to do my Dreamcast to read discs (usually holding the ribbon down though when all else fails sometimes I give a good hit to fix my electronics).
I remember when I tripped over my power cord and dropped my Wii U 3.5 ft from my living room TV. I usually don't have it there and put it standing upright on the left side of the TV a cm from the edge. I remember just saying "Fuuucck... Fuck." Luckily everything was fine. I dropped my DSi about 6 ft on sidewalk (I was walking on something a couple feet off the ground) and it was fine. So was my 3DS when it dropped 3 ft onto my garage floor (slipped out of my pocket when getting out of my car), chipped my shoulder button though. So far my Nintendo stuff seems to be pretty tough.
I remember when I tripped over my power cord and dropped my Wii U 3.5 ft from my living room TV. I usually don't have it there and put it standing upright on the left side of the TV a cm from the edge. I remember just saying "Fuuucck... Fuck." Luckily everything was fine. I dropped my DSi about 6 ft on sidewalk (I was walking on something a couple feet off the ground) and it was fine. So was my 3DS when it dropped 3 ft onto my garage floor (slipped out of my pocket when getting out of my car), chipped my shoulder button though. So far my Nintendo stuff seems to be pretty tough.
March of the Crabs
Member
DIGITAL FUTURE
Yeah drop a PS4 or XBONE in the same situation and see how "well built and robust" they are
Jack Videogames
Member
Hey I dropped a highly precise piece of electronics to the ground and the laser got misaligned. Then I dropped it on purpose to see what would happen. SO FRAGILE.
March of the Crabs
Member
Yeah my buddy dropped his PS4 on a carpeted surface from about 4 ft and it stopped reading discs completely. His XBone didn't work out of the box. He is a very unlucky guy.
Wyndstryker
Member
You should've tried blowing into the Wii U, that might have been the better solution than dropping it again.
I ran my car into a wall and now it pulls to the left, what a piece of shit!
Grand Optimist
Neo Member
OP has balls of steel
Every console I've owned from before last gen has survived beatings worse than that.
Surely someone else here remembers having a console on a shelf when you're playing, and someone rushed into the controller cord, flinging the hardware toward the opposite side of the room faster than you can say fuck? You'd check on it, see no signs of harm, plug it in and keep playing. That's how it was up until last gen (Excluding PC's, because hard drives).
Or when an old CRT TV started to crap out, but then you gave it a good whack and it started working properly again. (Eventually you'd have kick it full force when the problems repeated themselves, and then enough was enough and you got a new TV)
Certain things just made sense to give beatings "back then."
You can tell from newer consoles that they'll break from a small drop just by looking at them, pretty much. It is said that the last console manufactured using Nintendium was the DSphat.
Surely someone else here remembers having a console on a shelf when you're playing, and someone rushed into the controller cord, flinging the hardware toward the opposite side of the room faster than you can say fuck? You'd check on it, see no signs of harm, plug it in and keep playing. That's how it was up until last gen (Excluding PC's, because hard drives).
Or when an old CRT TV started to crap out, but then you gave it a good whack and it started working properly again. (Eventually you'd have kick it full force when the problems repeated themselves, and then enough was enough and you got a new TV)
Certain things just made sense to give beatings "back then."
You can tell from newer consoles that they'll break from a small drop just by looking at them, pretty much. It is said that the last console manufactured using Nintendium was the DSphat.
They said some time ago on the bombcast that this is finally the right nintendo console for a handle. I kind of agree, since you don't technically need a tv.
I am kinda sad to see that Nintendo dropped the quality of their product =/
True story:
I was playing REmake and was watching a cutscene near the endgame. I accidentally pull the cord too hard and drop the console on a hard floor. The console then does almost 2-3 side flips (since the floor is hard it bounces back and flips) and the disc flies out. The screen simply says "please insert disc". I get up, place the disc back in, and put the GameCube back in its place. Boom! the game continues as if nothing happens, and I never had any problems with my gameCube since then.
Smart thinking OP. I once dropped my OG 360, but not too hard and it won't start. Shook the thing several times, and now it works, lol.
True story:
I was playing REmake and was watching a cutscene near the endgame. I accidentally pull the cord too hard and drop the console on a hard floor. The console then does almost 2-3 side flips (since the floor is hard it bounces back and flips) and the disc flies out. The screen simply says "please insert disc". I get up, place the disc back in, and put the GameCube back in its place. Boom! the game continues as if nothing happens, and I never had any problems with my gameCube since then.
Smart thinking OP. I once dropped my OG 360, but not too hard and it won't start. Shook the thing several times, and now it works, lol.
Just checked on YouTube and it was 4 feet it survived. Dropped on the underside, the side and the top where the touchscreen is. Pretty good going imo.
Parakeetman
No one wants a throne you've been sitting on!
OP you are one of those people who should never own a piece of "tech" arent you? 
username12
Member
If I drop my Wii, will it read discs again? There's nothing wrong with it, but I never found any games to play.
It's called backwards compatibility.
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