An anonymous reader writes
"Bricked your Wii? Not only will Nintendo charge you for the repair, they will now add an additional fee if they detect any homebrew software. 'Should Nintendo have to pay to repair hacked Wiis under warranty? Maybe not, but they have no (moral) right to gouge customers out of spite for having the HBC installed. This actually poses a technical dilemma for us with BootMii. As currently designed, BootMii looks for an SD card when you boot your Wii, and if it finds the card and the right file, it will execute that file. Otherwise, there's no way to tell it's installed.'
The Wii is now a retro console. Let’s get nostalgic about an often maligned system.
Crazy to think the WII is to the Switch 2, as the NES was to the WII back then. 20 Year difference.
My wife asks me to bust it out (heh) everyone once in a while to play bowling and tennis with the kids. There was a ton of slop on it but some good stuff as well.
Wii was great but boy howdy did it cause Microsoft to go on a dark walk with the Kinect and the disastrous XBox One launch that they arguably never recovered from.
Not nostalgic for me.. I was there.. anyone who wasnt a little kid realized it was a gamecube with shit tacked onto it, it was the "joke" system and was well below even the switch in terms of comparing it to the latest machines at the time. The machine was well loved by young people and "casual gamers" who now remember it 20 years on, or in most cases more of its sales came in the 15-20 years ago range not right at launch- but again its not nostalgic for people who were "gamers" then really, just for those who ended up with one in their house, the games , graphics, interface and online features were archaic already in 2006.
Dash Rendar, Prince Xizor, the Battle of Hoth, and one of the boldest Star Wars multimedia projects ever made. Here’s why Shadows of the Empire still matters.
This game along with Rogue Squadron got me into to Star Wars. The release of special edition VHS Star Wars collection was perfectly times on top of all that. 😆
But it wasn't. Although I do agree that some of the tie-in media, like the novels and comics, were pretty good.
Still, games like Dark Forces, Jedi Knight, Rogue Squadron, and the space sims were peak 90s Star Wars. Shadows fell flat because of the abysmal controls and unimaginative levels. And if you wanted to really experience the seedy side of the universe, Jedi Knight: Dark Forces 2 was peak, and it wasn't even close.
Regardless, and much to my dismay, we got the better version thanks to Ubislop in Outlaws, which is what Shadows should've been, albeit at a smaller scale.
As a kid me and my cousins loved this game . I have great memories with this one and the Star Wars pod racer game .
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You're lucky they'll repair it at all.
Many comapnies wouldn't touch a device running homebrew to repair it.
Agreed
tough sh*t,its not just old ninty that gets ripped off,its the devs,nice to see the boot on the other foot.
These people are lucky that Nintendo will even touch these consoles. Installing unapproved software on the proprietary hardware is expressly forbidden in the warranty. So certainly they should have to pay if Nintendo fixes it. Re-flashing the BIOS is probably not something that would be included in a standard warranty repair, so to get it back to an initial state Nintendo needs to do more work. It's only fair for them to charge for that.
I'm not against people modding hardware or reverse-engineering hardware or software. It can be an incredible learning experience. But the majority of homebrew users aren't doing it to learn. A lot of them are doing it to cheat the system or get out of paying retail prices for games. Every single one of them will say they're being altruistic, but everyone knows what's really happening.
I camped out for my Wii on launch day. After a year it bricked, but I wasnt under the warranty anymore. I called Nintendo and THEY FIXED IT FOR FREE. No shipping or anything and it came back in 8 days.
So if Nintendo is gonna basically repair your console for free, they should charge for programs that voided the warranty.
For the hackers out there (i have HBC), just make sure the program that you choose is stable and has a good track record before you start hacking away. Tatsunoko vs Capcom RULES BTW!!