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LiquorandGunFun on 18 November 2013

According to some on the internet that is pretty much a %100 fail rate. Preorder cancelled..... oh... nevermind.

 

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_crazy_man_ on 18 November 2013
forest-spirit said:
_crazy_man_ said:
forest-spirit said:
For some reason I couldn't use the pad to turn on the console every fifth time or so. Had to do it manually, or with a Wiimote. Thought the pad was faulty but I was to lazy to do something about it. Since last update I've had no issues though, so I guess it was just a software problem. Gotta love when your system repairs itself!

Haven't had any other issues apart from Duck Tales crashing two times.

Is Duck Tales crashing anytime you look at some of the Leaderboard stats?  Or is that just me?


I don't remember what level it was, only that it crashed right after I had finished a level and before the saving process. Second time was a few seconds in on the Transylvania stage. The audio got all messed up and the game sounded like a hundred harpies having sex or something, and then it just stopped responding.

Yeah I've had those happen (3 times total, once on an Extreme run, the rage THE RAGE)

Have you had any looking at the leaderboards sometimes tho?



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se7en7thre3 on 18 November 2013

I had bad luck as well, my console was sent in early Sept. due to the blinking power red light, either before booting up or after shutting down. Turned out the whole cpu needed to be replaced, so I got sent a new one. All my save data was gone...imagine I had over 20 games (eshop, retail, vc)!



forest-spirit on 18 November 2013
_crazy_man_ said:
forest-spirit said:


I don't remember what level it was, only that it crashed right after I had finished a level and before the saving process. Second time was a few seconds in on the Transylvania stage. The audio got all messed up and the game sounded like a hundred harpies having sex or something, and then it just stopped responding.

Yeah I've had those happen (3 times total, once on an Extreme run, the rage THE RAGE)

Have you had any looking at the leaderboards sometimes tho?


No, but I've barely looked at it.



DélioPT on 18 November 2013

Mine is first day aswell. Froze a few times at first - mostly because of ZombiU.
But after that, worked without problems!



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KHlover on 18 November 2013

Bought mine Day-1, works flawless ever since :D



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Th3PANO on 18 November 2013

didn't have any freezes since the last update tbh. Works perfectly fine.



attaboy on 18 November 2013

I hear VGChartz Alumni "I Like Bacon" and his sister "Nintendo Fan Girl" had a broken Wii U. They had to send it in for repairs.



Smeags on 18 November 2013

I had some fun with my launch day Wii U.

Put everything together, turned it on, and got the BBLoD (Blinking Blue Light of Death).

Went back to GameStop and switched it out for another one (they had one extra) and it's worked like a champ ever since.



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Flanneryaug on 18 November 2013

Mine froze a few times around launch, but hasn't since then. I had an issue with there being some dust under my gamepad screen, but I recently sent it to Nintendo and they fixed it.



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