| DaSimkin said: My Wii seems to be dying. First, the cdrom has started making a lot of noise, it's pretty much as noisy as an xbox 360.... before a few days ago it was silent. Then last night the wii wouldn't even turn on. So has any of you had to send your wii in for repairs, get it replaced, etc? What should I do to prepare, is there any decent way to backup everything? Do i risk losing all my purchased/downloaded games? How quick does nintendo repair and replace the wii? I was planning on calling them this weekend. Also.. is it possible it's just dusty/dirty? Is there a way to clean it that may fix these issues? I've had many nintendo products and never had a problem with them, so i'm a little surprised, but I have used the wii pretty much every day since launch day so i'm not very surprised.
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If you have a my-nintendo account linked to your wii you can't possibly lose your games ever never EVER.
If you don't I'm pretty sure they transfer all your wii shop purchases to your console(they did to mine.) Game saves are another story, they do recover them but sometimes due to corruption they are not savable and they get excluded sadly. If you have them backed up on an SD card that will work fine. All your friend codes will transfer as well.
If it's making loud noises I have a feeling the motor is going, it could be a manufacturer fault but I dunno, have you ever dropped your wii or hit it or bumped into it?
Nintendo will tell you exactly what you have to do and they'll send you the appropriate mailing lable, sometimes the repair may even be free if the console is out of warranty, Nintendo C.S. rocks.
