There must me some sort of Karma thing going on with me and DVD drives. First my 360 DVD died and now my Wii crapped out. It was still reading disks and letting me play, but was getting louder and louder with a "grinding" sort of noise. For the record, when this happened to my 360, I got it back in about 3 weeks total time including shipping and everything. On my Wii, I chose the advance exchange option. They sent me a newly refurbished unit with a reset 1 year warranty (1 year from receipt). The didn't give me any grief on the phone. They politely took my information (and credit card, lol) and shipped me a new unit in 3 days. I just sent the old one back today.
The invoice had a price of $200 on it that would be charged to my card if I didn't return the old one within 21 days.
The only part of the process that was a bit annoying was that I didn't have an SD card so I had to go get one to transfer saves. Interestingly enough, some of the saves said "cannot copy this save file" -- elebits being one of them. In the end I just copied the important ones -- zelda and RE4 and let the rest of them go. I thought I read that there was some sort of process to back up the entire Wii memory onto an SD card at once but I couldn't find it in the menu and didn't bother with the manual.
+1 for Nintendo Warranty, but they should include an option of a discounted SD card or something like that when they are talking to the user on the phone as I bet the majority of Wii owners don't have an SD card lying around.
I hate trolls.
Systems I currently own: 360, PS3, Wii, DS Lite (2)
Systems I've owned: PS2, PS1, Dreamcast, Saturn, 3DO, Genesis, Gamecube, N64, SNES, NES, GBA, GB, C64, Amiga, Atari 2600 and 5200, Sega Game Gear, Vectrex, Intellivision, Pong. Yes, Pong.
