Basically today i popped Smash Bros Brawl out of my Wii, put Other M in, and when the Wii automatically booted due to disc insertion, nothing happened. The green light was on, but no video signal was out to my TV, and the Wii remote's light blinked like it was still turned off.
After power cycling a ton of times, i got it around to the point where it would send a black screen signal to my TV, but kept doing everything else. More power cycling got me around to getting to the Wii Menu, but it wouldn't boot Other M when i clicked on the disc channel. Thinking something was amiss, i tried Bomberman 93 (a VC game), and it wouldn't boot that either.
At the end of my tether, i tried one last trick: Wii Maintenance Mode (hold plus and minus on the Wiimote when you're at the "Health and Safety" screen, then press A, and it'll enter a mode telling you that the Message Board can't be used), and it finally ran me through to Other M. Other M froze on me once, but i then went through again and everything came out right, got through the first hour or so of play (to the point of the game where you see that cute little furry critter that turns out to be baby Ridley), saved, quit.
I wonder if the old launch Wii is finally kicking the bucket on me...
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
