sethnintendo on 28 September 2013
Call Nintendo customer service. You may still be under warranty even though it is over a year. I believe they give you a few months extension if you register your system through Club Nintendo. If not they might still fix it for free if you complain enough (if the phone call results in you still having to pay then send an email). I sent an email after getting off the phone with a representative and received a call back within a couple hours stating they would send me a free copy of Wii Sports (broke it in half after being frustrated with it being the only game my Wii didn't recognize sometimes, blamed it on the paper case they provided saying that it didn't protect the game as well as a plastic case).
