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Kwaad on 16 July 2007
shams said:

Kwaad said:

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Yeah, I got it DAMN hot sometimes. But I leave my Wii vertical, and I make sure I see a red-light when I turn it off.

DO NOT leave a PS3/360 in a enclosed area. It's plain STUPID. You will smoke them.

Do NOT put a Wii horizontal.

do NOT run WiiConnect24. You have to hold the button to turn it off. WiiConnect requires standby mode be the 'default' off. I find that a major pain in my ASS becuase most everything requires it be on, but I know I'll smoke it if I do. Bleh. Garbage.

Also, if you can hear your PS3 from more than 6 feet away without haveing to 'think' about the sound, you should invest in moveing the PS3 to a place it will get better air-flow.

 

There is no need to press anything. The Wii Settings allows you to turn the Wii OFF completely by using the remote (instead of powering down to standby mode, it will power down to OFF).

Not sure about using it horizontally. Mine is always vertical, and always in that little stand it comes with.

I'll be interested to see how it works over Xmas, when the temp hits the roof again (we regularly get temps over 40 deg C, for days at end at the hottest part of the year). No issues yet.

 

 


 yeah, but I thought you had to disable that, when you enable WiiConnect24? I mean I can turn WiiConnect24 off, and do it, yeah. But then none of my 'channels' work.



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Crono on 16 July 2007

This has just happened to my second wii this past weekend. I turned it on to play wii sports after not playing it for awhile and leaving it in wiiconnect24 mode. I had suspected the first time that this was the issue, as my Wii was VERY warm in standby mode.

I'll have to call nintendo tonight and have them send me a new one. I don't have an SD card to back up my saves.



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twesterm on 16 July 2007

I've had my Wii with WiiConnect24 on since launch and I have never had problems and I have never actually even met anyone with the GPU green glitch and I even work at a company where everyone actually has a Wii (everyone received one at Christmas last year). My Wii has gone weeks without being played (hooray grad school) and it gets warm because it sits next to my TV, but never anything that would concern me.

I'm not saying that the GPU glitch doesn't happen, it does, it just isn't a common problem and there's no reason to say that WiiConnect24 does it.



 

Smash_Brother on 16 July 2007

I haven't had any problems, either, but I think I'll take the advice and shut it off anyway.

Until Nintendo releases something which might actually take advantage of WC24 (other than just sending silly email and the rare crappy channel addition), then why have it on spending all that power?

It's a neat idea, just not practical until some software actually uses it.



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darconi on 16 July 2007

Ok, really stupid question I guess but how do you disable the Wiiconnect24?

I know I can manually turn off completely by holding the power button but is there a way to do it with the remote? I deleted all the wireless connection options but when I turn it off with the wiimote, its still got the orange light.

I remember seeing it at some point but not anymore. Any help?



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twesterm on 16 July 2007

In the lower left hand corner of the Wii Menu there's a button that says Wii. Click that and there should be a settings button. After that, there are a series of menu and one of them should say either Internet or WiiConnect24. After that, just turn it on or off or edit your settings.



 

darconi on 16 July 2007

That's what I did. The internet and the WiiConnect24 buttons both take me to the same place (Connection Settings/Console Info/User Agreements).

None of those 3 bring me to an options setting that allows me to turn it off. The connection settings has options but nothing to turn off.

I swear I saw it at some point in time but can't find it again.



twesterm on 16 July 2007

If you haven't set it up it isn't on.



 

Crono on 17 July 2007

This thread got an article on Joystiq.



Witty signature here...

Wii: 14 million by January  I sold myself short

360: 13 million by January I sold microsoft short, but not as bad as Nintendo.

PS3: 6 million by January. If it approaches 8 mil i'll eat crow  Mnn Crow is yummy.

With these results, I've determined that I suck at long term predictions, and will not long term predict anything ever again. Thus spaketh Crono.

bezerker on 17 July 2007

my original Wii started artifacting real bad. and my WiiConnect24 had been ON since I got it back in January.

I had to send it off for repair and Nintendo sent me a new one. No problems as of yet and my WiiConnect24 is still set to ON.

my only complaint is that I wish Nintendo had sent me an explanation as to what exactly happened to my machine. did it overheat? i dunno...but that's the only explanation I can think of.

i'm thinking about turning WiiConnect24 OFF and possible getting this cooler for it. it's only 19 bucks.

http://videogame.brando.com.hk/prod_detail.php?prod_id=00459



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