Lens Cleaning

jesta

Moderator
Now I assume we all heard the news about Japanese Brawl having some complications, i.e. having to send your Wii to Nintendo to get the lens cleaned because it couldn't read the Dual-Layer Brawl disc...

Well, some US gamers have also experienced the same problem, due to a dirty lens.

Have you had this problem? Did you send it to Nintendo? Did you clean the lens yourself?

Lets hope by the time it comes out in Europe that the whole dirty lens problem is over?!
 
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Another part of this was that some JPN gamers got their disks damaged some other way. Something about how smoking damaged the disks...?

In any case, I didn't have any problems with my rental copy of Brawl except with the Masterpieces area which had worse load times than other games but that's to be expected I guess.
 

jesta

Moderator
The smoking thing was all part of the dirty lenses I think. Nintendo's excuse, people have dirty homes filled with dust and smoke :D
 
Pssh. Poor customer service/support on their part. xD

So then, did they end up resolving this whole issue because I was hearing a lot about it weeks back but it seems to have died down now.
 

thexcheat

New Member
How would you go about cleaing the lens? Becuase my game is acting up quite often, and i really don't want to send it to Japan.
 

jesta

Moderator
The only to truely clean your lens without sending it off is to open your Wii case (literally just the case) to make the DVD drive visible, then clean the lens manually with a cotton bud/qtip dipped in window cleaner.

Heres a picture I found of exactly where the lens is...

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(Ignore the cicled screws ;))

But if your unsure DO NOT attempt it!! At your risk only!! And of course it will void your warranty!
 

Ash

New Member
I think its pretty poor that the lens can get dirty that easy,a modern console like the wii, you should think it would be built to take smoke etc... things that happen in houses day in day out.....:thumbdown:
 

Tywar

New Member
I've had problems with Brawl when I very first got it, and I was very disapointed. Turns out there's a simple way to fix the problem to whoever has a nonworking lense: Send it in to Nintendo. When I did, it took about a week. However, the good part was that I was free, except for the shipping, which was about two dollars. I got a brand new Wii for free because it was so trashed up... but, don't worry, when you get a new Wii, all your previously saved data will be transfered onto the new one.
 

pkf0rtzh4ar

New Member
i dont know if you guys talk about this but...when i put brawl in and i am playing...my cd/dvd player of the wii really gets wild...i have the feeling that it can fall out at any moment...and the online version i also cant move some times for like 2 secs...anyone have tips?
 

Johnhg7

New Member
i dont know if you guys talk about this but...when i put brawl in and i am playing...my cd/dvd player of the wii really gets wild...i have the feeling that it can fall out at any moment...and the online version i also cant move some times for like 2 secs...anyone have tips?

The reaction time may be because of a bad wifi connection and I don't know what you mean with your cd/dvd
 
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XANA

Member
i dont know if you guys talk about this but...when i put brawl in and i am playing...my cd/dvd player of the wii really gets wild...i have the feeling that it can fall out at any moment
it sounds like the disc is spinning very fast and the drive is louder. it's normal for brawl dont worry.


PS. i hate nintendo. i get my wii back after it has been "cleaned" and the next day i get errors again. it WAS nintendo as it happened in a day and not 6.5 months!(exaggeration input there.)
 
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