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New Wii update bricking consoles?
Posted Sep 30, 2009 at 11:56AM EST by Karl B.

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It seems blocking homebrew isn't the only thing that System Menu 4.2 does. According to some reports from NeoGAF and Nintendo's own tech forums, it's also causing Wiis to get bricked.

Not everybody is affected, but it doesn't just happen to HBC-enabled Wiis. Apparently the update has dodgy boot2 code that has a high chance of causing write errors. It looks like this is the cause of the brickage.

Nintendo hasn't said anything official yet, although there are complaints that some tech support forum posts about the issue are being deleted.


Thanks to Janglez for the tip!


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# Wow. — ShinseiTom 2009-09-30 13:09
Just... wow. I could maaaaaaybe see Nintendo being crappy to the homebrew people and bricking their Wiis, but totally legit non-hacked consoles are getting bricked?



Man. This round of consoles has been suckage on hardware and os stability.

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# so true... — danielakadanny 2009-09-30 13:20
the xbox 360 has the

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# whopps pressed enter on accident — danielakadanny 2009-09-30 13:24
the 360 has the RROD, the disc scratching problem and had the NXE problem that bricked some consoles and the PS3 has the Blu-Ray disk drive problem of dying, and the YLOD and something else but I forgot

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# ... — Techni 2009-09-30 13:48
" PS3 has the Blu-Ray disk drive problem of dying"



No it doesn't.



And official stats put YLOD at 0.5% of systems.

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# uh huh... — danielakadanny 2009-09-30 14:02
that is why about three friends on their PS3 had the Blu-Ray drive problem snd their ...oh and I think the last one was that the new 3.00 firmware messed up some console and also the YLOD still happens though sadly enough and unlike microsoft, sony doesn't give the extra warranty sadly enough

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# danmit again — danielakadanny 2009-09-30 14:05
*and their PS3's couldn't read the disc

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# pift — Relys 2009-09-30 18:59
@Techni



You're an idiot, I know two people whose blu-ray player in their PS3 stopped working, and guess what? Sony wanted over $100 to fix it.

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# Called it.... — hypercoyote360 2009-10-01 06:23
LOL, I totalled called this yesterday on the article about the update



http://www.qj.net/Wii-System-Menu-update-4-2-released-deletes-most-homebrews/pg/49/aid/134862

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# WTF!?!?!?!?! — ISOHaven 2009-10-01 08:49
I call BS on both of you. Techni gave a FACTUAL stat.



But ALL my friends' PS3 is broken. Oh Please!!!! Who are you trying to BS?



EVERYONE I know who owns a Mac NEVER has a problem. EVERYONE I know who owns a PC ALWAYS has a problem:



The truest sign of a liar is someone who tries to use "FRIENDS" to prove themselves right.

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# lolwut — danielakadanny 2009-10-01 14:53
when the hell did we ever mention Mac's and PC's and search PS3 Blu-Ray drive pro;e on youtube...here I will actually do it for you



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+iF14OXmDvD4+NR+1



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v+PUpu7cRnruw+NR+1



plus to equal

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# WTF!?!?!?!?! — ISOHaven 2009-10-02 09:05
OMG, it's called an EXAMPLE.



As for youtube...WTF is your point? No one said it didn't exist....you're lost.

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# Hmmm — Azures 2009-10-02 20:10
The world would be a better place with a open source console running Linux... Yeah its a small computer, but what console these days isn't.. Throw some cool controller into the mix, pay for decent games and still have the ability to do the usual everyone wants.. emulators.. web browser.. media player.. and there you have it.

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# lol your lost... — danielakadanny 2009-10-02 20:45
Techni said that the PS3 doesn't have the problem and you agreed with him/her without any revision to the statement and you also said he gave a "FACTUAL" statement do in saying you are agreeing with him that it doesn't exist

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# WTF!?!?!?!?! — ISOHaven 2009-10-05 08:20
Yup, like I said, you are completly lost.

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# WTF!?!?!?!?! — ISOHaven 2009-10-05 08:23
1. Nintendo never lied about anything.



2. They are fixing the consoles for FREE.



Once again, you prove yourself to be a know-nothing imbecile.



When are you going to learn???

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# ISOheaven is most the time an idi.ot — Tekkenlord 2009-10-08 08:21
but i have to agree with him on this one you can't call evil a company for trying to block something ILEGAL on his OWN CONSOLE, if someone hacked the console and someone benefits from it well thats a different issue but the fact is is still a HACK and its still illegal.

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# WTF!?!?!?!?! — ISOHaven 2009-10-08 08:39
Most the time? Thanks for the compliment. Unfortunately for you, you're an idiot all the time.

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