My Tragic Tale, Anyone want to hear my tale of woe? Options

[AshRB]

I have to complain about this to someone and since I rarely ever post on this site, I thought that this might be a good way to get me started.

I got Animal Parade a week ago. I bought it using the last of my money so now I only have about a $1.30 to my name.

I popped in the disk and noticed that I got bit bit of lag as I played. It didn't bother me much and I read later that other people had the lag too and could get it fixed. (Something about updating your console. I didn't have the option though since I live out here in dail-up land.) Anyway, other then the lag, the game was great! Everyday after getting home from school I would finish my homework, turn on my Wii, and start playing.

I rang the first three bells before I was half way through the 1st Spring and rang the 4th one as soon as Summer started. I then began courting the Wizard and befriending the rival girls so I could get their wishes and marry them off. Ah yes, my little virtual life was good.

And then the unthinkable happened...

My Thanksgiving Break started today and I was very happy. I would have 5 whole days to play Animal Parade! Everything started out normal. My Wii turned on like always and I started to play. I played for three game days with no problems. On the forth day I got the Wizard to seven hearts and was excited to see his confession event. I had several ingame hours before the event would take place, so I went to the forest to get the Fugue mushroom for the day and say "Hi" to the witch.

It was during a loading screen that my gaming life would be changed....Well, not forever, but a little while at least.

My Wii started to make funny sounds. I didn't think much of it at first. I had a launch Wii and it had always made loud sounds. But then the screen went dark and I got....The Dreaded Error Message of Doom....

I did what the Wii manual said to do: I ejected the disk and I took the power cable out of the Wii. I waited 5 minutes and turned the Wii back on. It seemed to be working because I got to the channel screen just fine. I shrugged and muttered about consoles being grouchy when they got old. I slid in the game disk....

....and got the error message again.

I was now truely freaked out so I grabbed all my Wii games and tried them out one after the other.

Wii Sports, fine. Twilight Princess, fine. My Sims, fine. Sonic and the Secret Rings, fine. Mario Kart, got the message I had got months before with Super Smash Bros...(Different then the AP message, though.)

Animal Crossing....Error...

I sighed, ejected the game, and waited 5 minutes.

I put in Wii Sports again...

Error Message.

What the Fruit Loops?

I repeted this process until I had to come to the conclusion that my Wii wouldn't play wii games anymore. Mysteriously, it still plays Gamecube games. Go figure. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalatounge.gif)

Anyway, I saved everything I could to an SD card, since the only option I have now is to send my "Fancy Gamecube" into Nintendo. $75 bucks...Merry Christmas to me....

Good bye fully paid off house in Animal Crossing! Good bye almost perfect Nights file! Good bye all characters and stages in Super Smash Bros! Good bye perfect Mario Kart file! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalacry.gif)

Anyone else ever have this problem? Any words of encouragment? Any cookies?

[Twilight Wandere...]

Oh my fudge...
That's what happened to me. No joke.

Like, I had grown corn to give to the wizard, and was about to go pick it...when the black screen showed up.

And now my stupid game'll get to the channel screen, and then I click to play the game...and it gives me the Error message.

Tested all my games, and none of them work. Even gamecube games.

My dad suggested that it may be that the lens are dirty, and we are going to take it apart tonight and fix it. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalatounge.gif)

At least I hope.

[AshRB]

I wish you guys luck. Though, if it were the lens you would only get a question mark instead of the screen going black...

You should save everything you can onto an SD card before you open up the Wii. Better yet, you should get a lens cleaner from gamestop and try that out first. You don't want to damage your system.

Hope it turns out okay.

[Sharked]

Ah that really sucks Ash, I wish you luck and hope you can play again soon. Good luck (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalasad.gif)

[AshRB]

Thanks, Sharked. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalasmile.gif)

On a happy note, my sister is going to let me borrow her Wii until Sunday, so I'll get to play AP a little bit more. I'm still worried about the games that I couldn't save on my SD card though. Does anyone know why they won't let you save certain games?

[Kozunai]

This happened to my Animal Crossing: City Folk game. I am now on my fourth Animal Crossing disc. I just get a new one whenever I need to, I have learned though to put a one year warranty on the disc so I will get a free one whenever it dies.

[Equus]

Some games have Wi-Fi capabilities, so they aren't able to be saved to an SD card. That's all I know of that would prevent it from being saved to an SD card.

[Rack]

Worst niter come true. I feel you.

[Kozunai]

If I lost my Animal Crossing file, I would probably just give up on it...

[General_Wolfy]

That is terrible.
I feel sad reading about it. *hugs wii*

[AshRB]

Thanks for your concern, everyone. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalasmile.gif)

My sister's Wii will be returning to her house tomorrow. In the short time that I had it I was able to marry the Wizard and give birth to our daughter, Stella. Unfortunantly, I won't be able to see her grow up until my own Wii is fixed. I haven't even sent it out yet. I might not be able to until after Christmas. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalasad.gif)

If anybody has a picture of the Wizard's older daughter grown-up, I would love to see it.

There is a silver lining to me losing my Wii. I'll finally be able to force myself into writing all the fanfictions I have floating around in my head...

[Marley]

Happened to me when I was playing ToT. I actually accidentally left the Wii on overnight (Bad Marley! Bad!) and it woke me up with its noisy noises of noisiness. Surprisingly, the game was still running fine. But when I took the game out, it wouldn't accept discs anymore. And I was ten minutes away from reviving the tree.
So I sent it in, got it fixed (they're very quick over there in California), got it returned and everything was fine.

BUT! I do bear good news for you! What you have sounds like a disc reading error (much like mine), in which case all of your data will be thoroughly intact when your Wii is returned. (If you could play VC and WiiWare games, then your saved data will almost certainly be untouched. If you could even play Gamecube games... well, then maybe it's a hardware issue specific to where the console has to read Wii games? I dunno.)

[AshRB]

Thanks for the info, Marley. I feel lots better. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/lalasmile.gif)

[Chase What Matte...]

What makes it do that?
Mine has never done that, but I'm kind of worried now lol.

[Zen Clarke]

Um. This scares me. Because my Wii always makes noises when loading the stuff on EAM. D:

[Chase What Matte...]

Mine makes weird noises, but only when loading.

[Marley]

Supposedly, AP is just a Big Darn Game and the Wii throws a conniption fit every time it has to load something from it. My Wii makes all kinds of noises that scare the crap out of me, but then again...

The problem my Wii had was most likely due to the torture I put it through wear and tear. xP I did not care for my system very well... we had to transport it between houses every week, and come to think of it, that was really all that made me turn it off. And my Wii is modded... with a bunch of data on it... yeah it's no wonder it runs a little slow sometimes. >>
The disc readers work now, though! And I'm being a good little girl and turning it off at night now... or at least, trying to remember to.
So, uh... treat your consoles nicely, folks. They're bound to falter eventually, but if you treat your Wii better than I do, it'll probably last more than two years without breaking down.

[harvest loser]

the same thing happen to me near Christmas 2008 but it was fixed............................................... 1 year later! Sometime before Christmas 2009!!!

[Marie]

Mine makes loud noises when loading things, too. XP But that's the case with EVERY game.

On another note... I experimented with copying the data to the SD card, and for some reason it kept the basic data file but DELETED all the data. All the files were blank! **blink** How, um... How did that happen?!

Now I have to start from scratch again. XP I won't make videos of Jin's younger son of the Harvest God's younger daughter for...quite some time, probably. I'm glad I got Luke's daughter's video done earlier today. That was close!