Wii DRE?

Torgo

I JUST got a Wii this week from Play-Asia. Everything has been awesome up till now. It's a new American Wii system. I live in Korea and had to import. This was not cheap.

I've been playing Wii Sports for the past week and enjoying Baseball and Tennis. Boxing and Bowling get occasional love.

Today I fire it up to play Wii Golf for the first time. Disc Read Error. I try a few more times to play Wii Golf. ONCE it gets to the Wii Golf menu, then when I choose the course, it DREs. I try all the other Wii Sports games. No problems. I try training mode. Wii Golf gives me another DRE.

What the hell?

What's my recourse? Return it to Play-Asia? Send it to Nintendo? I've already spent money on the virtual console. (3000 points bought, but only 2500 spent.) I really, REALLY don't want to spend cash shipping this console to the United States to get it fixed.

(If a mod wants to move this to the Help and Advice subform, I'm fine with that.)

12gauge

Are you sure it's not a problem with the disc?

Torgo

I checked the disc first. It's as spotless as can be expected. It's only been taken out of the console before this a few times and placed immediately in a case to protect it. I've used a soft cotton wipe as they have suggested. There is a tiny scratch towards the outside edge (maybe 2-3 millimeters, not deep either), but it's otherwise flawless. If I try to clean it any more, it would get dirtier.

ALL the other games load immediately. Wii Golf fails at each menu. It does a DRE after I assign player and go to the "Golf" game, then, If I eject and put it back in, I can choose course, get another DRE, then the game loads correctly and I can finish a round.

None of the other sports are affected. What the heck?

My other game (Zack and Wiki) seems to work fine, as does the rest of the games. Weird.

ZackSchilling

Torgo wrote: »

I checked the disc first. It's as spotless as can be expected. It's only been taken out of the console before this a few times and placed immediately in a case to protect it. I've used a soft cotton wipe as they have suggested. There is a tiny scratch towards the outside edge (maybe 2-3 millimeters, not deep either), but it's otherwise flawless. If I try to clean it any more, it would get dirtier.

ALL the other games load immediately. Wii Golf fails at each menu. It does a DRE after I assign player and go to the "Golf" game, then, If I eject and put it back in, I can choose course, get another DRE, then the game loads correctly and I can finish a round.

None of the other sports are affected. What the heck?

My other game (Zack and Wiki) seems to work fine, as does the rest of the games. Weird.

Sounds like a disc pressing defect. It doesn't need to be scratched to be broken. Find an American friend to pretend to be you and Nintendo will send them a replacement disc for free. They can then send it off to you.

ben0207

I'm sure if you asked nicely somebody on the boards wouldn't mind doing it, even.

Zek

Yeah, it definitely sounds like Wii Sports.

Rohan

I've never even heard of DRE problems with the Wii. When you see DRE in the thread title, it's usually followed by "PS2" ;-)

Torgo

ZackSchilling wrote: »

Sounds like a disc pressing defect. It doesn't need to be scratched to be broken. Find an American friend to pretend to be you and Nintendo will send them a replacement disc for free. They can then send it off to you.

Thanks for the advice. I'll contact a friend and see if I can get this done. Is there a warranty period for this kind of thing, or can I do this after I get Brawl so I won't be stuck with only one game for a while?

urahonky

I had the exact same issue as you Torgo, I cleaned it a few times and left it out of the console (in it's slim case) for a while, and when I put it back in about a week or so later... It worked fine. Still has scratches, but it works... I don't know what it is.

Torgo

urahonky wrote: »

I had the exact same issue as you Torgo, I cleaned it a few times and left it out of the console (in it's slim case) for a while, and when I put it back in about a week or so later... It worked fine. Still has scratches, but it works... I don't know what it is.

The plot thickens! The only problem with the whole "send it around the world to be fixed" issue is that it would cost as much as a full game to get back once I paid shipping. I'm stuck with "living with it" for the moment since it's an isolated issue at the moment. If Zack and Wiki starts DREs, I'll raise hell.