Wii Acting Strangely: Fixed, but Unresolved.
11:15 pm August 21st, 2007 by Sal Cangeloso
So I went away for a week and beforehand I unplugged my Wii so I knew it would be safe. Not that there was anything to worry about, but it seemed like a simple enough thing to do.
I started it up today for the first time in about 8 days and I got a strange error when I put in Super Mario Paper. It told me that the disc (brand new, perfect condition) could not be read and that the system needed to be restarted. I tried again… same result. Not only did the game not start, but all the loading was going extremely slowly. This was too weird- it was like my Wi was pulling an Xbox 360 on me.
Next I tried another restart, but this time with Wii Sports. It loaded, but the process too about three minutes and then loading was extremely slow between stages. Also I could hear the optical drive making a strange mechanical noise.
After playing for about 20 minutes, oddly enough, the system was back to normal. All my games worked and the loading was as quick as ever. I’d be lying if I said I knew what happened, but it seems like the system just needed some time to restart and get itself situated/updated/rebooted and so on. Right now seems to be back to normal, but I went through a strange and frustrating couple of minutes, most of which was spent wishing Nintendo use still using cartridges.
