Is your game console in need of some serious discipline? Here's a tip from Nintendo on how to fix a "frozen" Wii Remote.
GeekDad got the kids a Wii for Christmas. While playing with their new console, they had a Wii Remote stop responding to motion. After some troubleshooting, he called Nintendo customer service for a solution and received a surprising fix. This is how it went down:
Friendly Nintendo Help Desk Lady: "Okay - I want you to take the remote, button side down and smack it into the palm of your hand two or three times."
Russ: "You've got to be kidding"
Friendly Nintendo Help Desk Lady: "No sir, do it hard enough that I can hear it across the phone line but not hard enough to damage the remote"
Russ: "You're sure?"
Friendly Nintendo Help Desk Lady: "Yes, sir."
Believe it or not, this works. This is the first I've heard of a Wii Remote needing some physical attention, but it sounds like Nintendo customer support is aware of this potential problem.
What about you? Has your Wii Remote been a bad, bad boy? Have you ever had to spank it?
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10:30 AM on 01.01.2008
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My reaction was similar to this Russ fellow when I was told to do so, but it worked, so I guess I shouldn't complain.
Oh, you didn't mean my penis?
the accelerometers fuckin up?
I treat my wiimote like crap..... its been dropped more than whiteboys children
Only with Xbox 360 and its RRoD it's different, ya'know use a towel and stuff - it does the trick, but just slap your Xbox 360 two or three times for good!
I am so sorry wiimote it will never happen again
Nes: Blow air into the game catridge and/or shove a object into the machine to help prevent the Nes from accidentally reseting itself if the game disc pops out.
Snes: Blow air into the game cartridge.
N64: Blow air into the game cartridge. Game manuals offered a solution to get the control stick back in nuetral position.
GameCube: Clean game discs. Game manuals offered a solution to get the control stick back in nuetral position.
Wii: Clean game discs. Apparently, you hit the controller.
I've never had any problems with the hardware or games for GameBoy Pocket and Advance and DS Lite.
ever.
Also you know if one console is going to have light bondage to punish it's controller for not working properly then it's going to be the Japanese one.
Also lolz at the help desk lady "do it hard enough so I can hear it"
All Nintendo is teh perverts, rolling around on beds of cash.