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Warning - Wii U console *could* die by itself if not used

coffinbirth

coffinbirth

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Ooooooof, that's a kick to the nuts. My Wii U is buried in a closet behind a six foot shelf, and I have no intentions of moving that bastard until I buy a new house.

Anyone here tried Wii U gamepad emulation in CEMU yet? It's been a long time since I checked in on that progress, and It's looking like might be my best bet at getting around to my Wii U backlog before I keel over.
 
skyfall

skyfall

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hemo memo said:
The question is why would anyone still play Wii U in 2023 when most of the game that matters already ported to Switch?
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Kirby rainbow curse
nintendo land
paper mario color splash
xenoblade chronicles x
star fox zero
mario party 10
mario & sonic olympics 2014
mario tennis ultra smash
Twilight Princess HD
Wind Waker HD

All good games imo - can only be played on wii u

And of course its fully backwards compatible with the original wii through hdmi. A lot of people have tvs with only hdmi connections now
 
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TLZ

TLZ

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Love the console. My most played console that gen. I turn it on every once in a while. I have haxchi on it and want to update to Tiramisu but I haven't turned it on since last year. Hopefully it's still ok.

dave_d said:
Damn, and I just bought Devil's Third for it. Hope my 8GB (with attached hard drive) keep running until I get around to playing it.
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It's ok but performance is bad.
 
hemo memo

hemo memo

Member
skyfall said:
Kirby rainbow curse
nintendo land
paper mario color splash
xenoblade chronicles x
star fox zero
mario party 10
mario & sonic olympics 2014
mario tennis ultra smash
Twilight Princess HD
Wind Waker HD

All good games imo - can only be played on wii u

And of course its fully backwards compatible with the original wii through hdmi. A lot of people have tvs with only hdmi connections now
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Twilight Princess and Wind Waker will be ported for sure. The rest is average at best in my opinion.
 
Leonidas

Leonidas

Member
Not all is lost.

My USB stick games still work.

I got eShop working long enough to download my library into my USB stick, so I should at least be able to play those.

At this point I should probably just move on to Cemu...
 
LordOfChaos

LordOfChaos

Member
NAND life being worn out? They only used some shit eMMC controller internally after all, almost as slow as a hdd

So used or not, would anything really help?
 
supernova8

supernova8

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Ulysses 31 said:
Best way as in getting the best picture, the internal conversion/upscaling to HDMI of the Wii U is better than the component/composite signal the Wii sends out. With an mClassic(dongle > cable) you can improve the picture even more.

Here's what an mClassic can do with 480p content(diminishing returns the higher the res of the source)





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As for worthwhile Wii exclusive games, surely you can you can put in some work of looking that up yourself since that's very subjective.
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It also seems to have a positive impact on the Switch played in TV mode but in Japan those mclassic cables are so pricey (I think someone is hoarding them), I may as well as just upgrade my graphics card and emulate the damn thing instead.
 
ahtlas7

ahtlas7

Member
I still have my Zelda themed Wii U stored in a box with lots of other old gaming gear, hopefully, the company keeps it happy. I don’t know if it’ll ever get used again anyway and that makes me sad.
 
cireza

cireza

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Calverz said:
If it’s plugged into power all the time is that ok?
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It doesn't look like it, but difficult to tell for sure 100%. Being powered doesn't seem to affect this type of storage as suggested by LordOfChaos LordOfChaos .

So I guess everyone who has a console from the bad batch is fucked ? How large this batch is is the real question.

There were many reports of people keeping the console stored and discovering the issue though. Would they still have gotten the issue had they used their console regularly ? Hard to tell.
 
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Cosmonal

Cosmonal

Neo Member
Voultar is looking the Wii U issue and I think its worthwhile to wait someone like him checks if it's really a console flaw. His tweet about it:
 
Drizzlehell

Drizzlehell

Member
The utter contempt that Nintendo has for its idiotic customer base is the reason why I'm never gonna buy any of their consoles.
 
cireza

cireza

Member
It should be noted that if the NAND gets corrupted, it might be possible one day to bypass the NAND through some other device at boot. This is why making a backup before it gets bad is useful. And again, no idea on how many consoles are affected.

I updated the first post a little bit. I am quite surprised at the attention this topic suddenly got...
 
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H

Henry Panic

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I hear this is less of an issue with the black model. Similar to the issues the white Wii had that the black model didn't as well.
 
Mozza

Mozza

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Am I missing something, I thought the Wii U died years ago. :messenger_grinning:

Loved the console by the way, massive shame about it's sales imho.
 
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