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    Nintendo Wii U NAND Vulnerable To Dying If Not Powered On Often

    The energy leaking out and causes changes is stopped and replaced when the chip is powered. I would have to look up the white papers I read regarding this, but what you are thinking of is write changes that is different than what is happening here. Besides if writing was the only way...
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    Nintendo Wii U NAND Vulnerable To Dying If Not Powered On Often

    I think it would depend on if automatic updates powers the system fully or not. The problem is liekly a lack of power for a long time and slow electro leakage from the layers in the chip. Powering it on should be enough. It is what flash manufacturers such as Sandisk now recommend to maintain...
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    Nintendo Wii U NAND Vulnerable To Dying If Not Powered On Often

    Something I want to add here. I also saw the articles, in my case it was at Verge. This is likely not due to a lot of the possible reasons here except for the Wii U not being powered for a perlonged period of time. The reason is due to the newer design of FLASH. MLC chips (and beyond) will...
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    Wii U anniversary : 10 years ! ^^.

    The one good thing is if you use an external, the write cycle usage is minimal. If you don't, then the write cycles can get burned up quite quickly. If I remember correctly the main nand is the same as the Wii (SLC) and has 100000 write cycles vs MLC which is used for game/save storage and...
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    Give-away GBAtemp 20th Anniversary giveaway - WEEK THREE - Win an Analogue Pocket - 24hrs remain!

    Good luck everyone. Know I won't win anything but I wish everyone else the best. Happy the site has been here for so long and to be a part of the community (even if not consistently).
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    Question about playing Wii games directly off of the USB vWii

    Well a hub *could* do it if it has a external power supply (a AC power adapter plugged into the hub itself). Otherwise it is drawing from the WiiU which will mean more of a power draw and something you don't want. A externally powered HDD is one that has a AC power adapter to get its power...
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    Question about playing Wii games directly off of the USB vWii

    I would like to add to that a bit: -While a lot of people say a y-cable is enough, I think often it won't be enough and your drive will get corrupted. It might be fine for a long time then all of the sudden all your data is ruined. Not worth the risk in my opinion. Get a externally powered...
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    Gaming more good stuff on sale in the eShop

    Resident Evil 4 Wii (arguably the best version of it), and Umbrella Chronicles is on sale in the eShop for 4.99. Also Zack & Wiki is on sale as well until July 6th. Some other titles on sale: Duck Tales Remastered Dungeons & Dragons I know there was another that caught my eye, but I can't...
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    Gaming Minecraft signs censored?

    Like any mods these days. And thanks for the offer of help and the link to your repository. Very cool, although not sure how these work yet. I think I must be missing something.
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    Gaming Minecraft signs censored?

    Interesting. I came to report I got it working, but not by enabling Game Chat. I am not sure what the setting is at offhand (off I suspect) but what I ended up doing is turning on the "Online" setting in the game save before loading. Old signs still said "CENSORED" but new ones worked. Also...
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    Gaming Minecraft signs censored?

    Yes I do. And actually there isn't a way not to, as soon as you run the game and the Wii U is online, it will download all the updates. Strange as I am still seeing it. While the references I found didn't go into specifics, it seemed like it was this bug and fixed. 1. I own it on the Wii U...
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    Gaming Minecraft signs censored?

    I have been playing around with Minecraft on the WiiU lately and does anyone know why all the signs you create say "CENSORED"? I understand blocking some language due to the market at kids, but this is EVERYTHING lol. If you put 'Hello' it only shows 4 lines of "CENSORED" lol. I did find a...
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    Gaming Monster Hunter back on sale in eshop and more

    Yes Monster Hunter 3 Ultimate. :) As far as I know the only Monster Hunter released for the Wii U. Well still playable, Frontier is no longer around and not available (shut down in 2019). :)
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    Gaming Monster Hunter back on sale in eshop and more

    Monster Hunter is back on sale in the eShop for 7.99 until the 30th. There are 2 pages of games on sale at the moment as well. Some look interesting, such Dracula's Legacy, Joe's Dinner, Island Flight Simulator, etc. I haven't played any of these (except for monster hunter, that I know is a...
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    Hard time getting a HDD with AC, I'm about to buy a 256gb USB key instead, is it ok?

    As as been mentioned, I wouldn't. The problem is two fold. First there is a lot of rewrites going on and you will burn through write cycles of the flash drive fairly quickly. The second problem is the Wii U can draw/take power from the ports at times and it may not have enough power at some...
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