Hacking will nintendo repair a modded wii u out of warranty in the u.s.?

[squoosh_]

i have heard of people's nand chips failing and want to know if i will have to ask a community member or if i can ship it to nintendo (i only want to do softmods)

Post automatically merged: Jun 12, 2023

also, secondary question: same question but if unmodded?

 

[Ettino]

No. To both of the questions.

 

[Hayato213]

Nintendo doesn't do Wii U repair anymore.

 

[squoosh_]

damn that sucks. thank yall for letting me know tho.

 

[Shubshub]

When they were repairing them, The answer would be, They'll wipe any mods and or just replace the system with an unmodded one, Or otherwise reject it entirely

 

[CMDreamer]

The only missing thing on your question is if they would do it for free...

 

[Ettino]

The only missing thing on your question is if they would do it for free...

They did with mine back in the days. It was 0103 error, sent it in and a week later they sent it back. I didn't even pay for the shipping. TBH they didn't even fix anything, just sent me a completely new console. Which was kinda lame, because I had Buffy the Vampire slayer sticker on the old console.

 

[Hayato213]

They did with mine back in the days. It was 0103 error, sent it in and a week later they sent it back. I didn't even pay for the shipping. TBH they didn't even fix anything, just sent me a completely new console. Which is kinda lame, because I had Buffy the Vampire slayer sticker on the old console.

That is typically with Nintendo when they can't fix it.

 

[Ettino]

That is typically with Nintendo when they can't fix it.

Yup. This was during the Samsung emmc firmware shenanigan. So I guess no question asked if it was a 0103 console. Oh get this, the replacement console was a freaking Hynix too. Funny enough, it's still working after all this years. *knock on wood

 

[rcpd]

That is typically with Nintendo when they can't fix it.

I'm pretty sure that's every major company offering support on current hardware. When the 3DS was fairly new (before the New3DS came out), my 3DS broke so I sent it to Nintendo after taking note of my serial number. I wanted to be sure I got my console back. It wasn't modded, but I wanted the one I bought back. I received a new/refurbished console of the same color and it pissed me off because I also had to go through the hassle of creating a new NNID because Nintendo didn't tell me to remove my 3DS before sending it in.

Same thing happened with my PS3 20Gb when it was new. YLOD on an OG fat almost 9 months after purchase. Sony sent me a 80Gb model with only 2 USB ports as a replacement.

 

[Hayato213]

I'm pretty sure that's every major company offering support on current hardware. When the 3DS was fairly new (before the New3DS came out), my 3DS broke so I sent it to Nintendo after taking note of my serial number. I wanted to be sure I got my console back. It wasn't modded, but I wanted the one I bought back. I received a new/refurbished console of the same color and it pissed me off because I also had to go through the hassle of creating a new NNID because Nintendo didn't tell me to remove my 3DS before sending it in.

Same thing happened with my PS3 20Gb when it was new. YLOD on an OG fat almost 9 months after purchase. Sony sent me a 80Gb model with only 2 USB ports as a replacement.

That is true, for people with special edition it suck for them to sent it in for repair.

 

[Guacaholey]

They did with mine back in the days. It was 0103 error, sent it in and a week later they sent it back. I didn't even pay for the shipping. TBH they didn't even fix anything, just sent me a completely new console. Which is kinda lame, because I had Buffy the Vampire slayer sticker on the old console.

Yeah that's pretty common I think. A friend of mine went through a couple DS Lites back in the day and they always just sent a new one instead of repairing the old one,

 

[CMDreamer]

That is typically with Nintendo when they can't fix it.

Its not just Nintendo. Most electronic devices brands do so. Its easier and sometimes cheaper (for the brand) to send a new device instead of even trying to fix the damaged one.

 

[Hanafuda]

I'm pretty sure that's every major company offering support on current hardware. .....

Support for the original Famicom was still available until 2007.