Have you tried Steam In-Home Streaming? He should be able to stream games to his MacBook Air from your desktop. This is more of a temporary solution until he gets a new laptop, though.
A bit late, but here's an update.
If you have this problem, send your Wii to Nintendo
I tried replacing the laser with to results, so I decided to send it in. When I got it back, it was the same drive, so that wasn't the problem. The repair description was replaced "component(s)"...
I'm getting a strongish feeling that I need to replace the laser. Is it possible for a badly burned disc (0% reliability according to DVDInfoPro) to have this effect on the laser after just a handful of uses?
Edit: And by laser, of course, I mean lens
It resets every time I open it up and try to find out what's wrong, but I do set it afterwards. Odd thing though, it used to reset back to launch day, but now it resets back to a much closer date. Today (Thursday) it reset back to Wednesday.
But my original games that should not have updates on them (i.e. Wii Sports) are doing this, too.
I can't make sense of it. What could cause it to think there's an update when there isn't? Say, if something was overheating and cause the Wii to read the next disc improperly, wouldn't it give a...
So it's gotten worse. Now it's asking to update with the first disc I put in, too
So all Wii games are doing this, but Gamecube ones are fine.
It's having this problem whether the Wiikey/Wii-clip is attached or not, so I guess it's the drives problem?
Should I order a new drive or do you...
I'm updated to 1.9s, but I didn't have the update blocker turned on. I turned it on and no difference.
Great idea, though. It didn't occur to stupid me at all
No ideas?
I opened my Wii up again to check the connections and try it without the Wiikey/Wii-clip. No difference...
I'll give the drive a close inspection and maybe clean it with alcohol later today.
Sorry for the misunderstanding. My Wii is already updated properly to 3.2U. After playing a game, my Wii will start asking for updates on every disc I put in, Wii Sports included.
1. Turn Wii on.
2. Put Wii Sports in and play a set of tennis.
3. Return to Wii menu.
4. Eject Wii Sports.
5. Put...
Here's my problem: after playing a game on my Wii (original or backed up) any disc I use after that asks to update my Wii. It appears to happen only when I actually play a game. Even if I eject the game I was playing and put it right back in, it asks to update. The only way is to turn the...
if they get permission from 4j (the studio who helped put minecraft on consoles), they could put the console edition tutorial worlds in the game, as seeds
and i mean all of them (if not, maybe a few highlights, like TU1, TU31, and TU69)