Our Wii broke today. Charles was playing Mario Kart. Last night we had to send him to bed because he had become so distraught over not placing in the 100cc Special Cup after numerous attempts. He needed that to unlock the Mii which lets him race as “himself” rather than a standard Nintendo character. Charles was trying again, after promising to not cry no matter what happened. He had just finished placing first (on his first attempt of the day, even) when the Wii crashed. After a bunch of fiddling around, we determined that it was the Wii and not any of the game disks. Mom put in some time on tech support with the bottom line that we’re going to ship it off on Monday and someday (2-3 weeks later) we’ll get a working one. At least we were able to determine that Charles really had unlocked the Mii, which helped him take the bad news better.
The bigger problem is that naturally Nintendo won’t guarantee any of the data because
As a result, I was sent out to get a memory card to put in the Wii to save the state of the various games (such as Mario Kart). I bought a 2G card because that was the smallest of the brand I like, but is way more storage than the entire school could use up. The bigger problem will be storing the Miis, of which the kids are inexplicably fond. Mom’s researching that.