Super Smash Brothers Brawl!

**Brother of Yeshua** · #1 (**permalink**) 03-08-2008, 12:44 PM

I can't believe there wasn't already a thread on this anywhere. Picking up my copy at midnight tonight! Anyone else have this reserved?

Pretty excited to see how the multiple controller format works out, and see what playing SSB online is like.

I heard the online play is kinda weak, because in the interest of safety, unless you have friend's wii-codes to add them both on the system and in game, you cannot keep track of stats, so no leader boards (boooo).

Ugh....midnight can't come soon enough.

everyone's favo · 03-08-2008, 12:46 PM

5 of my friends have it on reserve, so I'll be playing it eventually.

**Opunaya** · 03-08-2008, 01:18 PM

My friend has a copy reserved. I'm going to go with him.

AceX · 03-08-2008, 10:40 PM

I cant wait! >.<

**Opunaya** · 03-09-2008, 07:12 AM

My friends got their copies last night. I'm going over to play it in a few hours.

**Brother of Yeshua** · 03-09-2008, 08:35 AM

UGH! So I got home at about 12:15 last night with my game, put it in and the game pops up just fine like it's supposed to.

I go to play it and the Wii tells me I need a system update. Ok I do the update.

Then I go to play the game.....AND IT DOESN'T READ THE DISC! I try to put it in and out several times, no luck. Every other Wii title I have (about 8 or 9 other games) work just fine.

So on to the internet to seek out the problem. I find the following on Nintendo's website:

http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/repair/repair_form_us_ssbb.jsp

UGH! So my first problem is that this seems like a major excuse to me. Dirty Laser Lens prevents my disc from reading, when it already read once until I installed YOUR update Nintendo. Instead they blame dust and cigarette smoke why their ONE GAME won't work on my console, when I have several others that continue to work flawlessly.

So I refuse to give up. Out of desperation I tried putting the Wii on it's side and.........IT WORKED! Finally some time to play SSBB!

However, load times were painful and the game did lag a few times during play (this was local play with friends, not online play). It was still playable, just kind of like we started moving in water for a few seconds, then it was gone.

Did not get a chance to try this morning before coming to work (where I am now) so I do not know if I can get it to read again or not. However, based on my experience last night, and my experience with other consoles and cd/dvd players of various types, I propose one of the two things are the actual problem.

1. Nintendo released systems with drives incapable of handling dual-layer disc speeds, and now they are going to ask you to send them in for a cleaning, then replace the drive and send it back to you to save some face (wouldn't be the first time Nintendo bent the truth to look better)

2. SSBB was encoded improperly (they ask you to send the game with the console...after stating the console is the problem) and they are again asking you to send in the system with the game to replace the game, or to fix some sort programming on the system to accept the improperly encoded disc.

Does anyone have more knowledge in this area than I do? Is anything I'm saying close to being possibly accurate? I just can't believe that my Wii is the fault of this ONE GAME not reading in my system.