An issue with my system?

So , I have a Wii, and it's in very good condition, playing every game I own with perfect performance even after the 3 or so years that I owned it.

Except Super Smash Bros. Brawl.

For some reason, whenever I try to play it, it says it can't read the disc. I have tried three different copies of Brawl (mine, a friend of mines' copy, and a copy that my sister borrowed from a friend of hers) but it couldn't read any of the disc. what bugs me is that it plays every other game without a problem. anybody got any suggestions?

I know that this is probably a question better asked somewhere else, but I at least wanted to see if someone here had an answer.

edited 31st Jan '11 1:28:16 PM by Alfric

Brawl comes on a dual-layered disc, so an older Wii won't be able to run it out-of-the-box. Is your Wii System Software up to date, and you're not doing any shenanigans to stop the Brawl disc from installing its own system update?

If it is, I've heard of a problem where some Wiis will just refuse to read a dual-layered disc regardless of that. Do you happen to know if you can run other games that come one of those?

Would any of these games count as dual layered? I think Mario Kart Wii Fire Emblem Radiant Dawn, SMG, Metroid Prime 3, Muramasa The Demon Blade and Wii Sports Resort could possibly be dual-layered and they work just fine. Otherwise I could probably sheck my wii for any updates.

edited 31st Jan '11 4:11:05 PM by Alfric

As I recall, Brawl itself was the first Wii game to come on a dual-layered disc, so nothing predating that could be. Apart from that, I couldn't tell you. I think there's a list somewhere on the internet, but I thought it was on Wikipedia and now I can't find it. Maybe it's somewhere else, or maybe it got deleted.

I have... the exact same problem, believe it or not.

Huh.

I remember Brawl was notorious for having a lot of problems with older Wiis. The problem, I believe, resided in the system's laser reader, which couldn't scan the disc correctly. You either had to get a disc cleaner for the system or send it in to Nintendo.

I sent mine to Nintendo and they wiped the memory. Or sent me a replacement Wii.

Yeah, by "sending it into Nintendo," my implicit meaning was "they'll just swap yours out for the Wii with the better laser reader."

Crap... well I'll look into those disc cleaners (I don't want to lose all my memory for my Wii games if I don't have to) and if worst comes to worst I'll just send it in. Thanks for the help!

And once again, my younger brother installing the Homebrew Channel messes everything up.

I sent mine off, it's apparently cigarette smoke clogging up the reader. It came back fine though.

I don't own one, but isn't it possible to back up most or all of a Wii's internal flash drive to an SD card?

If it's got the homebrew channel installed, then you can dump ALL of it and restore whatever you need to another Wii, yes. The official tools don't let you copy SOME games' saves to the SD card for some bizarre reason.

Nintendo doesn't want people copying game data and just widespreading it, namely games with online records that Nintendo personally had a hand in. Brawl and the Mario and Sonic series comes to mind off the bat. They also won't let you for Animal Crossing to avoid cheating yourself copies of items. Oh, another game that fits the first criteria is Tatsunoko vs. Capcom.