Who is repairing your Wii?

If it is Nintendo, my understanding is that they are supposed to transfer your hardrive saved information to the new one, so that you don't lose anything. This was a big deal because people who buy the classic games would lose them if Nintendo wasn't transferring them.

Thanks guys, but my mom talked to a person from nintendo, and she said he said that they would not transfer, and that we needed to buy an SD card. I guess since they game is konami/2k it doesn't transfer. I can't wait to spend all that time entering PWs. I've never entered PWs before, so abotu how long does it take when you are starting out. Uhhhh...

Just for clarification, did he say that the 2K information wouldn't transfer or that he would not try to transfer the information the 2K information.

Would he transfer all the internal information specifically around your Mii's? Any game that references them won't be able to pick them up.

By the way, what was the failure mode of your Wii? Also, is Nintendo replacing it or did she get an extended warranty with like Circuit City and they are going to send you a new one.

I never had experience with Nintendo's Tech Support, but they sound like good people or are willing to help you out. I've done some PS2 work Sony and they are so helpful. They got me a brand new one back around 4-6 months ago.

The Laser in my PS2's drive had a failure, the Laser head where it's stored got jammed. So the end result I wrapped it up and sent it and in, and the next week. A new one came wrapped up in plastic wrap to state it was a fresh one, not just a "rebuilt" one.

If it weren't for them, I dunno if I'd be playing PowerPros right now, or this year for that matter.

When you save your Mii's and they don't transfer the Mii data on the Nintendo any of your associated records and points won't transfer on games that reference the Mii's.

I know this from personal experience. My first Wii stoped reading Wii discs, but could read cube discs. I was playing a lot of cube games at the time when I first got it. I took it back to Circuit City where it was bought and replaced it. I didn't want to wait on Nintendo where I heard the wait could be months due to the over abundance of failures in the beginning.

For example, Wii Sports will re register you Mii's even if you transfer them back from the remotes, and erase your records.

It's unusual that they have already determined that they can't fix the unit you have. But it is normal practice to suggest you backup whatever data you can, just in case they lose it. I had to send my Wii in about a year ago because it stopped reading discs altogether, and they replaced the optical drive and sent me the same unit back with all of my save data intact. I was really hoping they wouldn't have to format the memory or replace the unit specifically because of the Power Pros data. Yeah, you can tediously re-enter passwords for Success mode players, but you're S.O.L. for Season (and now) MLB Life mode data. I think Konami/2K need to be much more serious about fixing their game's inability to backup save data to SD card.

If your experience is like mine, you'll be without your Wii for a couple of weeks. I think it was 13 days door-to-door on my repair.