Hope in read errors

In some cases it may happen that the Wii console specific game discs can not read. Especially in Super Smash Bros. Brawl is the have occurred many times before, since it is on the disc, as opposed to the majority of Wii games to is a double layer DVD. But even in normal discs, there may be read errors.

Here now comes the Lens Cleaning Kit from the house of Nintendo into play. It is used to remove dust and other foreign substances from the laser lens of the Wii console, so as to reduce disc read errors or exclude, at best, quite. Before you send a contribution of the Wii console to a lengthy and well-chargeable repair possible, it is recommended in any case, this a try. For the low price you can not go far wrong indeed with the acquisition.

The cleaning set is located in a small cardboard box approximately 13cm wide, 18cm high and 2cm deep. As with all accessories from Nintendo, the Wii pack the typical color has light blue and white with this product. Luckily Nintendo used not terrible blister that some other manufacturers nowadays preferred. This allows the cleaning easy to open and can be the pack after the first use of the kit for storage of content reuse.

The set consists of several parts. On the one hand there is a tutorial. This is reminiscent of the Instructions of a Gameboy Advance or DS game and the cleaning procedure described on 3 sides. Open questions should it after reading this manual does not give the process quite simple to implement is described in detail and illustrated with small pictures.

Also included in the package is a cleaning disc. This is a simple plastic disc. It does not contain readable for the Wii console information and consists only of a simple transparent plastic. At the outer edge of the disc there is a 2cm long grip-tongue, with the disc afterwards back in the cleaning operation by the user and is reciprocated.

Is located on the underside of the disc a little white foam pad, that must not be removed. It is located at the exact spot at which the read head is in the Wii console. In this foam pad, a sticker is additionally glued to a small white cleaning cloth is in the middle.

The set also includes five more stickers together with cleaning cloths, so you can change them sometimes when visible dirt are present it. To do this simply replaces the old cleaning cloth sticker from the foam pad and sticks a new to the marked spot.

Another important component, without which one can not carry out the cleaning, is a small bottle with cleaning fluid. This is, among other important ingredients, including isopropyl alcohol.

The actual cleaning process is now on so that is instilled first two to three drops of the cleaning fluid on the small rectangular cleaning pad on the disc. Then you put in is switched on Wii, the lens cleaner one. The attached at the edge of plastic tongue protrudes in pickled lens cleaner from the disc loading slot, so that they hold back and the disc in the drive a short distance back and forth can rotate.

After inserting the lens cleaner to you, according to instructions, first wait for about 5 seconds. After moving the protruding handle back about 10 to 20 times back and forth (or up and down - depending on how you have set the console). It recommends the manual that you do not move the handle over the entire length of the disc slot, but only about 2 cm from the center. This manual movement the cleaning cloth with rubbing the liquid on the laser lens and cleans them.

The whole process in which the Disc Channel of Wii menus an unreadable disc is displayed, by the way normal and not surprising, because the disk contains no data yes. When you're done, you pressed the eject button on the console to the lens cleaner eject again. The cleaning operation is now complete. Then also SSMB, or any other, previously unreadable, disc should be read properly again.

My conclusion: Hard to say. Since I still had not read error on my Wii, I can not really tell. The whole thing seems to me to be quite reasonable in concept and it can indeed understand even about what was to happen in the Wii console. For testimonials from other Wii users shows that this method has apparently already done several times to success. Probably so Nintendo would not even offer a set, wenns would utter nonsense.

For the low price of less than 10 euros, I think the Wii lens cleaner for a very sensible purchase and he should be in every Wii accessories collection, just in case you need him time. Since other universal lens cleaner from Hama, Bigben & Co are not suitable for the Wii console, currently even comes this set of Nintendo in question.