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The Nintendo Wii U had its fair share of impediments that have plagued the alluring system. A NeoGAF thread by the user “cireza” notes that not using the console for longer periods can lead to it being entirely corrupted. In other words, it becomes unusable due to lingering memory system errors.
Cireza notes that their friend’s Wii U had stopped working when they tried to use it after keeping it secure in a box for many years. To clarify, the console was not hacked or modded in any way. The dreaded memory error 160-0103 occurs on the Gamepad, which is known to be nearly a death sentence for the console by current users.
It is a NAND corruption issue, which means that the Wii U is bricked because of it unless a backup was saved through softmod. Attempts to factory reset the console would not resolve the issue either. A NAND backup could save the console, but it would be a very thorny process without any official support.
Now, a single failure would not hold any weight, but the Nintendo Wii U is chock-full of similar reports across many forums, such as Reddit, on the web. The NAND corruption and the aforesaid memory errors happen quite often for the current users, seemingly out of nowhere when the console is used after several years of dormancy.
The Wii U of the Reddit user John25601600 also met a similar fate, ending up fully bricked after not being used for 5+ years.
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Cireza notes that their friend’s Wii U had stopped working when they tried to use it after keeping it secure in a box for many years. To clarify, the console was not hacked or modded in any way. The dreaded memory error 160-0103 occurs on the Gamepad, which is known to be nearly a death sentence for the console by current users.
It is a NAND corruption issue, which means that the Wii U is bricked because of it unless a backup was saved through softmod. Attempts to factory reset the console would not resolve the issue either. A NAND backup could save the console, but it would be a very thorny process without any official support.
Now, a single failure would not hold any weight, but the Nintendo Wii U is chock-full of similar reports across many forums, such as Reddit, on the web. The NAND corruption and the aforesaid memory errors happen quite often for the current users, seemingly out of nowhere when the console is used after several years of dormancy.
The Wii U of the Reddit user John25601600 also met a similar fate, ending up fully bricked after not being used for 5+ years.
You Could Brick The Nintendo Wii U Just For Not Using It, Reports Claim
The renowned Nintendo Wii U appears to suffer from a memory error that occurs if the console is not used for long periods of time.
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