Mine is out on a table with nothing near the vents (or around the system in general). The hard locks aren't an overheating/hardware things either, it seems to be software related. Just because you haven't had problems yet doesn't mean the rest of us are doing something stupid with our machines. :/
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Okay. What the f*ck is going on with Wii U hard locks.
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Twilight Princess
Member
If your wiiu remains offline, does it still crash?
fluffydelusions
Member
I don't recall getting any hard locks on my 360 but I've gotten quite a few on the PS3
AndyMoogle
Member
For those of you who have experienced hard lockups, is your gamepad synched with your TV?
MickeyPhree
Member
so your system isnt completely fine
othersteve
Member
I will try this next and report back with my results. I sure hope it works because I have a frickin' game to review.
And to answer an earlier question, yes, to some degree this has to factor into the score.
There is absolutely no evidence to suggest that it's a hardware problem. My Wii U crashed 3 times within 30 minutes on day 2. It hasn't crashed since.
Definitely let us know. I'm really curious if you get similar results as me
M_A_C
Member
same, never had a problem till just now. 3 locks in a row... WTF?
Ok, looking at the MiiVerse, looks like a lot of people are having problems today. Must be server related or something.
Something is going on, I just stopped playing for now.
TheQueen'sOwn
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My (deluxe) system has locked up 8 or so times. Almost all of those happened on launch day (Sunday) and Monday during (or while loading) Nintendoland. One lockup happened while loading Miiverse and produced a high pitched noise from both the TV and gamepad. I think the issue is network related.
Yep, it sounds like an air raid horn. Here's a video I found on Nintendo's support forum, and this is the exact thing that happened to me before I disconnected the system from the Internet:
http://youtu.be/z2UhaepkdFI
KojiKnight
Member
Likewise, never had a lockup till tonight, then 2 in a row. Nintendo is obviously having some growing pains... I'll forgive them for it for now.
My first hardlock bricked my system.
I got my Deluxe system Wednesday, had my first hardlock tonight, while playing Nintendo Land, then it proceeded to lock up every time I got ~15-30 sec into Nintendo Land. I tried setting the Miiverse settings to English Only and set my Nintendo Land plaza to English Only visitors and was able to continue playing.
FWIW I haven't had any hardlocks before now, and they only happened to me in Nintendo Land. I've been playing tons of Scribblenauts with lots of intermittent Miiverse reading/posting, played Skylanders for a while, and have played an hour or two of NSMB all without lockups.
The two unique circumstances that changed before my hard locks started were that visitors arrived to my Nintendo Land park, and I synced a Wii Remote to my Wii U for the first time. I think the lockups have something to do with the former since the regional settings fix seems to have worked for me (at least for now.)
FWIW I haven't had any hardlocks before now, and they only happened to me in Nintendo Land. I've been playing tons of Scribblenauts with lots of intermittent Miiverse reading/posting, played Skylanders for a while, and have played an hour or two of NSMB all without lockups.
The two unique circumstances that changed before my hard locks started were that visitors arrived to my Nintendo Land park, and I synced a Wii Remote to my Wii U for the first time. I think the lockups have something to do with the former since the regional settings fix seems to have worked for me (at least for now.)
KittenMaster
Member
Nintendo Land in specific is freezing at an eerily frequent rate right now, and is happening for a lot of other Miiverse users as well. In fact if there were actually some hard evidence or an article or something, it would probably deserve its own thread.
Not sure if its related but Nintendo's server status page was reporting issues with the eshop today.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/network/en_na/network_status.jsp
They don't menion Wii U in there but I'm sure it was effected. Looks like general network issues as well.
http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/network/en_na/network_status.jsp
They don't menion Wii U in there but I'm sure it was effected. Looks like general network issues as well.
JacksUsername
Member
Only had one lockup so far, but was able to power down the system from the main power button. It happened while playing Black Ops II after I tried hitting the home button while the game was transitioning from the multiplayer menu to the campaign menu. It never loaded and just froze at the loading screen.
Other than that, no issues and I played the system quite a bit, especially on Sun-Tues.
Edit: No Nintendo Land or Assassin's Creed III here, and no hard lockups, just the one described above.
Other than that, no issues and I played the system quite a bit, especially on Sun-Tues.
Edit: No Nintendo Land or Assassin's Creed III here, and no hard lockups, just the one described above.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Constant lookups getting into Nintendoland. Played it on launch day with no problems so there's something else going on.
I've had zero problems with NSMB U itself. Miiverse, browser, basically anything requiring Internet has been a mixed bag. I've had two lock-ups over three days and about 18-20 hours of heavy use. I think these lock-ups are network related somehow. NintendoLand has heavy Miiverse integration right?
IMACOMPUTA
Member
Wii U is a turd.
I had a really hard time buying it, and have been struggling with major buyers remorse.
I've had 4 hard locks in 2 hours. It's unplayable.
Nintendoland every time.
I think i'm going to return the system.
I had a really hard time buying it, and have been struggling with major buyers remorse.
I've had 4 hard locks in 2 hours. It's unplayable.
Nintendoland every time.
I think i'm going to return the system.
Baconsammy
Banned
It's garbage netcode. Disconnect from your network and the lockups go away.
It's not the hardware. It's the software.
It's not the hardware. It's the software.
Darko
Member
I stopped playing nintendoland and havent had a problem since...
ipukespiders
Member
About 30 mins ago upon starting Nan Assault Neo my system powered down twice in a row before even getting into the game. Remembered that I had my sdcard inserted from playing Wii VC last night, pulled it out, game worked fine. Leaderboards are down though.
Come on Nintendo, let us use "vitual" sdcards for the Wii mode, or better yet, expand the Wii's memory for Wii mode.
Come on Nintendo, let us use "vitual" sdcards for the Wii mode, or better yet, expand the Wii's memory for Wii mode.
This is what I think too. I've had zero problems when internet access isn't involved.
Version 3.0
Member
Right now, Nintendoland hard locks for me exactly 45 seconds after launching it, every time, no matter what I'm doing. It's been working since launch just fine. Patch has been in since day 2.
But, if I delete my internet connection from system settings, then it works fine. But with a wired or wireless connection, either one, it hard locks in 45 seconds.
I haven't had any other lock-ups, just this exact one in Nintendoland.
I think the Miiverse connection is crashing it. WTF?
But, if I delete my internet connection from system settings, then it works fine. But with a wired or wireless connection, either one, it hard locks in 45 seconds.
I haven't had any other lock-ups, just this exact one in Nintendoland.
I think the Miiverse connection is crashing it. WTF?
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Removing the wifi connection fixed it. Added it back and Nintendoland froze once again 
KojiKnight
Member
This is some bad net code for sure. It's like someone forgot to program in some contingency for when an expected miiverse connection can't be made.
brochiller
Member
Mine locked twice tonight while trying to play Nintendo Land.
I think that's what happened with mine. I went up to a Mii in the plaza to see what they had to say and it said to connect to Miiverse via the main menu or something. I know I already had it set up though because I've been using it all along.
I think that's what happened with mine. I went up to a Mii in the plaza to see what they had to say and it said to connect to Miiverse via the main menu or something. I know I already had it set up though because I've been using it all along.
Try loading it up, hitting Home as soon as it loads, then go to Miiverse and set it to only display English messages. Then when you get back to NLand go into settings and set it to English visitors only. See if it works after that.
I hope they really do have a fix patch coming soon.
TheChewyWaffles
Member
Doesn't fix it.
othersteve
Member
Wonderful -- this seems to have (hopefully) completely fixed the problem. So clearly it appears to be something do with the internet connectivity that is breaking the games.
I certainly do think it is Miiverse related. Makes sense that if you first exclude foreign Miis from interacting with your games, it massively reduces the odds of you failing to connect to whatever server is responsible for that data. That's why that step initially fixed the problem for many of us. But since it can also happen with domestic Miis, the foreign Mii disabling only works sometimes and for some situations.
Who would have thought, Nintendo screwing up internet connectivity?! ;-)
For now, the only real solution appears to be to completely disable Wi-Fi, or perhaps to completely disable Miiverse (if that's at all possible?)
Thanks for the workaround!
Baconsammy
Banned
It's gotta be the Miiverse communication code. Take that out of the picture, and the lockups magically go away. It's scary that a bad connection leads to a console needing to have the plug pulled. That needs a patch.
Zoe
Member
Did you just blame the RRoD on user setups?
MrTroubleMaker
Member
same for me
othersteve
Member
Yeah, I mean disabling any network connection at all. Makes sense that it would apply to all network connections, as the netcode in question is very likely subject to hardware abstraction that doesn't care how the console connects to the network. It's higher-level than that and the problem is above the device driver/management code.
Very good to have the first shred of evidence that this is, in fact, purely software-related.
Very good to have the first shred of evidence that this is, in fact, purely software-related.