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[andrerobot]

Op, you are a genius. hahaha!

I'm impressed, these days it's difficult to find electronics than can be fixed by hitting them.

Op, If that was a regular console you dropped, it would have cracked into pieces. Be thankful that Nintendo makes kick ass rugged systems, so don't ever call 'em fragile.

 

[R_thanatos]

It's called backwards compatibility.

clap clap

clever .

 

[espher]

He dropped it like it was hot AND put his thing down flipped it and reversed it.

Pretty clever.

It's called backwards compatibility.

I don't know which of these I like more, so you can both have a cookie.

 

[MemoryHumanity]

so 5 minutes later, I retrace my step ..and drop the console again from on efeet but this time backwards cause I thought maybe something moved inside when I first dropped it.

What the FUCK is wrong with you are you stupid oh my go-

and bam the disc reads again

Oh.

 

[fastest finger]

I was dropped on my head as a baby.

I'm gonna go throw myself off the roof, see what gets fixed.

 

[Iolo]

OP, are you Mama Fratelli?

 

[iShouldGoPro]

This method worked because the Wii U is (as we say in the gaming community) backwards compatible.

 

[Cynn]

You dropped it from one foot? Were you crawling across the carpet?

 

[hymanator]

I was dropped on my head as a baby.

I'm gonna go throw myself off the roof, see what gets fixed.

Make sure you land backwards or it won't work.

 

[uberluigi]

You dropped it from one foot? Were you crawling across the carpet?

OP is a hobbit confirmed.

 

[phosphor112]

So a drop saved the Wii U?

I wonder if Nintendo dropping it will save the Wii U.

 

[ec0ec0]

unexpected good nintendo news. I like you OP. jaja

 

[ozfunghi]

Had you sent it in for repair to Nintendo, they would have done the same thing.

 

[tipoo]

OP: Don't get a puppy.

 

[Seik]

Heh, that's quite a story.

The best thing is that it simply worked, bam, like that. You took a bet by doing this, but it seems like you won.

 

[WiiRevolution1]

I.. uh..

That's not how it works.

Apparently it is. Perfect Cha0s is apparently not an expert in the art of fixing hardware.

But seriously, good story. Glad you got it fixed, and thanks for the laugh.

 

[jts]

Showing the Pikmans inside who's the boss. Good form, OP.

 

[Solid Samus]

Every console I've owned from before last gen has survived beatings worse than that.

Surely someone else here remembers having a console on a shelf when you're playing, and someone rushed into the controller cord, flinging the hardware toward the opposite side of the room faster than you can say fuck? You'd check on it, see no signs of harm, plug it in and keep playing. That's how it was up until last gen (Excluding PC's, because hard drives).

Or when an old CRT TV started to crap out, but then you gave it a good whack and it started working properly again. (Eventually you'd have kick it full force when the problems repeated themselves, and then enough was enough and you got a new TV)
Certain things just made sense to give beatings "back then."

You can tell from newer consoles that they'll break from a small drop just by looking at them, pretty much. It is said that the last console manufactured using Nintendium was the DSphat.

their handhelds sans DS lite still got that Nintendium up in em. The hinge design just negates it a bit and there's some consistency issues. Like, I'm rocking a launch period 3DS that I bought from my brother and it's survived through some shit

-got wet
-several drops to the floor
-dropped in a road
-subsequently run over by a truck

the battle damage? a light hairline crack, in a corner on the outermost layer of the top half's outer shell, and literally nothing else

whereas my cosmo black launch 3DS was treated perfectly and died from a combination of failing shoulder buttons, unresponsive face buttons, and hinge ribbon issues that would cause it to immediately power down if the top half was ever moved in a certain way

 

[CraZed]

Did you at least say something cool before you dropped it?

And did you depart the immediate area right after?

 

[Brainiac 8]

Or; don't drop expensive electronics. If you had a 360 and nudged it too much when it was on, it'd fuck your disc up.

Yup, I have a friend who lost one of his games because someone bumped the 360. It caused the system to dig a rather deep circle in the bottom of the disc.

Needless to say, he wasn't happy.

 

[Sarobi]

This is the solution for everything.

 

[Grampasso]

It's called backwards compatibility.

Yes, can't be done on PS4 or XBOne

 

[Kodaman]

I can't stop recreating the whole scene in my head

lmao



This needs a draw

 

[javac]

This is some time travelling reverse gravitational pull physics mumbo jumbo shit right here. Newton's laws are a load of crap. Everything is backwards.

 

[Phazon]

This is some time travelling reverse gravitational pull physics mumbo jumbo shit right here. Newton's laws are a load of crap. Everything is backwards.

Wii U's secret sauce. No matter how dead it is, it'll always find a way to come back and annoy the haters.


And I'm happy that it works again OP, but you're very lucky it worked after doing that.

 

[GayForMaster]

Nintendo products these days have NO FUCKING durability. I dropped my 2DS the other day (softly) and it the wireless card got dislodged. It kept yielded the black screen of death and I couldn't do shit about it.

 

[dragonbane]

I think I never laughed so hard in my life. Jesus Christ, that shop is fucking hilarious.

 

[Daedardus]

Flushing a disc, dropping something backward,... GAF sure is home to many of the weirdest fixes.

 

[isual]

op needs a tag and then a hyper link with that tag

'dropped wii u twice; second time was intentional'

Spoiler

stealth tag want

 

[Javier]

I guess every now and then Cartoon Logic actually works.

"Character get amnesia after getting hit in the head, surely another hit will give his memory back!"

 

[SmokedMeat]

You tried fixing it by dropping it AGAIN?!! Glad it worked for you, but heck of a way to try and fix something lol

 

[ProtoCents]

Mine won't read MHU3... think I'll try dropping it. Thanks OP.

 

[hal9001]

Ha like the good old days, if broken just give it a bit of a slap to get it going again:

 

[RoombaDance]

So OP threw his Wii U at the ceiling the second time. Brilliant!

 

[DeaviL]

This is the best thing i've read all day, pure brilliance.
But really, don't complain about the fragility of something you've dropped. I'm pretty sure it wasn't made for that...

 

[RagnarokX]

You need to be more careful, OP. Put one feet in front of the other.

 

[-Horizon-]

So dropping it again fixed it?

Science!...ok not really.

 

[Dr. Buni]

good thread, made me chuckle

10/10

 

[The12thGripper]

I was going to say, that's what fucking happens; but you fixed it by dropping it again? I don't even understand how that works, but congratulations!

 

[blu]

This is a surprise how? That's how Nintendo actually refurbish their WiiUs.

..oh darn you, ozfunghi!

 

[DogMeat77]

If only Nintendo would have made a console with a handle on it, this wouldn't have happened...

I will remember that dropping it backwards is the fix though.

 

[Phaethon0017]

Alright OP. This method, it checks out.

 

[KHlover]

Hey, you dropped it two times and it still works. Maybe the first time you dropped it a cable got a bit loose? Anyways, your story proved it to be NOT fragile. Dropped my smartphone once, display was broken beyond repair. That's what I would call fragile, dropping it again backwards also didn't help

 

[Dark Octave]

Or instead of dropping it, you could just send it for repairs?

Nah, too risky

I woulda dropped it again too. It's already broke so may as well try something first.

 

[Thoraxes]

Drunk thread?

I would never drop any of my consoles >.>

 

[~Kinggi~]

That is some fucking incredible thinking OP

 

[Danny Dudekisser]

I retrace my step ..and drop the console again from on efeet but this time backwards

OP, the system worked fine the whole time and you are clearly high as shit right now.

 

[7DollarHagane]

its that risky optical drive technology! Yamauchi redeemed, should have stuck with carts all along!!

 

[UrbanRats]

I think the OP knows something about the physical world the rest of does not.

 

[blu]

I think the OP knows something about the physical world the rest of does not.

He's found the ctrl-z of the real world.