Console Games (Nintendo, Sony etc.) and Arcade Games/Nindendo Wii broken

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My Nindendo Wii will only play Gamecube games and a few Wii games, most of my Wii games will not play...I have cleaned them according to the manufacturers suggestions.   I have no idea what to do

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Gday Stacey,

If you have cleaned the games and they are to too bad shape.  (scratch wise)  I would think your have a problem/dirty Lens inside you Wii.  Particularly if it plays some games and not others, if you had

I would suggest you buy a Wii lens cleaner.  Available at all good gaming stores and online.

If this fails you may have to look at sending it back to Nintendo  (Hopefully it is under some warranty).

But I am sure a Lens clean will help your problem.

Octane

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I can Answer Video Game Compatability Problems (PAL, NTSC, JAP) for Atari 2600, 5200, NES, Super Nintendo/SFC, N64, Gamecube, Wii, Gameboy, GBA, DS, Sega Master System, Sega Mega Drive/Genisis, Game Gear, Mega CD, Nomad, Saturn, Dreamcast, Lynx, Jagura, Philips CDI, 3DO, Playstation, PS2, PSP and Xbox. Plus Ways around them to play wrong regions games on most consoles.

I also have an extensive knowledge of service and repair with most home consoles as well as arcade/pinball machines.

I have a reasonable general knowledge of most new to older games (I personally own about 1000 games and almost every console known to man.)

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Playstation, SNES, SATURN, Genisis/MD, NES, MS conversions. Controler conversions SNES to NES. Game conversion. Multi Carts. Remix and re-wire. PSP repair. Arcade building and customising. Video Game repair

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