WiiConnect 24: I'm officially scared to use it.

I've had my Wii since launch, and I started using WiiConnect24 a short while after, when I got my wifi hooked up. I used to keep it on all of the time, until I read online that WiiConnect24 will overheat your Wii and cause it to malfunction. Reports said that the Wii will just flash some colored pixels on the screen and not boot up, which frankly scares the crap out of me.

I don't usually feel how hot my Wii is, so I decided to check it out the other day. It was hot. Really hot! I disabled WiiConnect24 out of paranoia. What I'm wondering is, will this be Nintendo's next big problem? Will everyone suddenly call in with reports of their Wii dying on them? I don't know, but I'll send an E-Mail in, and hope they don't send me a freakin' automated reply.

I'll keep you updated.

I keep WiiConnect 24 on, but turn off the standby mode so that it's not on when my Wii is not on, and truthfully if your Wii did stop functioning due to the use of one of its own features, Nintendo would replace it for free.7CloudStrife7

Well, yeah sure, Nintendo has to, but I wouldn't want to go through all of the hassle of sending them it.

If you put it in a closed enviroment such as in entertainment cabient or in a reletivly enclosed space or stack it with other electronics I would fear for all your electronics. My mother thought she was clever by puting the videoplay , the digital set top box, the satillite decoder and the DVD player. she stacked them on top of each other and put them in a closed entertaiment  cabient, the set top, sattilite, DVD player start decoding wrong, the video play wasnt effect because it wasnt on, and it had lots of air inside of it protecting its chips, she tried spacing them out in the cabient but the same thing happened again after a longer time than before. lessons learnt

• Do not stack electronics
• Entertaiment cabanits are made by people who dont know any thing about electronics
• Electronic makers think that you will have free flowing air around there devices so it doesnt matter if the air vents are clear it matters if the air is being recyled (As in the same air goes in as the machine pushed out.
• Computers are keep in cool rooms to stop them over heating, the Wii is a computer dont put it in a hot place

This is just nonsense


Your Wii either works or it doesn't.
If it doesn't contact Nintendo and get your console replaced.


All you're doing is wasting time not using the things it's meant to do.
Jaysonguy

I don't know... I guess I'll keep WiiConnect24 on. Hell, I could even fry some eggs on it while I'm playing Zelda! Breakfast in Hyrule anyone?

Keep you Wii verticalnintendogamer6

It is.

[QUOTE="7CloudStrife7"]I keep WiiConnect 24 on, but turn off the standby mode so that it's not on when my Wii is not on, and truthfully if your Wii did stop functioning due to the use of one of its own features, Nintendo would replace it for free.lcman92

Well, yeah sure, Nintendo has to, but I wouldn't want to go through all of the hassle of sending them it.

Wouldn't Nintendo Manufactuors, Designers, Developers would have tried this out and know about this b4 launch?

yeah, mine is always warm. 

I think i'll start unplugging it

[QUOTE="nintendogamer6"]Keep you Wii verticallcman92

It is.