Nothing is better for a marriage than saving your wife's corrupt save game file
*Spoilers* The Sky Cannon Glitch *Spoilers*
My wife encountered the Sky Cannon glitch yesterday (April Fools day, of all days), and what ensued highlighted both the benefits and drawbacks of the internet.
Let me explain: There is a point in the Wii game TLoZ:TTP (Twilight Princess) where, if you save and turn off the game in a certain room, you are unable to proceed in the game. This was after about 30-40 hours of playtime or more. As a result, my wife was a bit upset when she happened to save her game and quit in the exact room and situation where this happens. She said it was just a convenient time to quit, since she fully expected the next dungeon to be after that room. We had lunch. It was tasty.
The Internet confounds us!
Enter: The Internet. After a few searches it appears that there might be a solution to the problem. Some of the suggestions:
1) Go to where the character is supposed to be and talk to him (the model does not load, hence the glitch)
2) Kill yourself with bombs and restart earlier.
3) Warp out as the wolf
After several tries, none of this works. One Youtube video later we realized it was because there is no way around this problem.
Solution!
You can download a save file from just before the sky cannon error/glitch/bug in Twilight Princess from Gamefaqs (thank you!):
Step 1: Download save file from Gamefaqs
Step 2: Load save file onto SD card
Step 3: Copy save file onto the Wii
*We had to stop here. It turns out you cannot copy the new save file onto the Wii until you delete the old one. In fact, the Wii won't even recognize the Zelda save file on the SD card until you delete the old file.*
Step 4: Remove downloaded save file from SD card
Step 5: Copy existing save files from Wii to SD card
Step 6: Backup file to PC is a special folder for Zelda backup files
Step 7: Copy the downloaded file from Gamefaqs back onto the SD card
Step 8: Delete the Zelda save file from Wii system memory
Step 9: Copy the downloaded file from the SD card onto the Wii
Step 10: Turn on Wii, open Zelda, load file 2 called, "Link"
Whomever uploaded their pre-Cannon file to Gamefaqs did not complete several side-quests that my wife did, but those were minor compared to restarting the game. It made us grateful we owned Zelda on the Wii rather than the Gamecube, where we would have been unable to load the file from the Internet to the Wii. In fact, we should all be grateful of the interconnectedness that allows us to sidestep a problem like this.
Official Response from Nintendo
There is none. Surprised? So were my wife and I. We are very disappointed that Nintendo has not addressed this issue.