Two days ago I had to format my Wii, erasing everything on it. I transfered what I could to my SD Card, but I wasn't able to transfer any of the save files for games that use Wi-fi.

The reason why I had to format it is because when I played certain games, after I quit and went back to the Wii Menu when the screen goes black it would stay black. Then an error would come up saying The System Files Are Corrupted. And usually I'd have to push the power button on the Wii to turn it off, then turn it back on so I could take the game out. The games that it did this to me with were Wii Fit, Wii Fit plus and Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Winter Games.

This problem started a few months ago, I think around the end of July, beginning of August. I didn't think much of it at first because it only happened once in a while, but then it started to happen more and more frequently over time. And when it did happen it would just be random, sometimes I'd play one of those games and it would go back to the Wii Menu like it's supposed to, and other times the error would occur.

So two days ago I finally decided to call Nintendo about it because it happened again and I just got fet up. They told me the only way to fix the problem was to format my Wii. Of course I wasn't happy about it, but I ended up doing it. They said if I didn't format then it would get just get worse.

When I asked what could cause something like this to happen, they told me that it could've came from something I got off of Wi-Fi like custom Mii's from the Check Mii Out Channel, or if people Modded their Wii's to make illegal modifications to stuff to create content, that made me think of Animal Crossing. But whatever the reason there was some bad piece of data in my Wii.

They also said that I was one of the lucky ones. Usually when this type of error occurs, it happens when people turn their Wii's on and they can't even access the Wii Menu. Though I don't really consider myself lucky, considering it shouldn't have happened at all. I can't remember everything they said but.

I guess it was better than having to send my Wii to them for the 4th time, but I'm still not happy about it. The problem seems to have been fixed too, I've tried Mario & Sonic at the OlympicWinter Games and Wii Fit Plus, and the error hasn't seemed to occur again.

I lost years worth of gameplay that I'll never be able to get back. I'm not even sure I want to play most of the games I lost the saves for again, with lots of new games coming out and games I have that I haven't had time to play yet or barely played at all. I'm just not sure when I'll have time to go back to all those games.It's really just a big let down.

Not to mention that I had to get my Wii connected to the internet again, redownload all the Channels and make new Mii's. I even got a new Wii number and lost everyone I had registered. And now I'll have to get new Friend Codes for all my Wi-Fi games, so I guess I'll be making another blog for my new Friend Codes once I get them all, if I decide to.

I guess I'll just finish by saying that Formating your Wii sucks, and I hope no one else here at Gamespot has to go through this.