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Released in North America in November 2006, the Wii was Nintendo's first home console to directly support Internet connectivity, supporting both online games and digital distribution of games and media applications through the Wii Shop Channel.

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On startup, System files are corrupt

When starting my launch day Wii. I frequently get an error messages that the system files are corrupt. It is repeatable. I can usually restart the system 5 or 6 times and then it will start up normally.

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If you have a SD card in the system, take it out and see if that fixes the issue. If not, when you actually get the system to pull up, try and do a system update using your internet connection and it could possibly rewrite the file that is corrupt in the system's firmware. If this still does not work, you will need to get the board repaired. Wii motherboards are about $40.00.

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This just happenened to me - with no mods and older Wii. I started in Maintenance Mode (holding down + and - on the Health and Safety screen). I then accessed the System data and noticed one if the Channels in system memory was labeled as a "?". I deleted this "channel" and was able to restart the Wii with no problems after powering down.

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As a note to anyone with a modded wii, I entered using maintenance mode, loaded multimodmanager, and patched the loading ios for system firmware (ios80 for v4.3) and resolved the problem!

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This just happened to me tonight. And I found myself to just holding down the + and - buttons on my remote every time I turn the system on, to get the system into it’s Maintenance Mode. And it works fine with my Wii games and GameCube games. (PS I know I’m a few years late to this post, but I just wanted to add my take into this.)

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I am unable to get to the maintenance mode its going straight into the main screen and then to the corrupt files screen then to blank. any help will be great

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did you ever get a resolution? i have the same issue. Mine says system corrupt files once i turn on the Wii. I dont even see the health and safety warning or any menu screens. My remote will also not sync with the Wii (tried using new batteries on 2 different wii motes)

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i'm having the same issue, could you solve it?

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