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- nymphetamine, on 12/31/2007, -1/+231Reminds me of the good ol' days when blowing into a NES cartridge was a normal thing.
- nano19, on 12/31/2007, -0/+201Sometimes you have to skip all the "technical *****" and get to the point.
- salvadorwii, on 12/31/2007, -1/+189that controller needed discipline
- KMye, on 12/31/2007, -4/+190Funny enough, this same exact solution worked very well for my parents at times I was malfunctioning, as a young kid.
- rye425, on 12/31/2007, -2/+120What's wrong with that thats what I always tell people. "My [blank] doesn't work," "Did you try smacking it?"
- Brad324, on 12/31/2007, -4/+113I would've rofl'd if he followed that up with "So you deliberately caused physical damage to your wiimote? No wonder it doesn't work! Warranty won't cover physical damage" *click*
- PaperJesus, on 12/31/2007, -4/+99"Have you tried turning it off and on again?"
- Duilen, on 12/31/2007, -0/+79This guy obviously wasn't a gamer back in the NES days. Smacking the side of your console was just one of many methods of giving your system a little tough love.
- bamafun, on 12/31/2007, -1/+63I had an HP tech support guy actually tell me to remove my locked up hard drive and put it in the freezer ----- the crazier part - it worked lol
- TripcodeMel, on 12/31/2007, -3/+53ENGINEER'S TAPPIN' MAH SENTRY!
- Heiliger, on 12/31/2007, -0/+49When my Legos wouldn't fit together, I thought they were being purposefully stubborn and would bite them because I thought they could feel pain.
Also, I was a sheltered child. - saturdaysaint, on 12/31/2007, -1/+49Wow, where are the litany of obvious "whacking the Wii" jokes? Faith in humanity... coming back...
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -1/+48Dugg up for correctness, nostalgia, and helpful hint.
- GeForce8800GTX, on 12/31/2007, -0/+36This is how you fix all electronics.
- Heiliger, on 12/31/2007, -1/+36I'd hit it.
- Smwbigboss, on 12/31/2007, -0/+34This works for a lot of electronics for some reason. I have a cable box that won't stay on unless you hit it.
- TheHolyLancer, on 12/31/2007, -0/+34well i must commend Nintendo on first discover this method, and, second, actually telling people to use this method, normally I would think that a company wouldn't have admitted that one of their products is fixable via a smash, imagine if Microsoft had admitted that red ring of death could be fixed by smashing (or if they didn't and it works, then the work these tech support are getting paid for)
- diktator279, on 12/31/2007, -0/+32A little percussive maintenance will fix just about anything, dying remote batteries, loose connections, an insubordinate woman...
- smackhero, on 12/31/2007, -0/+31American components, Russian Components, ALL MADE IN TAIWAN!
- TomFrost, on 12/31/2007, -0/+31Another chime-in that this works -- I've gotten files off of two different drives this way for random people at work. One cried when I handed her a CD with all her pictures on it, the other handed me a $100 visa gift card.
Freezers make heroes of men. - ScionX, on 12/31/2007, -0/+31"You're lying"
I wish I was. I got cussed out by someone before because he was dead set that when his monitor was saying "No signal" that it meant his internet wasnt recieving signal.
His PC was turned off... - DoodleMaster, on 12/31/2007, -2/+31Wiimonatrix?
- keepinithamsta, on 12/31/2007, -0/+29Sometimes I smack various electronics at work as a computer technician. When they ask what I did, I tell them it was magic.
- rikwakefield, on 12/31/2007, -0/+28I suspect it has something to do with the metal contracting under the cold temperatures.
- plethorex, on 12/31/2007, -0/+28I have solved many great mysterious with a swift blow. Headlight was out one night, kicked it, has worked perfectly ever since. Old RCA television lost the ability to display colors containing blue. Pounded on the side for a while, good as new.
- ravis31, on 12/31/2007, -0/+28"Are you sure that its turned on?"
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+28Bah, we all know that a good smack's the only way to keep them from joining the robot rebellion.
- ScionX, on 12/31/2007, -2/+27You may laugh, but you have no clue the # of calls I get complaining that their PC is not working when it's not even powered on.
- Mhykol, on 12/31/2007, -1/+24When I did computer tech work we would do this a lot - and it was able to revive a majority of dead drives long enough for us to get the data off and put it on a more stable drive. To this day I haven't a clue how it worked
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+23So we've gone from blowing our consoles to spanking our controllers...
- EricMiIIer, on 07/10/2009, -0/+21I tried that once...
she got angry, I got slapped. - brentinkc, on 12/31/2007, -0/+21I've always been told that this is due to soldered connections becoming loose over time. A quick smack knocks the two contacts back together.
- cawpin, on 12/31/2007, -1/+22Um, no, it did work. I've removed and reinserted a cartridge a dozen times and it still didn't work. Blowing the dust out always did. That's all you're doing.
- tendonut, on 12/31/2007, -0/+21Yep. Because all know Sony and Microsoft hardware is SO much better.
- Smaulz, on 12/31/2007, -0/+20Be sure to put it in a plastic bag first. FYI.
- Baumi, on 12/31/2007, -5/+25Old news: I read about this months ago. The reason it works: Some movable part responsible for motion detection can get stuck. Smacking the Wiimote gets it unstuck.
- cawpin, on 12/31/2007, -0/+19Yes.
- tehWyman, on 08/19/2009, -0/+19No, there you go, I just heard it come on. No, that's the music you hear when it comes on. No, that's the music you hear when... I'm sorry, are you from the past?
- adustum, on 12/31/2007, -0/+19I work for a cable ISP and I can promise you, I've had at least 10 of these types of calls. Either the whole PC is off and the monitor says no signal, or the cable modem is completely unplugged.
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+19blowing into the cartridge, the console, and the old put cartridge in, press it down, insert other cartridge on top of it to keep it down. Game worked. (Worked especially well with SMB3)
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+18And for some reason you could only get your NES to work doing this, never your buddy's. Everyone had their technique that only worked on their NES. And if you had a Game Genie, that was a PAIN to get started!!
- CiDaemon, on 12/31/2007, -1/+18Reminds me of the "iPhone Universal Repair Tool".
- inactive, on 12/31/2007, -0/+17Robots try the same method on humans, whether we're sick, lazy, or sleeping at the time... they just walk up, pick us up, and slam our head into a wall.
*****. - Devrdander, on 12/31/2007, -3/+20The tilt sensor was jammed, and he dislodged it. Shows you though that the wiimote is built well enough for even Nintendo to tell you to just give it a good smack.
- Step1Mark, on 12/31/2007, -2/+19I hate how people are trying to ban that. I have had many beatings in my day and I want to pass that on to my kids.
- Dgen_X, on 12/31/2007, -0/+17Yes...the company involved in this story IS in fact....Nintendo
Good eye son! - petikeke, on 12/31/2007, -0/+16You lack discipline!
- Brad324, on 12/31/2007, -0/+16Microsoft Tech Support: "alright, do you have any towels in the home?"
- scabbers, on 12/31/2007, -3/+18HEY LISTEN! LOOK! It just wakes the fairy.
- stevejobs, on 12/31/2007, -0/+15Most of the electronics in my house have marks from me hitting them.
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