I don't think i've shouted 'just take it apart' more in my whole life.

Watching that first 15 minutes was like torture. Clearly you just needed to jam in a FOURTH disc, then it would've REALLY been fixed.

Nice vince. Couple of months ago I picked up a wii at a flee market with power and sensor only for $15. It had a rattle. Took it home, disassembled it before plugging it in because something was loose in it. And it turned out to be .11 cents and dime and a penny lol. Everything looked pretty clean so plugged it in and it worked with no issues. So now I own 2 wii consoles.

Damn, the way how you try to get one of the 2 discs was very painful to watch dude

For all your great videos and fixes I can't believe you're just trying to yank out the discs at the beginning and didn't go straight to dismantle. Very weird TBH!!! Love you're channel anyways..keep up the great work!!!

What a crappy way to ship a console , just throw everything in a box without any bubble wrap or anything so everything gets destroyed inside

It's not the scratches on the shiny side that are the problem with Mario Kart. You can see that there are huge gashes on the label side, which surely killed any chance of that disc ever working again. Interesting mod to get the drive working though. Gotta love that ingenuity.

This hurts my feelings hearing this dvd drive....it sounds more like a cd crusher then a drive....

But I wanted that TV :(

Oof the hurt you could hear the wii disc tray gears shredding and Vince still continues to force the discs no hate Vince I love your channel and this series

This made me so anxious. before the the grinding started I was thinking "JUST TAKE OFF THE FRONT BEZEL."

That MarioKart disk is damaged on the data side. The label side of the disk was scratched, which is the side that holds all the data. The silver side of the disk (where it reads the data) can be scratched badly and back and still run since the plastic there is fairly thick.

When Vince was yanking the disc out of the drive the Wii sounded like it was crying and screaming, felt really disturbing watching that

Awesome problem finding on this one Vince! Pin pointed the exact flaw just by poking around and then proved that this was in fact the flaw!

Wii's are so easy to mod using an SD card turn it into an awesome emulator machine

While I don't need to take my Wii a part, your videos helped me not be scared to take my systems apart. My Vita battery was nackered. I decided to watch a few videos and dove in and took care of it. 20 minutes later my Vita had a new lease on life. Thank you friend.

the mod ship is a 12f683 microcontroller made by microchip and used commonly in consoles like the wii U PS1 and PS2 it basically tricks the console into thinking the cd inside is genuine usually consoles have at the beginning of every game "special code" or signature that you cannot copy from original games or if you copy that code from the original cd to a blank cd it will get it wrong !!! that microcontroller mimics that bit of "code " or signature and injects it directly to the data lines from the drive to the cpu the result is the cpu receives "genuine " signature from the drive, witch in reality put by the chip ,assumes its the real thing and decides to play the game !! at 53:50 tooth can see the missing tooth on the second pin in the big plastic rail !!! if youve just seen it you could've just glued it back in place or maybe that's what's jamming it

How do you fit 2 disks inside one system??? Wait, let me say that in an other way..... WHY WOULD YOU EVEN PUT MORE THAN ONE DISK IN IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!??!?!?!?

Keep it up! Finally a real world “try to fix it” with real world outcomes. It either works or it doesn’t. Not like other channels where EVERYTHING magically works again...in just 2 minutes with intro.

Trying to DESTROY a Working Nintendo Wii purchased from eBay: SUCCESS!

Was just scrolling for a video to watch from you great video keep up the good work 👍👍👍📺📱

If anything it's possible the modchip is meant to help ripping the disc to an external drive, the Wii can even with 4.3 firmware still be softmodded with a SD-card and an external HDD. From what can be seen it's also Gamecube compatible, so it's basically "2-in1" console.

Nintendo fan like you. Enjoyed your efforts. I like fixing things too. Googled around and found that broken gear is a 'double reduction' gear. Thanks for the new glue tips too.

Glad you got it working, reminds me a little bit of my first car, it cost me next to nothing, but I used it to learn (this was when cars broke down and you could fix it with a pair of tights). Every part of it broke, and my best botch job was the horn fix I managed for its mot.

You may push the working gear into a kind of modelling mass. Let the mass get hard, pull the good gear out, and fill it up with epoxy resin. let it get dry. Flat out tha backside and push it into the faulty drive again. it may will work out ;)

Not only is Mario Kart Wii a good game, but despite the circumstances of Nintendo's servers for the Wii getting shut down and the game being 10 years old on a relatively underpowered console, Mario Kart Wii still has a very strong community (all you need is so basic homebrew knowledge). I can see why it would be expensive

damn watching these old video's shows how far you have come in these 2 years. that first 10 mins or so was torture. JUST TAKE IT APART lol :P:P keep up the good work

"Oh hold on a minute..... I might just be able to pull them out, using a bit of force"

I've done impressions of smaller things like gears into and used baking soda (not powder)/super glue mix to effectively pour/cast pretty good copies (usually requiring some cleanup around edges, and drilling out the center hole, tho, but not a huge deal). Otherwise I second finding a local makerspace that either has a similar gear or could print one for you. Aligning yourself with such a place could be a great source of additional information and expertise as well as oddball parts. :)

The mod-chip on the disk drive might be a region-free chip. Granted, there's really no reason why you need a mod-chip now, considering it is so easy to softmod a Wii. Also, I love your workaround for disc drive at the end. If you have access to a 3D printer, you should be able to recreate the broken gear. If I lived in the UK, I would totally be willing to make and ship one, however shipping from the US is going to be ridiculous considering Wii disc drives aren't that much.

No matter what anyone says Vince, at least you tried. You certainly deserve 10 out of 10 for effort 👍🏼 Also, old Printers are chock full of plastic cogs etc. Maybe see if you can pick up an old Printer for free and take it to bits? They are often given away and you might get lucky?

I don't know if initially if he was more interested in the disc than the console he constantly kept saying how valuable the Mario Kart disc would be. When you hear the mechanism crunching you should immediately pull the power plug out. You probably could have saved the machine and yourself a lot of time just taking it apart in the first place. If you really don't know what you're doing it's always best to take it apart so you can see what's going on

"It should be an easy fix" Looks at time Yeah nah, sorry Vince

Toy Story Mania is in 3D if you have the right glasses

This is where u wish u had a 3D printer lol .Brilliant vid, loving these troubleshoot/repairs where u don't know what the issue is at first, makes really interesting watching.

Well, even if the first part of the video was pure pain to watch, I gotta appreciate the tenacity and creativeness of your solution for the disk drive. You tried damn hard and it was a pretty good video, probably could do with some editing while you were trying to figure stuff out, but was an interesting watch

I could literally throw on one of your videos and your voice could lull me to sleep lol

I knew that the chance of the wii being modded somehow was very high when I saw that DVD-r of toy story.

I just learnt how to repair it the right and wrong way thanks to you =) Thanks for the guide, Vince!

Vince mate. I have an aromatic car but I would like to convert it to a manual gear shift. I think you are the best man for this job. Wire will be provided . My kids and I love your channel. Thanks.

I sure love "faulty wii with music"

Love the videos. Can’t say my first instinct would have been to insert a 3rd disk but what do I know.

everybody is a critic. i like the effort you put in to figure out the problem. most would just throw out. "its not my job to fix it" lol

Nice job..been watching uour channel for a amonth now..and this is the best repair working you have done..cheers

Vince should have used his brain instead of his muscles to get those discs out. He broke the Wii and the Mario Kart disc. Just watching him trying to force the discs out while the wii is crying "STOPPPPP!!!!" is pretty sad. You can hear the gears breaking. He was going to open it up to clean it anyways, but he wanted to be lazy and instead made it more work for him at the end.

I must've yelled "JUST TAKE IT APART ALREADY" like 74 times.

It might not get better than that ;-)) - This video was untypical for you. Really hurting the first minutes and a weird wire at the end ;-). I love your videos, Vince, you are a hero! So inspiring and encouraging :-)). Thank you and keep on the good work!

Vince LOVE THE LONG VIDEOS PLEASE DO MORE PLEASE THANK YOU 😊

I work on wiis a lot and whenever you hear that noise from the disc tray whatever is in there scratchs to a unusable state (usually).

This poor wii ;v; At least you've learned from this experience!!

When you put in the mario kart disc for the last time, it went in without you pulling the wire.

Well done on fixing it, Vince 👍 who knows maybe someone will dig a noose hanging from their console

wonder if you could 3d print a replacement gear...

I would want to keep the pull loop Wii, just to test that mod chip. That Toy Story Disc might be a second copy of mania. I also didn't see any homebrew (you would need software that could actually play a DVD). This makes me think the Toy Story DVD was a game and not a movie.

Thanks for not cutting the beginning of “The Blue Danube” off I hate when people do that. I have to take one apart too, but I’m waiting on a nice set of tools I ordered that has all the bits for every game system. It was my wife’s but it didn’t know it had quite working and I’m getting a signal but the screen is fuzzy. I bought it for my wife, but unfortunately she passed away in August of 2020. But I want to restore it myself and keep it either way.

you do a good job on alot of this stuff my mate VINCE i like watching your videos man good job on fixhing once that you have fixed

You could soft mod the wii to play backups on it. Then you wouldn't need the drive. Ideally, just soft mod it then attach an external hdd to it and play backups and also install emulators and even a media player. You just use the faulty drive to copy the disk to hdd. Give it a go, you'll be surprised how easy it is.

idk but maybe theese gears are also in normal DVD drives? Maybe in an old IDE/SATA one?

i find it neet too wach you work . i love my electronics and still am finding ideas of what too look for thanks too you . keep up the good work and try too keep learning all you can.

My favourite channel! Keep them coming

there is something oddly satisfying about this love it

you can mod wii's really, really easily, so even if the drive is nadgered, you've still got yourself a very neat little toy if you check out homebrew, not to mention you can play backups if you spend a little bit of time getting it working. If it's all down to that one gear, you should be able to get somebody to 3d print it anyhow, or replace that gear if you can get a really cheap busted-ass wii from the 'net.

i think the first bit of the video shaved 20 years off my life. im surprised the disc drive tried to work at all after that abuse, love ya vince

Who needs watch movies when you can watch this. Great work! 😌

Get discs out - homebrew it - put on tons of emulators and roms/isos - job done.

You know, you could cast your own gear from silicone and resin? It's super easy and cheap to do AND it's amazing fun! That would solve your problem garunteed! No pullstrings?? Good video though!

Great videos. Watched your sega gamegear attempt to fix. Dont listen to the haters, your videos are good because even if you don't fix the device you end up posting the video to show what not to do. I've learned through your videos and sometimes done things i regret or been to excited and broken plastic molding etc. My point I'm trying to make is that you act on camera how most of us are off. You don't cut mistakes out which help us all out. Great chanel

you can probably measure the cog and buy it anyway, you just won't find it on ebay under "wii gear", but you can probably find it under " gear"

At 1:17:59 it actually worked without you pulling the hoop :)

If this happens to anybody out there. DO NOT try to pull the 2 disks out of the front. Just take the machine apart. Too much damage could occur trying to force the disks out.

U did good. U tried all day but in the end it works, so good job.

Guess the Mario Kart CD worked with no need to pull the wire it just move a little bit and the CD is in place!! And you are awesome in fixing things may be faults will not fixed but at least you do all you can 👌

Best series on KZfaq!!!!

Brute force should always be a last resort when it comes to electronics and moving parts. I hope you learned from this experience.

Not sure how I ended up here... but this video is really good!

Love your videos vince,the modchip allows you to play copied discs,usually from any region,as others have said get a gear 3d printed,i reckon the toy story dvd that was stuck in it was probrably a back-up game rather than the movie

Love the channel and videos, Just a thought, I wonder if you could make a mold using the good cog into something like plasticine then use epoxy to basically make a new cog?

Disc drives are really interesting... My PS2 is really old.. it's an old fat model where the tray comes out. Now when we were moving the PS2 fell and knocked SOMETHING out of place. God knows what. But I had to take it apart and work on it for like two hours to get it to work. Turns out if I want to play the PS2 there needs to be a game in there before hand... But I know the inner workings of a PS2 now 😁

I read the title as "Trying to FIX a Naughty Nintendo Wii..."

I repaired a Super Smash Bros Melee disc once and it felt so great to get such a valuable game working! Sold it for $80 on eBay! (Paid $38 for a lot of 40 games and it was in it) Wish they were worth that much now!

You didn't damage it. When the previous owner stuck two discs inside, they most likely broke the motor that ejects/inserts the disc into the drive.

Vince you could try measuring the gear, and making a 3D model of it. After that you can send it to some 3d printing company, or a pal of yours who has a 3D printer. That would be the cheapest way to fix it. You could also buy a 3D printer yourself.

Hah, it's so cool to find modchips in used consoles sometimes. This Wii must have been one of the launch ones, they had drives that went faulty pretty easy, and how soon software mods were made, making this hardware mod not the best choice. That chip looks like it just spams the lockout chip with the data that legitimate discs would haves. This would allow you to start any game of any region, or even burned games. I guess that DVD-R of Toy Story that was in it is a burned game, which may still be working. Unfortunately that SD card has been wiped clear, as well as anything that was on the wii, it looks like they did a factory reset, which also erases the SD card. I absolutely love the cable to get it working though haha, happy for another successful repair !!

Yeah the tape trick should work! That's a great idea bro. You probably went to the hardware store and specifically bought those 2 rolls just to use to try and get the disc out. Spending more on tape than the broken Wii is even worth in the first place. You should have been involved in space shuttle engineering.

Wait why would you put 2 disks in a console in the first place I mean ???

the funny thing is if your disc tray breaks just mod your console

A tip you could try to fix the broken gear using the dremel is to cut the gears in two. So you seperate the small gear that is attached to the larger gear. That may give your dremel some more room to make those fine cuts and then just super glue the two gears together again.

i know its old but this hurt :( btw , i know you are way better now :P but who would copy that . i am really happy to see how good you became , i am subbed . found you thru BROKEN 1980s CBS ColecoVision Home Video Game Console - Trying to FIX , i had one of those when i was a kid :)

You can still mod the wii to play backups

Little did he know, he forgot to turn his camera off and was playing spongebob for almost 2 hours

Good video nice to see you took your time and found the problems

You sir, you are AMAZING!

try to find local or online place that do 3d printing,and send them gear from working one so the can make u duplicate

You could try making a mold of the good gear with a mold making kit from a hobby shop. or using modeling clay for the gear and baking soda superglue for the copy.

Love these videos. Bull in a China shop on this one, and a good old fashioned bodge to end. Soft mod the Wii is definitely the way to go though.

Love The Blue Danube Waltz by Johann Strauss II, every time i hear it i think of 2001 a space odyssey. It's so relaxing.

That "DVD" could have been a burned game.

Did anyone else notice that the disk drive managed to take the disk by itself with the last use?! I was flipping out!

Vince you could make a mould using the good one as a pattern your vidioes are not just entertaining but also educational

Buy yourself one of those disc resurfacing units on Amazon for around $100 and you should be good for all your resurfacing needs. ;) I got one awhile back after accumulating discs from various systems that did not work from sellers on ebay and garage sales and let me tell you it has been a life saver on the more expensive games that would otherwise be useless. Already gotten my 100 out of it and then some.