Now, You *Can* Clean Your Wii Lens

When Super Smash Bros. Brawl was released earlier this year, a small percentage of Wii consoles had problems reading the double-layer disc if there was grime caused by cigarette smoke on the lens of the disc drive. Back then, Nintendo issued this statement: "Nintendo has specialized cleaning equipment that can resolve this problem. (Please do NOT attempt to clean the lens yourself, as you may damage the system.)" Well, now you can clean it yourself thanks to Nintendo's first party lens cleaner. The Wii Lens Cleaner Set runs ¥800 (US$7.80) and is out sometime this month. Cigarette smoke cleaning is dandy, but why isn't there a stop smoking Wii game? Just think of the Wii-mote peripheral hi-jinx.

Why does the lens get dirty in your place killman?

I did not had that problem.....

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It's about time the big N did something about that. They always seem to be so slow to act about these issues. SSBB came out ages ago, if people had a problem reading the disc they've probably sorted it by now, so what use is a lens cleaner. It's just like the storage problem, the homebrewers managed to get the USB slots working for storage a while back and Nintendo have only just announced their new plans. Could almost say the same for Wii Motion Plus, we could have had it as part of the Wiimote when the Wii came out.
Ah, just me venting.
Glad they've done it really, it's just late!

My solution was to return the game. So in my case, Nintendo is very late.

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Would this improve loading times?

If yes how?

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Probably because it would read the disk quicker?

Anyway, is this released outside of Japan? If not, will the Jap version work on the PAL Wii?

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I am quite certain that this is being released outside of Japan.

This woud probably solve a lot of unexplained wii problems.