For future reference: the Wii’s system battery slot

This can either fall under “useless information” or “future reference” material for any budding gamer who realizes he needs to do some troubleshooting on his Wii. Still, for those who might not know about it yet, it’s worth mentioning. Today’s topic is this seemingly uninteresting little port you wouldn’t normally pay attention to.

Located at the bottom of the Wii console, this is a small slot that doesn’t really seem to need any of your time. Chances are, you wouldn’t have any idea that there was a sort of port there. Even if you did notice it, you probably wouldn’t think of touching it for fear of doing something bad to your newly-bought console. Of course, it might just be mentioned in the manual, but what gamer worth his gil in gutsy bravado actually reads the manual, right?

Luckily for us, Zeroplus from the 4 Color Rebellion forums decided to do what had to be done. He took the thing out and figured out what it was for. Taking the little slot out of his Nintendo, he realized it was actually the slot for the system battery. No discernable use, right? Well, if you need to ever get it replaced, or feel like hot wiring your car to play the Wii, you have a better idea of where to look to get the job done.

Even more importantly, taking out the system battery resets your system data back to the date of initial setup. Whether that does anything useful to restore any bricked Wiis in the future is still going to be up for testing, but we definitely don’t want to test it with our system just yet. We still need to make reviews!

In the meantime, if anyone can use the information to find ways to do better troubleshooting for their consoles, then we’ve done our part. Enjoy!
 

This can either fall under “useless information” or “future reference” material for any budding gamer who realizes he needs to do some troubleshooting on his Wii. Still, for those who might not know about it yet, it’s worth mentioning. Today’s topic is this seemingly uninteresting little port you wouldn’t normally pay attention to.

Located at the bottom of the Wii console, this is a small slot that doesn’t really seem to need any of your time. Chances are, you wouldn’t have any idea that there was a sort of port there. Even if you did notice it, you probably wouldn’t think of touching it for fear of doing something bad to your newly-bought console. Of course, it might just be mentioned in the manual, but what gamer worth his gil in gutsy bravado actually reads the manual, right?

Luckily for us, Zeroplus from the 4 Color Rebellion forums decided to do what had to be done. He took the thing out and figured out what it was for. Taking the little slot out of his Nintendo, he realized it was actually the slot for the system battery. No discernable use, right? Well, if you need to ever get it replaced, or feel like hot wiring your car to play the Wii, you have a better idea of where to look to get the job done.

Even more importantly, taking out the system battery resets your system data back to the date of initial setup. Whether that does anything useful to restore any bricked Wiis in the future is still going to be up for testing, but we definitely don’t want to test it with our system just yet. We still need to make reviews!

In the meantime, if anyone can use the information to find ways to do better troubleshooting for their consoles, then we’ve done our part. Enjoy!