Brick
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To brick a Wii is to damage the console beyond repair - as in 'a bricked Wii has all the electronic functionality of a brick'. To put it simply, fully bricked Wii consoles do not play. The term is often used in situations where modifying a system's firmware (without necessarily making any alterations to the machine's hardware) has caused it to become inoperable.
Semi-brick
A semi-bricked Wii has a small error in the system menu. Once a Wii is semi-bricked, it cannot enter the settings screen. There are repair discs for semi-bricked Wii consoles, but not for those fully bricked.
Prevention
- Only install updates for your own region.
- Play your own region.
- Do not delete critical system files.
- Watch out for malformed channel banners, the menu is very bad at error handling.