I ran into a problem there. The Target no longer had any Wiis. I thus began an epic quest, driving to the next closest Target where they had several Wiis and Guitar Hero Games in stock. Happily spending 400 dollars (Wii:$250; Guitar Hero:$90; Extra Controller:$40) I brought the heavy boxes home and quickly plugged them all in. Everything worked fine, and the system even connected through my wireless Internet connection and immediately downloaded a firmware update. Figuring everything was fine, I decided to check out the Virtual Console store I had heard a lot about.
Now I ran into my real problem: My Wii wouldn't let me get to the store. When I clicked on the Store "channel", it said that I needed to agree to various user agreements first, and redirected me to the system options where the agreements supposedly resided. That in turn tried to connect to the Internet to retrieve the agreements, but always failed, producing nothing more than an error code of 220602. I tried repeating this multiple times, with no success.
I knew that there was more to this than a broken Internet connection, because my Wii had connected to the Internet and even downloaded a firmware update. So it wasn't that part, but rather something connected to the User Agreement sections. By this time I had theorized that the Internet wouldn't work because I did not go over the user agreements, and the user agreements didn't work because it wouldn't let me connect to the Internet. A catch-22, so to speak.
Wii Internet Connection:
The current bane of
of my existence.
So I ventured to the Internet on my desktop computer, in search of an easy answer to my problem. Since my Wii spat out an error code after it wouldn't connect to the Internet, I did a quick Google search for "Nintendo Wii error code", which led me to Nintendo's own Error Code Page. Typing in my code of 220602 produced a page that said it could be a problem with the DNS server, and that I should manually input all the IP settings. After grabbing these from my computer, I duely changed the connection settings, and quickly realized that my computer and my Wii could not have the same IP address. Leaving that to "automatic", I inputted the rest manually (including both the primary and secondary DNS addresses), and tried once more to connect.
No success. This time it spit out an error code of 52130, which according to Nintendo's error code search engine, was something dealing with the router firewall settings. I knew that was wrong, since I had connected to the Internet previously, and had not changed any of the settings in the router.
Heading to the Internet once again, I soon came across the Nintendo Tech Support Forums, where there was an entire board devoted to Internet connectivity. With over 3,500 messages. A few pages in, I found one post that had the exact same problem I did, in that it would connect to the Internet for the firmware update, but not the store. This message led to another thread that gave a simple solution: restarting the wireless router. However, as other members of my family were also online, I did not want to cut them off on something that might not solve my problem. Saving that idea for later, I continued searching through the forum.
Several more pages in, I found another thread that mentioned another possible solution: switching the primary and secondary DNS addresses. Since this did not involve shutting the wireless router off, I decided to try it.
It worked perfectly. The user agreements immediately popped up, and I was able to agree to them fine. So now I can connect to the Internet. I am very tempted to shell out the five dollars for Opera, so I can go online from my Wii.
UPDATE: Yeah, I bought Opera. I never really use it, but I feel good just knowing it's there should I ever desire to browse the Internet through my television.
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