How does the Wii get "bricked"?

[M-Warrior]

I heard somewhere that the Wii can get bricked if you press the reset button while cheats are on, is this true?

[111]

I heard somewhere that the Wii can get bricked if you press the reset button while cheats are on, is this true?

I doubt it.  As far as cheats are concerned, the worst thing that I could see happening is that they could corrupt your save data for that game.  You just need to make sure to back up your save data for a game to be completely safe from that.

[Nuke]

no its silly newbie talk.

All cheats do is edit the memory contents, they don't edit system files.

No Game has privilege rights to even look at system files, never mind edit them. Only the System menu has these rights.

Worse case is your memory card will get corrupt, so just delete that corrupt save.

[M-Warrior]

Umm... okay. Luckily I always go to the Wii Menu before I turn off the system...
Maybe I should back up all my save games just in case... including the games I would never use cheats on. Just to be safe...

[Nuke]

you can imagine how many times i've crashed my Wii writing GeckoOS messing with cheats, running games and stuff, and i'm still on the same Wii and running fine.

[Jaiden]

Now I have a question relating to bricking.

Let's say somehow I get a bricked Wii WITHOUT a modchip. Can I send it to Nintendo to get it fixed? Or will my warranty be broken by having the homebrew channel?

[111]

The warranty on the Wii will have probably been broken by having an unofficial channel installed at any point.  However, if you are still under warranty, they may still fix it without any cost.  I think that the worst case scenario would be that they would charge you a certain amount to have it fixed if they found that the warranty was broken.