yeah i was right, in my case it was the network settings that was causing the problem, i reset all my network settings back to default as i was using a alternative dns and i can connect back to miiverse and eshop again, went to wii mode and it was quick again so yes the internet settings can effect wii mode and can make it take twice as long to enter wii mode, hope this helps someone who has the same problem, nintendo really need to sort this out in a future firmware update.

a reset button is useful when the console freezes or something so i would say it's far from obsolete, it's a design flaw, the ps3 slim does it too, when the system freezes you have to pull the plug out, in the long run that is going do some major damage to the console especially when both have a hard drive on them, it's a cut corners tactic from nintendo, but it doesn't really give us any benefits when nintendo make design decisions like this.

Hi,

Anybody having any problems getting wii mode to work at all? When i select the mode and click on the screen with the wiimote the screen goes black and the system crashes.  Any ideas?

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Holmanix

i have the same problem, only difference is that when i hold the power button down the wii u gamepad turns off (wii u game pad screen goes a dull grey like it's frozen or something while i get a black screen on the tv) and i get a green bar across the screen for a few seconds then wii mode loads up and the drive starts whirring like it does when you turn on a original wii, it takes over a minute before anything shows up on screen it's really annoying, wii mode was working fine since launch (was always a couple of seconds to load up before), it's only recently this has started to happen, goggled for a solution and this topic came up and it seems there is no fix for this problem, my speculation is that when you connect to wii mode i think it could be the network settings interfering with switching modes hence the delay, reason i came to this conclusion is i currently can't get into any nintendo network features at all (miiverse, eshop, friends list e.t.c) all give error code 102 2128.

the only thing i can try is to delete all network settings and try to enter wii mode and see if there is a delay when doing that, also sometimes holding the power button doesn't work and it goes into wiimode itself after a while, maybe it's trying to check the network settings or something while loading wii mode who knows at this point, if anyone can come to a conclusion as to why this is happening or if anyone has experienced anything similar to what i am experiencing please post here, thanks.