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Little emulation powerhouse, I love my Wii.
Jailbroken to hell and back with half of the library on an SSD and all the emulators I want (except xemu, but like, that's a pipe dream the thing isn't that powerful).
I recommend literally everyone who has a wii in their garage or attic, pull it out and spend some time jailbreaking it, the things are really great consoles, bonus points if you have a CRT for it.
I picked up a cheap Wii to give it a try for the first time after looking into its library and finding out how many gems it had.
I've jailbroken a bit in the past, like the OG Xbox and PSP, but by god, the documentation available for jailbreaking the Wii is just superb, made it an absolute breeze to do. But what shocked me the most was the tools available post jailbreak. Being able to quickly connect the Wii to wifi and then have access to an extremely polished Homebrew software store, full of emulators and cool little community made games, which I could download directly to my wii effortlessly with the push of a button was something I had never experienced before with older consoles.
After playing around with it for a few weeks, it quickly went from a console I had passed over for decades as a gimmick, to literally my favorite console of all time. Such a great little box with so many games that give a totally unique experience. Also the balance board combined with Wii Fit and the multiple EA Fitness games for it offer a surprisingly fun way to motivate you to get some decent aerobic exercise.
It also helps that they're really well made, quiet little devices that barely take up any room (and it doubles as a gamecube, too!)
Yes! My only complaint is games will sometimes freeze for a second. It’s particularly annoying for just dance. If you have any tips for that, I’d love to hear them. I’m using a flash drive instead of SSD, so maybe it’s that?
It’s been awhile since I loaded games onto storage, but back when I did it, that software was only available on windows. Idk if it’s gotten any better since then, but I have literally no reason to use windows other than hacking my Wii
Flash drive are usually Kinda terrible, especially at the Wii's USB2.0 speed. I'd consider an SDXC card. I use a partition on my 512GB SDXC for my games with heavier assets (lol @ heavy wii games, like why?) to improve loading speed. The wii's SD slot is significantly faster than its USB ports.
If you use a big SD like that, you don't need to partition it, I only do that because I also use that card in other consoles and like to keep the data separate.