@exodus#4009 The Rebirth games as a whole I enjoyed, and need to be ported elsewhere. Gradius Rebirth was especially enjoyable for me, and was an impressive spinoff of the MSX games surprisingly.
I loved everything about the user experience of that weather channel.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sou-N8f_6Rg
also, please respect the experience of looking at the globe view at night and hearing this : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2ph5bvNBbo
i wanna resurrect this thread
cause i think the wii is pretty baller
iāve modded mine (havenāt put any games on it because that is pain)
but i think i have a pretty cool library of games
i've mostly just been looking thru here
https://www.lukiegames.com/nintendo-wii
trying to find new games to get
I never had a Wii myself, I had to play my brotherās. So when I got my Wii U, on the Switchās launch week, I had to mount the sensor bar on top of my TV with that little stand.
I just recently found out that a modded Wii (or vWii) can run Triforce arcade games so I briefly looked into getting them running in WiiFlow Lite but no simple guide came up so that's where I'm currently at with that!!
@āconnrrrā#p60022
https://wii.guide/
this is a great guide for modding
@āEmilyā#p60060 oh I mean, itās modded, but I didnāt know how to get Triforce games running in it. Turns out Nintendont is already compatible with those games? I'll find out soon!
The non gaming channels on Wii were so exciting in a pre-iPhone world. Exact same feeling as having a PSP or an iPod back then. Just putting your photos on an SD card and displaying them on your CRT was monumental back then.
It was the beginning of my cynicism with games, the beginning of the end. At the same time, No More Heroes felt like it was made for exactly me, my sophomore year of High School.
Nowadays it may be irrelevant with mainstream culture, the way all things pass, but itās still highly relevant in some circles. Go to any smash bros. Meet up and thereās always Wiis there for Melee and Project Plus.
For a long time my bread and butter income was from flipping Wiis. Iād get them from yard sales, swap meets, goodwill, never paying over $20 for one, often no cables or anything, just the system. Then Iād softmod the system in about 20 minutes, put a 4gb sd card in there with Nintendonāt and emulators and such, and sell it on ebay for $65 shipped, in a $6 flat rate envelope with my own bubble wrap inside. about $30 profit after all was said and done.
Also I remember what it felt like being excited for Virtual Console releases. Playing Mystical Ninja with my dad, and trying Turbografx games for the first time (I got Bonk and beat it back then!) It was at that time that starmen.net had been hosting their mass Nintendo-call-in campaigns to get Earthbound released on Virtual Console and Mother 3 released stateside. It was also when I gave up on ever seeing that happen. Not getting it on Wii was soul crushing to the point it didnāt matter anymore.
@āconnrrrā#p60061 yep, drop them on in there and nintendont plays them just fine!
I LOVE THE WII
I agree with Blasters' OP that the Wii felt like something special and new when it came out. I guess I'd always assumed that was because I was 10 years old when it didāand there's surely some of that going onābut I do find myself sneering at every business decision Nintendo is making with the Switch and going _Man... the Wii tried to appeal to a lot of people but it had some kind of integrity._ They tried stuff! The Everybody Votes Channel!
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@ātreefroggyā#p60070 Just putting your photos on an SD card and displaying them on your CRT was monumental back then.
This thing!
Not to turn this into a pity party for present day video gaming. The Wii was cool. The Virtual Console was great for meāthe Videos About Old Games economy was taking off in a big way in the mid '00s and I wanted to play some of those old games. My only regret with the Wii was not buying more stuff from the VC, which I foolishly assumed would be a Nintendo mainstay going forward.
It's got the best Fire Emblem on it. Resident Evil 4 is really cool with motion control. Rhythm Heaven Fever!!
Going to mod my Wii as soon as I clear off my old hard drive. I look forward to playing The Last Story sometime soon.
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the weird but nice thing about modding a wii is that wiiware games are infinitely more easy to do than actual wii games so when I first got started I was stuck with lots of weird games but thats also how I first experienced ace attorney and cave story!
the wii came out when i was a child and was retired when i was ready to be an adult
the Nintendo Wii was the last console that i was spiritually invested in.
Nintendo - home of Mario , Zelda , and Pokemon - they were back on top. everyone was playing Wii Sports. nintendo was making side scrolling platformers ! New Super Mario Bros, Donkey Kong Country , Wario Land Shake It , Kirby. i bought Madworld because I wanted games for big boys to be on the kiddie system. i tried to convince myself that Metroid Other M was "a pretty good action game." I showed some friends Sin and Punishment 2 at a party and they were like , "what is this? why would you play this?"
Smash Bros Brawl was probably the last thing me and my brother had before we both became adults.
i feel like the Nintendo Switch is everything that Nintendo was trying to do with the Wii but matured and actualized. the gimmick is not really a gimmick. it is convenient and understood at a glance. there are gyro controls, touchscreen, hd rumble, an infared sensor , but none of that is required or shoe horned into places it does not belong. the joycons are toyetic and very nintendo. i quite like holding them one in each hand. (too bad about that drift) it's nintendo being nintendo while also (mostly) not doing all of the bad things that nintendo does.
I had a really shitty day today, but I just played like 3 hours of Excite Truck and everything is alright again.
However, I made the horrifying discovery that one of my Wii remotes is dead. My launch day white one is still fine, but the Wii U-era āPlusā model I bought in 2015 clearly wasnāt as tough as its older sibling.
What do people do for Wii remotes now? Are the myriad third-party knockoffs available on Amazon cheap junk? Is there a secret source for new ones (in the UK)?
_edit: there are quite a few sealed ones for not too much on eBay, but I would be interested to learn about the cheapo third-party ones if anyone has any experience_
@"billy "#p69728 if it were me Iād see if I couldnāt repair the thing. It could be an easy fix, you never know until you look into it.
@āconnrrrā#p69741 This is probably true. Iāll open it up when I have some time and see if I can work out whatās up.
Bringing this thread back for selfish reasons (I've got a hard drive that needs filling).
Games I can play with kids is a plus. Outside Wii Sports, are there any solid golf games for wii?
So far I've got:
Those Marios, Zeldas and Kirbys
Pikmin 1&2
Let's Tap
Rhythm Heaven
The Last Story
Wario Land Shake It
Sin and Punishment 2
Excite Truck
ExciteBots- Trick Racing
Kororinpa
Endless Ocean
Endless Ocean 2 Blue World
Escape from Bug Island
Ghost Squad
Harvey Birdman- Attorney at Law
Red Steel 1 & 2
Rune Factory
Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz
The Conduit 1 & 2
The Legend of Zelda - Twilight Princess
Also, I never owned a GameCube, so might be time to dive into that library thanks to [Nintendont.](https://sites.google.com/site/completesg/backup-launchers/gamecube/nintendont)
I havenāt played it on the Wii but āGunblade NY & L.A. Machineguns Arcade Hits Packā might be a possibility. There is also a Data East collection on Wii as well.
@āhellomrkearnsā#p118407 if you're getting Nintendont up and running I recommend playing Twilight Princess on that instead of the Wii port that is directly responsible for souring everyone on what is actually one of the best Zelda games period. I think it can be widescreen patched too.
Oooh shit this popping back up just reminded me the other day my mom came up to me with a mailer box the other day and was like āā¦what kind of game system do you have,ā and, I just kind of muttered unintelligibly because I really have no idea how to answer that question in a way that is both sincere and something she would be able to understand and also answer her question. Anyway it didnāt matter because she was really just asking to see if I had what was in the box, which was a (jailbroken, I think!!) Wii from my sisterās partner!! I have been instructed to not sell it as if it were mine but it has more or less been sitting around unused for a while and is to be housed here until further notice.
I really ought to hook it up and see what kind of weird shit my sister's partner got up to with that thing, because the last I remember it had a bunch of pirated games on it and his kids used to play it all the time.
I traded in my Wii ages ago and honestly didn't expect to ever get another one... maybe I could turn this into an emulator box depending on what fel rituals have already been performed upon it? Is that something you can do? I have a vague memory of there being games on it beyond just Wii games, but that could very well have been Virtual Console games.
I honestly don't really think I have any lingering regret kinds of Wii games that I failed to play while I still had one... but... oh! wait! shit! I just remembered that that's also a Gamecube too!!!!!!! Ok that's a little more exciting isn't it? I mean... I can't think of any Gamecube games I have lingering regrets about not having played either.
Still, though. I may be a bit of a mule with a spinning wheel here.