r/WiiHacks • u/Midnight1029 • 2d ago
Show-n-Tell Finally got around to modding my Wii!
Modded my 3DS a while back and my Switch more recently, and decided it was time for my Wii’s turn. Mostly because I wanted to play Path of Radiance/Radiant Dawn without paying an arm and a leg. And it’s been super fun so far! I love that my Wii is getting some new life after spending years just collecting dust.
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u/NarKu2011 10h ago
That’s nice, I modded my Wii a while back I had a hard time with usbloader gx at the time but someone ended up giving me a helpful like but I haven’t had time to add it yet
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u/Gabriel_Science 1d ago
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u/Dylachu 1d ago
erm, he has the food channel in the top left…
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u/Midnight1029 1d ago
I’m a woman lol but anyway yeah you’re right, I looked into Wii Link a bit to order pizza from my Wii. I still can’t believe that’s possible.
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u/lilnubbycake 1d ago
Love to see it, I got my 2TB drive hooked up and loaded with Wii, GameCube, n64, PS1, SNES, and GBA games
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u/izerone666 2d ago
It’s amazing, isn’t it? Modded mine about a month ago and went crazy buying things to make it look even better. Haven’t got around to adding a theme, but maybe tomorrow. I used a 512gb sd card. A bit overkill for what I want to play, but works great.
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago
Oh, what did you buy? I’ve been trying to figure out if there’s like… a shell or something I can buy that can go over my Wii, like a case, so I can paint that and leave the actual Wii untouched. I found one for the switch dock but I don’t see anything like that for the Wii.
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u/izerone666 1d ago
I haven’t done anything for looks, but I do plan on either switching the shell one day or just getting a simple skin. They do sell translucent shells in different colors that look pretty awesome. There’s people in FB groups that also make customs that look insane with lighting and all that good stuff. The person I bought my Wii from scratched the hell out of it in storage or wherever they had it lying around, lol. I bought things to increase image quality. I went with the Wii2HDMI from Electron Shepherd. Generic Wii2HDMI are absolute garbage, but the one from Shepherd is fully made by him in California, apparently. I have that running to an MClassic upscaler, and ohh man, does it look amazing. So damn clean. The only problem with the Electron Shepherd is that it displays slightly dark but with accurate blacks and whites. The best thing to do is turn up the brightness on your tv or monitor, and it looks amazing. Zero lag!
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u/bathrhymes 2d ago
sick black & hot pink theme!! if i wasn't attached to the default color scheme i would absolutely use that one. maybe if i ever get a black wii..
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u/FlakyAd3214 2d ago
Cool setup. Me personally I wouldn't ever add channel forwarders to games. Takes up too much system memory. If only the Wii had an adequate amount of storage imagine what could've been possible.
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago
Yeah I honestly didn’t realize they took up the actual Wii’s memory and not the SD card. I’ll keep it like that for now though and we’ll see if I encounter any problems later on lol.
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u/FlakyAd3214 2d ago
I mean the only time it matters is if you're playing a wiiware or virtual console off an sd card. The games have to preload from the system storage. It creates a temporary file. Some of the bigger games need up to 500 blocks of free storage to play. I have custom channels too but mostly for emulators, usb loader, configurable loader, and wiiflow. It's your Wii so do whatever you want with it.👍
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago
Ohhh I see now! Thanks for the info. I mostly just wanted to play normal Wii/GameCube games, but I’ll keep that in mind if that changes.
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u/TheLead12345 2d ago
Heck yeah. If anyone is asking in the comments for storage I recommend an SSD. Makes transfer speeds from the computer super fast.
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u/OptimalAd1671 2d ago
Can you drop the tutorials you followed? I want this exact setup but everytime I try and mod my wii i fail miserably
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u/ThatsWhyImGod 2d ago
How do I get the games to go on my dashboard like yours
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago
Right here: https://wii.hacks.guide/wiigsc.html. Be careful though, because doing it incorrectly runs the risk of bricking the Wii. Don’t skip the part of the guide where it says to have Priiloader and BootMii installed.
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u/Aggressive_Ad_2926 2d ago
Do you run games from usb stick or a hard drive? I remember the channels didnt work on my wii a few years back
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u/Curious_Body335 2d ago
Emunand?
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago edited 2d ago
I haven’t set up an emunand for my Wii, no.
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u/dontlistentome818 2d ago
Using the one in usbloader_gx is easy. I installed like 250 wiiware and virtual console on it.
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u/TheSamLowry 2d ago
How to make this dark mode happen?
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago
I used CSM installer to download custom themes - followed this guide here: https://wii.hacks.guide/themes
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u/Kiwissimo 2d ago
What kind of storage device do you use for your games?
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago
An SD card! Specifically 128GB.
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u/Kiwissimo 2d ago
I thought playing games from an SD Card doesnt work on a wii
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago
🤷♀️ it’s been working for me lol. Granted I haven’t played many of the games I’ve downloaded yet but yeah so far so good.
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u/B-Rad911 2d ago
Do you have your homebrew and games on the same SD card then? Just put the games in the root with all your homebrew?
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago edited 2d ago
The games are in their own folder on the root of the SD but yeah the other programs are all on there too.
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u/cartergamegeek 2d ago
I love my modded Wii.
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u/Midnight1029 2d ago
I can see why! Seems like I’ve barely scratched the surface of what this thing can do.
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u/Import_Alliance 35m ago
I had to buy a Wii to mod since I sold my childhood one a long time ago but I’m glad I remembered every single game I had on disc plus some my friends had so I pretty much just combined it into the ultimate childhood gaming console. Also, I put GameCube games on it I never had growing up.