Anyone mod their wii?

guy incognito

guy incognito

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I have a wii and was considering modding it. I have not done enough research on the subject though.

Anyone modded their wii and care to give advice?
 
I have one that i rarely use. More for when the family comes over and the kids get to play Wii while the rest of us talk :)

But, Im interested to know what you can mod on it? I guess I could use Google but Im just to lazy :lol:
 
Basically do a software mod. I think the software costs like $40 or something, but allows a special "home brew" station. From that station you can play dvds, burned games, and shit like that. I want to talk to people with experience before I start dicking around with it though. I would love to be able to hook up an external hard drive and just play games directly from that, either downloaded games or my own copies just so I don't have to actually go to the hassle of using the disc. I also want the ability to play downloaded video files through the wii. It's such a pain in the ass to convert downloaded files onto dvds to watch. Also a pain in the ass to watch downloaded movies and tv shows on my computer - I would much rather play them through the wii onto my big tv so I can watch with other people too.
 
Modding a wii is like putting aftermarket parts on a pinto :D

Seriously though, what can a modded wii do (besides play burnt games etc)? My sister has a wii, but I haven't played it much. I used it a few times for netflix, but the netflix software sucked way too bad for me to bother.
 
brandon. said:
Modding a wii is like putting aftermarket parts on a pinto :D

Seriously though, what can a modded wii do (besides play burnt games etc)? My sister has a wii, but I haven't played it much. I used it a few times for netflix, but the netflix software sucked way too bad for me to bother.
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If you already have a pinto, and it's free to mod, and gives you useful capabilities i would totally mod a pinto.

Well, here is my hope:

I mod the wii and hook up a 1TB external hard drive via usb. Then I will have the capability to play "burned" games, but I would rather just drop $100 on a hard drive and have all of them stored on it. Huge collection of games on torrent sites (already got about 10 downloading). It will not only be easier than dealing with real discs, but it will have a faster load time.

The second thing I want to be able to do is download tv shows and put them on the external hard drive, and watch them through the wii. My dvr broke so I need to catch up on some shows. I wanna download season 6 of its always sunny in philadelphia not have to fuck with converting, or burning to dvd, or watching it on my compute. I want to bake out and watch it on my tv in the basement with my friends. It's gay watching on a laptop.

The more I read on it all the places charging money for the software is a scam. The software is all available for free, and there are tutorials online.

This seems like a decent article on it: http://nintendo.about.com/od/wiiliving/a/homebrew_overview.htm

The guy also has a DIY guide he wrote (link is on that page) that i'm going to follow this weekend when I have time. Seems easy though. I hope it works like I am expecting. I will update you guys on the progress.
 
I use my PS3 for what you're trying to do, and it works quite well. I have a 500Gb HD hooked up to it with movies and such I have DL'ed from torrents. Like I said though, no idea how to hook one up to the Wii unless it has a usb port?
 
It does have usb ports. I'm not even much of a gamer. I have a ps2 and a wii. I love playing guitar hero and rock band though, and I think the trouble will be worth it just for those games. I got the original rock band, but I got 2, 3, and the metallica version of guitar hero downloading already.
 
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