This Wii U was almost thrown out by GameStop... how bad is it really?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ก.ย. 2021
- It's a hoot and a holler when the gang digs a Nintendo Wii U out of the trash.
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I love how the actual console itself had no problems
yea lmao
it was just nintendo problems lol
Thanks Nintendo *
@@DavidSanguineti You're welcome.
Wait, I'm not Nintendo. I just have Toad as my channel icon due to my channel's theme.
Don't get angry with me. I'm not Nintendo!
Nintendo, the Apple of consoles
I absolutely love that finding a disc in it implies the console was thrown out without much thought lmak
Yea
I would imagine the gamepad was broken and since replacing the gamepad is as expensive as the console the owner just decided they were done with the console altogether.
it is funny lmak
or stolen
lmak
The Wii U has absolutely got to be the most clumsy, misguided device I have ever owned. I love it so much.
Every Nintendo fan (we're all gullible):
We know it sucks but we still love it all the same lol.
@@Some-guy-on-the-internetI legit like the wii u better than the switch, and I don't say that from not being able to afford the switch, it's just not a great deal.
Switch = 60 dollar ports and rereleases of 5-10 year old games with very little effort put in + $70 "next gen" games that chug and drop frames and can't keep up trying to produce 30 fps, let alone the 60fps that is synonymous with "Next Gen" games. Simply put, Rip Iwata-San. The current Nintendo is a greedy shell of the former Nintendo company, thus, I enjoy wii u for the ability to collect physical media still with fewer day 1 updates, and cheaper games in general that are almost the exact same as 60 dollar titles they shamelessly put out now.
Nintendo is not friendly anymore, they never make anything affordable for players, there are occasional sales w minor discounts on their first party titles, but never any greatest hits, players choice, nintendo selects program to make great games affordable, there isn't anything like that anymore--they tested the customers w the 60 dollar price point of old games, and the customers failed. Can't blame Nintendo, but it is what it is, and I unironically like the wii u better.
The Wii U's web browser was AWESOME. You just had to change the user agent to Android. You could browse the web, use the gamepad to read text if it was too small on the TV, have a video up on the screen while you continued to browse other sites on the gamepad, have plenty of tabs etc... It worked with almost every video sharing site which is more than I can say for ANY other console browser. It was the best TV web browsing experience I have ever had hands down.
didnt even need to change the user agent for the first years of its life.....
only really became necessery when web became more "complex" and some websites stopped rendering correctly
Also worked great with Plex
@@pillowhacker *Piracy*
@@awii.neocities How is Plex, Piracy? Actually curious on this point.
@@TheDeelunatic Depends on how you use it. You're meant to use it with movies you actually own, but most people I know use their pirated movies instead. I'm not saying that plex is bad, far from it, I just think that most people use it with pirated movies.
"Worst selling console"
cue the Virtual Boy hiding behind a corner, furiously sweating
Omg I was thinking that lol
Its crazy to think its prequel is actually the best selling nintendo console
It's not a console, it's an accessory.
So bad that everybody forgets it even exists.
The Wii U definitely sold poorer that all of Nintendo's main home consoles but the Wii U is far from the worse-selling console in general. The Wii U still outsold the Sega Dreamcast but not by much.
Trust me when I say those scratches on the Wii U are literally just how the console gets. Mine since 2014 has literally been sitting on stands. No animals, nobody in my house has been clawing at the casing. It's like Nintendo scratched the consoles themselves, said oh shit, put some invisible paint over it that wears off after a few years and the consoles reveal the scratches. I honestly don't have an explanation for it.
It's unironically probably just hairs and dust that grind away at the console
@@Shuroii Could very well be! But who tf knows lmao
this is why whenever i get anything with glossy plastic i just take a scouring pad to it and brush in the same direction over and over. gives a cool brushed metal look to it and it's no longer reflective. i actually sold my wii u i did this with and the buyer thought it was pretty cool.
My Wii U is at least 8 years old and is in near perfect condition, I think because it's black minor blemishes are just more obvious.
My thought when he was looking at the scratches was "oh yeah the wii U shipped with those"
Reminds me of the time my mom bought me a PS2 at some yard sale. Apparently, the owners couldn't figure out how to get it to work, so they sold it for $20. Get it home, the thing is like brand new, almost out of the box condition, and even had a game inside!
The Wii U was my first console and it holds literally all of my childhood nostalgia. My neighbours and I would play Go Vacation and Mario kart for hours everyday after school and through the holidays. I still have it and a few weeks ago after literally 7 years we re booted it and played some of the games again. The nostalgia hit hard. Also that gamepad was always fought over! The wii U and gamepad is still proudly displayed next to my TV.
Reminds me of the time I bought a perfectly usable Wii at a flea market for 4 bucks
No seriously, guy said it was for parts but when I plugged everything it worked just fine, it even had Guitar Hero songs on it lol
I haven't gotten any score like that, though I got an iPod 6th gen at a flea market free and only needed a screen replacement and I use it often
I similarly bought an original Xbox at my high school flea market for only $5. At the time, I was like "eh, why the hell not?" but it has since become one of my best investments (ESPECIALLY after finding out it came with the Xcalibur chip!)
@@TELMEman sick!
Got a PS3 Ultra-slim (with a 300GB drive no less) for 10 euros similarly. Guy said it was broken, only problem is a noisy fan for like 5 minutes tops when the console cold boots. Let it warm up and it's not only functionnal but also silent as a library.
My local Savers had like 5 Wiis sitting on a shelf for $5 a piece. I ended up picking up the nicest looking one, and it works perfectly and looks beautiful
He gave the Wii U another chance at life.
This does put a smile on my face.
oh my god its fukami from
yo, is this fukami from
@@Josuh Have we met before?
@@fukami143 not really, i was just trying to start a chain based on what the guy above said 😔
Wii Ü
I was working for a tow company and had a car going for scrap that had a Wii U and pad in the trunk, Nobody else wanted it so I took it home, I haven't done anything with it yet since I don't have any of the cable or power adapter for it. This video has inspired me to get said wires and have some fun with it. Thanks for the video and keep the content coming.... A new subscriber
13:10: Note that your Wii U over the Wii U's HDMI cable has *WORSE output than a Wii* using the Nintendo component cables or a good Wii2HDMI adapter ($16). This has been proven over and over again, including here on TH-cam. So sure, it can run them natively over the HDMI cable, but they look worse than on my 2006 Wii with OEM component cables to my 2016 Samsung TV. And there's no mod for that. It's just something all Wii U owners must accept. The Wii is still the best way to play Wii and GC games.
Nintendo did a similar thing with earlier models of PAL SNES consoles. They region locked the controller ports. You had to use European (and Australian) controllers or they wouldn't get recognized otherwise.
i mean like even with the switch, sure its USB-C but it doesn't actually support USBPD(power delivery) which is why some people bricked their switch
@@NonsensicalSpudz And even the Power Supply itself, my Super Smash Bros Ultimate Edition I bought from a German dealer got a european Power Plug and another whole Power Supply with an IEC Type G Plug (UK), even Apple got interchangeable Plugs on their MacBook PSUs since years (and AFAIK it's a C7 connector, nothing proprietary)...
@@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381 LIke I use my macbook pro lead to charge my ipad quest 2 and other usb c devices, but its not going anywhere near my switch
Seriously, that's so freaking stupid. No joke, I didn't even know controllers could actually be region locked for certain consoles, until this video.
I mean at least there’s some reason. There’s a different voltage meaning they could glitch a different region controller (Maybe, I don’t really know much about electricity aside from it make human die and it don’t like water). This is wireless so there’s no damn reason why aside from purposeful stupidity.
"The switch hasn't been busted wide open like the wiiu"
Dude we have bootrom level arbitrary code execution what more do you want?
Yeah what was that about?
What about being able to run Android on the Switch? you can do that as well.
@Walther Penne lmao what do you mean they’ll die in 5 years?
@Walther Penne no they really don’t? And damn I mean I got a perfectly functional nes and ps1 but sure they dead as hell, cause u said
@@alfiegordon9013 I think a better way to put this is quality control has changed in recent times for better and for worse due to a number of factors. So yes, your NES and PS1 may have survived to this day but quality control and manufacturing control has changed in recent times to the point electronics of the current era often fail quicker than that of older generation devices.
Take it from someone who diagnosis and repairs electronics all day, largely phones, but it still matters in that case, and even more so if were talking phone durability.
Just fyi, sometimes windex can take the protective later off some LCD screens. The company I work for did some extensive testing on cleaners for equipment and monitors and found a glass cleaner called bonami that doesn't affect that layer and does a good job of cleaning pretty much everything. Just make sure you use it with ventilation; it doesn't smell nice and the smell sticks in your nose for a while.
Tbh, the Wii U was actually a great, underappreciated console. Even I passed on it at the time, though I now own the zelda special edition one.
Yeah!
I absolutely love Nintendo Land, Wii Party U, and Splatoon
It was great. I still play it regularly since the games have so much replay value. They look fantastic even after 10 yrs. I love the Wii U.
im like a third of the way through and already i cant begin to describe how refreshing it is to just see someone acknowledge nintendo's shitty business practices
Agreed. This needs to come up more and more often, until it starts to drown out the cheers over a new Smash Bros. release.
Is it really that "refreshing"?
I hear people call them out all the time, and a lot of the time it's just people misinterpreting Nintendo's bullish stupidity as insidiouness.
Plus he's acknowledging shitty practices that they stopped doing over four years ago. The Switch doesn't suffer from any of this.
@@alfo2804 the only thing I can think of for the Switch are those awful joycon analog sticks. I've already changed them 4x since release while I only got to change my 3DS analog stick once.
It really isn't rare though. But hey, I guess that just means you live a very refreshing life.
@@CrayonConoisseur get a pro controller also Nintendo fixes them for free
12:42 Hey Matt, try out Meguiars Scratch-X for removing scratches from glossy plastic. Just some of that and a microfiber towel, you're good to go. Works wonderfully, I made an original PS3 look like new that way. Just make sure not to get it in crevices, can be kinda annoying/difficult to clean out.
Edit: though I wouldn't expect to make this look like new super easily, you could improve it for sure.
Or brasso and micrifiber would also work, according to dankpods
Maybe that video about removing scratches on the glossy Fat PS3 would help him th-cam.com/video/ZT_ijQyRLto/w-d-xo.html
@@elvispretzel9331 it's made for metal afaik, prob works on plastic but it would be best to use something made for plastic
@@elvispretzel9331 Brasso can leave a cloudier finish in my experience, it seems a little too abrasive for some plastics. I suppose it depends on how many polishing steps you want to do.
@@elvispretzel9331 geir geir dank na no shrek
damn its really gonna be 10 years, a decade in the next month. i vividly remember seeing it at a christmas party in 2012 being gifted to someone else, and i felt so jealous and sad, typical for my age at that time. but i remember that moment like it happened yesterday, i remember the way the room smelled, the people talking and laughing, and the sense of happiness with a magical feeling that only happened on christmas. now thats all gone, now im working at a circle k not far from the lonesome freeway, typing this on my typewriter that echoes with each letter pressed into this dark abyss called circle k. and i spend my time lost in this memory as i mindlessly put the hot dogs on the hot rollers, and watch the hot dogs rotate. the hot dogs hot temperature meets my cold skin and its winking at me with its shiny reflection. rotating, over and over and over again.
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beautiful writing
no other content is come-back-and-watch-for-no-reason-able like matt's i fricking love him
Meanwhile I still have my Wii U I specifically bought for Smash Bros. Barely used. Only kept it as a VC emulation machine. It and the game pad are basically like-new still.
Same. I still love playing smash and using my 3ds as a controller. The wii u might have flopped but when it got it right it was perfect.
Highly recommend setting up Homebrew on both the Wii U and old Wii menu. Gives it a lot more use.
@@paulnovacek3715 way ahead of you.
@@paulnovacek3715 I do all the injections so I have pretty icons on my home screen for all the games whether it’s GameCube, Wii, n64 etc.
@@TrevorFalzarano oh, good! Hope you enjoy it. If you don't mind playing Smash 4 again after Ultimate, there's some fun Smash mods you can check out too.
I really love this community, that still sees use in old consoles and tries everything to keep them alive. If you ever have any questions, there are tons of tutorials online or you can ask on reddit, everyone is so nice and it's so much fun. When my 3DS stopped working around a week ago, I was devastated. It's probably the console I have the strongest bond to, playing on car rides or on my way to school. I was searching for an answer online but couldn't find much. But after asking on reddit, I got a lot of recommendations and now it's working again. These videos just show how much value old consoles have.
It's a very involved community and it reveals more about the console than you would ever have known about.
Congrats on getting your N3DS fixed and I love seeing stuff like this, too from time to time.
Old consoles getting another chance at life because someone saw worth in it, despite its age or condition.
Especially with consoles or handhelds that you had a personal connection with. 😊 ❤
wii u is kinda underrate too.. it had some underrated gems, like nintendo land.
The weakest part of the wii u is the little ribbon connector that connects the faceplate to the rest of the console.
Without it, you can't eject game discs, can only power it on with a gamepad... it's basically bricked if you unplug it for too long or never turned it on in the first place.
You can "hotwire" it by rubbing conductive material on the capacitors near that connector, but god I hate Nintendo hardware sometimes.
10:31 That explains why Disc LED kept turned on, ever since you plugged the power cord.
Somehow I predicted the Game Pad being region locked when you mentioned not having one. I'm surprised you didn't consider it!
This kind of thing makes me hate Nintendo. I have no real motivation to play or nostalgia for their games, and for those limited cases where I might want to try their games, emulators have proved more than sufficient. All this region-locking stuff basically makes me never want to buy anything from them.
@@zbot2123 i believe the switch isnt really region locked lmao you can just make another nintendo account and set the region to anyone you want and then you'd have access to the eshop for that region
@@EricTGK True,my country doesn't let me access the Nintendo eShop,so I just had to create an American account and all is well
@@denverkweh1642 i mean it as in like if you wanted to access the japanese eshop where it has some exclusive games you could just make a Japanese alternative account
@@EricTGK I have an account like that just lying around 😂. Sadly I don't think I'll be able to read Japanese so there goes the exclusive items to Japan for some reason
I’m genuinely surprised he didn’t have to mess around with the consoles internals. The only issue was that it didn’t have a gamepad
Those scratches can be greatly improved by buffing the console with ScratchX or any other similar automotive scratch remover for glossy finishes.
for the scratches you could use braso metal polish does wonders on soft scratched plastics
I literally have that same monitor. I saw it appear on screen, and slowly looked up at mine, and back at yours and my brain just sort of gave up.
I also have the exact same monitor.
Nintendo on the surface look like the perfect family game company, but they secretly rule with a totalitarian iron fist and if the tiniest unscheduled change occurs to a console, they'll punish you severely.
They're basically the Disney of gaming
@@SkyyySi Or Apple/Xiaomi.
Delete it anyone calling the wiiu a failure shall be isekai'd!
@Alts'Alts When it comes to how locked down the devices are, Apple is in the same field.
@@acumenium8157 Xiaomi is such restrictive that you even don't need to unlock the bootloader, because it's already, seems legit, it's rather Samsung (bootloader unlocking much harder, eFuses...), they try hinder third-party-repairs similar to Apple nowadays with non-working Features like TrueTone, fingerprint Sensor etc. after changing parts...
"F*ck you ,this controller is foreign" lmao
Got wiiu at launch. Love the console. Same reason you mentioned. It can play almost the entire nintendo library. I never got n64 to work great but everything else is perfect. Atari, gb, gbc, gba, nes, snes, gamecube, wii, wiiu, master system, genesis, sega cd, and tons more. Great console!
If they wanted to sell consoles that worked, they would be called GameGo not GameStop
Speaking of GameStop (Well, back when it was called EB Games), I bought a 2DS XL for $160 (I think), and after 2 months, I dropped it, and the entire back popped off, breaking the volume slider.
All because they *forgot to screw in the back cover*
It's been too long for me to ask for a refund.
Also, my Wii U's GamePad is kinda busted right now. A few months after I got my console, my GamePad stopped working unless it was literally right next to the console.
Last year, I decided to replace the wifi card in my GamePad, but then the *right stick started controlling the volume* (WTF, also only two other people have had this issue and posted about it online)
I think I'm just going to buy a new GamePad and pair that instead.
I swear I have the worst luck with Nintendo consoles that don't start with the letters "SW"
Update as of November 2021: I just fixed the volume slider! I posted a comment about that on the Game Boy Pocket video.
Just don't throw the original seeing how hard it it to get one. If anything, sell it for parts. Repairing it should be relatively easy for those who know what they are doing.
For the gamepad i found that it can be a faulty chip inside of the gamepad, i found a tutorial and for what I could see is an easy fix that you can do on your house, I hope it can help.
th-cam.com/video/EbmAoHpWVdc/w-d-xo.html
@@fuxi1444 I already fixed my sync issues, it's just that I'm also having an issue that only two other people have reported online (last time i checked anyway)
We still have ebgames in our country.
your first mistake was buying a 2ds xl
Did you know that Nintendo officially sold batteries for the gamepad with a much higher capacity than the OG one?
That's why there's so much extra space in the battery compartment :D
Just recently got an official unused battery and my capacity nearly tripled from 2-3 hrs to 8! Now this thing is actually usable for an extended session of Xenoblade Chronicles X without having to keep it plugged in ^^
TBF.... that is also partialy do to the abttery degredation of the original one.
a new WII U gamepad woudl have held around 4-5 hours of xenoblade X(speaking from experience)
AND TBF... playing XCX with the gamepad is a pain... you use the wii u pro controller wiht the gamepad on its charging stand(only included in the black wi u premium bundle) for the map
8:46 Cubic Ninja on the 3DS became an instant hit once the release of the ninjhax exploit
Yes that is kind of true basically the weather level creator but your new maximum limit so if you kept on like spamming stuff eventually you’ll get to the secret screen of ninja eggs but it’s not actually that secret because most people know it
Wait, I wasn't the one single person to ever own a Wii U?
Crazy.
@Never Gonna Give You Up 😜👇 no
I used to own 2 of them ^-^
you too?
Finally met someone else that owns one
I have 2. One has a smashed gamepad screen, but the base console is usable, and my 2nd one was the replacement for it.
I still wonder WHY the console was thrown out? Did they just.. not try another disc or even try cleaning the disc? There were literally no hardware problems!
Assuming the Gamepad wasn't included, it was maybe broken or something, rendering the console unusable, so instead of getting other gamepad, they just decided to throw it out
My guess is that the power supply broke and the original owner belived it was the console itself that broke, that also explains why the disc was left inside since without power the it can't be ejected.
@@TheNintendochannel64
my bets are on dead battery in the gamepad. a very common problem
Gamepad could've also broke
6:30 ahh the memoris that startup sound gives me, i havent heard that sound in like 7 years or something
The best part is that Matt took the time to make custom subtitles
I've had a WII U for a long time now, and it's so easy to mod. You have (almost) the whole Nintendo library on a single console! It's very great, even in 2021.
In terms of Handheld solutions I'd also say the 3DS is similarly great
@@dayandere2669 I use 3ds to mod 3ds and Ds games and wii u to mod gamecube, wii, and wii u games
Off topic but I'm just so goddamn thrown off every single time something American shows up. I'm so used to you being Down Under, honestly. :P
Did he move?
@@thomasphillips885 Seems like he did, everything was from the US version of eBay with the US plugs and all that.
why in gods name would you move from Australia and trade it for the USA
@@othersideguy16 Beats me, mate.
@@othersideguy16 No fucking clue, mate
Honest to God I'd trust this guy with my broken Wii U more than I would any of the repair stores in my area
When you powered the console, noticed the disc light straight away,and was curious to see what was in 👍
Jesus, the Wii U is almost 10 years old... I still remember watching a Wii U first impressions livestream by a tech channel I used to watch back then. Damn.
i almost spat out my drink 1:25 😂
Always nice to stumble across a new channel. Dig your content, sir.
6:48 It's like you read my live journal.
12:35 my dad taught me a meathod of using turtle wax and buffing it in to remove scratches. You can also use a substance called polywatch, but this is riskier.
Brasso helps with the scratches but be sure to use black plastic restorer after wards
love seeing someone who has never owned a wii u reanimating one all of this time later... that was a fun ride thank you
Not sure if these are sold in the land of upside down, but 3M makes a headlight restoration kit with a bunch of fine grit sandpaper (going up to I think 2000 grit?), a buffing pad, and a foam-backed spindle or whatever its called that you can put in a drill and attach these different pads to. It's expensive, but the sandpaper is all 3M so it lasts forever, and all the squishiness of the pads and foam backing makes it great for plastic buffing and polishing. If you get yourself some fine cut polishing compound for the foam buffing pad you can absolutely achieve factory mirror finish on plastic. Just make sure that if you do use any of the sandpaper, you have water dripping over it as youre sanding to prevent the plastic heating up and going gooey.
I've had a modded WiiU for a number of years now. I actually got mine when the console was new, and ended up stopping using it because my gamepad stopped functioning.
Since when at its "peak" the gamepad was stupid expensive, I ended up putting it in a drawer for a couple years.
Once the switch came out (and I couldn't afford it) I git a craving for some Nintendo and repaired my gamepad and homebrewed it.
Honestly it's great. I love this little machine, and I'm genuinely concerned that the situation with gamepads are gonna make these neat little consoles impossible to use by the end of the decade.
There are some videos here on youtube of people modding common cell phone batteries to use on them. I think a more ideal solution would be custom made battery adapters.
If implementations like DRC-Sim don't get any progress the wii u will effectively end up just being landfill, the consoles themselves will not have any defects, but due to nintendo being nintendo millions of perfectly good consoles will end up as E-Waste
to remove those tiny scratches from the console I've had good luck with "displex", which is a scratch removal paste made for early naughties phones. It's still sold, though you need to do quite some searching (maybe it's old stock or still being made IDK).
I recall Chuggaaconroy mentioned in I think his Yoshi's Woolly World playthrough that he bought a white Wii U to use the gamepad with his black Wii U because he really liked how it looked but couldn't use it because the white one was a European unit so the region lock prevented the gamepad from pairing with his US Wii U. I was kinda shocked to hear that but once the initial shock went away I realised that's exactly the kind of bullshit you should expect from Nintendo. I figured this problem would turn up during this video. Lo and behold, it did.
In defense of GameStop, nowhere in our contract, at all are we to throw them away, in fact, we are to send them to corporate to avoid people going through dumpsters. I understand it wasn’t actually a GameStop system that got thrown away, but generally good practice is to offer the customer a way to safely dispose of their consoles in a responsible manor
I remember the WiiU home button rim flashing blue as a Message that there's a new bit of news for it
It’s about time Matt joined the WiiU gang! I had one when it was new, and I played it TO DEATH! Even now, though the game-pad was broken (damn you Nintendo and your irreplaceable gamepads!!), we still modded the ever living shit out of my friends WiiU and did all sorts of cool stuff. In my eyes, the WiiU really wasn’t a bad console.
my darn wii u gamepad charger broke like 2 years ago and i am finally getting a new one soon.
I got a Wii U just for Smash Bros and Hyrule Warriors at the time.
I did mod it and realized i had almost the whole Nintendo library because of it (excluding 3ds obviously), but haven't played around with it that much, yet. But playing Soul Calibur 2 on the gamepad screen was pretty nice.
It's nice to have a Wii U around at least. I just wish the DS virtual console games were upscaled, because gosh dang they look not so great in full screen on TV.
I got lucky and got a refurbished Wii U from GameStop that was in pristine condition, still had plastic shrink wrap around the console and the gamepad still had the plastic screen protector on it. No scratches or nicks at all. I modded it, added a 2 TB external hard drive, and installed RetroArch. This thing runs like a champ playing games like Donkey Kong Tropical Freeze, Viewtiful Joe from GameCube, Pac-Man from the arcade, and everything in between.
I own many systems and handhelds and the Wii U is probably right up there in my personal top 5.
About the scratches: a vinyl cover would have worked great. You can just buy a larger sheet roll and cut it to size. Could have even gotten a glossy vinyl.
After seeing this, and knowing that I have nothing to lose with my Wii U, I think it's finally time for me to get into softmodding the Wii U half of it
Just be careful and make a backup of the nand n stuff, i bricked my wii u and now it's a paperweight without any backups
You should 100% I actually bought mine for that specifically and it’s soooo awesome!
definitely do it, your only brick risk is using CBHC and messing up or deliberately going into files if you're worried about that
@@echowoods7977 what's CBHC?
My guess is Cold Boot Haxchii but I typically suck at figuring out abbreviations
@@alfiegordon9013 I actually bought mine shortly after it came out, and unlike many people, I was not disappointed in the slightest.
Also, this video mentioned being able to load Gamecube games? Is that through emulation, or can I legit put a GC disk into the Wii U and run it?
You have to use a small screwdriver (flathead might be best) to get those stupid screw caps off. I not sure but if you try to use Brasso on the scratched up top of the wii U, it actually might improve. Great vid :)
I'm interested in playing Gamecube/Wii/Wii U games via Homebrew, but I'm pretty inexperienced in modding and also afraid of bricking the console/losing features. Are there any recommendations for a safe/surefire way to do this and what should I look out for?
I grabbed one earlier this year from a goodwill auction because I wanted direct HDMI output for Wii games, and they were serious in the listing with "power tested only," they didn't bother to wipe the dust off and the front port cover was left open (which actually made me think it was missing until I inspected the console closer). Then when I received it there was a smash bros. disc in the drive and the 16gb SD Card had remnants of the previous owner's homebrew setup on it.
That is so wild I just finally replaced my broken gamepad after 5 years to homebrew my childhood console like last week!
Fun fact: original Wii U power supplies are, in fact, universal
did they seriously have to lie about that? what would they be gaining in the first place?
@@AbdAbdAbdAbd The same thing with most PS3s
10:19 : There's a disc inside. That's the little light over the word "Disc".
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I'm actually really surprised you're saying this. How has the Switch *not* been busted wide open, with Fusée Gelée and such?
I remember when people were still figuring out custom NSPs, and all homebrew was run from the Homebrew Launcher which replaced the album button on the home screen. And when there weren't custom themes, or entire Qlaunch (home menu) replacements. Or even when there was no XCI installer and you had to convert it to an NSP first.
The only way I think you could say it isn't open for homebrew is that the newest firmware and the new hardware revisions aren't exploitable. But there's still a very active and large homebrew community for the Switch, I would say one larger than the Wii U's ever was.
Same. The issue is that the Switch features a microkernel. Microkernels are pretty rare, Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and iOS all use normal "fat" kernels, where all of the kernel modules share a single process with the kernel core, meaning any security error in any of these modules compromises the entire kernel.
In comparison, by separating those modules from the core and running them as normal, sandboxed apps, the microkernel of the Switch becomes extremely small. Small enough for a single person to wrap their mind around the whole thing and polish it to perfection until there's no vulnerabilities left for anyone to find. Without any kernel vulnerabilities, there's no privilege escalation: userspace exploits are completely useless because without any bugs in the kernel, there's no breaking out of any app or driver's confines and into the rest of the console. Because of this, the Switch required everyone to tackle it in the opposite direction: attacking from the hardware side directly instead of building up a userspace exploit chain the way it usually goes.
Research is still ongoing in the community to more openly reverse-engineer and reproduce the TX voltage glitching method that remains the only publicly known way to run unsigned code on newer Switch models (and no word about whether even that's still possible on the OLED model)... Still a shame that since those guys were profiting from piracy and didn't share their exploit to the open-source community, Nintendo had an easy time taking them down and making modding the new Switches next to impossible.
Exactly that. The V2 is essentially impossible to crack for the average joe, which sucks
One only needs software, the other needs physical bits? I haven't looked at switch modding in a while but I remember this turning me off.
@@trashtrash2169 Depends mostly on the version. Old Switches that are open to fusee only require what electrically amounts to pushing a button, and the rest is done in software through a programming error in the console's USB interface when in RCM mode. A jig is no big deal. The new Switches are where it gets tricky, requiring an actual modchip being installed that cuts power to the Switch's CPU at a very precise window and duration to get it to skip the signature checks, and then takes over as the 2nd-stage bootloader to unlock the console.
It's funny. Back when consoles had small, simple BIOSes (6th generation and earlier) modchips and CFWs were much more common. The Switch had security so tight it basically required a return to basics. Fusée itself is a buffer overflow exploit that overwrites the stack. That's some '80s shit. And it only works becase it happens in a mode where none of the CPU security features developed in the last 30 years are turned on until the last moment, and by smashing the stack before the process completes we get full control. In fact, fusee grants more control over the Switch's CPU than you can get under normal circumstances unlocking a phone's bootloader or on a PC. Hypervisor secure world mode is typically only ever for the hardware manufacturer to play with. This makes it unusually trivial to extract the Switch hardware keys once pwned.
I have my Mario Kart 8 WiiU Package still well treated sitting on my shelf.
Sure I have better ways to enjoy the games that work on it but in general, the WiiU is a nicer console than many people think it is.
As much as I love the Wii U, the name is admittedly stupid
I have that model too but wihout the package because it is a gamestop refurbished, everything works but i didn"t get the gamepad stand
@@gdemerald581 I think that's part of the reason it didn't do so well. Well, that and the marketing, both of which led to a downward spiral that left the console as another sad lump of untapped potential, unless the homebrew community starts making games that push its limits.
8:28 hey if anyone is seeing this now and in the future the wii u now has autobooting in the form of tiramisu. This mod is fairly new like it's from december last year but it will auto boot
Polishing compound (the type you use for glasses) works with the scratching.
Funny how I was doing this sorta stuff yesterday, and then you suddenly upload this today.
I've got my eye on you MattKC.
This Wii U situation reminds me of one time where my dad found a Wii in a box on the side of the road with a bunch of games in it that someone was going to throw out. The original owners probably threw it out because the wire in the sensor bar was cut but my dad fixed it and now it works perfectly fine. We also found that Wii Sports was in the disc drive. The stand was also missing along with the cover for the GameCube controller ports.
That cover for the GameCube ports seems have been engineered to fall off and disappear even without usage. Mine just vanished into the ether, and I didn't even have GameCube controllers.
Its like a child at an orphanage
Why would you sell the Wii because the sensor bar stopped working?
You should try swapping all the game pad buttons to the white ones, might look like a nice black and white combo
I think that the best option is to just to reshell the casings but it's not really worth it unless your hand are suddenly getting cut😂
Small correction at 5:13: All Wii U adapters are dual voltage. They work fine with either 220V or 110V, despite statements to the contrary on the actual adapter.
I imported a US Wii U to a PAL region and it worked just fine without a step-down transformer or anything like that. Plugs right into the wall.
As a viewer with healing problems, I really appreciate that you always add captions 🥰
And typing problems! haha.. :-D (Only kidding, of course.)
@ the covers, just get a pick set from O'Reilly's or AutoZone for like $8, they slip down the side and lift up the covers usually without ruining them. if you do even a little disassembling they're bonkers useful
That Wii u start up sound for me is so nostalgic.
to be fair , I only played Splatoon for the Wii u but that already gave me a lot of good memories
Got a Nintendo Wii U earlier this year and I haven't regretted that decision.
It's a shame Nintendo never gave this amazing console the attention it deserved.
Nintendo actually did give the Wii U attention -- just look at the games! They're fantastic! It was the gamers who shunned it. Nintendo didn't do itself any favors with the marketing and naming scheme, but the console itself was solid and the first party games (and even some 3rd party) are tops. MK8, SM3D World, Yoshi's Wooly World, DKC Tropical Freeze, and on and on, they look gorgeous and the gameplay is pure Nintendo joy.
"It's like it's dressed up to be a magician." ...angry subscribe button mashing sounds.
"Fuck you this controller is foreign"
I died 🤣 💀
10:44 my original Wii that I received back in 2006 had a disc reading error between Wii games and GameCube games. One of the last games that I remember playing on it was Legend of Zelda wind waker. After Trading the system into GameStop for a refurbished black one, I realized that I lost wind waker inside of the system. Or at least that's what I surmise because after that point, I had only the case and not the game. I would hate to think I "met a terrible fate", wait sorry wrong Legend of Zelda game.
I still have my Wii U and even though I have a Switch now, I will keep my Wii U until death do us part. So many memories of me and the boys playing local multiplayer. I wouldn't get rid of it for any reason.
Smart! I suspect it will only get more valuable as more gamers realize what they missed out on the Wii U years from now.
I picked up a used Wii U at Value Village here in Nova Scotia a few months ago and it also came with a copy of New Super Mario Bros. U inside, that makes us practically related
And that's such a good game. Pure classic Super Mario sidescrolling goodness and in high res!
5:59 Although I'm sure its breath was wild anyways.
Oh god my jokes are bad.
Epic vid, broken console listings are very interesting to me especially when repairing them is such an adventure. There's a Wii U hacker named Maschell who found an ebay listing of 8 broken wii u's for like 119€, he bought them and was able to repair 7/8 of them
IMO,
The console is great, really good in fact. It just sold poorly and the media called it a fail so people didn’t like it, when in reality it was a great console
While it's not a terrible system, especially considering systems as the CDI, Game.com, Ngage, Ouya, Atari VCS, Amico, and others are actually terrible all around, it was one that by design was destined for failure thanks to many bad decisions from the name, going with a dual screen approach for a home console (dual screen is easier to deal with with a handheld than a home system), a vastly underpowered cpu that was used in early 2000's iMacs, poor marketing, no real killer apps till way after the system was dying, had they had a Mario 3d world, a Odyssey or even breath of the wild at launch instead of stuff like New Super Mario U it may have done better. Not talking Switch numbers but maybe N64 levels of sales. But yeah I agree that the Wii U wasn't a terrible system just one that was set up for failure from the word go
@@The_Real_DCT 100% on the money
I love the site spoken of at 8:13
used them for modding my 3ds
their instructions are very clear
(i dont think the spam filter likes me posting links)
RCA to HDMI adapters are cheap but they tend to result in a fair bit of input lag
I want to add that not having the mod in cold boot saves you from the possibility of bricking your wii u, which is nice. So i would always choose having 3 extra clicks every time, rather than having the possibility of having an awesome slick paperweight
i saw the community post yesterday and i was so excited for this video
Same
@Never Gonna Give You Up 😜👇 no
6:30 😂 funniest part yet but he's right
the thought process of assuming the console doesn't work because the disc is dirty seems to be more common than one would think.
i recently got my hands on a wii u in a flea market for quite cheap because the man selling it thought the laser was faulty, turns out that some of the games that came with it were just heavily scratched
You made me feel old now, can still remember when I got mine for Christmas in 2012
Bro that steve from stranger things line had me Gauk laugh i tbh almost suffocated
I bought a Wii U as "for parts" from eBay fully expecting to have to fix it, but it worked fine! I think maybe it got bumped back to life in shipping.
The opposite happened to my Wii U, the Game Pad refuses to connect a lot and I have to try multiple times. I have the "Could not connect to the Wii U console" error. I have to unplug the console and then I have to plug it back in and try and get it to connect. It's not ideal. I have no idea what the issue is.
Car polish can restore plastic without ruining the shiny finish quite effectively. I use it on handheld screens.
"F*ck you, this controller is foreign" that line had me in tears