Firstly - This was meant to be on my main channel but I just wasnt happy with it. Secondly - I completely forgot to mention, shipping a Wii from Japan isn’t free. There was postage and import costs but there was another item in the box worth a few hundred dollars so the shipping and import costs were fairly low compared to the overall value of the box. Hope you enjoyed :)
For a complete unit that's not a bad deal, I usually pick them up at the Goodwill with just the power brick for $2 a pop, and take them to 2nd, and Charles where they give me upwards of $40 for them. I only keep one around as a backup personally.
The Zelda & Mario Kart channels have - or well had - specific purposes. Zelda - an update channel. Used to fix a game-breaking bug in Skyward Sword. Mario Kart - used to check your online status and online rankings and tournaments. Those were the days haha.
I was about to type how you can use homebrew to fix the video issues and read pal games but you already saw it on stream. Getting homebrew on a wii is fairly simple and fast + Its super worth it. You should do it!
I take it D-terminal is mainly used in Japan (and the Asian region ?) I haven't seen this cable where i live, the UK so doubt it is used in the rest of Europe.
£7, man that's expensive for a Wii, I've seriously picked up good condition units without the Wiimotes here in the US for $2 USD a pop at my local GoodWill over the years, and sold them to 2nd and Charles(they sell new/used Games, movies, music, books, random pop culture crap, and give you trade in credit, or cash for used stuff) for $40 USD a pop, then they go ahead, and charge $65 USD - $70 USD for them behind a glass display case.
that connector type is called a D-Terminal, it often gets used on RGB/Component monitors and Broadcast equipment, it was a lot more popular in Japan than anywhere else.
Idk if I maybe skipped past you saying this, but that is a D-terminal connector. That’s for video, while red and white is for audio. Only used on the wii in Japan I believe
Europe and Japan are actually both the same region (Region 2). What you're running into is the difference between Europe being PAL and Japan being NTSC.
I got a Wii from my local thrift store and it had Paper Mario, all 3 Donkey Kong Country games, a ton of NES VC games, and a non-working disc drive, all for $25. A great deal if I do say so myself.
@@ToxoRetro I tested the game. The upside is that it worked. The downside is that it seemed too serious compared to the originals. Pretty sad, really. :/ i'm sure theres some fans out there.
I believe that cable is a D-Terminal cable! Probably best off just grabbing a component cable for a fiver to replace it and using homebrew to get around the region lock - if you can follow instructions, it's pretty simple.
for anyone that cares, the reason for the screen flicker and black & white display: the display is PAL and japan runs on NTSC. The same thing happens the other way around or if you have a different region game as well. If you hack it you can force PAL and it will work.
I paid 6€ for my wii. It was missing the A/V cable, the WiiMotes and the sensor bar (which you can replace with 2 candles on top of your TV). But hey, it works, I can’t complain.
I bought a 7 $ Wii last year I already had the cables all I needed was the system and mine worked fine,my old ones disc tray got jammed up so I had been wanting one for awhile all that was wrong with it was a few scratches plus its the game cube backwards compatible one as well
By the way, instead of using the instant option on Google translate, you can press scan, which takes a photo and you can highlight the text to translate. It's more reliable as it isn't having to work all the time
The AV cable is basically the Japanese equivalent of SCART, which you may have heard of. The Framemeister supports it I believe (great little device for converting various inputs to HDMI)
You have now reminded me that my original new mario super Mario wii disc that was the first game I ever played was to damaged to read and had to be trashed.
Region changing it is quite simple, I recommend changing it to NTSC-U, then you’ll have it in English. It won’t plug into PAL signals, but you could get an HDMI adapter and plug it into any old HDMI tv/monitor. I don’t think it’ll play PAL games, however.
Can we have some more GameCube and n64 stuff???? Plsss I love all ur gameboy stuff but please, i think it will rly help grow ur channel as loads of ppl live this kind of stuff
Someone probably said this but the Mario Kart Channel is the online one thing, I recognize it from my friend’s Wii. Also when I tried to set up my Wii on a TV by myself a few months ago, the screen was flickering and in black and white but that was because it was in the wrong ports. The cables don’t stay in all the time though so I need to see how much my Vaio can handle a Wii capture card, since most PC games don’t load on it despite everything else working super well.
I've got 6 white Wii's & red & black too all picked up for £8-15 each max. Only 1 i paid more for (45) was the blue 1 that happens to be more featureless than the regular white version
Hahahaha, I was laughing so hard. Kind of painful to watch, but still very interesting You just put yourself out there! cool! Can't you just change the language?
Assuming that the console is in stock condition, the language select is part of the region makeup. Euro consoles have a choice of various languages, I believe North America has the choice of English and French (the latter for certain Canadian provinces), whereas Japan only officially uses Japanese so the language menu is missing.
I bought a PS1, PS2, a couple games, a few controllers and a bunch of different wires from a car boot sale (yes I live in the UK) for £20 an both the consoles worked.
What you can do is basically Homebrew the Wii with lettetbomb and use something which is called AnyRegionChanger. You can use that to Switch from 4.3J TO 4.3E or 4.3U. This is a far known trick because peeps back then bought games from the Japanese wii shop. Why, because it was cheaper lol
The Wii is super easy to softmod. Region lock can be removed that way. But I'm pretty sure the language of the system itself can't be changed. Or depending what broke on your Wii. You might be able to use the Japanese Wii to fix your own :)
The reason why that wii is showing up with black and white and has that glitchy row on the bottom is because you're using a pal screen on a ntsc device, where the voltage and frame rates are different, it'll still show a picture but it'll be black and white because of the different voltage and framerates :>
Nice pick up on the Seiko 8306 you have MyRetroWatches working on, l have worked on a couple and they have lovely movements. I have four Sealion versions in my collection...so far!
As far as I know, the black and white screen means, that you try a NTSC region console on PAL TVs. It happened with my PS2, where I wanted to play a NTSC game on my PAL console. If you would mod the Wii, you could switch the settings, though.
Sorry if this has been answered. I came across that type of connector recently looking for old monitors on eBay. Seller told me it's a DFP connector, stands for Digital Flat Panel Connector. I've *never* seen them before but apparently it started showing up in early models of LCD screens.
Hi Elliot great content as always, just a quick one could you link what you use to get the birdseye view of the items you are working on in your videos.
I bought a JPN wii in china at the beginning, not realising that the lock thing locked me out of the UK market entirely. I have since hacked it and now the Homebrew menu is in lovely english and all the games play now.
Those are the cables that are hard to find for the wii the legendary digital cables that gave 480p picture. (You got the holy grail of cables) those are the holy grail if they are made by Nintendo and only by Nintendo because they were hard to find.
The first thing you need to do is get a 2GB SD Formatted to FAT and add the Homebrew Channel then Nintendont and use a WiiU Pro Controller with it now that it supports it. After you jailbreak it use a larger SD formatted to Fat 32 like a 128 GB just use special software on windows. Great for all kinds of Emulators like Mednafen and Retro Arch. Once you Jailbreak it you can also add Wiiware Wads easily. I suggest gamecube Hudson Select series and Wiiware like La Mulana,Castlevania Adventure,Contra and Gradius Sonic 4 was great too and Retro City Rampage. Don't forget you can put in a USB with Gamecube games on it as well just put your games in named folders and name the directory Games and put your game folders in it and inside your games folder you will have named game folders with your games inside named game I believe and if it has two disks name the second disk2. I think IDK it's been a while.
Have you tried plugging it into a more modern TV? Most if not nearly all modern TV's should accept both Pal and NTSC signals. There are even some older CRT TVs sold in PAL regions that should accept NTSC. I would recommend trying to connect the Wii to a modern TV. The only problem would be if the TV didn't support either composite or component, and in that case, a composite to HDMI converter should work (most of them that you'll find online should have a switch to change between PAL and NTSC).
The screen is black and white because of pal/ntsc incompatibility. Theres actually ways to change the whol console region, system language, and all to EU or USA trought softmod, if you want to, I've done this penty of times with japanese consoles here in Brazil.
I helped get my friend a Wii for £5, it has no cables or wiimote but it was £5. The store said "they couldn't verify it worked", so we got it and used my cables. It worked.
I was wondering if Japanese TVs were 50 or 60Hz, now I know! As soon as I saw the black and white and flickering it gave me flashbacks to accidentally putting PS2 games into 60Hz mode...
Elliot, that AV cable looks to me like it's a Psyclone Essentials brand cable. As for that end of that cord, looks like Audio R and L, and VGA. Not 100% sure, but that's what it looks like to me from the video.
Firstly - This was meant to be on my main channel but I just wasnt happy with it.
Secondly - I completely forgot to mention, shipping a Wii from Japan isn’t free. There was postage and import costs but there was another item in the box worth a few hundred dollars so the shipping and import costs were fairly low compared to the overall value of the box. Hope you enjoyed :)
Dang, I wanted to be the first comment
Second comment 🙃
Can you fix wii games
I enjoyed a lot arigatou for the entertainment 👍
Dang Elliott I know that disappointment when you don't have the correct cables or thing to connect to, I still enjoyed your video though.
What we learned in this video:
* Elliot can't wii
* He has a D on his wall
Wiid
🤣
Agwiid
A d on his wall!!!
I remember buying a complete Wii with Wiimotes for $10 over the summer. I already had 5 Wiis but the more the merrier.
You can never have enough Wii in your life.
For a complete unit that's not a bad deal, I usually pick them up at the Goodwill with just the power brick for $2 a pop, and take them to 2nd, and Charles where they give me upwards of $40 for them. I only keep one around as a backup personally.
You might have incontinence problem. Heyoo.
I can't judge you. I collect ds's
@@CommodoreFan64 Goodwiill*
6:51 "Yeah theres that one..." Spit out my coffee laughing but it was absolutely worth it. Elliot you're a freakin riot man.
Now THAT is an expert title.
Also please do more of this, I haven’t even watched the full video, I know I just want more haha.
Stop saying “Haha” at the end of every single post of yours.
@@Brain_pocketer boo hoo
69th like, anyone who likes it after me is dead to me
The Zelda & Mario Kart channels have - or well had - specific purposes.
Zelda - an update channel. Used to fix a game-breaking bug in Skyward Sword.
Mario Kart - used to check your online status and online rankings and tournaments. Those were the days haha.
Interesting how the description of the Mario kart channel has “those were the days haha” in it.
@@Brain_pocketer I remember checking for tournaments and what not on there. Now it’s just a dud.
@@goblinmcgameface you can still use it with a patcher and wiimmfi
Your content has inspired me to start collecting and refurbishing some classic Nintendo handhelds!
Same, im currently doing all the ds's for under $400
Same and I hate him for it. Ebay has become an additction
Same I have 25 bucks to start and I want a gba to fix up but can't find any for that price
@@bronzepkmn yard sales gotta get up early though
this video confirms it, Elliot struggles to Wii
I was about to type how you can use homebrew to fix the video issues and read pal games but you already saw it on stream. Getting homebrew on a wii is fairly simple and fast + Its super worth it. You should do it!
"i'm in need of a wii." surely there's a bathroom nearby, don't let us stop you.
that's a D-terminal plug with left and right audio jacks
Came to say this ^
I was wondering what the heck that was, never seen it. Thank you
I’ve heard that the D-terminal plug has a component output?
@@jordanmillraney5481 d terminal is rgb/component I think
I take it D-terminal is mainly used in Japan (and the Asian region ?) I haven't seen this cable where i live, the UK so doubt it is used in the rest of Europe.
It's possible to change the region but you have to softmod it first. Tons of info can be found on the net if you really want to play with it :)
“Apparently my light switch just turned into a d on the wall” I’m dying
I have an authentic Japanese Nintendo Wii. It has the RVL-001 (JPN) label on it. It has Japanese text on the Wii Remotes and everything.
Wiil it wiirk?????, Elliot i love you man ❤️
Well yea, thats... a video xD I love the way your humor has evolved over the time, super funny :)
I need a Wii hold on ...pause video be back in a minute lol
😄
I swear this guy always posts videos at the best time
£7, man that's expensive for a Wii, I've seriously picked up good condition units without the Wiimotes here in the US for $2 USD a pop at my local GoodWill over the years, and sold them to 2nd and Charles(they sell new/used Games, movies, music, books, random pop culture crap, and give you trade in credit, or cash for used stuff) for $40 USD a pop, then they go ahead, and charge $65 USD - $70 USD for them behind a glass display case.
I see what you did there with the title Elliot. Very clever.
I think wii all saw what he did
*eliiot
Always watching here in Philippines every 4:00am 💜💜💜💜💜
that connector type is called a D-Terminal, it often gets used on RGB/Component monitors and Broadcast equipment, it was a lot more popular in Japan than anywhere else.
Idk if I maybe skipped past you saying this, but that is a D-terminal connector. That’s for video, while red and white is for audio. Only used on the wii in Japan I believe
Europe and Japan are actually both the same region (Region 2). What you're running into is the difference between Europe being PAL and Japan being NTSC.
I broke into an uncontrollable laughing fit at "we got... logress"
This was very fun to watch
please give us more
I got a Wii from my local thrift store and it had Paper Mario, all 3 Donkey Kong Country games, a ton of NES VC games, and a non-working disc drive, all for $25. A great deal if I do say so myself.
Crazy! I just bought a banged up old black Wii yesterday for $5 Australian at an op shop. AND IT WORKED! It also had Spyro Dawn of a Dragon.
Was the non-Insomniac Spyro any good?
@@ToxoRetro I tested the game. The upside is that it worked. The downside is that it seemed too serious compared to the originals. Pretty sad, really. :/ i'm sure theres some fans out there.
@@hylianfire Ah well, worth a try as part of a cheap bundle. Cheers. 😄
Yes new repair video finally 👍🏼
Oh or not nvm lol.
I believe that cable is a D-Terminal cable! Probably best off just grabbing a component cable for a fiver to replace it and using homebrew to get around the region lock - if you can follow instructions, it's pretty simple.
Elliot my man you always crack me up🤣🤣🤣
Now i understand how lucky I am to have a Wii that is perfect
I saw an asian guy smack a $5 goodwill Wii with a hammer and it still worked
for anyone that cares, the reason for the screen flicker and black & white display: the display is PAL and japan runs on NTSC. The same thing happens the other way around or if you have a different region game as well. If you hack it you can force PAL and it will work.
I paid 6€ for my wii.
It was missing the A/V cable, the WiiMotes and the sensor bar (which you can replace with 2 candles on top of your TV). But hey, it works, I can’t complain.
I bought a 7 $ Wii last year I already had the cables all I needed was the system and mine worked fine,my old ones disc tray got jammed up so I had been wanting one for awhile all that was wrong with it was a few scratches plus its the game cube backwards compatible one as well
0:08 Elliot channeling the Swedish Chef there
Its possible to run region locked games through the Homebrew channel as far as I know. The setup is pretty easy and only takes a few minutes
This was like the best comedy 🤣
By the way, instead of using the instant option on Google translate, you can press scan, which takes a photo and you can highlight the text to translate. It's more reliable as it isn't having to work all the time
0:08 Thanks for the screensaver Elliot!
The AV cable is basically the Japanese equivalent of SCART, which you may have heard of. The Framemeister supports it I believe (great little device for converting various inputs to HDMI)
I use my Wii for playing GameCube. I use my Wii U for Wii and Wii U games. Good to see you got an earlier Wii model that allows GameCube playback.
Very interesting. I never saw a cable like that. Btw: you could give your broken Wii to Joey
I bought mine for $25, it is a black too, just like this one, but is is a NTSC one lol.
Great video mate
Love the intro lolololooool. Keep up the awesome work!
The flickering is due to due to differing refresh rates between PAL, and NTSC-J.
didn't expect to laugh to Wiil it Wiirk 🤣🤣🤣
You have now reminded me that my original new mario super Mario wii disc that was the first game I ever played was to damaged to read and had to be trashed.
Region changing it is quite simple, I recommend changing it to NTSC-U, then you’ll have it in English. It won’t plug into PAL signals, but you could get an HDMI adapter and plug it into any old HDMI tv/monitor. I don’t think it’ll play PAL games, however.
" I hope that the wii isn't region locked" oh boy was he in for a spolier
Zelda one is the skyward sword save patcher, to fix bugged saves. (if you did the temples out of order it would soft lock your progress)
Wii approve of your efforts
Can we have some more GameCube and n64 stuff???? Plsss I love all ur gameboy stuff but please, i think it will rly help grow ur channel as loads of ppl live this kind of stuff
That's cool for the price my god 😍
i read the title and wondered how he would intertwine 'work' and 'wii' but when he said it... yeah ngl pulled it off about as well as expected
Someone probably said this but the Mario Kart Channel is the online one thing, I recognize it from my friend’s Wii.
Also when I tried to set up my Wii on a TV by myself a few months ago, the screen was flickering and in black and white but that was because it was in the wrong ports. The cables don’t stay in all the time though so I need to see how much my Vaio can handle a Wii capture card, since most PC games don’t load on it despite everything else working super well.
I've got 6 white Wii's & red & black too all picked up for £8-15 each max. Only 1 i paid more for (45) was the blue 1 that happens to be more featureless than the regular white version
In this episode, Elliot has a 7 pound wii
Hahahaha, I was laughing so hard. Kind of painful to watch, but still very interesting
You just put yourself out there! cool!
Can't you just change the language?
Assuming that the console is in stock condition, the language select is part of the region makeup. Euro consoles have a choice of various languages, I believe North America has the choice of English and French (the latter for certain Canadian provinces), whereas Japan only officially uses Japanese so the language menu is missing.
Love this type of video
I bought a PS1, PS2, a couple games, a few controllers and a bunch of different wires from a car boot sale (yes I live in the UK) for £20 an both the consoles worked.
What you can do is basically Homebrew the Wii with lettetbomb and use something which is called AnyRegionChanger. You can use that to Switch from 4.3J TO 4.3E or 4.3U.
This is a far known trick because peeps back then bought games from the Japanese wii shop. Why, because it was cheaper lol
I got a Wii for $5 Canadian buckaroos. It had a bit of the case melted, and a bit of the match that melted it was still embedded, but it worked.
The Wii is super easy to softmod. Region lock can be removed that way. But I'm pretty sure the language of the system itself can't be changed.
Or depending what broke on your Wii. You might be able to use the Japanese Wii to fix your own :)
The reason why that wii is showing up with black and white and has that glitchy row on the bottom is because you're using a pal screen on a ntsc device, where the voltage and frame rates are different, it'll still show a picture but it'll be black and white because of the different voltage and framerates :>
Nice pick up on the Seiko 8306 you have MyRetroWatches working on, l have worked on a couple and they have lovely movements. I have four Sealion versions in my collection...so far!
I know this is your secondary channel but I still miss hearing "Hey guys, Elliot here."
As far as I know, the black and white screen means, that you try a NTSC region console on PAL TVs. It happened with my PS2, where I wanted to play a NTSC game on my PAL console. If you would mod the Wii, you could switch the settings, though.
Sorry if this has been answered. I came across that type of connector recently looking for old monitors on eBay. Seller told me it's a DFP connector, stands for Digital Flat Panel Connector. I've *never* seen them before but apparently it started showing up in early models of LCD screens.
Hi Elliot great content as always, just a quick one could you link what you use to get the birdseye view of the items you are working on in your videos.
Thats a D-Terminal connector - its a Analogue HD video connector, sort of a Japanese equivalent to a DVI connector
I bought a JPN wii in china at the beginning, not realising that the lock thing locked me out of the UK market entirely. I have since hacked it and now the Homebrew menu is in lovely english and all the games play now.
Those are the cables that are hard to find for the wii the legendary digital cables that gave 480p picture. (You got the holy grail of cables) those are the holy grail if they are made by Nintendo and only by Nintendo because they were hard to find.
The first thing you need to do is get a 2GB SD Formatted to FAT and add the Homebrew Channel then Nintendont and use a WiiU Pro Controller with it now that it supports it. After you jailbreak it use a larger SD formatted to Fat 32 like a 128 GB just use special software on windows. Great for all kinds of Emulators like Mednafen and Retro Arch. Once you Jailbreak it you can also add Wiiware Wads easily. I suggest gamecube Hudson Select series and Wiiware like La Mulana,Castlevania Adventure,Contra and Gradius Sonic 4 was great too and Retro City Rampage. Don't forget you can put in a USB with Gamecube games on it as well just put your games in named folders and name the directory Games and put your game folders in it and inside your games folder you will have named game folders with your games inside named game I believe and if it has two disks name the second disk2. I think IDK it's been a while.
YES THE WII MONITOR IS BACK
Failed. But I like the excitement it brought you, closely followed by crushing disappointment
Wii never thought about regional locks, wii thought cheap wii
"I am in need of a Wii" Best pop to the loo then!
That absolute happieness when he toldvthe pun was 👏🤌👌
Consider a wii portable, they are getting pretty popular on TH-cam, perhaps a sponsored project from WiiBoy?
Have you tried plugging it into a more modern TV? Most if not nearly all modern TV's should accept both Pal and NTSC signals. There are even some older CRT TVs sold in PAL regions that should accept NTSC.
I would recommend trying to connect the Wii to a modern TV. The only problem would be if the TV didn't support either composite or component, and in that case, a composite to HDMI converter should work (most of them that you'll find online should have a switch to change between PAL and NTSC).
3:35 Very important zoom, thanks 👌
The screen is black and white because of pal/ntsc incompatibility. Theres actually ways to change the whol console region, system language, and all to EU or USA trought softmod, if you want to, I've done this penty of times with japanese consoles here in Brazil.
That cable is D-Terminal, it is... japan exclusive.
I have a spare cable if you need it lol
6:52 is something like "Shitsu Himu" (しつひむ)
5:49 YES DO HOMEBREW
Best. Title. Ever!
I remember that when I was in the Netherlands, they had a stack of Wii's in a second hand store for €5! Also had a stack of the balance boards too 😅
I helped get my friend a Wii for £5, it has no cables or wiimote but it was £5. The store said "they couldn't verify it worked", so we got it and used my cables. It worked.
Got one for free recently. 1st model. Came with original remotes. Just had to buy my own sensor and display cable
"9.54 United States Dollar"
*DOLLAR*
I had my WII show up black and white but that was just because I bricked it trying to homebrew it back in the days.
The cable shipped with it seem to be d-terminal and that's basically YPbPr but squished together in one cable
You can actually unlock the Region Lock by using the Homebrew Channel.
I was wondering if Japanese TVs were 50 or 60Hz, now I know! As soon as I saw the black and white and flickering it gave me flashbacks to accidentally putting PS2 games into 60Hz mode...
When living in Tokyo I saw Wii’s for sale in for 500¥, so like £3.50? Piles of the things for cheap.
me who has a £5 wii: I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!
Elliot, that AV cable looks to me like it's a Psyclone Essentials brand cable. As for that end of that cord, looks like Audio R and L, and VGA. Not 100% sure, but that's what it looks like to me from the video.
Scratch that, just looked at the VGA port on my tv it's definitely not that. I honestly have no idea what that is!
Heck I bought one for $2.39 at a local thrift shop. Not only did it work but it had cooking mama inside of it.... COOKING MAMA!