As others have said. Definitely a regular Wii that's been modded and put in a new case. Probably because the doors had snapped off the original which is a common thing. You can pick up a complete one in the UK charity shops now for about £10. They only take a few minutes to mod. I used to have one that I done myself and used with an 80gb HDD.
Yeah, it's definitely somewhat "refurbished" by the seller. Points for the homebrew channel stuff and the emulators, I don't have first hand experience with those emus but I'm guessing they might be better than VC. And if you want, you could play Project M and CTGP-R. This is a keeper.
@@TheRealMrPeach thats just you man. i have a local game store (not naming it or saying where bc its a local treat, if you know, you know) that for about 5 consecutive years now, he has had the same price for a wii. Very rarely does he bump his prices, and if i really needed a 6th Wii, I could get one with all the cords, a stand, 2 controllers, and a guarentee that it works for $89 flat. Best store for all video game shopping/collecting, he has it all XD
It’s an actual Wii. It’s not fake. They just replaced the outer shell of it (that’s why it came in that shell replacement box I’m guessing). But that’s a real Wii, just with some added features. You got a decent deal imo.
@@aaronlusanko8779 He did not get ripped off because he didn’t click on the right app , he had to click on the Toy Story app and there should be the games ( I have the same app)
oh i LOVE this comment sm im a lil autistic so seeing him be like "wowza weird case + weird channels?? huh??" ticked me of a lil cuz i already modded my wii but i understand
Seeing somebody's reaction to a modded Wii is priceless. I remember I stalling the homebrew channel on my Wii way back in the day lol I even still have it!
The internals are definitely legit, it just has a third party shell, stand and stickers. The console has also been soft modded to play pirated games, emulators and homebrew.
Most of the original Wii drives are still in good shape thanks to the wohle homebrew thing around it, so i dont even think that they swapped it, its just the case and the softmod and even that can be an Estate of the previous owner like me (its not my one, this is still on my tv next to my switch😅)
@@Eddy_E. many do swap the drives even if they’re perfectly fine for one reason: disc burning. The original white rvl-001 wiis had drives that, if you modded the wii, it would play dvd backups and dvd movies even. All other models, and even colors of the rvl-001, cannot.
honestly super happy for the guys knocking thiese things together in there apartment or basement keeps the electronics out of landfill or recycling, gets someone a genuine device in a new case and who ever is making them is making at least a decent amount of money
Yep. No that's a real Wii, and it's been softmodded. In fact I would consider that a lucky buy. This is the first thing I do when I find an old Wii is I mod it. Not fake!
As cool as it'd be if it was a 1:1 recreation of the Wii hardware in a cheap case, I think this is just straight up a regular modded Wii. I've modded all my Wiis and their software looks like this.
theres places in japan that sell used "broken" wiis for 1-2 USD. theres probably something similar in china. people are probably buying them, fixing, replacing the case if necessary, and reselling on wish.
I knew as soon as I saw it was 32gb with 10-20 games that it was a modded wii. The included games are very likely Wii and GameCube games and to play those you games you open usb loader, which it told you to do on the paper it came with at 4:32.
I don't think they want to avoid any copyright issues because they're proudly presenting the Wii logo on the console and Boot in the original bios. They probably just want to confirm that this ain't no real Wii. Not sure though.
@@moonwalkerboy162 no copyright infringement with the Wii logo on the tv. What they are selling is a reshelled Wii with homebrew on it. You can even see the homebrew channel on the 2nd page of the Wii menu. This is 100% a regular Wii.
I mean, if they were trying to avoid copyright issues, I don't think they would've put a "Nintendo" label on the console that is trying to look like the real thing, but is the wrong font lol
@@jrob0021 But it is the real thing just a replacement shell and soft-modded. Just like you can get a Nintendo GBA from China they are genuine GBA with a third party case and screen they take beatup working consoles and rehouse them in a new shell. They probably buy them in bulk cheap put a new case on it and sell at a profit
The little paper slip was more useful you may expect from like a Gamestop refurbished console, it tells you to open USB Loader to play the games on the SD card, the listing said it was an US console, but it was a bit misleading as the preview pic said it was only the base and console, at the end this is just a refurbished and softmoded genuine console but with a generic case, what surprises me is that it actually works.
As you took it out of the box i could immediately tell 100% it's just a refurbrished and reshelled Wii shipped in the box the shell came in. Kinda weird to sell them like that though
That would explain the console coming in a box for a replacement case. They literally put the internals in a new case and put it in the box to ship it.
@@StickTheGuy it is 100% a real wii, unless there's some insane trickery going on an it's a raspberry pi hooked up to all the wii's ports and they're using a modded version of dolphin which has somehow been altered to read actual wii hardware like the gamecube and memory card ports. the amount of effort it would take for a wish seller to make a fake wii that looks exactly like a real wii is far too great when they could just get a real wii, refurb it, mod it, and sell it for 10x the amount they bought it for.
That case looks *almost real*, but like as an example, the buttons look a bit off and darker, but I just can't name what is off tho. in my opinion, that is a re-cased wii (edit: instead of unplugging the Wii to reset it, hold the power button for 5 - 15 seconds , that will fully power it off/reset)
It’s not fake, it’s just modded and it has a replacement case. However, he said he knows nothing about modding. What he could of done was read the paper and do what it says. He didn’t buy the product with the extra items too.
You should have gone into the "USB Loader". That app allows you to play Wii games without the disc. That is probably where you will find the built-in games.
Yes but you need to load them off of USB. So nothing will show up. There's no internal storage on the Wii, and there's no way to load games off SD. He would need to load some WBFS files on a USB drive or burn some DVD himself.
It also allows you to play Triforce games, which is awesome since that's the only way to play the proper version of F-Zero AX apart from playing it im the arcades.
@@novafawks I'm pretty sure literally every single USB loader on the wii also supports loading the games off the SD card too. And judging by the "usb-loader" folder name you can see at 13:47, the one installed here is most likely USB Loader GX, which I know supports loading ISOs off the SD card.
While it turns out that it likely was a real (albeit modded) Wii, he made it very clear throughout the video that he wasn't sure if it was a real Wii. So, your comment doesn't really make sense.
@@Natei He kept saying that, yes. However, I don't recall him ever stating that he felt that it actually was a real Wii (just that it worked like one). Correct me if I'm wrong; it's possible that I missed it. It didn't seem like he acknowledged it as a real Wii, though, during the video.
I've done softmods on quite a few Wii consoles, and this is all pretty standard stuff. My suspicion is that it's real Wii guts, but most likely a replacement case for one that was either heavily damaged, or just too dirty to pass off for sale. I can speak from experience that the flaps to cover the gamecube ports tend to break quite easily, and replacing them can be a bit of a pain. Some people opt for full replacement shells.
Dood I keep finding Wii consoles at my local thrift shop for $20 Canadian which is like $15 USD. You actually paid some guy in China 650% more for a Wii than it would cost you to get a normal fully-functional western Wii.
They've been doing a lot of reshells with GB/GBA and DS too, apparently the factory buys in a ton of consoles, picks out the ones that work, set the workers to fix up the easier fixed stuff, reshell and polish, mod up and up for sale. You will prob find a common or garden Wii mainboard and dvd drive in what is a big case of brown thing polishing.
Some of the stuff I saw makes it look like it's homebrewed out if the box. That's actually pretty interesting if it is the case as that opens up a lot of possibilities. It looks like you actually got a very nice thing from wish this time around.
As for the 10-20 games, you missed it in the SD card channel menu. It was gray like the other ones so it was easy to miss but there was definitely something there
It's a real Wii, with an internal softmod (Probably LetterBOMB'd), the case was replaced using a Chinese Knockoff (They're usually pretty good, seems you got an unfortunately misprinted one), they buy these in bulk from Overflow stores or "Trashcan" stores (Broken consoles, sold for spares/repairs), you've actually gotten an alright deal asides from the missing extras/cables/wiimotes
Seems like this has a genuine wii motherboard with some 3rd party parts they seller used to refurb the device and their using the SD card to side load some software. Pretty nice actually
As others have said, it's a real Wii with softmods. I'm very familiar with CFG Loader, as I've used it to rehab consoles with broken disc drives. DIOS MIOS is a loader for GC games, since they use a different chip configuration on the motherboard. It might have some replacement case pieces, but it is absolutely just a modded Wii. As for resetting, all you need to do is HOLD the power button for about 5 seconds if it freezes like that.
Ur the first comment I’ve seen to talk abt DIOS MIOS. Also a hard reset might’ve still been needed. I had a used game that would brick my wii. It would freeze and not sure off so I’d unplug it. I’d need to keep it unplugged a couple hours or else the red light wouldn’t even turn on
Seeing someone with no knowledge about Wii modding is funny, I think out of any console the Wii has the biggest modding community. Also, it was hilarious to see Dios Mio boot up when he started playing Luigi's Mansion and him being like "Dios Mio? I don't know what that is" lmao
Probably a pretty old wii too. It’s on firmware 4.1 which still supported exploits such as bannerbomb, and iirc version 4.3 (the latest firmware version) was pushed all the way back in 2010. So either they force installed a wad with system menu 4.1 for whatever reason, it’s really old, or the seller never updated it since before 2010
Wish sellers seem to make listings confusing on purpose so you order the wrong thing. You seem to have acknowledged that you ordered the "Bare metal" instead of "Package 1" version in some of the comments. You didn't check any of the USB loaders. Those would be my first suspect on what roms they'd load since they'd be the Wii games... You can configure the USB loaders to load off the SD card. Try those, and maybe homebrew channel to see if they actually loaded any games.
they dont do it on pourpose when its like this, most of thiese sellers are guys running shop out of there basement rather than large scale factories and google translating the description because actualy good human translation is expensive there are scammers for sure, but a lot of the time its either guys buying stuff from recycling centers and repourposing it (honestly great, everyone wins reusing is better than recycling) or guys just making stuff from scratch
It's just a translation thing. Most of these guys have really big shops on taobao with a lot of options. They probably only moved the base package over to Wish to avoid confusion. The shop I got my Wii from had 10 packages with pages of photos and explanations. I'm sure translation would have been a nightmare.
Lmao I love how everyone is telling this man its a real wii. When it IS! Jesus it got annoying how this guy was amazed that its actually a WII who would of thought?! Lmao
Even more annoying was when he said they didn't send him everything, then shows a screen that explains the two different packages, he bought the one with less stuff. He even showed that on screen too
The games that come with it are on the SD card, you needed to go into the USB loader channel and start them that way. They are probably Wii games like Mario Galaxy
@@UNSCPILOT not to mention hooking up the raspberry pi or whatever they would use to all the actual wii ports and peripherals and making sure dolphin could read it and pair with it flawlessly.
Nintendo made millions of these console. Japan is exporting them as junk. Basicly cheaper than making fake console. The Mii you have are probably from the last owner.
RVL-001 is the original console design. The next revision, Nintendo removed the Gamecube controller ports and memory card slots. If you have a bunch of Wii and Gamecube stuff, this version really is a great way to unify your gaming setup, though I'd probably put the stock BIOS back in place for that use case. I'm betting what happened here is they took a beat up console, gave it a new shell, soft-modded it and sold it off as new with "built-in" games. $99 for that, but not really a bad deal if you wanted a gen 1 Wii in mint condition! You can easily re-mod that devil for other kinds of functionality to simplify things if you wanted. For example, I have an XBox that handles emulation stuff and the controllers are better-suited for the old games. So the Wii is modded to load its stuff from an external SSD, which makes it much faster to load games, and I no longer have to worry about the library getting scattered by the dog hitting the disc tower. Again. :D
So China will commonly have this problem where they have leftover components at factories. My guess is a factory that manufactured the internals for Wiis had a bunch left over, wholesaled them to somebody as spare parts, then they bought 3rd party replacement cases and placed them inside of them. Jailbroke the firmware and pre-installed a bunch of homebrew channels. Then sold them on Wish at a profit. I see this happen with leftover arcade PCBs on Alibaba all the time.
Man they literally told you to boot up USB loader with a note to access games and you ignored it, now a bunch of clowns think you got scammed when actually they were legit, it's a really good video that kind of got ruined because you didn't read, it was actually kind of them to do that note.
So judging from the other comments, and the box, I'm guessing they had a bunch of old Wiis (European apparently) that probably had busted cases. So they bought some cheap cases, probably made so people could have custom cases, by painting them or whatever. And then just used that case to put it all in and shipped it out?
Yep it has a replacement case. However, he said he knows nothing about modding. What he could of done was read the paper and do what it says. He didn’t buy the product with the extra items too. Even though it has a Japanese sticker, that’s a part of the replacement case.
when you push the home button on the game it loads the files from the game to load the exit to the menu which is how I knew that you were new to the modding scene.
TLDR: dude buys a modded wii on wish thinking it's just a knock-off, can't quite figure out that it's a *real* wii, is confused on *why it works* doesn't have a USB drive plugged in, goes into a SNES emulator, checks to load titles from the USB drive and then says "interesting" when the emulator tells him that it can't find a USB drive... also he gets surprised every single time something works, for example the wiimote connecting, the GCN controller working, games working etc
The Wii is exactly the same as a regular Wii, except they have modded it with homebrew applications such as USB loaders and emulators. Replacing the Wii system os would brick the Wii and is impossible.
Yours was a legitimate Wii's internals (See: 4.1E on the System Settings screen). Most likely they had a shitty shell and got a replacement for it, and then soft-modded it (I wondered if it was real/modded when I saw instructions for CFG/USB Loader). Not a bad deal, all things considered, and it clearly runs out-of-region software, so looks like a good buy.
You can launch Wii "roms" using the launch backup. They are definitely using the Wii software with it soft modded to add the additional options to the dashboard.
You'd be surprised on how many people still buy these for cheap and then end up modding them to sell on for a quick buck 👍 These make great emulation systems
Almost Perfect! If M.A.M.E was fully capable and compatible with bigger games then this Console would be an instant buy.. I love WiiMC cause I play music and watch movies from an external DVD driver.. (Wiis before 2009 can play DVDS if soft modded)
it’s not heavy modded, you can probably set up that’s currently on that wii in like 5 hours, it’s just homebrewing (which you can do in like less than 10 minutes) then installing a bunch of emulators and putting roms
The bootlegs, they're... GETTING MORE ACCURATE EDIT : This is a joke. I know its just a real modded wii, I thought you simpletons would understand. I know its a real wii, don't say that it is in the comments.
How do you feel about this Wii console??
*Scared*
*china*
I would like to have it
@@hayaschu626 no
@@LANZD_ it's cool
As others have said. Definitely a regular Wii that's been modded and put in a new case. Probably because the doors had snapped off the original which is a common thing. You can pick up a complete one in the UK charity shops now for about £10. They only take a few minutes to mod. I used to have one that I done myself and used with an 80gb HDD.
Yeah, it's definitely somewhat "refurbished" by the seller. Points for the homebrew channel stuff and the emulators, I don't have first hand experience with those emus but I'm guessing they might be better than VC. And if you want, you could play Project M and CTGP-R. This is a keeper.
Those found in the US are getting rarer, and prices are past $100 for a complete system at this point.
10 pounds ? 🤔
@@TheRealMrPeach thats just you man. i have a local game store (not naming it or saying where bc its a local treat, if you know, you know) that for about 5 consecutive years now, he has had the same price for a wii. Very rarely does he bump his prices, and if i really needed a 6th Wii, I could get one with all the cords, a stand, 2 controllers, and a guarentee that it works for $89 flat. Best store for all video game shopping/collecting, he has it all XD
Which hdd do you have?
"buys "fake wii""
gets almost real wii
"buys real wii"
gets binento bii
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
im not here for grammar and ruin the joke but bintendo bii (dont r/woosh me)
@@user-jm5kn5rf1g do you know what a joke is?
learn it
@@callumpk7486 i know but i said im not here for grammar
@@user-jm5kn5rf1g oh ok
It’s an actual Wii. It’s not fake. They just replaced the outer shell of it (that’s why it came in that shell replacement box I’m guessing). But that’s a real Wii, just with some added features. You got a decent deal imo.
Decent deal? He got ripped off. Never came with the extra games that said it was.
@@aaronlusanko8779 Either way it’s a rip off most Wii’s are like 50 bucks home brewed or not
Good point
same thing that i am thinking
@@aaronlusanko8779 He did not get ripped off because he didn’t click on the right app , he had to click on the Toy Story app and there should be the games ( I have the same app)
Seeing this from his perspective must've been so cool.
"Wow, someone was able to recreate both hardware and software so accurately!"
lool
oh i LOVE this comment sm
im a lil autistic so seeing him be like "wowza weird case + weird channels?? huh??" ticked me of a lil cuz i already modded my wii but i understand
I bet this dude loves magic.
"I don't know where that rabbit went, but I'm calling the cops cause he just sawed a lady in half."
Seeing somebody's reaction to a modded Wii is priceless. I remember I stalling the homebrew channel on my Wii way back in the day lol I even still have it!
Same ahhaah too bad i just emulate all the games on pc now
I did it just for mods on cod back in like 2012
Same bro, I get tired of messing with batteries though
At this point, even people who don’t have a modded Wii know what the homebrew channel is. I knew what it was when I was 6 and I didn’t even mod my Wii
You: I remember I stalling" Correct:" I remember Installing the homebrew channel"
The internals are definitely legit, it just has a third party shell, stand and stickers. The console has also been soft modded to play pirated games, emulators and homebrew.
It’s a pretty cool version of the wii, i would buy it.
@@WertyTT4 Its technically illegal so I wouldn't
@@Cladcreeper Softmodding and refurbishing isn't illegal
@@TheMoris there's a reason why the logo of "Wii" looks like "Wu" can't flat out copy it
@Cladcreeper only the newer stuff is illegal like the Xbox Series/One, PS4/5, and Switch.
It is a real Wii. They replaced the case with a cheap Chinese made aftermarket case to "refurbish" it. It says it's a case right on the box it was in.
My money says they did a disc drive replacement annd the shell swap replacement is just so it lookes new enough to justify the cost.
@@tboatrig and soft modded it
Most of the original Wii drives are still in good shape thanks to the wohle homebrew thing around it, so i dont even think that they swapped it, its just the case and the softmod and even that can be an Estate of the previous owner like me (its not my one, this is still on my tv next to my switch😅)
@@Eddy_E. many do swap the drives even if they’re perfectly fine for one reason: disc burning. The original white rvl-001 wiis had drives that, if you modded the wii, it would play dvd backups and dvd movies even. All other models, and even colors of the rvl-001, cannot.
@@Eddy_E. so it’s very likely that if they swapped the drive it’s from an original white unit.
honestly super happy for the guys knocking thiese things together in there apartment or basement
keeps the electronics out of landfill or recycling, gets someone a genuine device in a new case and who ever is making them is making at least a decent amount of money
@I'm me sometimes do you have one yet?
Yep. No that's a real Wii, and it's been softmodded. In fact I would consider that a lucky buy. This is the first thing I do when I find an old Wii is I mod it.
Not fake!
the case isnt real but the internals are
@@ubahni oh it absolutely certainly is. The later on wiis changed the design of the case
@@bartat404 yep
Lol, I expected him to get a hollow case.
It is probably real!
As cool as it'd be if it was a 1:1 recreation of the Wii hardware in a cheap case, I think this is just straight up a regular modded Wii. I've modded all my Wiis and their software looks like this.
theres places in japan that sell used "broken" wiis for 1-2 USD. theres probably something similar in china. people are probably buying them, fixing, replacing the case if necessary, and reselling on wish.
I knew as soon as I saw it was 32gb with 10-20 games that it was a modded wii. The included games are very likely Wii and GameCube games and to play those you games you open usb loader, which it told you to do on the paper it came with at 4:32.
It just seems like this guy can't read proper instructions lmao
Pretty clear wasn’t it 😂
took me until the paper literally said USBLoader lmao
@@coolcool5181. Yeah, as soon as I saw that note mentioning USBLoader I knew it was legit
Plus he didn’t even buy the one with the accessories
i’m 99% sure the ii/ü morphing is to avoid copyright issues
I don't think they want to avoid any copyright issues because they're proudly presenting the Wii logo on the console and Boot in the original bios. They probably just want to confirm that this ain't no real Wii. Not sure though.
@@moonwalkerboy162 no copyright infringement with the Wii logo on the tv. What they are selling is a reshelled Wii with homebrew on it. You can even see the homebrew channel on the 2nd page of the Wii menu. This is 100% a regular Wii.
@@moonwalkerboy162 it is real wii. it is softmodded with replacement casee it is japanese wii with system region change hak
I mean, if they were trying to avoid copyright issues, I don't think they would've put a "Nintendo" label on the console that is trying to look like the real thing, but is the wrong font lol
@@jrob0021 But it is the real thing just a replacement shell and soft-modded. Just like you can get a Nintendo GBA from China they are genuine GBA with a third party case and screen they take beatup working consoles and rehouse them in a new shell. They probably buy them in bulk cheap put a new case on it and sell at a profit
The little paper slip was more useful you may expect from like a Gamestop refurbished console, it tells you to open USB Loader to play the games on the SD card, the listing said it was an US console, but it was a bit misleading as the preview pic said it was only the base and console, at the end this is just a refurbished and softmoded genuine console but with a generic case, what surprises me is that it actually works.
*buys wii*
"holy crap guys it looks exactly like a wii"
holy crap guys my nintendo wii looks like a nintendo wii
"It's just like a Wii"
It is a Wii.
Definitely a "The cheese is under the sauce" moment.
It's literally just a soft modded wii with a replacement shell to make it look newer, it's not hard to tell that it's real.
Yea but why would someone sell a soft modded wii?
@@bechmk8442 why not
@@johnconnelly7667 I would not cause its so special. I have a black soft modded wii.
@@bechmk8442 I also have a black soft modded wii. Some people are too afraid to soft mod their wii so others mod them and sell them to those people
@@johnconnelly7667 I also have a soft modded black wiiu
As you took it out of the box i could immediately tell 100% it's just a refurbrished and reshelled Wii shipped in the box the shell came in. Kinda weird to sell them like that though
"This is just like wii"... This literally IS a wii with replacement case, that's all..
That would explain the console coming in a box for a replacement case. They literally put the internals in a new case and put it in the box to ship it.
"Pretty cheap plastic"
*looks at Switch Dock*
I was almost done with the video and I couldn’t help but notice that this man did NOT know that it’s an actual Wii.
Proof?
@@StickTheGuy it is 100% a real wii, unless there's some insane trickery going on an it's a raspberry pi hooked up to all the wii's ports and they're using a modded version of dolphin which has somehow been altered to read actual wii hardware like the gamecube and memory card ports.
the amount of effort it would take for a wish seller to make a fake wii that looks exactly like a real wii is far too great when they could just get a real wii, refurb it, mod it, and sell it for 10x the amount they bought it for.
That case looks *almost real*, but like as an example, the buttons look a bit off and darker, but I just can't name what is off tho. in my opinion, that is a re-cased wii (edit: instead of unplugging the Wii to reset it, hold the power button for 5 - 15 seconds , that will fully power it off/reset)
Yep it's really close, but the case is definitely not legit. Probably a real Wii inside tho
Yes do that but pull out the internal battery at the same time
@Fur Q Wii Won't
It’s not fake, it’s just modded and it has a replacement case. However, he said he knows nothing about modding. What he could of done was read the paper and do what it says. He didn’t buy the product with the extra items too.
@@jrob0021 it is real just as homeroom
You should have gone into the "USB Loader". That app allows you to play Wii games without the disc. That is probably where you will find the built-in games.
It has game is built in which is a good thing that means you can run some pirate games just like I do
Yes but you need to load them off of USB. So nothing will show up. There's no internal storage on the Wii, and there's no way to load games off SD. He would need to load some WBFS files on a USB drive or burn some DVD himself.
@@novafawks Last I recall they've developed ways to run games off the SD
It also allows you to play Triforce games, which is awesome since that's the only way to play the proper version of F-Zero AX apart from playing it im the arcades.
@@novafawks I'm pretty sure literally every single USB loader on the wii also supports loading the games off the SD card too. And judging by the "usb-loader" folder name you can see at 13:47, the one installed here is most likely USB Loader GX, which I know supports loading ISOs off the SD card.
"I bought a REAL wii but continued to be surprised when it worked just like a regular wii for the whole video"
While it turns out that it likely was a real (albeit modded) Wii, he made it very clear throughout the video that he wasn't sure if it was a real Wii. So, your comment doesn't really make sense.
@@googlewolly did he though? He kept saying wow it works just like a normal wil!
@@Natei He kept saying that, yes. However, I don't recall him ever stating that he felt that it actually was a real Wii (just that it worked like one). Correct me if I'm wrong; it's possible that I missed it. It didn't seem like he acknowledged it as a real Wii, though, during the video.
@@googlewolly Plus, he still titled it “fake”
@@googlewolly The wii is real just the case thats cheap
I've done softmods on quite a few Wii consoles, and this is all pretty standard stuff. My suspicion is that it's real Wii guts, but most likely a replacement case for one that was either heavily damaged, or just too dirty to pass off for sale. I can speak from experience that the flaps to cover the gamecube ports tend to break quite easily, and replacing them can be a bit of a pain. Some people opt for full replacement shells.
Dood I keep finding Wii consoles at my local thrift shop for $20 Canadian which is like $15 USD. You actually paid some guy in China 650% more for a Wii than it would cost you to get a normal fully-functional western Wii.
The logo looks like *W :)* lmao
Why r u every where
First
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This is the 300007000009989875th time I've seen you
Na its "Wü"
"I bought a real Wii with a replacement case"
There, fixed your title
Plus he didn’t even buy the one with the accessories
Real question is: Will they change their video title?
@@GoldenAngel3341 no
They've been doing a lot of reshells with GB/GBA and DS too, apparently the factory buys in a ton of consoles, picks out the ones that work, set the workers to fix up the easier fixed stuff, reshell and polish, mod up and up for sale. You will prob find a common or garden Wii mainboard and dvd drive in what is a big case of brown thing polishing.
You mean turd 🤣
@@Manwichmanbro is probably 4💀
Some of the stuff I saw makes it look like it's homebrewed out if the box. That's actually pretty interesting if it is the case as that opens up a lot of possibilities. It looks like you actually got a very nice thing from wish this time around.
it would have been a nice thing if it didn't cost 10x more than a normal secondhand wii would :P
Yeah except most wii's cost like $10-25 now
@@elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lucky they cost 63,342 ruppes here
@@RandomAhhChannel ok john. That's your new name by the way. Now you know a name. John.
Also what's a ruppes? Just joking John I know what you meant.
One of my favorite past times is listening to TH-camrs ramble on for 7 or 8 minutes just to fill time in their videos so thank you for that
As soon as you took it out of the box I knew what it was. It even came with a paper note telling you to launch "USB Loader"
Love the way he didn't even read it
9:26 Wow it’s almost like it is a regular wii with a 3rd party shell
As for the 10-20 games, you missed it in the SD card channel menu. It was gray like the other ones so it was easy to miss but there was definitely something there
I think that was either a normal but weird texture or lighting. The games would have been in USB loader if anything
@@Bigjar420 could have been a corrupt file, i'm not sure what that looks like on a wii though.
I've expected the "FAKE WII" to be much worse than what's shown in the video...
It's a real Wii, with an internal softmod (Probably LetterBOMB'd), the case was replaced using a Chinese Knockoff (They're usually pretty good, seems you got an unfortunately misprinted one), they buy these in bulk from Overflow stores or "Trashcan" stores (Broken consoles, sold for spares/repairs), you've actually gotten an alright deal asides from the missing extras/cables/wiimotes
Definitely a modded re-cased Wii.
Basically a soft modded Wii, that was re-shelled
What does soft modded mean
@@djtundra8011 it means the Wii was modified by software, rather than a mod chip. Which would be called a hard mod. (Hardware mod).
Seems like this has a genuine wii motherboard with some 3rd party parts they seller used to refurb the device and their using the SD card to side load some software. Pretty nice actually
12:22 "And Wii shall see if it works" ahhhh!!!
...I'll see myself out
Have to admit this is kind of funny to watch 🤣🤣🤣
You bought an European Wii because the symbol in the health and safety screen is yellow instead of white
I was about to point that out
Wait the health and safety icon is a different colour outside of Europe?? I never knew that I thought it was yellow everywhere ahaha
American Wii’s are white and European Wii’s are yellow
im european
4.1E on the settings screen as well
As others have said, it's a real Wii with softmods. I'm very familiar with CFG Loader, as I've used it to rehab consoles with broken disc drives. DIOS MIOS is a loader for GC games, since they use a different chip configuration on the motherboard. It might have some replacement case pieces, but it is absolutely just a modded Wii.
As for resetting, all you need to do is HOLD the power button for about 5 seconds if it freezes like that.
Ur the first comment I’ve seen to talk abt DIOS MIOS.
Also a hard reset might’ve still been needed. I had a used game that would brick my wii. It would freeze and not sure off so I’d unplug it. I’d need to keep it unplugged a couple hours or else the red light wouldn’t even turn on
@@Bigjar420 True, although in my experience, those are rare cases.
@@kurtweeks6812 yeah, I never figured out why. It was a marvel cartoon game
Soulja boy is going to start selling this for $500
I'd buy it
@@HmmBird311 because your gay
@@playstatlon1594 is there a problem if someone is gay? also, you’re not your, *mario from mario teaches typing is gonna turn you into a goomba*
Me lookling at the thumbnail: THE DISK IN THE OTHER WAY!
Wow this Fake console was too realistic to be fake...
Agreed. I just watched the whole video waiting for the catch.
I bought my real Wii at a church sale for 20$ last week 🤣 I even got Super smash bros, metronidazole prime 3 and 2 GameCube sonic games 😂🤣😅
That's a steal
@@jrob0021 right? I've never played on a wii before, so its a new experience, I put the sensor bar right on top of my kinect sensor for the '360 lol
@The Hacker Lord CTGP it is for the games that were included.
I found one in the Trash not to long ago....Buuu Yeaaaa!!
@The Hacker Lord CTGP someone actually paid me to take a wii from them......easy
Seeing someone with no knowledge about Wii modding is funny, I think out of any console the Wii has the biggest modding community.
Also, it was hilarious to see Dios Mio boot up when he started playing Luigi's Mansion and him being like "Dios Mio? I don't know what that is" lmao
Mother of god he doesn’t know Dios Mio? -Church
@@whatsyourname049 LMAO
"dio mio" is a common Italian exclamation of disappoint
IS NOT A FAKE WII ITS A SOFTMODDED WII
The internal parts may be real, but the case was 100% made in an attempt to look real, but it's not
@@jrob0021 the case is brand new thats why looks diferent
@@xdarkdragonx2727 it's brand new but fake. It is not an OEM case.
@@jrob0021 Its an oem case
@@jrob0021 and its not fake
That is not a fake Wii, that is a modded Wii with a replacement case.
Probably a pretty old wii too. It’s on firmware 4.1 which still supported exploits such as bannerbomb, and iirc version 4.3 (the latest firmware version) was pushed all the way back in 2010. So either they force installed a wad with system menu 4.1 for whatever reason, it’s really old, or the seller never updated it since before 2010
Wish sellers seem to make listings confusing on purpose so you order the wrong thing. You seem to have acknowledged that you ordered the "Bare metal" instead of "Package 1" version in some of the comments. You didn't check any of the USB loaders. Those would be my first suspect on what roms they'd load since they'd be the Wii games... You can configure the USB loaders to load off the SD card. Try those, and maybe homebrew channel to see if they actually loaded any games.
they dont do it on pourpose when its like this, most of thiese sellers are guys running shop out of there basement rather than large scale factories and google translating the description because actualy good human translation is expensive
there are scammers for sure, but a lot of the time its either guys buying stuff from recycling centers and repourposing it (honestly great, everyone wins reusing is better than recycling) or guys just making stuff from scratch
It's just a translation thing. Most of these guys have really big shops on taobao with a lot of options. They probably only moved the base package over to Wish to avoid confusion. The shop I got my Wii from had 10 packages with pages of photos and explanations. I'm sure translation would have been a nightmare.
Lmao I love how everyone is telling this man its a real wii. When it IS!
Jesus it got annoying how this guy was amazed that its actually a WII who would of thought?! Lmao
Even more annoying was when he said they didn't send him everything, then shows a screen that explains the two different packages, he bought the one with less stuff. He even showed that on screen too
Not just a regular wii, a soft modded wii.
The games that come with it are on the SD card, you needed to go into the USB loader channel and start them that way. They are probably Wii games like Mario Galaxy
I was also wondering that.
@@googlewolly when he opened the box there was a piece of paper telling him how to do it and he just tossed it to the side
"must be using some sort of an emulation software" "shits crazy" DUDE lmao
Definitely a real wii in a shoddy shell.
The internal hardware is way too advanced to just be "replicated" the same way they do/did to older hardware.
Yup it was probably a old console they bought for dirt cheap reshelled and homebrewed
Agreed, at best they would try to emulate the Wii, and that would cost way, way more
@@UNSCPILOT not to mention hooking up the raspberry pi or whatever they would use to all the actual wii ports and peripherals and making sure dolphin could read it and pair with it flawlessly.
Nintendo made millions of these console. Japan is exporting them as junk. Basicly cheaper than making fake console.
The Mii you have are probably from the last owner.
RVL-001 is the original console design. The next revision, Nintendo removed the Gamecube controller ports and memory card slots. If you have a bunch of Wii and Gamecube stuff, this version really is a great way to unify your gaming setup, though I'd probably put the stock BIOS back in place for that use case.
I'm betting what happened here is they took a beat up console, gave it a new shell, soft-modded it and sold it off as new with "built-in" games.
$99 for that, but not really a bad deal if you wanted a gen 1 Wii in mint condition! You can easily re-mod that devil for other kinds of functionality to simplify things if you wanted.
For example, I have an XBox that handles emulation stuff and the controllers are better-suited for the old games. So the Wii is modded to load its stuff from an external SSD, which makes it much faster to load games, and I no longer have to worry about the library getting scattered by the dog hitting the disc tower. Again. :D
So China will commonly have this problem where they have leftover components at factories. My guess is a factory that manufactured the internals for Wiis had a bunch left over, wholesaled them to somebody as spare parts, then they bought 3rd party replacement cases and placed them inside of them. Jailbroke the firmware and pre-installed a bunch of homebrew channels. Then sold them on Wish at a profit.
I see this happen with leftover arcade PCBs on Alibaba all the time.
Looks like someone is buying cosmetically damaged official Wiis, replacing the outer case, modding them, then shipping them in the box for the case.
Man they literally told you to boot up USB loader with a note to access games and you ignored it, now a bunch of clowns think you got scammed when actually they were legit, it's a really good video that kind of got ruined because you didn't read, it was actually kind of them to do that note.
You don't always get the real deal on Wish but sometimes....you do.
The fake Wii logo looks like ‘Wü’
I'm used to USB Loader GX. I never knew there was a toy story themed USB Loader lmao
I speak Spanish, and the "Dios Mios" on the Gamecube bootup translates to "my god" or "oh my god". That threw me off alot lol
This guy will believe the earth is flat sooner than acknowledge the existence of different colors on fonts lmao
Nothing fake, the 10-20 pre loaded games are probably in usb loader gx
Or games = emu hbrew on SD. Need to remember it's chinese listing...
The outer shells were fake.
So it's a molded Wii loaded up with emulators. Actually kind of neat, I'd get one.
Oh. Molded? So the seller found it in a trash can and sold it?
@@thestupid69 precisely
So judging from the other comments, and the box, I'm guessing they had a bunch of old Wiis (European apparently) that probably had busted cases. So they bought some cheap cases, probably made so people could have custom cases, by painting them or whatever. And then just used that case to put it all in and shipped it out?
Yep it has a replacement case. However, he said he knows nothing about modding. What he could of done was read the paper and do what it says. He didn’t buy the product with the extra items too. Even though it has a Japanese sticker, that’s a part of the replacement case.
this is just a real console that's been modded and slapped into a new case.
This video is EXACTLY what it feels like to get drugs from a new dealer with a sketchy rep lmao
thank you. I was searching for this yesterday and couldn’t find a video until now!
So Satan plays Wii when not doing evil things now.
@@mullaleo85 lmao yeah well satan doesn’t do evil things tho
when you push the home button on the game it loads the files from the game to load the exit to the menu which is how I knew that you were new to the modding scene.
That’s a real wii console that has homebrew apps and emulators😺
TLDR: dude buys a modded wii on wish thinking it's just a knock-off, can't quite figure out that it's a *real* wii, is confused on *why it works*
doesn't have a USB drive plugged in, goes into a SNES emulator, checks to load titles from the USB drive and then says "interesting" when the emulator tells him that it can't find a USB drive...
also he gets surprised every single time something works, for example the wiimote connecting, the GCN controller working, games working etc
“99% sure it’s fake, I don’t know I haven’t opened it yet” WHAT!
Honestly it's not a bad deal for what your getting! But they should have at least included all the hookups for it. 👌
The Wii is exactly the same as a regular Wii, except they have modded it with homebrew applications such as USB loaders and emulators. Replacing the Wii system os would brick the Wii and is impossible.
Yours was a legitimate Wii's internals (See: 4.1E on the System Settings screen). Most likely they had a shitty shell and got a replacement for it, and then soft-modded it (I wondered if it was real/modded when I saw instructions for CFG/USB Loader). Not a bad deal, all things considered, and it clearly runs out-of-region software, so looks like a good buy.
I seriously thought you said.
The wii is a good boy
@@Undertalefan97 bad boy ☠️
@@thesergius2295 Lol
Dude I 100% expected a famiclone
Someone bought pallets full of broken, and returned Wii consoles, and has access to machines to make new molds and shells
It's just a modded EU Wii with an aftermarket replacement shell lol
You can launch Wii "roms" using the launch backup. They are definitely using the Wii software with it soft modded to add the additional options to the dashboard.
I bet it said 10 to 20 games because that’s how many you can fit on the SD card depending on the size of the games! 😁
This isn't even the tip of the iceberg of what a modded wii can do
Seems like a real WII with a replacement case and a soft mod.
Yes it is
And where is now the "fake" part? It is a real wii.
You'd be surprised on how many people still buy these for cheap and then end up modding them to sell on for a quick buck 👍
These make great emulation systems
Almost Perfect! If M.A.M.E was fully capable and compatible with bigger games then this Console would be an instant buy.. I love WiiMC cause I play music and watch movies from an external DVD driver.. (Wiis before 2009 can play DVDS if soft modded)
@@kenrickkahn not all of them; the other colors of the same model, rvl-001, cannot. I believe the black wii came out before 2009?
@@kovyvuri I've actually been trying to buy and find one just to use for fun, sucks playing emulators in my phone with a small screen.
Usually on modded wiis the games only appear inside the usb loader
You can install forwarder apps to make the games launch directly from your wii menu like a Wiiware or Virtual console game
this is so fun to see as a person who's modded consoles since 2010
real wii: are WII gonna have a problem?
"fake"wii: WII will have a problem.
Probably an official console that was renewed by a 3rd party.
Hello drip fish
The special stuff is emulators like retroarch Is a thing with alot of emulators
Retroarch rocks!
@@longtom6909 ikr
@@longtom6909 Sure does!!!
A Wii can be hacked with the normal system software. You don’t need to install a custom system software you just mod the console.
Jacob: Is this console a Wii or a Wii U?
Seller: Yes.
Amazed you didn’t have a thumbnail with a shocked face saying “OMFG ITS A FAKE!!”
Might be a heavily modded wii
it’s not heavy modded, you can probably set up that’s currently on that wii in like 5 hours, it’s just homebrewing (which you can do in like less than 10 minutes) then installing a bunch of emulators and putting roms
The bootlegs, they're...
GETTING MORE ACCURATE
EDIT : This is a joke. I know its just a real modded wii, I thought you simpletons would understand. I know its a real wii, don't say that it is in the comments.
it's a modded real wii with a custom case
It’s a real wii, it’s just modded
@@justananimefan1570 ye i know lol
@GlitchyTurtle546 okay read the comment now
As shady as wish is, that’s an awesome find
I like how you accidentally smacked the Wu with the Wii.. lol