If you have an old Wii, during the pandemic it could be one of the coolest things to play around with.

Granted nowadays a stock Wii, isn't that useful. Being that the Wii Shop, and other services have been discontinued. Bout the only thing you could play is Wii Games and GC games if you have an older model.

Though nowadays a hacked Wii has uses that far exceed the use it has nowadays in ways you might not of thought.

Such things such as playing old Wii games online again with Wiimmfi, or bringing back WiiConnect24 for stuff like the Forecast and News Channel.

Even more interesting is the fact that you can play GameCube games on a newer model lacking GC support, and use something like a classic controller or usb controller to play them, giving those who have those models a whole library they didn't have before.

Finally the best reason to hack a Wii is the fact of how easy it is. All you need is an SD card, and even if you have the absolute unit of the Wii Mini, you can hack that too (With reduced compatibility but eh).

Nowadays the only way to get the most out of your old Wii is to hack it, as it reenables stuff that isn't here anymore.

Being that a Wii is so old, it's also pretty cheap, a good condition unit is about $70-80 for just the console and a Wiimote. Give yourself a HDMI adapter for like $5 or so and an SD card, you'll be going good. Or if you're good at scoring deals, maybe $50 or less.

The Wii is rad, and is a neat time killer during the pandemic.

Yup, it surely is. I've been playing my Wii a lot more this year than the past 3-4 years and only because of what can it do compared to more modern consoles.

I've been thinking on hacking it just so I can extract my SSBB data out of it. It'd be a drag to unlock everything on that game again on every single Wii me and my group of friends have, and since an SD card has enough memory to host the data of almost 4 Wiis at once it truly is something to look into.

For now, though, I'll wait and see how things go. My girlfriend has complained about the noise my Wii makes, which means she could either request grabbing a new one or moving on to Switch and leave the Wii partially to rot because GC games don't make that much noise. In the meantime, I'll keep playing my Wii some more and enjoy whatever time left I have with it, because its old age and years of service are starting to take their toll on it.

The wii I think has always been kinda underrated I really have come to appreciate a lot of things about the console but I love the fact it can play gamecube games otherwise I probably to this day would of never got to play Mario Kart Double Dash (The best Mario Kart don't summon me) and never would of finally got to try out Smash Bros Melee after hearing about it for so long. I used to have a hacked wii at my other grandparents house but I always felt kinda bad about it even if I wasn't the one who hacked it tbh.