Buying a $1 Wii from Japan 

eBay: BRAND NEW CIB *missing cables and beaten up. No box included.*

@@hex1233 no cuz I was looking at 3DSs on eBay and one was like $200 and it said “doesn’t work, missing stylus, no charger, no battery or SD card” and they were tryna say how someone could use the remaining parts to fix another 3DS 💀

@@hex1233 may contains BONUS roaches!

Japan sets absurdly high standards on their tech. The upside to this is that buying used games is actually better if you have lower standards.

@@cattysplat I CANT-

or cursed

@Wanna Be a Smurt Person Trying 😂

@Wanna Be a Smurt Person Trying lmao

I broke the cursed likes

@@TheCoolDave Last year I bought a used Japanese PS Vita off of eBay for $150, came brand new in the box

$11* but what about the equipment and time that went into this

Yes but time.

@@lepidotos does that not count as equipment?

@@Prototype_8 i read equipment as like the camera and stuff, the stuff not purchased specifically for the video but without which it wouldn't exist, but i may be dumb

@@lepidotos you might be right though

Well the Wii U could run almost every single Wii game

@@sleepdeep305 and with homebrew gamecube worked perfectly fine

Of course, disc's won't work, but roms work with nintendont amazingly, with it even having options exclusive to wii u, such as improved wide-screen and pro controller support!

I'd say the 3DS is probably the very last, still able to run DS cards (and do much more with the homebrew mod but Nintendo hates that)

It's not really that. A fully functional wii *is* a fully functioning game cube with better specs. Similar hardware, enough to be compatible. It's the same deal with the DS and GBA; a DS is just a more powerful GBA with an extra CPU and a jank 3D mode.

And in america "untested" means "tested and its garbage" :D

@@Porygonal64 hahaha

Yep. I bought a dev ps1 unit from japan expecting to fix it, but it worked.

@@kneesnap1041 which PS1 dev unit? one of the blue ones?

@@myagi20000 Yep

I thought that too lol I was right at that part and then I saw your comment

Sorry, I don't have a wii, why don't you want to reset it?

@@Relorelo23 as he said, incase theres anything rare on there plus that takes some work to reinstall everything

Also, the wii shop isn't supported anymore, meaning it's nearly impossible to get them back

My reaction exactly.

Kinda. It's really more of how Japan has retro console enthusiasts. The store was doing "the people" a solid by putting it out there for a buck. These game stores regularly sell old consoles to enthusiasts and the best place to get repair parts is cannibalize a similar console. I've seen similar super cheap misbehaving consoles on shelves as parts repositories.

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One man's garbage is another man person's good ungarbage

is this actually a creepy pasta?

​@@ahhh4117Not sure.

no, not a creepy pasta. there is no horror stuff in the video it's just fixing a dollar wii's output. @@alu2901

it is not btw.@@ahhh4117

​@@ahhh4117Yeah, it is, him removing that one capacitor was the jumpscare

Lol

*cough* ben drowned *cough*

Or VHS :D!

And when I booted up a wii there was my mii with hyper realistic blood on my screen!!!1!!11

@@awesomehazimex7410 and then the Mii said "you are NEXT" and then my POWER TURNED OFF!!!

Alchemy

Magic.

Do you like his funny words?

isn't that what happened

You're not wrong

Great job! Congrats :D

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hello shank ;)

You should make a portable Wii U :)

@@geralds1500 k

Damn, you seem kinda smart. Maybe you should start your own RU-vid channel one day!

I can just imagine your parents being like "you only get to play ONE candle long and then you go do your homework young [relevant pronoun]!"

@@jaxblonk5127 i dont think those are pronouns (man/woman) but I dont know what else to call them

@@ictogon eh? How do you mean? I didn't know what they use so instead of assuming a he/she/they or some neo stuff I just rolled with the "insert whatever you go by here" approach.

@@jaxblonk5127 yeah but you wouldn't say "young he" or "young her"

@@jaxblonk5127 "young man" or "young woman" or whatever aren't pronouns

Desoldering doesn’t break the pads - that only happens when you don’t heat up the pins enough to melt the solder and just try to yank the component off. That’s only because he’s inexperienced, not because this is an impossible operation. People who don’t have experience in surface mount soldering almost always rip parts off the board and it almost always results in trashing the entire board; I’ve seen it more times than I care to count

Something about breaking stuff to gain knowledge really doesn't sit well with me. Maybe it's just ugly reality but it's still a time of mourning if you cause it to happen regardless of your expertise.

@@Caffeine_Addict_2020ngl tho. I wonder why they make these boards so fragile to begin with. Rather than just gluing some copper the board, it should be *part* of the board for it to not be able to be ripped from it. And i wonder why the SMD caps aren't made to be easier to change. All this feels like design flaws

@@SeleDreams probs cost, although I'm not super familiar with PCB manufacturing. I mean for the capability these things have they cost just about nothing, now. And it doesn't take a ton of effort/experience not to snap the pads off, so it's def not worth whatever the fix would cost

The video came out 20 minutes ago how tf did you comment 9 hours ago?

@@ashleybyrd2015 patreon

A time traveler!!! Do you have a message from the future?!

sadly that's common with 90's SMD caps and 00's SMD caps are just as bad.......just newer. So it will be more common.

@@ashleybyrd2015 I am a time traveler. No, I just support him on Patreon - you get early access to new uploads.

“It still turns on it just needs something to make it work again”

@@BigHotSauceBoss69 I'd say that works.

@@BigHotSauceBoss69 "The light inside still works"

If the light works, it works

"works fine, if you like your food warm"

Comedy gold

Me too

i just know he woulda found a mii of himself

LOL

@@jhourigan5899 He would. He would find Matt, the top tier wiisports fighter.

Welcome to the shadow real jimbo

666 likes gang

While destroying them even more before fixing it

@@Alpine_flo92002 It’s like performing heart surgery. You cut some muscles and veins away and finally get out the heart, only to realize you took out the guy’s lung. Then he dies, I don’t know why I chose an analogy for heart surgery.

@@thecolorpurple4807 oof, that's deep

😄😃 more like hes a Ambulance and hes bring them back to life :D

@Mrsuperking RU-vid631 youre too young to get it

Yea I bought an Untested Wii family edition for £8 and it worked perfectly

Nice

They sell for pretty cheap on facebook marketplace tbh

@@JamesAutoDude ngl facebook marketplace is dogwater

me too, i got a wii u to replace it. love that shit

@@Yvng_remixer shut up

*69 years

@@Xnoob545 what's so funny about the double oral sex number?

Imagine paying $1500 for it now...

@@grkb NO THATS NOT WHAT i MEANT I MEANT THAT IT WILL TAKE WAY LONGER

@@Xnoob545 lol, misunderstanding can be funny sometimes

Alternatively, he could just add to the description such that when someone searches for this issue, the video should be one of the results.

This video will be added as a source on reddit threads and stuff hopefully for people that recognize it as a tool to fix the issue

There are going to be a bunch of videos about this anyway...

he made it all to entertainment and in the end begs utility

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I was looking for an american psp last week bc I missed having one, and can confirm this is so accurate lol

generous

Need the site bro. Link

This is so true. I remember going to so many book-off locations in Japan to browse their used electronics section. I ended up buying some phones and consoles. I literally could not tell if the products were new or used. For one of the old system I purchased (FAMICOM) there was no discoloration, all components and the box were perfectly intact with documentation, and it played perfectly. The box still had the original coupon and flyer from when it was advertised for sale, i'm surprised it didn't have the sale receipt so I can return it for a full refund. I'm still confused to this day.

@@jason54953 Eeyup. That's why I go to flea markets in the US. You have to be cautious about who you are buying from because 7 out of 10 will try to rip you off. At the same time, again, if you are cautious enough you can find the 3/10 good ones that'll give you a decent deal.

Actually a dude

Really, its not that hard to understand, i did some repairing training in elementary school, after that i was like i thought you had to be an alien to understand this but rly simple when you have done it yourself atleast once

I remember assembling some things in middle school, in the technology class. It was fun, certainly one of my favorite parts of that class. It's not too complicated, but then again these were middle school-level kits. Haven't done it since.

I can’t solder and it makes me sad.

Being able to repair stuff is a good skill to have. You can easily learn how to do this, it's simple. You should get into soldering and repairing if you think it's impressive!

😂😂 that’s about right

Happens to me a lot

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@@johnmartin7641 Nice

RIGHT...when the shipping is more than the item itself 💀

People around here tend to just pull them off so they don't end up breaking off going to tournaments for Smash all the time xD those things are super weak. All three of my Wiis have had them break off. So it's really funny to see them still attached on a supposedly junk console.

Nintendo actually used to sell replacements for all of the doors on their site. My red 25th anniversary edition was missing one of the doors when I bought it and Nintendo had replacements in stock.

@@beardalaxy my original Wii I bought new never lost its doors but all the others I’ve worked on for people were missing them lol

It's so weird, that those doors just seem to vanish ... My Wii is also missing the one for the controller input and I have no idea where it went xD

Pre-Covid you could get Wii’s from the flea market for $10 bucks. Now they’re like $50-100

😂👍

:)

I had a wii that was in mint condition it was used abit I sold it to gamestop and they said 35 dollers for it

@@sk8terzane818 that’s awful

@@mansour7117 yea

Japan surpluses are the best

It's because the price would be much lower if there are defects, quite sure every item is checked carefully before actually selling, and the have different categories of "damages" labelled on the item so you can choose what you actually want

Agreed, I feel dumber than before.

Same

I can't even read Japanese

lol

Same! I spent the whole video just thinking "Gezz, Patterrz is such an idiot!"

The funny thing being that in the west 'untested' basically means ' i know its broken and whats wrong but i dont want to sell for a lower price'

@@Predator23321 yeah its practically fucked but idc I'm selling it for the same price fix it yourself 😄

@@kiwi468 capitalism at it's finest I see

Untested on eBay means "I know its fucked up but I'm going to make it seem like I don't know its condition to squeeze a little more money out of my old junk"

We would say "as is"

Send it to me I'll do it

Just consider it a learning opportunity. Those don't come cheap usually...

@@laurensa.1803 a new Wii? Those are super cheap at only around $50

DEW IT

@@user-gu5wy1to1v he means a learning opportunity

There are going to be loads of videos on this sort of thing...

Even if you have a lot of experience, breaking solder pads triggers you

@@jemert96 yup it hurts everytime its rare now for me but fuck man.

As someone who knows basically nothing of soldering, why can't new pads be bought and used in this case?

@@BlueCheeseCrumbles basically a circuit board is a lines of foil across a board, then with the exception of the solder pad this foil is covered in a laver of plastic. So, when you rip the solder pads off it's stupid difficult to fix as you now have nowhere to add the solder metal to connect your circuit

Hehe

He regretted it?

You must have been moving at plank lenght then

me to

@@clang5110 too*

I ruined the 69 likes you had

If it helps just *_one_* person, it's a worthwhile video!

I just found a Toaster in the Trash can

@@RachidWasTaken Well, only have the power cable, but it shows signs of life and powers on! I'll source some cables soon!

Peeyesce too

@@blanana_m does it work?

@@sortofchris No, my mother threw it away becaus it broke

You're* (Jk)

yeah

And from a random shop in Japan too, seriously lol

You've met with a terrible fate, haven't you?

Turns out he got transported into the Wii when he touched those capacitor pads with the metal pliers

I thought that was the path this video was going at first honestly

Released on November 5th 2019

That sad fact doesn't stop me and my family playing the Wii just about every day.

No Just Dance 2021 was I think

@@b2rdistheword942 no it's 2020 I did research because I thought about buying it on wii

that still incredible that any game was still in production for the Wii. One thing you can't knock Nintendo for is that they try to strive for longevity for each of their consoles they produce until it's time to move on to something bigger

200 bulks of what?

@Frax or they were assassinated before they could let gamestops secret out about refurbished consoles

Find me somebody who would spend 200 dollars on a refurbished Wii from Gamestop and I will give you 200 dollars.

@@RegalPixelKing Are you giving me the 200 dollars because you want the refurbished Wii? Because then you'd be the one i'd find and the prophecy would fulfill itself.

@@Killa1949 No the point I'm making is for 200 dollars on eBay as an example you could get a Wii, a few accessories and a few games. Nobody would spend 200 dollars just on a refurbished Wii when there are so many better deals out there.

A: Nice pfp, where’d you find it?

@@WutzkeAR www.pinterest.com/pin/20195898315175916 the one i have is a edited version i dont have the link for

*This is your console on Call Of Duty*

@@_dried my friend used to use the exact one before they changed it to another demon

Ironic

y e s i t i s

I literally choked

No

Amogus

Yea, it doesn't work like that unfortunately

It doesn't, because the solder won't stick to the PCB material (usually glass fiber with epoxy resin). What you COULD do is recreate a pad with part trace from thin copper plate, scratch the remaining trace, use cyanoacrylate or epoxy to glue it in place of the ripped pad, with a little solder, connect the trace parts and eventually solder a capacitor onto that. And hope the glue you used to glue the pad with, holds well enough. I've seen it work, I was able to do it once with more light-weight SMD parts, but a capacitor is quite a heavy SMD part... your milage may vary.

When you remove a pad, it comes with the copper layer of it, so it remains just being the board with nothing

i am emotional over wiis and care for them despite never owning one sadly and that'd make me tear too

Depends! I have a Wii with a dead disk drive, but I didn't need to even open it to "fix" it.... I just installed the Homebrew mod and now it can run games from SD or USB drive, it even has the Gamecube ports so double bonus for me, now a Wii that was forgotten in the back of a closet for years has new life and it only took a couple hours and a easy to follow guide to "upgrade"

Dam guys relax…

ok

ok

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“Day 4 they are coming out of the screen I can’t turn it off. My god help me”

Where can i get a

I really wish this was a joke. This $1 "junk" Wii looks better than the $60 Wiis I've seen in used stores -__-

Might go to Japan just to see if I can find some "Junk" Consoles.

@@VexAcer And my wii.

Well that's confusing. Who in the heck used it, the QA tester before the order was shipped? And what do they call actual junk?

@@SmoothTeeVee I just imagine they don't sell actual junk.

he bought it in person, so technically the shipment fee is the cost of the plane tickets... i mean technically not but still

@@EggsBenedict1 he needed to pay for the trip regardless.

I bought a Virtual Boy from Japan. $700 (included 10 games), and it was $200 shipping. Fortunately I had a coupon for Buyee / Mercari, so I paid probably $20 for shipping. But yikes.

@@SolidIncMedia that's some dedication

literally eBay

I need to repair the one I saved from a recycling center that needs a new cd drive.

his iron doesnt look very good at all the first thing id do is get a ts-100.

@@CocoaEm The TS100 is good but I found because it's pretty low power it doesn't stay hot especially if the heat is getting pulled into a ground plane or other heatsink.

I prefer small conical tips to chisel tips, because it's fine enough for small and hard to reach solder joints, but you can still do bigger solder joints by using the side of the cone.

@@zxcvb_bvcxzdo you run it at 12v?it isnt bad at higher voltage but huge ground planes will be a pain with any iron without a board heater

You have to try a tip like the C4 for the TS100. I soldered with a lot of irons and a lot of different tips. Once I tried that tip I never used another. I even solder 0603 components with it 😂 As for the flux I found out that the Chinese stuff from Mechanic isn't bad at all. I use RMA-UV10 on a regular basis and if I need something a bit more powerful I use RMA-UV35 or some old-school rosin stuff I have left from my grandfather.

I do that weekly. Oops

i bought a jp wii it was BC with GCN

he spent - money since he got ad rev

does twisting work well or not (in general, is it a good idea)?

haha 69 likes nice

What-

Lmaoo

The green rectangle is basically lots of small wires inside a board.

racist

@@jamirvillarosa7924 lol what?

@@jamirvillarosa7924 huh... No...

anyone who plays that wii wii die in 7 days*

@@jamirvillarosa7924 its haunted by a racist ghost?