Your Wii Can Play This (And Much More) 

9:28 dead meme 16:47 holy fuck

In defence of NewoShooter I will say that I might have been a bit over my head at the time but the experience of making my first homebrew game in C - from scratch - made me stronger in the end.

GoldsrcGX is a dead project. I was the one who started it. Sorry i disappointed you all. I have no free time to work on the project anymore. I haven't even worked on it since before we switched to xash. I am really sorry to let you all down. If anyone seeks to takeover the project, i would be glad to turnover everything that i have. Thank you all and again I am really sorry to let everyone down.

Bro the wii is such a perfect machine for emulation. It will always be nostalgic because it was such a huge part of my childhood

My wii has basically turned into the easiest way to do emulation on my CRT. I play SNES, PC Engine/CD, Genesis, and GBA on it. It's so nice to play rom hacks and translations this way without having actual hardware.

Fun fact: you can play online MKWii on an unmodded Wii if you set the DNS settings to a certain number. Connects it straight to fan servers, I guess.

Hello! Former developer on Xash3D Wii here (or Division Zero, whatever). Honestly, did not expect it to be mentioned here at all. The main issue was mostly, in my opinion, lack of motivation, experience and overall time. Most developers on it (of which there were like, 3? if i remember right?) were still in school with little to no experience with actual Wii hardware. The only person actually getting work done was one person, who I think was named Saucesaft, who got pretty far in development and essentially carried it, God rest his soul, but even he eventually lost interest/time and stopped doing anything with it. In the end, after nearly a year of nothing getting done, I opted to make an announcement that the project had been essentially abandoned. I still think the Wii deserves a Half-Life port, but to be completely honest, the people we had working on it simply were not cut out for the task. If we had a proper development team, with good 3D programming and Wii hardware experience, we would have probably been done, but it fell victim to what most overambitious projects do. It's a shame, really

whether it's console retrospectives like this or you bullying a $8 laptop, i do a big smile whenever you upload. thank you bringus, keep gaming and trucking

When you said "they have a value beyond what you can see or beyond what you can experience playing them" that was huge. But if I can go back to the core question of "why do this?", as a gameboy homebrew dev I've always found it a fun learning experience. I do it for myself. I'd rather make a bad/experimental game on cool hardware than to make something that gets swallowed up with all the other indie PC games.

Dude im in the 13-17 age range and i still remember going home and booting up the wii to play some bowling in wii sports when i was like 6

Super Mario Galaxy also has great, large mods that are worth mentioning. "Super Mario Gravity" for example is an upcoming mod with custom levels and is supposed to be bigger than the original two Galaxy games and is even absolutely Nintendo quality (it's basically the Mario Galaxy 3 we need lol).

Your video made me boot up my Wii for the first time in like 15 years, only to find my Smash Bros Melee disc inside. I started crying instantly as I thought I lost this game years ago and have deep core memories with the game. I’m now buying the controllers! I’m so excited to play this game again after so many years

CTGP-R 200cc has a fast falling mechanic where if you push the stick or tilt the Wiimote forward, you'll nosedive and fall much quicker than usual. It was added specifically to compensate for gaining too much air when going off ramps in 200cc.

I modded my Wii later on and it was my gateway to classic games on my CRT thanks to most third party emulators having 240p support. Still is the simplest way to get a pretty capable system plugged into a CRT for 2D games. Back when you could actually give Nintendo money for VC games, they supported 240p too. Add in Gamecube support and the Wii remains an amazing entry point into retro gaming.

I value homebrew because I enjoy that I can. It’s an extension of the people that jailbroke the system. The intrinsic value is sticking it to the man that said you couldn’t.

This is an awesome video, I don't understand how you only have 71.3k subs, you deserve more!

1:44 No actually seriously, that version of Driver San Francisco is a hidden gem. I never played the other versions of this, but I did find myself spending hours just racing around the city in dozens of different vehicles, way after the story was done.

Figuring out how to use homebrew to get the full Guitar Hero DLC catalogue on my Wii was a PAINFUL process with a bunch of dead-ends (I never did figure out how to “assemble” a program), but now I have Warriors of Rock running on a USB stick with a grand total of *699 playable songs.* Life is good.

i love it when bringus gets all philosophus

One of the best videos I have watched recently. Great commentary filled with funny clips, interesting topics, and the occasional reference or callout to something that helps display the emotion he is trying to convey perfectly. Well done!

That is, what has fascinated me on the Wii, the possibilities of the hombrew software. The first time i tried it out, i actually wanted to try some Game-Cube games, that i had on my hard drive, but i was so fascinated with the homebrew (-channel) and the capabilities of the console, that i completly forgot about the Game-Cube games. There was some kind of a super hero game, where you are like some kind of Super Man fighting enemies, that spawn randomly in a city between skyscrapers. There was nothing more to do, you have no timer, only a score counter (for the defeated enemies) and you could fly around and goof around and it was actually boring. But something about it fascinated me, it has something unique to it. The other thing, that i found very interesting, was Quake on the Wii, it is still kind of crazy to me (in consideration of the wii's hardware, it technically should work flawless, but still), but there it was, Quake on the Wii, as crazy as it sounds to me... I think i should buy a Wii again, just for that (and some other things, i would like to try out) 😂 Now i get the Urge to revive my modded 2DS to look into the homebrew channel again (and to install quake and quake ii) 😂 Thank you for that video, it brings back some nice memories. 👍

First time viewer of the channel, great stuff! Looking forward to going through the back catalog of your videos.

What a great freaking video - especially the intrinsic value of homebrew

ur story abt the wii rly made me get the feelsies, cuz i went thru a lot of the same vibes. my first foray into emulation and console mods was the little ol wii, and i have adored it every little moment of finding what strange new thing it can run here n there... so thank u bringus

Dude, just found your channel and went through a handful of videos. LOVE what you have going here, absolutely subscribed Also I would 100% watch that cursed Mario 64 stream

The moment I heard the wii disk drive do that I was bombarded with memories of a long past time I loved and cherished.

Y'know. I put this shit on for background noise and some good ol' nostalgia while I packed for a trip and ended up sitting down captivated by the ending and man. I love your shit, 10/10 creator, channel, and general dude.

This is the best video ever seen in my whole life regarding Wii and the community! Wow! I'm actually impressed! I am a member of Wii community and what I do is making custom forwarder channels. And I can say that that's a fricking amazing video! Great job man!

18:00 slippy launcher can also be modded to run versions of PM+ in a recent update, and you can do it over most other ad-hoc servers locally, too.

6:13 Nowadays, making a compiled build of the game improves the special stages' performance tenfold, now hovering between 30-60fps. If you're looking for a tutorial on how to compile it, Mefiresu, the porter of the game's got you covered, via REMS' dedicated Wii Port chat. Compiling it has the benefit of obtaining the Plus DLC, and, if you know what you're doing, you'll be able to get Sonic 1, 2 and CD to work.

holy SHIT the quality of these videos have SKYROCKETED recently, ive been watching since the first couple and while they have always been very good the production quality on this one is just great!

Whats funny is that my family first got a Wii a while after it's hayday, so even though i'm in the younger range, i have extreme nostalgia for it

I homebrewed my Wii back in 2010 and spent part of that summer playing Super Mario 64. I was emulating it on my PC, but I had a subpar eMachines from circa '07. The Wii ran it so much better. I haven't done much modding with my Wii for years. This is making me wanna get back into doing more with it

The choice of the Castelia city music at the end is an extremely cultured decision that I respect immensely

ctgp was my homebrew awakening, the fact that you could play custom fan made mario kart tracks on your wii was so awesome to me that I wanted to homebrew my wii ever since I was a kid, even buying an sd card from gamestop and asking the guy who worked there if he knew how to homebrew a wii

So much Effort you put in this Video overall is a very amazing and useful video thanks.

Whew, got all philosophical towards the end! I really did enjoy the little tangent - it made the video a lot more memorable :D

6:14 the wii port has actually been updated and the special stages run at full speed now. beforehand the special stages would rely entirely on the cpu and not use the gpu for anything which is why it was like this

I was born in 2007 and I watch your videos all the time because yes they are interesting to a 15 yr/o tech nerd! Also this viewer is younger that the wii, do you feel old?

I’m just 13, but Galaxy and other Wii titles still feel so nice to play today. I wasn’t alive when they came out but i can still appreciate things for how they used to be.

great compilation. Couldn't agree more, still tons of fun to be had with such a classic console.

god i love that game. i played that game so much. so many memories playing that game. im so glad you feel the same about it

10:54 Hi, I think your roms need to be in ISO Form, Due to the Load Iso button being there, and you loading the bin file, If that doesn’t work, try loading the cue file first, due to the fact it is suppose to start the rom up correctly.

This was a beautiful video, Thanks Bingus for another great time!

Dudeee... somehow you`ve convice me to do research on my old wii.. will do it this weekend.. damn,,, wii still got fire what a bless having this old console

There's as much time between now and when the wii came out as there is between now and the year 2040.

I remember playing so much Brawl Minus in my college dormitory on my friend's wii. It might still be my fav version of smash and definitely my prefered way of playing Brawl

hey this is a masterpiece and i thank youtube for recommending it to me so early. subscribed

Yesssss! Been waiting for more wii homebrewing content!!

THE HOMEBREW JINGLE HIT SO HARD

I played the Mario Kart Arcade on my 18th birthday but the arcade closed down due to covid and the machines got spread all over the place. LUCKILY the machines I care about are now at another place closeby to me but... they now cost way more to play T_T They even have Dance Dance revolution and most importantly INITIAL D ARCADE STAGE and i am one of the biggest Initial D fans.

Definitely will give some of those Triforce arcade games a try- I have basically every game I would ever want to play on my Wii U, and have it acting as a Wii and GameCube out of convenience. Never seen or played any of Nintendo's Triforce arcade games though.

Haven't really had a good place to hook up my modded wii in like 4 years. I do still have PC, but main, playing stuff on a modded wii with actual gamecube controllers just feels so much better.

The Wii was also the first console I modded. I wanted to play Japanese games, especially this one piece game that was only out in Japan. Modded it lets you bypass the region lock

Oh man.. the Wii was absolutely my childhood, I remember anxiously waiting for mainline games to launch, and the best part is that I slide into the 13-17 age range :)

came for goofy wii homebrew games, somehow left with a psychology degree

the transition from you saying underground to the homebrew theme, god, that made me tear up. so many fun memories.

I modded a wii for the first time a few years ago, I really enjoyed it, but then I got a wii u and it did everything the wii did but more, plus it has the best xenoblade game (chronicles x).

The Wii is such a cool console! I have one myself and I love playing on it now and then.

Love this video, you deserve more views!

I’m 16 years old but THANK GOD I grew up with the Gameboy color, snes, nes, GameCube, Nintendo 64, and of course the Wii. I would stay up for hours trying to beat bowser in Sm64. Man I miss those days…..

I just got a Wii in 2023.

I have a Wii U and use WiiSXR to play playstation games. Spyro plays decently ranging from 45-55fps.

I still use my wii all the time for COD goldeneye and phantasy star online. I specifically have a tube tv for these older consoles💙 The wii now, supports wifi compatibility with gamecube games, usb controller and keyboard support and other goodies. Id recommend giving pso a try on your wii. My wii is also my emulation-station these days, even ps1 games 💙 Playing ps1 diablo 1 on wii is hilarious

Once I heard the homebrew channel music kick in, I was jamming. God, that music hit different back then, and it still hits that hard

i followed the Xash3D Wii port closely for a while, spoke to some of the team, unfortunately i got the impression that it was a bunch of kids who barely knew what they're were doing.

I was not expecting my Wii Homebrew Video to turn into a philosophical video essay at the end there

For CaveEx, the nunckuk analog stick emulates looking on a normal cotroller with the right analog stick, and the dpad emulates WASD.

Your first homebrew story is identical to mine lol. Down to stealing that SD card.

Modding a Wii for the first time must be how it felt to gain eyes on the inside. Suddenly every self-proclaimed truth of the world becomes irrelevant and infantile.

For Xiaxis, yeah, there's no movement/running away, you are expected to kill everything before it reaches you in the center of play. There are upgrades to the weapons that you can purchase with credits earned from killing monsters, press home then + after killing a few to switch through settings to the shop, where you can swap the pair of weapons for others, buy a radar or upgrades to the energy reactor that powers all the weapons. The laser in particular shoots through enemies, but the color of the laser chosen will affect enemies based on their color, so a blue laser will damage a blue enemy differently than a yellow one. This gives some bit of strategy to choosing a pair of weapons and upgrading their fire rate, efficiency, the overall charge rate of the reactor and picking weapons that compliment each other, the homing rockets being good at difficult to hit single enemies, while the lasers or charge weapons good at taking out groups. The procedural generation is just the terrain being created from scratch with each level, the height of which grows in later stages, so doesn't show at all on the first stage, and eventually is a problem to see monsters as they are hidden behind hills or in valleys.

I subbed at the Quake jump sound effect at 200% volume.

That moment as a kid, when you realize with enough knowledge you can literally manipulate all the machinery you were using to do your bidding is amazing. That's how I deleted all the games on my chinese bootleg handheld.

I love these previous gen consoles videos. I was wondering if you could make a video like this for the DS/DSi or PS Vita.....

3:15 Oh god I have same camera! It actually has nice colors and I used it for my photography for like a year. I love this thing!

BROO THE HOMEBREW THEMEEE SO MANY MEMORIES AAAAAA

I'm 15 and I still think the Wii is still relevant

My friends and I used to play Brawl with the emulator set to 110% speed. It actually played really well.

This is why I bought the Wii back in 2011 when I was 15. I knew how much potential it had after you softmodded it. Back when Brawl or some other compatible game was required to load the software. Now you can just send "letterbomb" by putting your Mac address into the website. Takes like 5 minutes lol

1:52 the moment i heard that tune i was like, “oh shit i havnt heard that in yrs!” so nostalgic. also me to myself, the wii was the first console i modded im pretty sure i still have that thing too

fun fact the mania port is really impressive and just barely fits within the system limitations, you cant even run v5u (the engine version of retro engine/rsdk for origins with support for sonic 1 2 and cd) due to stuff with ram and too many variables

Xash3D FWGS maintainer here. Nintendo Wii wouldn't be an easy port because as far as I know, Wii has a PowerPC CPU, which is exclusively Big Endian and there is absolutely no support for it. There were some patches, I can help porting them over but I don't have anything that's big endian around me. To be honest, it would make sense to port to some other friendlier to debug platform that's big endian. Like old Macs or Sun workstations and then go work with the Wii.

Your Nintendo Wii and other Nintendo console videos are so awesome dude it's suckers

I really like his content, especially when its all sunshine and happiness until I reach the end and he make philosophical questions ❤😊😂

The music on the Wii was the best part

Jokes on you, I'm part of that 4.4% and I still love playing Wii games! I never realized how much homebrew stuff there was for the Wii, I should check out some more of that stuff!

Love your videos another great one ☝

Xash3d hasn't just been ported to a bunch of weird consoles, there's a port of it for *android* called Xash3D FWGS. Don't know what it stands for, but it was my first ever experience of the original half life. Yeah, I played it on my phone even before I got it on PC. It's pretty cool, so I'm really surprised it wasn't ported to the Wii. Great video!

Bro uses 10TB for Wii games 💀

I have a modded Wii (as well as Wii U), and a Wii Guitar Hero controller. I've plenty of experience with Wii U modding and tinkering, but Wii seemed more finicky at the time (probably ~2 years ago now). Anyone have any tips for how to get Guitar Hero 5/World Tour working on a Wii? I have the ROM files and the Wii is modded already.

3:42 Love the Karateka song in the background here :D

Funniest part about people throwing the Wiimote at their TV is you had to be SWINGING it! But waggle works perfectly fine 😂

11:09 Even if it was real you can't really use that 10 TB on the Wii. The sd card must be formated to FAT32 which only supports up to 32 GB There is a way to get it formated to FAT32 with 10 TB memory. You can use a tool (if using Windows) and then delete the 32 GB partition. It won't get recognised by the Wii though. Without deleting the partition it works fine with 32 GB

I don’t know if you remixed the music, but that intro was 🔥

1:54 i absolutely love that intro Feels so smooth lol

I honestly wasn’t expecting that kind of ending, well said BringusStudios 👍

you should pin this

Fake. This video was fake. You can tell by the strings in the background. I can't believe you would do this to us. After all we did for you:(

Listened to this video while practicing Super Paper Mario speed running tricks. I don’t regret either decision.

Dude you blew my mind with the references. I had the EXACT SAME childhood experience with Wii softmodding. I did take the SD card from the family camera.