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The past of the text, due to the introductory purpose, turned out to be a sort of review-descriptive. The author’s opinion appeared infrequently and not for long. The text below was conceived by another: there are fewer descriptions, there are more assessments, and there was also a raid of Gaida. Pleasant reading!

Today WII how the platform is considered dead. She died not because of unpopularity, but because of her age-the prefix was published back in 2006 and managed to disperse 102 million with a circulation. Production has not been conducted for more than seven years, online services do not work, and recently stopped the latest support. In other words, WII I have died out successfully. We finish and diverging this.

But… (pathos and, possibly, an unnecessary pause) Necromancy comes to the rescue! No, you do not need to show the road to the cemetery, and black hoodies remain at a personal discretion. In this part I will tell you how to refresh WII even in conditions of disk deficiency. I do not promise to return the previous state of the old woman, but the functionality will increase. Typical zombies, All in all.

The text below is divided into conditionally-dependent sections. The most important thing for reading is the first, and the subsequent complement. You can get acquainted with them in any order. Want a plausible zombie – read everything.

The most important

The main thing is that the suit is sitting! Excuse me, escaped. In the consoles of the seventh generation, the main thing – Firmware. Not a version of the system, but a hacking, as a result of which the prefix ceases to be picky and launches games without a license, and also works faster and brings tea to the monitor. Stop, this is from another text, sorry again. Too often takes away the wrong way.

What is the firmware of the console of zero? Most often it is special chip, which is soldered to the prefix board and blocks the internal protection of the device from unlicensed media. Due to intervention at the hardware level, the console receives a banhammer in online services. Chipovka is the main firmware method Xbox 360 And the first two PlayStation. At first, WII was also sewn exclusively by the chip, but later the software way became popular – SoftMod. He does not make changes to the "filling" of the console and does not lead to the ban. It turns out a pleasant addition to the existing functionality.

Piracy is not supported here, so I will not describe the hacking order. I will also not say that in Runet lies a lot of detailed guides. And even more so, I will not explain that for the softmod you will need a SD or SDHC card up to 2 or 32 GB, respectively, and the process itself takes up to half an hour, and it takes 20 minutes to not too compulsory backup.

Although the softmode looks like a magic tablet that makes the Wii world perfect, in fact for a player Nothing will change. The console refuses to read unlicensed games, and online services still do not work. Hacking a console is rather a key to the treasury, whose wealth plays the player himself. More specifically, the software adds the channel for the installation of external (Homebrew) applications. They create with a prefix of indecent improvement nature.

The discs are outdated

After the hacking and the shamanism described above, Wii becomes malleable and understands the games from the blanks. The news is pleasant, but let’s admit that in 2021 nobody does not use disks for recording games. Therefore, you need a more fat solution. Here we remember (and some find out) that on the back of the console there are actually two USB ports for connecting the periphery. The one closer to the edge is suitable for all kinds of flash drives and even external hard drives.

In the era of digital distribution, storage of games on physical media looks strange, but for consoles whose services do not work, there is no other option. Owners Freeboot‘Tumtic Xbox 360 will not allow to lie: on the 500-giving external HDD is stored approximately infinity games. It was an era when projects were fit on DVDs, and therefore the occupied space did not grow to galactic proportions. Alas, I don’t have a portable “screw”, but there is a scattering of unnecessary flash drives at 16 and 32 GB. The games there and fit. An unexpected advantage of the approach: compact media do not require additional space, unlike hard drives, which still find where to put.

However, You can’t just take it and run the game from the flash drive. Firstly, it (the game that is) still needs to be written in a special way. Secondly, for reading the carrier you need a separate application called Loader. Here we learn that the Anglicisms are sometimes unnecessary: what the community does not like the “bootloaders” option is strongly incomprehensible. Among the palette of five to six liaders stand out USBLOOADERGX And Uloader. Which is better? The first has a pleasant interface in the style of a standard console menu, and the second launches games for WIIWARE And Virtual Console, about which later.

Aesthetic comparisons is too much

Down with the restriction!

We figured out the search and recording of the games, but the second problem overtakes us. We saw the abbreviations Pal or NTSC in the description, but did not pay attention? Congratulations: the probability that the recorded image will work on the console falls up to 50%. Worse: the wrong version can tightly hang WII. As the last time wrote, 250-dollar brick is a little expensive.

Matter for the uninitiated: the consoles of previous generations were restricted: the games of one region were not launched on the prefix of another. In fact, there are more regions, but NTSC (North America, island Asia) and Pal (all the rest) are globally distinguished. Differences appeared in the era of analogue television, when the screen renewal frequency directly depended on the voltage frequency. In our digital time, regional restrictions on console games go into oblivion, but 10-15 years ago I had to keep them in mind. For Wii, the region’s question is acute, because many copies were brought to Russia from abroad. The purchase site does not give an accurate understanding of the region: for example, my prefix came from Spain, but is tied to NTSC.

Find one difference;In addition to the fact that the first image is a photograph, and the second is a scan

I lead to the fact that unpleasant restrictions require deliverance. As in the case of the Loaders, several applications are presented for this, from which I propose Priiloader. It does not shine in the menu, removes restrictions from the games and most channels – Let me remind you, as applications are called in Wii. PRIILOOADER, at the request of the user, disconnects the check for licensing disks. It does not do without problems: after closing the game of another region, the console often freezes, and only the reboot helps. However, not everyone can be.

Excellent, and play something?

What will like, logically! A small list lies in the Cryptoleo Casino first part of the text, and here I will hold a more detailed acquaintance with the WII guards, which I managed to test personally.

Xenoblade Chronicles. The reason why the list turned out so short. Part of a series of little -known in Russia Xeno Ten years were an exclusive WII, and only in May 2020 did Remaster come out for Nintendo Switch. Xenoblade Chronicles – the project is truly huge: the passage of the prologue alone took More than five hours. At first glance, we have classical Jrpg: The game flaunts an epic plot, demonstrates a large and beautiful technology of the world and leaves no space for role-playing. However, there is a different battleship and there are no dumbfounded Random Encounter‘ov. Unlike, say, Final Fantasy XIII, battles in Xenoblade Chronicles are held in real time. Mechanics resembles World of Warcraft: the character is at the target and periodically attacks it, and the player uses special capacity as necessary. What is interesting: the game does not use the Wii Moutish Management from the word "completely", which does not prevent it from regularly entering the lists of the best projects for the console.

Silent Hill: Shattered Memories. And this is a personal favorite and one of the main reasons to buy WII. The game has a great, albeit one -time, plot. Management uses the “chips” of the console so successfully that at times you think: why The industry went wrong. Unfortunately, the project was prevented by the binding to the eminent series, and therefore the estimates were medium, and the circulation of low. I do not recommend missing the Shattered Memories or, at least, read my full review.

Just Dance. Choose a part yourself, I stopped at second. Most do not know that this series originated on WII and all games before Just Dance 2020 inclusive went to the consoles. Here they were sold better, than versions for Xbox One And PlayStation 4 Taken together. Just Dance does not teach to dance, but entertains and, suddenly, serves to practice a pleasant way. Honestly, I use it myself instead of morning charging: a warm -up and a musical horizons expands.

WII Sports. After words "82 million copies" Comments become unnecessary, but the whole text is one big commentary. Frankly: I tried each of the six games of the collection, but only in tennis stuck for a long time. He sucks: more than once or twice he said to himself “another party and that’s it”, but did not hold back the word. Tennis in Wii Sports is a demonstration example of the rule "Easy to Learn, Hard to Master", but a flexible scale of complexity contributes to rapid development. If the console is available, but for some reason there is no game, then this must be urgently corrected.

A bonus does not mean a screenshot of a bowling. Does not drag out, but intriguers

Wii Party. Another collection Nintendo, Along with WII Play or the above Wii Sports. When meeting, the game demonstrated great potential: there are many mini-entertainments and they are so diverse that it is difficult to choose a single comb. Even a one and a half pages will go to transfer. Alas, with the entire volume of Wii Party I can’t advise, Because the Russian language is not supported, but you will have to read the rules. The ease of perception breaks, because of which the game ceases to be interesting.

There should also be Wii Play, but a lot is written about it in the last part.

The prefix in the prefix

For prefixes from zero reverse compatibility – a common thing. The most famous method used for PlayStation 2/3, It looks like this: the first revisions are supplied with an additional chip that provides compatibility of the new iron with old technologies. In subsequent versions of the consoles, the chips are removed for the sake of reduction in.

WII is no exception, but the logic breaks slightly. As the console wrote in the last part, from the point of view of iron, the modernization of the previous GameCube: architecture and processors are extremely similar. So the hardware compatibility is easier, no additional chips are needed. However, GC games officially support only the revision RVL-001: In the next two, ports for gamepads and memory cards are removed. However, a note "officially" it is not just like that, and the stitched Wii is able to launch GC games. After additional manipulations, of course;It will also be needed Classic Controller.

Another method of reverse compatibility is emulation. More often this term is used in the context of launching console games on a PC, but other cases are found. For example, with emulation loves to indulge Sony, And on Xbox Series Recently launched an emulator Retroarch And try the games PlayStation 2. However, here it seems like a post about the Nintendo console, and not competitors. Let’s finally go to the point.

The Japanese corporation prepared a mountain of emitted games for the revolutionary prefix and called this matter Virtual Console. The work has been done giant: WII launches the games of predecessors up to Nes And once competitive Sega Master System And Sega Genesis. This is not all: for owners of a specific taste, games with games with Neo Geo, MSX, Commodore 64 And even TURBOGRAFX-16. Not everything is available, but the most famous are launched.

Metal Gear 2, first released on MSX. What is interesting: the console menu switches to Japanese automatically

At least they should, but reality is disappointed. Largely due to the fact that I suffered for a long time with retro games, the second part lingered;The issue was originally planned at the end of January. The torment was multi -stage: first Not one The game was not launched, but after three or four reinstones, a younger one surrendered Nintendo 64, which was immediately followed by the rest, except for 8 and 16-bit SEGA and Nintendo consoles. Through shamanism in the settings and the refusal of special launches, it was possible to launch the games "Segi". Ironically, NES and SNES did not open the doors of my WII, leaving without most the Virtual Console library. Some strange programmers.

What else? Almost nothing. Games, albeit not all, work. Remote In a horizontal position, the gamepads of retro consoles replaces, and in which case a classic gamepad lies at hand. It is not obstructing with him at times, but you are mastered by trial and error. It’s nice to play Sonic and compare the current impressions with the memories of 15 years ago.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2 for Master System is completely different from the game for Genesis/Mega Drive

Hand in hand with Virtual Console there is another service – WIIWARE. They are realized in a technically similar way, and are properly distributed on the forums of discussions WW and VC combine. So the section is common. WIIWARE – service for small games, like Xbox Live Arcade, For example. However, positioning varies: Wiiware, in addition to the emerging indie, includes projects in the already established franchises of serious publishers. A striking example is the spin-offs of spin-offs of the Final Fantasy series with long names Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a King And Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord. The first is the urban planning strategy, and "Life of the Lord of Darkness" made in then not yet beaten genre Tower Defense. In addition, later the late Megaman, Tales of Monkey Island And games of the series Ace Attorney. What is curious: WW projects started almost immediately, much earlier than reverse compatibility.

Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord. When the expression Tower Defense is perceived literally

VC- and WW games spread through WII ESHOP, whose servers no longer work. Nowadays it remains only to download on the computer and install similarly to WII-channels. Games are stored in the memory of the console, so you can’t put a lot. An alternative way is to emulate the NAND memory on the USB flash drive or memory card, but then the probability of starting even lower.

A full -fledged console. Almost

The life of Nintendo Wii did not fade away right away. In the summer of 2013 I disconnected Wiiconnect24, together with which social services were killed. A year later because of death Gamespy The official multiplayer disappeared. WII ESHOP held until 2019, but time bent it and it. It’s time to move on to the nobility promised at the beginning of the necromancy, in which the project will help RIICONNECT24.

What is Wiiconnect24 (distinguish the letters), and why it is so important? This service ensured the operation of the network side of WII. A certain analogue PlayStation Network or Xbox Live With one exception – in the circle of tasks Wiiconnect24 Do not enter Network games. Updates and additions to games were downloaded through WC24, the service supported the access of information and social applications. More often than the rest, Nintendo advertised the preservation of constant connection to the Internet, even when the console is turned off. All of the above has not been working for more than five years.

To eliminate the problem, the craftsmen create analogues of Wiiconnect24, and Riiconnect24 – the most famous. He restores the work of WII information services – news and weather forecasts – and partially social. Why partially? In our time, no one uses the same Check mii out. So services work, but there are no people. Download additions for games or firmware updates also outside the competence of RC24.

About saving the Internet connection. During the happy life of Wii, this function was realized through the standby mode: the console worked with low energy consumption, which is useful for downloading the next 200MB update. After disconnecting WC24 with the consoles, the opportunity began: the waiting mode begins an endless search for connection to the service. The installation of RIICONNECT24 does not solve the problem – the yellow LED of expectation will continue endless burning, and this is critical. The fact is that in this mode The WII processor works, but cooling is not. What can happen, guess yourself. Corps of console failure are calculated by hundreds, if not thousands.

In the last part, when listing standard channels-channels, the names surfaced News Channel And Forecast Channel. They are included in the category of information in the first place, but it is also considered there TODAY and TOMORROW CHANNEL, which determines the luck of the user to the present day. How? Looking into the horoscope, judging by the cover. After setting up RIICONNECT24, these three channels work again. Hinges salute, that’s not all. Setting up information services is possible for those countries that are supported by console, and Russia is not among them. It is unlikely that someone is interested in the weather in Texas.

Why then need riiconnect24? Firstly, the section is generally devoted to an attempt to make a full-fledged console out of the current WII. This means that you can not do without services, even though cut and interfering. Secondly, "socialists" EVERYBODY VOTES and Check mii out is not completely, but they work and look curious. Finally, it is sometimes entertaining to look through the news of other countries and see how different the views and problems of people in different countries are different.

Another replacement service disabled – WIIMMFI. His task is to replace Nintendo Wi-Fi Connection and maintain the work of the network modes of games, with which the service copes. At least statistics show regular online in Mario Kart WII And Animal Crossing WII;The rest are less likely to launch. In theory, Then there is a story about their own experience to be used by WiMMMFI, but my friends have no WII, which means that the author has no one to play with. Although NHL2K11, For example, very curious.

To say about "Full -fledged console", There are few services, and the creators of WII knew this by equipping WII with its own browser. Internet Channel – this is the name of a special option of superpopular then then Opera. The browser is calmly installed on the console, although it prohibits the removal of regional restrictions. The vastness of the Internet to plow it is generally obtained, but not in private. Sites perceive WII as Komtopny mobile phone And they open adapted versions – this is good news. The bad is that the vast majority of pages simply do not open, demonstrating Error 244002. It is not worth explaining once again that the browser is not able to show modern sites, but I did it.

And for WII there is an official application YouTube. Does not work, but exists.

At the end

Initially, this text was conceived to show, what WII is capable of, If you delve into software. Like, both the Internet is a worker, and you can see the weather – a universal machine. It turned out only in the process of preparation and spelling that it turned out that shamanism works a maximum of half, and therefore the message was distorted. Instead of a story about how deep the WII potential is, a guide on the topic turned out to be: "What can be done and how it will work". I hope someone liked the review and assessment format, albeit instead of a more useful text.

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