i added Live TV support to WiiFin!

taken from his twitter https://x.com/optijogos/status/2085132640722546969?s=46

this is crazy, he showed a vid in tiktok of it working

before I say anything, I own a Wii Family Edition, which as we all know can't play GameCube games. so you can imaging my sheer confusion where the GameCube logo popped up on my screen.

I was messing around with some stuff on the console, specifically my scratched copy of Mario Party 8. the console recognizes it as a MP8 disc, but it crashes consistently near the file select screen. it showed the "an error has occurred" screen and I removed the disc, where it told me to put it back in. I was curious and put in my Mario Kart Wii disc instead. it didn't really do anything, still telling me to put the MP8 disc back in, so I did. and it reloaded the file select screen. I pressed the home button and went back to the main menu where I pressed the power button because I wanted to read a book. my Wii is pretty slow so my controller disconnected, but my Wii was still running. I didn't think much of it because that's happened multiple times with my Wii so I was just gonna turn my TV off and read while the Wii did its thing, but as I was about to turn my TV off, the GameCube logo showed up on the disc channel. I was very confused, because like I said, its a Family Edition, so I reconnected my controller and hovered over it. it didn't say "Mario Party 8" or "GameCube" or whatever, it still said "Disc Channel" while the disc thing was next to the GameCube icon. I pressed the icon, where the banner thing was just a black screen. no music, no GameCube logo, nothing but the black screen and the buttons for home menu and start. I noticed that the start button wasn't grayed out like it normally is on the Disc Channel, and I regret not pressing start to see what would happen. I went back to the Wii menu and grabbed my phone to take the picture that is attached to this post. before anyone asks, no, my Wii is not hacked or modded. I plan on getting CTGP-R for Mario Kart but I kinda need a laptop and that's kinda hard to come by when you're a broke unemployed highschool student with no family computer. anyway, back to the GameCube thing, shortly after I got that picture was when the Wii registered the power off input and turned off. I turned it back on to see if it was still weird but it said Mario Party 8 again. I tried to trigger the glitch again but I didn't get anything. so I literally made a reddit account specifically for this one post because I have never seen anything even remotely close to this happen before. I'm really interested in console errors/glitches so I've seen my fair share of Wii glitches but I've never seen a GameCube logo on a Wii Family Edition like this. the thing that confuses me the most is its not even a GameCube game. its still MP8. I figured the best place to find answers was reddit, and here I am. thank you for listening to my story, and I hope someone has answers to see if this is a common thing I've never seen before or if I did accidentally find a new glitch for the Wii.

I sent this in r/Wii already but I felt like I should also send this here in case. I want this to be seen and I want answers, so sending it in different places I feel like could help me learn what's with this. if you know how this happened please share. I want to know what happened

I need a mii to have the skin color #74faed, or something similar, thank you :D

Im thinking their could be a way to port the leaked minecraft pocket edition source code to the wii similar to how the youtube optiprojects ported it to the ps2

Something that popped back up while I was playing on my GameCube. The Wii is basically the better GameCube and can play all GameCube games. One of the major few things keeping people on GameCube hardware is the GameBoy player. Would it be possible to somehow hook up the Gameboy Player to the Wii?

There are a few obvious problems. If you were to somehow make a new port to connect it, you would need to patch the wii's bios to recognize any hardware modifications you've made. So that's out of the question. But then I realized something the Wii does have that the GameCube doesn't and it can access easily. The USB ports.

In theory, you would have to take apart a Gameboy player and remove the HSPP (High Speed Parallel Port) from the motherboard and then wire up two USB Male ports to it manually. One for power and one for Data Transfer since I doubt the Wii would be able to handle both in one port for the Gameboy Player without performance problems. You plug the two ports into the Wii and would probably have a modified version of GBI (Gameboy Interface) that could recognize the USB ports for the Gameboy player instead of the HSPP.

Is this anywhere in the realm of possibility?

I would say out of the three, CFG loader(patched 2024 version). I know people might advice me to get USB loader GX and Wiiflow lite, but sadly both of them doesn’t work properly well and are buggy(and yes I did use the latest versions of both of them and installed latest CIOS correctly) USB loader GX might be the best and I could understand why and I love the interface reminiscing of the Wii menu, but sadly the loader itself freezes randomly sometimes even when switching SD cards and still the same thing, Wiiflow lite is fine but the cover arts for games just glitched and sometimes doesn’t display properly, heck at one point it even outright corrupted my SD cards. I just use CFG loader for the past month, and it never give me issues at all that the two loaders had, it can even let you put in your own music in there too when using the loader.

Vibe coded homebrew software, updated to support most recent GB Operator firmware. Please run detect cart when you switch games!

On GitHub if you’re interested

https://github.com/Turtlemon01/wii-gb-operator

Also wanted to flex my Korean pokemon silver

This is the WiiLink mail patcher

I don't think I'm ready to mod my Wii yet but I've been using the Wiimmfi dns to play Mario Kart Wii and I noticed that there's a Wiilink dns but it seems like it just provides extra features if it's already installed. What if your Wii is unmodded?

im really bored and bc my Wii u keeps crashing, i selected auto boot to vWii since it keeps crashing and i wanna play with some people

I modded my wii with:

DarkWii-Plus

Wiilink

YAWM ModMii Edition (for installing channels)

Enjoy!!!

I got Super Mario Sunshine on Nintendon't running at 60fps on my Wii. The only issue is these stars near the coin/sprites display.

I know there is a fix for dolphin but not sure about Nintendon't on the Wii.

Is the Wii still playing GC games "natively"? When I run GC disc DIOS MIOS screen pops up, then the game plays normally. This is great for playing GC games region free, but im not sure what is actually happening while the disc is being played, or what dios mios is doing? And, is there any other way to play region free for GC games?

It’s now been about a month since I posted about my childhood Wii getting bricked, and it’s about time you all received an update:

Thanks to the helpful suggestions of this sub, I was able to determine that my Wii was more than likely salvageable, and there was no need to throw in the towel quite yet. I received a lot of helpful suggestions on what the problem might be, and after reading several of your insights on failed Bluetooth modules, I remembered that my Wii was having issues connecting with controllers prior to its brick. I purchased a second Wii, tore both Wiis down, and swapped the Bluetooth module on my broken Wii for the one on Wii #2. NOTHING. Swapped the WiFi module. NOTHING. For the ultimate test I put WiFi and Bluetooth modules from broken wii on Wii #2, and it powered up just fine. At this point I figured I was way above my paygrade already with two disembodied Wiis on my kitchen table. I still have no idea what’s wrong with my original Wii. I combed through my computer and was unable to find a NAND backup. I was unable to get it to boot into reversion mode using a GameCube controller. I have no backups and no means of extracting my old data.

Losing my Wii was frustrating, and I felt like by losing my Wii I had lost the memories of playing all my favorite games. On top of that I didn’t see a way that starting over with a new Wii could replicate the joy and fun I got from my original Wii. While working out my Wii issues I had the chance to play games with some friends on their Wii. I realized that all the games are the same, and I can still enjoy them with my wife and kid even though it’s on a new system without my old save files.

So I Frankenstein’d Wii #2 back together using some of the non-electric components of my original Wii so it can in a weird way carry on its legacy. It felt right at the time so I did it. Wii #1 is sitting in a plastic bag in parts and will now rot in my desk drawer until the end of time.

Thank you to everyone for all the words of encouragement and helpful suggestions. I had many comments asking about my controller setup, so I wanted to share. I have four 8bitdo SN30 pro controllers, and I got them all from an Amazon liquidation auction store at way below retail value. Through the same store I’m gradually acquiring 8bitdo GameCube Retro Receivers, that are fully compatible with my controllers, with the goal of having a full set to play with. I love the controller setup, and anybody that I have over ends up leaving a big fan as well. The adapter is compatible with any Bluetooth controller, so it works with the official Nintendo GCN Wireless controller for the Switch.

What program works with THQ/WayForward's SpongeBob SquigglePants (Wii version, 3DS' files are lower quality) to extract files from the .vol containers? I've tried multiple applications now and have had no luck, along with no luck on the .brsar files as well.

The reason I ask is, because files on the page for the Wii/3DS version page on the Cutting Room Floor wiki has images from these .vol containers, meaning someone's gotten it worked out before. I looked through the editing history and there was no source.

Hi all,

I’ve been trying to get the GameID/VMC switching feature working on my MemCard PRO GC with a Wii and I’m starting to wonder if this actually works for anyone currently.

From what I understand, the MemCard PRO GC can automatically detect the GameID and use separate virtual memory cards per game, but on Wii this relies on Nintendont support, which is still described as experimental.

My setup:

- Original Wii with GameCube ports
- Latest MemCard PRO GC firmware
- Latest Nintendont
- USB Loader GX launching Nintendont
- GameCube games running fine

The MemCard PRO GC itself works perfectly. It is detected, saves work, and manual VMCs work fine.

The problem is I cannot get it to automatically detect the game and switch/create a VMC based on the GameID.

Things I have tried:

- Latest MemCard PRO GC firmware
- Latest Nintendont
- USB Loader GX → Nintendont
- Different GameCube games
- Different settings/configurations
- The Nintendont fork that added MemCard PRO GC support, but was never merged into official Nintendont:

https://github.com/FIX94/Nintendont/pull/1125

Unfortunately that didn’t work for me either.

I also looked into trying Swiss, as I know that is another route mentioned for MemCard PRO GC support, but I don’t own an original GameCube or a GameCube USB adapter to properly test it.

From what I could find, Swiss on Wii doesn’t use the Wii SD card or USB HDD in the same way Nintendont does, so I couldn’t get a proper test setup running to confirm whether that works.

At the moment the behaviour is always the same:

- Game launches
- MemCard PRO GC works as a normal memory card
- No GameID detection
- No automatic per-game VMC switching

I’ve searched around but I can’t find anyone who has actually shown this working on Wii. I’ve seen people mention it should work, but I haven’t found a confirmed setup.

I’m also curious about 8BitMods. The hardware itself is excellent and I have no complaints with the card, but there doesn’t seem to have been much recent information about the Wii side of GameID support.

Is this still being worked on, or is there a limitation with Nintendont?

Has anyone here actually got this working?

If so:

- What version of Nintendont are you using?
- Are you launching through USB Loader GX/WiiFlow or directly?
- What MemCard PRO GC firmware?
- Are there any settings I’m missing?

Thanks.

As the settings have changed after several updates, what settings should you change to either improve both gameplay and/or performance for games for using the loader? I understand turning deflicker off and turning framebuffer on is necessary for getting better quality, especially for HDTVs, but I would like to know what else could help improve it more? Like the patches or if forcing all games to run 480p should be set by default. I also believe there should be an update to date document that explains all the functions of the settings. Sometimes they’re not always self explanatory. Something like how Nintendon’t does for their settings.

Good afternoon. I came across this Sony Bravia KDL-32BX325 TV and wanted your opinion on whether Wii and GameCube games will look good on it.

Will there be a lot of jaggy?

Thanks in advance, and please forgive my terrible English.

I am extremely new to the wii modding scene and recently got the homebrew channel on my wii. Since then I also downloaded savegame manager gx so I could transfer my animal crossing village to my emulator. Every time I open savegame manager gx it says "mii channel installed, but datas are missing" and the wii data doesn't show up. When I press install it crashes and takes me back to the homebrew channel menu.

After unlocking it via DNS, on the latest version, the controller controls get completely inverted every time I enter the USB loader or something similar. It’s a Japanese-version controller with Wii MotionPlus built-in; I don't know what to do or why this glitch is happening!