yea lmao

it was just nintendo problems lol

Thanks Nintendo *

@@DavidSanguineti You're welcome. Wait, I'm not Nintendo. I just have Toad as my channel icon due to my channel's theme. Don't get angry with me. I'm not Nintendo!

Nintendo, the Apple of consoles

Omg I was thinking that lol

Its crazy to think its prequel is actually the best selling nintendo console

It's not a console, it's an accessory.

So bad that everybody forgets it even exists.

The Wii U definitely sold poorer that all of Nintendo's main home consoles but the Wii U is far from the worse-selling console in general. The Wii U still outsold the Sega Dreamcast but not by much.

Every Nintendo fan (we're all gullible):

We know it sucks but we still love it all the same lol.

@@Some-guy-on-the-internetI legit like the wii u better than the switch, and I don't say that from not being able to afford the switch, it's just not a great deal. Switch = 60 dollar ports and rereleases of 5-10 year old games with very little effort put in + $70 "next gen" games that chug and drop frames and can't keep up trying to produce 30 fps, let alone the 60fps that is synonymous with "Next Gen" games. Simply put, Rip Iwata-San. The current Nintendo is a greedy shell of the former Nintendo company, thus, I enjoy wii u for the ability to collect physical media still with fewer day 1 updates, and cheaper games in general that are almost the exact same as 60 dollar titles they shamelessly put out now. Nintendo is not friendly anymore, they never make anything affordable for players, there are occasional sales w minor discounts on their first party titles, but never any greatest hits, players choice, nintendo selects program to make great games affordable, there isn't anything like that anymore--they tested the customers w the 60 dollar price point of old games, and the customers failed. Can't blame Nintendo, but it is what it is, and I unironically like the wii u better.

didnt even need to change the user agent for the first years of its life..... only really became necessery when web became more "complex" and some websites stopped rendering correctly

Also worked great with Plex

@@pillowhacker *Piracy*

@@awii.neocities How is Plex, Piracy? Actually curious on this point.

@@TheDeelunatic Depends on how you use it. You're meant to use it with movies you actually own, but most people I know use their pirated movies instead. I'm not saying that plex is bad, far from it, I just think that most people use it with pirated movies.

Yea

I would imagine the gamepad was broken and since replacing the gamepad is as expensive as the console the owner just decided they were done with the console altogether.

it is funny lmak

or stolen

lmak

I haven't gotten any score like that, though I got an iPod 6th gen at a flea market free and only needed a screen replacement and I use it often

I similarly bought an original Xbox at my high school flea market for only $5. At the time, I was like "eh, why the hell not?" but it has since become one of my best investments (ESPECIALLY after finding out it came with the Xcalibur chip!)

@@TELMEman sick!

Got a PS3 Ultra-slim (with a 300GB drive no less) for 10 euros similarly. Guy said it was broken, only problem is a noisy fan for like 5 minutes tops when the console cold boots. Let it warm up and it's not only functionnal but also silent as a library.

My local Savers had like 5 Wiis sitting on a shelf for $5 a piece. I ended up picking up the nicest looking one, and it works perfectly and looks beautiful

It's unironically probably just hairs and dust that grind away at the console

@@Shuroii Could very well be! But who tf knows lmao

this is why whenever i get anything with glossy plastic i just take a scouring pad to it and brush in the same direction over and over. gives a cool brushed metal look to it and it's no longer reflective. i actually sold my wii u i did this with and the buyer thought it was pretty cool.

My Wii U is at least 8 years old and is in near perfect condition, I think because it's black minor blemishes are just more obvious.

My thought when he was looking at the scratches was "oh yeah the wii U shipped with those"

i mean like even with the switch, sure its USB-C but it doesn't actually support USBPD(power delivery) which is why some people bricked their switch

@@NonsensicalSpudz And even the Power Supply itself, my Super Smash Bros Ultimate Edition I bought from a German dealer got a european Power Plug and another whole Power Supply with an IEC Type G Plug (UK), even Apple got interchangeable Plugs on their MacBook PSUs since years (and AFAIK it's a C7 connector, nothing proprietary)...

@@kuchenblechmafiagmbh1381 LIke I use my macbook pro lead to charge my ipad quest 2 and other usb c devices, but its not going anywhere near my switch

Seriously, that's so freaking stupid. No joke, I didn't even know controllers could actually be region locked for certain consoles, until this video.

I mean at least there’s some reason. There’s a different voltage meaning they could glitch a different region controller (Maybe, I don’t really know much about electricity aside from it make human die and it don’t like water). This is wireless so there’s no damn reason why aside from purposeful stupidity.

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beautiful writing

oh my god its fukami from

yo, is this fukami from

@@Josuh Have we met before?

@@fukami143 not really, i was just trying to start a chain based on what the guy above said 😔

Wii Ü

Yeah what was that about?

What about being able to run Android on the Switch? you can do that as well.

@Walther Penne lmao what do you mean they’ll die in 5 years?

@Walther Penne no they really don’t? And damn I mean I got a perfectly functional nes and ps1 but sure they dead as hell, cause u said

@@alfiegordon9013 I think a better way to put this is quality control has changed in recent times for better and for worse due to a number of factors. So yes, your NES and PS1 may have survived to this day but quality control and manufacturing control has changed in recent times to the point electronics of the current era often fail quicker than that of older generation devices. Take it from someone who diagnosis and repairs electronics all day, largely phones, but it still matters in that case, and even more so if were talking phone durability.

Yeah!

I absolutely love Nintendo Land, Wii Party U, and Splatoon

It was great. I still play it regularly since the games have so much replay value. They look fantastic even after 10 yrs. I love the Wii U.

Or brasso and micrifiber would also work, according to dankpods

Maybe that video about removing scratches on the glossy Fat PS3 would help him kzfaq.info/get/bejne/kLqPnM2C3riwpKM.html

@@elvispretzel9331 it's made for metal afaik, prob works on plastic but it would be best to use something made for plastic

@@elvispretzel9331 Brasso can leave a cloudier finish in my experience, it seems a little too abrasive for some plastics. I suppose it depends on how many polishing steps you want to do.

@@elvispretzel9331 geir geir dank na no shrek

Same. I still love playing smash and using my 3ds as a controller. The wii u might have flopped but when it got it right it was perfect.

Highly recommend setting up Homebrew on both the Wii U and old Wii menu. Gives it a lot more use.

@@paulnovacek3715 way ahead of you.

@@paulnovacek3715 I do all the injections so I have pretty icons on my home screen for all the games whether it’s GameCube, Wii, n64 etc.

@@TrevorFalzarano oh, good! Hope you enjoy it. If you don't mind playing Smash 4 again after Ultimate, there's some fun Smash mods you can check out too.

TBF.... that is also partialy do to the abttery degredation of the original one. a new WII U gamepad woudl have held around 4-5 hours of xenoblade X(speaking from experience) AND TBF... playing XCX with the gamepad is a pain... you use the wii u pro controller wiht the gamepad on its charging stand(only included in the black wi u premium bundle) for the map

I also have the exact same monitor.

Agreed. This needs to come up more and more often, until it starts to drown out the cheers over a new Smash Bros. release.

Is it really that "refreshing"? I hear people call them out all the time, and a lot of the time it's just people misinterpreting Nintendo's bullish stupidity as insidiouness. Plus he's acknowledging shitty practices that they stopped doing over four years ago. The Switch doesn't suffer from any of this.

@@alfo2804 the only thing I can think of for the Switch are those awful joycon analog sticks. I've already changed them 4x since release while I only got to change my 3DS analog stick once.

It really isn't rare though. But hey, I guess that just means you live a very refreshing life.

@@CrayonConoisseur get a pro controller also Nintendo fixes them for free

It's a very involved community and it reveals more about the console than you would ever have known about.

Congrats on getting your N3DS fixed and I love seeing stuff like this, too from time to time. Old consoles getting another chance at life because someone saw worth in it, despite its age or condition. Especially with consoles or handhelds that you had a personal connection with. 😊 ❤

wii u is kinda underrate too.. it had some underrated gems, like nintendo land.

This kind of thing makes me hate Nintendo. I have no real motivation to play or nostalgia for their games, and for those limited cases where I might want to try their games, emulators have proved more than sufficient. All this region-locking stuff basically makes me never want to buy anything from them.

@@zbot2123 i believe the switch isnt really region locked lmao you can just make another nintendo account and set the region to anyone you want and then you'd have access to the eshop for that region

@@EricTGK True,my country doesn't let me access the Nintendo eShop,so I just had to create an American account and all is well

@@denverkweh1642 i mean it as in like if you wanted to access the japanese eshop where it has some exclusive games you could just make a Japanese alternative account

@@EricTGK I have an account like that just lying around 😂. Sadly I don't think I'll be able to read Japanese so there goes the exclusive items to Japan for some reason

did they seriously have to lie about that? what would they be gaining in the first place?

@@AbdAbdAbdAbd The same thing with most PS3s

Just don't throw the original seeing how hard it it to get one. If anything, sell it for parts. Repairing it should be relatively easy for those who know what they are doing.

For the gamepad i found that it can be a faulty chip inside of the gamepad, i found a tutorial and for what I could see is an easy fix that you can do on your house, I hope it can help. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/e8iddNJ51b26lJc.html

@@fuxi1444 I already fixed my sync issues, it's just that I'm also having an issue that only two other people have reported online (last time i checked anyway)

We still have ebgames in our country.

your first mistake was buying a 2ds xl

They're basically the Disney of gaming

@@SkyyySi Or Apple/Xiaomi.

Delete it anyone calling the wiiu a failure shall be isekai'd!

@Alts'Alts When it comes to how locked down the devices are, Apple is in the same field.

@@acumenium8157 Xiaomi is such restrictive that you even don't need to unlock the bootloader, because it's already, seems legit, it's rather Samsung (bootloader unlocking much harder, eFuses...), they try hinder third-party-repairs similar to Apple nowadays with non-working Features like TrueTone, fingerprint Sensor etc. after changing parts...

@Never Gonna Give You Up 😜👇 no

I used to own 2 of them ^-^

you too?

Finally met someone else that owns one

I have 2. One has a smashed gamepad screen, but the base console is usable, and my 2nd one was the replacement for it.

In terms of Handheld solutions I'd also say the 3DS is similarly great

@@dayandere2669 I use 3ds to mod 3ds and Ds games and wii u to mod gamecube, wii, and wii u games

Assuming the Gamepad wasn't included, it was maybe broken or something, rendering the console unusable, so instead of getting other gamepad, they just decided to throw it out

My guess is that the power supply broke and the original owner belived it was the console itself that broke, that also explains why the disc was left inside since without power the it can't be ejected.

@@TheNintendochannel64 my bets are on dead battery in the gamepad. a very common problem

Gamepad could've also broke

Did he move?

@@thomasphillips885 Seems like he did, everything was from the US version of eBay with the US plugs and all that.

why in gods name would you move from Australia and trade it for the USA

@@othersideguy16 Beats me, mate.

@@othersideguy16 No fucking clue, mate

Yes that is kind of true basically the weather level creator but your new maximum limit so if you kept on like spamming stuff eventually you’ll get to the secret screen of ninja eggs but it’s not actually that secret because most people know it

There are some videos here on youtube of people modding common cell phone batteries to use on them. I think a more ideal solution would be custom made battery adapters.

If implementations like DRC-Sim don't get any progress the wii u will effectively end up just being landfill, the consoles themselves will not have any defects, but due to nintendo being nintendo millions of perfectly good consoles will end up as E-Waste

my darn wii u gamepad charger broke like 2 years ago and i am finally getting a new one soon.

Just be careful and make a backup of the nand n stuff, i bricked my wii u and now it's a paperweight without any backups

You should 100% I actually bought mine for that specifically and it’s soooo awesome!

definitely do it, your only brick risk is using CBHC and messing up or deliberately going into files if you're worried about that

@@echowoods7977 what's CBHC? My guess is Cold Boot Haxchii but I typically suck at figuring out abbreviations

@@alfiegordon9013 I actually bought mine shortly after it came out, and unlike many people, I was not disappointed in the slightest. Also, this video mentioned being able to load Gamecube games? Is that through emulation, or can I legit put a GC disk into the Wii U and run it?

As much as I love the Wii U, the name is admittedly stupid

I have that model too but wihout the package because it is a gamestop refurbished, everything works but i didn"t get the gamepad stand

@@gdemerald581 I think that's part of the reason it didn't do so well. Well, that and the marketing, both of which led to a downward spiral that left the console as another sad lump of untapped potential, unless the homebrew community starts making games that push its limits.

Same. The issue is that the Switch features a microkernel. Microkernels are pretty rare, Windows, Linux, MacOS, Android and iOS all use normal "fat" kernels, where all of the kernel modules share a single process with the kernel core, meaning any security error in any of these modules compromises the entire kernel. In comparison, by separating those modules from the core and running them as normal, sandboxed apps, the microkernel of the Switch becomes extremely small. Small enough for a single person to wrap their mind around the whole thing and polish it to perfection until there's no vulnerabilities left for anyone to find. Without any kernel vulnerabilities, there's no privilege escalation: userspace exploits are completely useless because without any bugs in the kernel, there's no breaking out of any app or driver's confines and into the rest of the console. Because of this, the Switch required everyone to tackle it in the opposite direction: attacking from the hardware side directly instead of building up a userspace exploit chain the way it usually goes. Research is still ongoing in the community to more openly reverse-engineer and reproduce the TX voltage glitching method that remains the only publicly known way to run unsigned code on newer Switch models (and no word about whether even that's still possible on the OLED model)... Still a shame that since those guys were profiting from piracy and didn't share their exploit to the open-source community, Nintendo had an easy time taking them down and making modding the new Switches next to impossible.

Exactly that. The V2 is essentially impossible to crack for the average joe, which sucks

One only needs software, the other needs physical bits? I haven't looked at switch modding in a while but I remember this turning me off.

@@trashtrash2169 Depends mostly on the version. Old Switches that are open to fusee only require what electrically amounts to pushing a button, and the rest is done in software through a programming error in the console's USB interface when in RCM mode. A jig is no big deal. The new Switches are where it gets tricky, requiring an actual modchip being installed that cuts power to the Switch's CPU at a very precise window and duration to get it to skip the signature checks, and then takes over as the 2nd-stage bootloader to unlock the console. It's funny. Back when consoles had small, simple BIOSes (6th generation and earlier) modchips and CFWs were much more common. The Switch had security so tight it basically required a return to basics. Fusée itself is a buffer overflow exploit that overwrites the stack. That's some '80s shit. And it only works becase it happens in a mode where none of the CPU security features developed in the last 30 years are turned on until the last moment, and by smashing the stack before the process completes we get full control. In fact, fusee grants more control over the Switch's CPU than you can get under normal circumstances unlocking a phone's bootloader or on a PC. Hypervisor secure world mode is typically only ever for the hardware manufacturer to play with. This makes it unusually trivial to extract the Switch hardware keys once pwned.

Nintendo actually did give the Wii U attention -- just look at the games! They're fantastic! It was the gamers who shunned it. Nintendo didn't do itself any favors with the marketing and naming scheme, but the console itself was solid and the first party games (and even some 3rd party) are tops. MK8, SM3D World, Yoshi's Wooly World, DKC Tropical Freeze, and on and on, they look gorgeous and the gameplay is pure Nintendo joy.

That cover for the GameCube ports seems have been engineered to fall off and disappear even without usage. Mine just vanished into the ether, and I didn't even have GameCube controllers.

Its like a child at an orphanage

Why would you sell the Wii because the sensor bar stopped working?

Smart! I suspect it will only get more valuable as more gamers realize what they missed out on the Wii U years from now.

While it's not a terrible system, especially considering systems as the CDI, Game.com, Ngage, Ouya, Atari VCS, Amico, and others are actually terrible all around, it was one that by design was destined for failure thanks to many bad decisions from the name, going with a dual screen approach for a home console (dual screen is easier to deal with with a handheld than a home system), a vastly underpowered cpu that was used in early 2000's iMacs, poor marketing, no real killer apps till way after the system was dying, had they had a Mario 3d world, a Odyssey or even breath of the wild at launch instead of stuff like New Super Mario U it may have done better. Not talking Switch numbers but maybe N64 levels of sales. But yeah I agree that the Wii U wasn't a terrible system just one that was set up for failure from the word go

@@The_Real_DCT 100% on the money

Hard drive? You mean an external one, also you need a usb y cable or powered hdd to make most models work

@@namesurname4666 yep

@@rev0lu7ion it's really strange, they probably reduced the power and added 2 more ports for some reason, meanwhile on the wii modern hard drives work fine without an y cable

And that's such a good game. Pure classic Super Mario sidescrolling goodness and in high res!

And typing problems! haha.. :-D (Only kidding, of course.)

reminds me of an edit someone made of avgn talking about billy mitchel then saying "that's right we're gonna cheat" its titled that and pretty funny

@@Kat21 YESS IVE SEEN THAT XDD

you're right

The opposite happened to my Wii U, the Game Pad refuses to connect a lot and I have to try multiple times. I have the "Could not connect to the Wii U console" error. I have to unplug the console and then I have to plug it back in and try and get it to connect. It's not ideal. I have no idea what the issue is.

Ok but can you mod a Switch Lite yet

They patched this exploit like a year or two ago on newer Switches.

Not really because not only does it work exclusively on the standard switch, it also has to be the model from before 2019 so the majority of consoles are out. Also it kinda requires the thing to hold the pins which you have to buy soo...

You can still do it on newer consoles (including the lite) but it requires a mod chip. You also don't have to buy the jig, you just need to be able to short one of the pins to ground, which I did easily with a wire. And once you booted into RCM, you can enable AutoRCM to never need to do it again.