I Bought a FAKE Nintendo Wii... (I did NOT expect this)

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  • čas přidán 15. 07. 2021
  • So I decided to venture out to Wish.com... and I bought a Nintendo Wii! But the listing was a little odd, so I'm pretty sure it's a fake Nintendo Wii... check out the video to see what I got!
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  • @jrob0021
    @jrob0021  Před 2 lety +995

    How do you feel about this Wii console??

  • @DJKC
    @DJKC Před 2 lety +1438

    As others have said. Definitely a regular Wii that's been modded and put in a new case. Probably because the doors had snapped off the original which is a common thing. You can pick up a complete one in the UK charity shops now for about £10. They only take a few minutes to mod. I used to have one that I done myself and used with an 80gb HDD.

    • @PrimeTF
      @PrimeTF Před 2 lety +30

      Yeah, it's definitely somewhat "refurbished" by the seller. Points for the homebrew channel stuff and the emulators, I don't have first hand experience with those emus but I'm guessing they might be better than VC. And if you want, you could play Project M and CTGP-R. This is a keeper.

    • @TheRealMrPeach
      @TheRealMrPeach Před 2 lety +8

      Those found in the US are getting rarer, and prices are past $100 for a complete system at this point.

    • @kirby456
      @kirby456 Před rokem +4

      10 pounds ? 🤔

    • @STRIKER9001
      @STRIKER9001 Před rokem +7

      ​@@TheRealMrPeach thats just you man. i have a local game store (not naming it or saying where bc its a local treat, if you know, you know) that for about 5 consecutive years now, he has had the same price for a wii. Very rarely does he bump his prices, and if i really needed a 6th Wii, I could get one with all the cords, a stand, 2 controllers, and a guarentee that it works for $89 flat. Best store for all video game shopping/collecting, he has it all XD

    • @slyceth
      @slyceth Před rokem

      Which hdd do you have?

  • @Nathan35077
    @Nathan35077 Před 2 lety +1097

    It’s an actual Wii. It’s not fake. They just replaced the outer shell of it (that’s why it came in that shell replacement box I’m guessing). But that’s a real Wii, just with some added features. You got a decent deal imo.

    • @aaronlusanko8779
      @aaronlusanko8779 Před rokem +60

      Decent deal? He got ripped off. Never came with the extra games that said it was.

    • @coolgirl9542
      @coolgirl9542 Před rokem +82

      @@aaronlusanko8779 Either way it’s a rip off most Wii’s are like 50 bucks home brewed or not

    • @Thefloppaguy
      @Thefloppaguy Před rokem +4

      Good point

    • @giomac6464
      @giomac6464 Před rokem +2

      same thing that i am thinking

    • @LINKS0LINKS
      @LINKS0LINKS Před rokem +44

      @@aaronlusanko8779 He did not get ripped off because he didn’t click on the right app , he had to click on the Toy Story app and there should be the games ( I have the same app)

  • @bluecookie4206
    @bluecookie4206 Před rokem +56

    Seeing this from his perspective must've been so cool.
    "Wow, someone was able to recreate both hardware and software so accurately!"

    • @maizomeno
      @maizomeno Před rokem +1

      lool

    • @ii_andre_ii2575
      @ii_andre_ii2575 Před 7 měsíci +5

      oh i LOVE this comment sm
      im a lil autistic so seeing him be like "wowza weird case + weird channels?? huh??" ticked me of a lil cuz i already modded my wii but i understand

    • @jasonhauser4507
      @jasonhauser4507 Před 6 měsíci +3

      I bet this dude loves magic.
      "I don't know where that rabbit went, but I'm calling the cops cause he just sawed a lady in half."

  • @chandlerlaruex
    @chandlerlaruex Před 2 lety +453

    Seeing somebody's reaction to a modded Wii is priceless. I remember I stalling the homebrew channel on my Wii way back in the day lol I even still have it!

    • @lildavidthefisherman4233
      @lildavidthefisherman4233 Před rokem +8

      Same ahhaah too bad i just emulate all the games on pc now

    • @XxEvanxX97
      @XxEvanxX97 Před rokem +1

      I did it just for mods on cod back in like 2012

    • @rb806gaming2
      @rb806gaming2 Před rokem +2

      Same bro, I get tired of messing with batteries though

    • @XRelays
      @XRelays Před rokem +1

      At this point, even people who don’t have a modded Wii know what the homebrew channel is. I knew what it was when I was 6 and I didn’t even mod my Wii

    • @tinaochoa7289
      @tinaochoa7289 Před rokem

      You: I remember I stalling" Correct:" I remember Installing the homebrew channel"

  • @NgoViGiaPhuA
    @NgoViGiaPhuA Před 2 lety +979

    "buys "fake wii""
    gets almost real wii
    "buys real wii"
    gets binento bii

    • @kenrickeason
      @kenrickeason Před 2 lety +7

      😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

    • @user-jm5kn5rf1g
      @user-jm5kn5rf1g Před 2 lety +10

      im not here for grammar and ruin the joke but bintendo bii (dont r/woosh me)

    • @callumpk7486
      @callumpk7486 Před 2 lety +10

      @@user-jm5kn5rf1g do you know what a joke is?
      learn it

    • @user-jm5kn5rf1g
      @user-jm5kn5rf1g Před 2 lety +6

      @@callumpk7486 i know but i said im not here for grammar

    • @callumpk7486
      @callumpk7486 Před 2 lety +1

      @@user-jm5kn5rf1g oh ok

  • @andycarter917
    @andycarter917 Před 2 lety +958

    The internals are definitely legit, it just has a third party shell, stand and stickers. The console has also been soft modded to play pirated games, emulators and homebrew.

    • @WertyTT4
      @WertyTT4 Před 2 lety +28

      It’s a pretty cool version of the wii, i would buy it.

    • @Cladcreeper
      @Cladcreeper Před 2 lety +4

      @@WertyTT4 Its technically illegal so I wouldn't

    • @TheMoris
      @TheMoris Před 2 lety +51

      @@Cladcreeper Softmodding and refurbishing isn't illegal

    • @BonnieBeats
      @BonnieBeats Před 2 lety +9

      @@TheMoris there's a reason why the logo of "Wii" looks like "Wu" can't flat out copy it

    • @FakeDream551
      @FakeDream551 Před rokem +1

      @Cladcreeper only the newer stuff is illegal like the Xbox Series/One, PS4/5, and Switch.

  • @randomcow505
    @randomcow505 Před rokem +52

    honestly super happy for the guys knocking thiese things together in there apartment or basement
    keeps the electronics out of landfill or recycling, gets someone a genuine device in a new case and who ever is making them is making at least a decent amount of money

    • @bboynitro
      @bboynitro Před rokem

      @I'm me sometimes do you have one yet?

  • @confusername
    @confusername Před 2 lety +81

    As cool as it'd be if it was a 1:1 recreation of the Wii hardware in a cheap case, I think this is just straight up a regular modded Wii. I've modded all my Wiis and their software looks like this.

    • @nathanialdowton9475
      @nathanialdowton9475 Před rokem +4

      theres places in japan that sell used "broken" wiis for 1-2 USD. theres probably something similar in china. people are probably buying them, fixing, replacing the case if necessary, and reselling on wish.

  • @MrSpeakerMBurns
    @MrSpeakerMBurns Před 2 lety +394

    It is a real Wii. They replaced the case with a cheap Chinese made aftermarket case to "refurbish" it. It says it's a case right on the box it was in.

    • @tboatrig
      @tboatrig Před 2 lety +14

      My money says they did a disc drive replacement annd the shell swap replacement is just so it lookes new enough to justify the cost.

    • @sybsygstgstsgysg5330
      @sybsygstgstsgysg5330 Před 2 lety +7

      @@tboatrig and soft modded it

    • @Eddy_E.
      @Eddy_E. Před 2 lety

      Most of the original Wii drives are still in good shape thanks to the wohle homebrew thing around it, so i dont even think that they swapped it, its just the case and the softmod and even that can be an Estate of the previous owner like me (its not my one, this is still on my tv next to my switch😅)

    • @kovyvuri
      @kovyvuri Před 2 lety +3

      @@Eddy_E. many do swap the drives even if they’re perfectly fine for one reason: disc burning. The original white rvl-001 wiis had drives that, if you modded the wii, it would play dvd backups and dvd movies even. All other models, and even colors of the rvl-001, cannot.

    • @kovyvuri
      @kovyvuri Před 2 lety +1

      @@Eddy_E. so it’s very likely that if they swapped the drive it’s from an original white unit.

  • @HyperSonic1999orJTH
    @HyperSonic1999orJTH Před 2 lety +537

    I knew as soon as I saw it was 32gb with 10-20 games that it was a modded wii. The included games are very likely Wii and GameCube games and to play those you games you open usb loader, which it told you to do on the paper it came with at 4:32.

    • @ki11aqueen5
      @ki11aqueen5 Před 2 lety +118

      It just seems like this guy can't read proper instructions lmao

    • @GriffosRetroGaming
      @GriffosRetroGaming Před 2 lety +19

      Pretty clear wasn’t it 😂

    • @coolcool5181
      @coolcool5181 Před 2 lety +28

      took me until the paper literally said USBLoader lmao

    • @ddnava96
      @ddnava96 Před 2 lety +13

      @@coolcool5181. Yeah, as soon as I saw that note mentioning USBLoader I knew it was legit

    • @viewingonipad2132
      @viewingonipad2132 Před 2 lety +9

      Plus he didn’t even buy the one with the accessories

  • @bartat404
    @bartat404 Před 2 lety +175

    Yep. No that's a real Wii, and it's been softmodded. In fact I would consider that a lucky buy. This is the first thing I do when I find an old Wii is I mod it.
    Not fake!

    • @ubahni
      @ubahni Před 2 lety +6

      the case isnt real but the internals are

    • @bartat404
      @bartat404 Před 2 lety +7

      @@ubahni oh it absolutely certainly is. The later on wiis changed the design of the case

    • @bechmk8442
      @bechmk8442 Před 2 lety

      @@bartat404 yep

    • @jackwilson5542
      @jackwilson5542 Před 2 lety +3

      Lol, I expected him to get a hollow case.

    • @jay.5789
      @jay.5789 Před 2 lety

      It is probably real!

  • @CosmicFox2007
    @CosmicFox2007 Před 2 lety +7

    *buys wii*
    "holy crap guys it looks exactly like a wii"

    • @The_Lightning513
      @The_Lightning513 Před 8 měsíci +1

      holy crap guys my nintendo wii looks like a nintendo wii

  • @sillyslayer_
    @sillyslayer_ Před 2 lety +76

    i’m 99% sure the ii/ü morphing is to avoid copyright issues

    • @moonwalkerboy162
      @moonwalkerboy162 Před 2 lety

      I don't think they want to avoid any copyright issues because they're proudly presenting the Wii logo on the console and Boot in the original bios. They probably just want to confirm that this ain't no real Wii. Not sure though.

    • @sebastianlarrivee4400
      @sebastianlarrivee4400 Před 2 lety +6

      @@moonwalkerboy162 no copyright infringement with the Wii logo on the tv. What they are selling is a reshelled Wii with homebrew on it. You can even see the homebrew channel on the 2nd page of the Wii menu. This is 100% a regular Wii.

    • @parknich081
      @parknich081 Před 2 lety +2

      @@moonwalkerboy162 it is real wii. it is softmodded with replacement casee it is japanese wii with system region change hak

    • @jrob0021
      @jrob0021  Před 2 lety +3

      I mean, if they were trying to avoid copyright issues, I don't think they would've put a "Nintendo" label on the console that is trying to look like the real thing, but is the wrong font lol

    • @davidclark3004
      @davidclark3004 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jrob0021 But it is the real thing just a replacement shell and soft-modded. Just like you can get a Nintendo GBA from China they are genuine GBA with a third party case and screen they take beatup working consoles and rehouse them in a new shell. They probably buy them in bulk cheap put a new case on it and sell at a profit

  • @abdelali9279
    @abdelali9279 Před 2 lety +33

    The little paper slip was more useful you may expect from like a Gamestop refurbished console, it tells you to open USB Loader to play the games on the SD card, the listing said it was an US console, but it was a bit misleading as the preview pic said it was only the base and console, at the end this is just a refurbished and softmoded genuine console but with a generic case, what surprises me is that it actually works.

  • @Efreeti
    @Efreeti Před rokem +6

    "It's just like a Wii"
    It is a Wii.
    Definitely a "The cheese is under the sauce" moment.

  • @Yui714
    @Yui714 Před 2 lety +7

    Dood I keep finding Wii consoles at my local thrift shop for $20 Canadian which is like $15 USD. You actually paid some guy in China 650% more for a Wii than it would cost you to get a normal fully-functional western Wii.

  • @danieldaniels22
    @danieldaniels22 Před 2 lety +180

    "This is just like wii"... This literally IS a wii with replacement case, that's all..

    • @jazzimel
      @jazzimel Před 2 lety +7

      That would explain the console coming in a box for a replacement case. They literally put the internals in a new case and put it in the box to ship it.

  • @Randomii666
    @Randomii666 Před 2 lety +115

    As you took it out of the box i could immediately tell 100% it's just a refurbrished and reshelled Wii shipped in the box the shell came in. Kinda weird to sell them like that though

  • @Keichimaru
    @Keichimaru Před rokem +13

    I've done softmods on quite a few Wii consoles, and this is all pretty standard stuff. My suspicion is that it's real Wii guts, but most likely a replacement case for one that was either heavily damaged, or just too dirty to pass off for sale. I can speak from experience that the flaps to cover the gamecube ports tend to break quite easily, and replacing them can be a bit of a pain. Some people opt for full replacement shells.

  • @thisboidrawstuff
    @thisboidrawstuff Před 2 lety +3

    "Pretty cheap plastic"
    *looks at Switch Dock*

  • @seabornecomet9724
    @seabornecomet9724 Před 2 lety +84

    That case looks *almost real*, but like as an example, the buttons look a bit off and darker, but I just can't name what is off tho. in my opinion, that is a re-cased wii (edit: instead of unplugging the Wii to reset it, hold the power button for 5 - 15 seconds , that will fully power it off/reset)

    • @jrob0021
      @jrob0021  Před 2 lety +21

      Yep it's really close, but the case is definitely not legit. Probably a real Wii inside tho

    • @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2
      @alexthemtaandr211weatherfa2 Před 2 lety +5

      Yes do that but pull out the internal battery at the same time

    • @therealmistermemer
      @therealmistermemer Před 2 lety +1

      @Fur Q Wii Won't

    • @viewingonipad2132
      @viewingonipad2132 Před 2 lety +3

      It’s not fake, it’s just modded and it has a replacement case. However, he said he knows nothing about modding. What he could of done was read the paper and do what it says. He didn’t buy the product with the extra items too.

    • @NatetheNintendofan
      @NatetheNintendofan Před 2 lety

      @@jrob0021 it is real just as homeroom

  • @JonSnyderfudge
    @JonSnyderfudge Před 2 lety +75

    You should have gone into the "USB Loader". That app allows you to play Wii games without the disc. That is probably where you will find the built-in games.

    • @NatetheNintendofan
      @NatetheNintendofan Před 2 lety +2

      It has game is built in which is a good thing that means you can run some pirate games just like I do

    • @novafawks
      @novafawks Před rokem +2

      Yes but you need to load them off of USB. So nothing will show up. There's no internal storage on the Wii, and there's no way to load games off SD. He would need to load some WBFS files on a USB drive or burn some DVD himself.

    • @oromain
      @oromain Před rokem +2

      @@novafawks Last I recall they've developed ways to run games off the SD

    • @ZX3000GT1
      @ZX3000GT1 Před rokem

      It also allows you to play Triforce games, which is awesome since that's the only way to play the proper version of F-Zero AX apart from playing it im the arcades.

    • @Blazingflare2000
      @Blazingflare2000 Před rokem +2

      @@novafawks I'm pretty sure literally every single USB loader on the wii also supports loading the games off the SD card too. And judging by the "usb-loader" folder name you can see at 13:47, the one installed here is most likely USB Loader GX, which I know supports loading ISOs off the SD card.

  • @sypheur27
    @sypheur27 Před 2 lety +6

    Probably a pretty old wii too. It’s on firmware 4.1 which still supported exploits such as bannerbomb, and iirc version 4.3 (the latest firmware version) was pushed all the way back in 2010. So either they force installed a wad with system menu 4.1 for whatever reason, it’s really old, or the seller never updated it since before 2010

  • @gdukofficial
    @gdukofficial Před 2 lety +6

    It's a real Wii, with an internal softmod (Probably LetterBOMB'd), the case was replaced using a Chinese Knockoff (They're usually pretty good, seems you got an unfortunately misprinted one), they buy these in bulk from Overflow stores or "Trashcan" stores (Broken consoles, sold for spares/repairs), you've actually gotten an alright deal asides from the missing extras/cables/wiimotes

  • @johnconnelly7667
    @johnconnelly7667 Před 2 lety +58

    It's literally just a soft modded wii with a replacement shell to make it look newer, it's not hard to tell that it's real.

    • @bechmk8442
      @bechmk8442 Před 2 lety

      Yea but why would someone sell a soft modded wii?

    • @johnconnelly7667
      @johnconnelly7667 Před 2 lety

      @@bechmk8442 why not

    • @bechmk8442
      @bechmk8442 Před 2 lety

      @@johnconnelly7667 I would not cause its so special. I have a black soft modded wii.

    • @johnconnelly7667
      @johnconnelly7667 Před 2 lety

      @@bechmk8442 I also have a black soft modded wii. Some people are too afraid to soft mod their wii so others mod them and sell them to those people

    • @bechmk8442
      @bechmk8442 Před 2 lety

      @@johnconnelly7667 I also have a soft modded black wiiu

  • @adri4931
    @adri4931 Před 2 lety +16

    9:26 Wow it’s almost like it is a regular wii with a 3rd party shell

  • @desp119
    @desp119 Před 2 lety +41

    I was almost done with the video and I couldn’t help but notice that this man did NOT know that it’s an actual Wii.

    • @sticks_absolute_channel
      @sticks_absolute_channel Před rokem

      Proof?

    • @beardalaxy
      @beardalaxy Před rokem +5

      @@sticks_absolute_channel it is 100% a real wii, unless there's some insane trickery going on an it's a raspberry pi hooked up to all the wii's ports and they're using a modded version of dolphin which has somehow been altered to read actual wii hardware like the gamecube and memory card ports.
      the amount of effort it would take for a wish seller to make a fake wii that looks exactly like a real wii is far too great when they could just get a real wii, refurb it, mod it, and sell it for 10x the amount they bought it for.

  • @weaselsworld
    @weaselsworld Před 2 lety +5

    RVL-001 is the original console design. The next revision, Nintendo removed the Gamecube controller ports and memory card slots. If you have a bunch of Wii and Gamecube stuff, this version really is a great way to unify your gaming setup, though I'd probably put the stock BIOS back in place for that use case.
    I'm betting what happened here is they took a beat up console, gave it a new shell, soft-modded it and sold it off as new with "built-in" games.
    $99 for that, but not really a bad deal if you wanted a gen 1 Wii in mint condition! You can easily re-mod that devil for other kinds of functionality to simplify things if you wanted.
    For example, I have an XBox that handles emulation stuff and the controllers are better-suited for the old games. So the Wii is modded to load its stuff from an external SSD, which makes it much faster to load games, and I no longer have to worry about the library getting scattered by the dog hitting the disc tower. Again. :D

  • @TheLeggedOne
    @TheLeggedOne Před 2 lety +46

    "I bought a real Wii with a replacement case"
    There, fixed your title

    • @viewingonipad2132
      @viewingonipad2132 Před 2 lety +3

      Plus he didn’t even buy the one with the accessories

    • @GoldenAngel3341
      @GoldenAngel3341 Před 2 lety +1

      Real question is: Will they change their video title?

    • @Rohgamu
      @Rohgamu Před 2 lety +3

      @@GoldenAngel3341 no

  • @dodgydruid
    @dodgydruid Před 2 lety +85

    They've been doing a lot of reshells with GB/GBA and DS too, apparently the factory buys in a ton of consoles, picks out the ones that work, set the workers to fix up the easier fixed stuff, reshell and polish, mod up and up for sale. You will prob find a common or garden Wii mainboard and dvd drive in what is a big case of brown thing polishing.

  • @mrt1r
    @mrt1r Před 2 lety +1

    One of my favorite past times is listening to CZcamsrs ramble on for 7 or 8 minutes just to fill time in their videos so thank you for that

  • @kuddlykraken2157
    @kuddlykraken2157 Před rokem +12

    You don't always get the real deal on Wish but sometimes....you do.

  • @T1C
    @T1C Před 2 lety +31

    Definitely a modded re-cased Wii.

  • @Natei
    @Natei Před 2 lety +68

    "I bought a REAL wii but continued to be surprised when it worked just like a regular wii for the whole video"

    • @googlewolly
      @googlewolly Před 2 lety +5

      While it turns out that it likely was a real (albeit modded) Wii, he made it very clear throughout the video that he wasn't sure if it was a real Wii. So, your comment doesn't really make sense.

    • @Natei
      @Natei Před 2 lety +7

      @@googlewolly did he though? He kept saying wow it works just like a normal wil!

    • @googlewolly
      @googlewolly Před 2 lety +4

      @@Natei He kept saying that, yes. However, I don't recall him ever stating that he felt that it actually was a real Wii (just that it worked like one). Correct me if I'm wrong; it's possible that I missed it. It didn't seem like he acknowledged it as a real Wii, though, during the video.

    • @viewingonipad2132
      @viewingonipad2132 Před 2 lety +5

      @@googlewolly Plus, he still titled it “fake”

    • @bechmk8442
      @bechmk8442 Před 2 lety

      @@googlewolly The wii is real just the case thats cheap

  • @twopeaksnorth8184
    @twopeaksnorth8184 Před rokem +2

    Have to admit this is kind of funny to watch 🤣🤣🤣

  • @benniecastellano5377
    @benniecastellano5377 Před rokem

    12:22 "And Wii shall see if it works" ahhhh!!!
    ...I'll see myself out

  • @ddnava96
    @ddnava96 Před 2 lety +26

    As soon as you took it out of the box I knew what it was. It even came with a paper note telling you to launch "USB Loader"

    • @geminisfl
      @geminisfl Před 5 měsíci +1

      Love the way he didn't even read it

  • @KingForte
    @KingForte Před 2 lety +60

    As for the 10-20 games, you missed it in the SD card channel menu. It was gray like the other ones so it was easy to miss but there was definitely something there

    • @Bigjar420
      @Bigjar420 Před 2 lety +5

      I think that was either a normal but weird texture or lighting. The games would have been in USB loader if anything

    • @beardalaxy
      @beardalaxy Před rokem +2

      @@Bigjar420 could have been a corrupt file, i'm not sure what that looks like on a wii though.

  • @nikdog419
    @nikdog419 Před 2 lety +4

    So China will commonly have this problem where they have leftover components at factories. My guess is a factory that manufactured the internals for Wiis had a bunch left over, wholesaled them to somebody as spare parts, then they bought 3rd party replacement cases and placed them inside of them. Jailbroke the firmware and pre-installed a bunch of homebrew channels. Then sold them on Wish at a profit.
    I see this happen with leftover arcade PCBs on Alibaba all the time.

  • @ArtisChronicles
    @ArtisChronicles Před 2 lety +146

    Some of the stuff I saw makes it look like it's homebrewed out if the box. That's actually pretty interesting if it is the case as that opens up a lot of possibilities. It looks like you actually got a very nice thing from wish this time around.

    • @beardalaxy
      @beardalaxy Před rokem +12

      it would have been a nice thing if it didn't cost 10x more than a normal secondhand wii would :P

    • @elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee
      @elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Před rokem +9

      Yeah except most wii's cost like $10-25 now

    • @RandomAhhChannel
      @RandomAhhChannel Před rokem +1

      @@elllieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee lucky they cost 63,342 ruppes here

    • @TheMan-WithNoName
      @TheMan-WithNoName Před rokem

      @@RandomAhhChannel ok john. That's your new name by the way. Now you know a name. John.
      Also what's a ruppes? Just joking John I know what you meant.

  • @ChrisCovers78
    @ChrisCovers78 Před 2 lety +31

    Basically a soft modded Wii, that was re-shelled

    • @djtundra8011
      @djtundra8011 Před 2 lety

      What does soft modded mean

    • @ChrisCovers78
      @ChrisCovers78 Před 2 lety

      @@djtundra8011 it means the Wii was modified by software, rather than a mod chip. Which would be called a hard mod. (Hardware mod).

  • @qavix6089
    @qavix6089 Před 2 lety +124

    You bought an European Wii because the symbol in the health and safety screen is yellow instead of white

    • @sirchryslerofthephaeton
      @sirchryslerofthephaeton Před 2 lety +2

      I was about to point that out

    • @dinkyeepy
      @dinkyeepy Před 2 lety +9

      Wait the health and safety icon is a different colour outside of Europe?? I never knew that I thought it was yellow everywhere ahaha

    • @sagittarianwolf8513
      @sagittarianwolf8513 Před 2 lety

      It's same except japan

    • @creativegaming24
      @creativegaming24 Před 2 lety +2

      American Wii’s are white and European Wii’s are yellow

    • @sagittarianwolf8513
      @sagittarianwolf8513 Před 2 lety +2

      @@creativegaming24 oh. Japan version has yellow logo too.

  • @BaamAlex
    @BaamAlex Před rokem +3

    And where is now the "fake" part? It is a real wii.

  • @Master-vx8uv
    @Master-vx8uv Před 4 měsíci +1

    That is not a fake Wii, that is a modded Wii with a replacement case.

  • @jerryray5879
    @jerryray5879 Před 2 lety +48

    Seems like this has a genuine wii motherboard with some 3rd party parts they seller used to refurb the device and their using the SD card to side load some software. Pretty nice actually

  • @kurtweeks6812
    @kurtweeks6812 Před 2 lety +14

    As others have said, it's a real Wii with softmods. I'm very familiar with CFG Loader, as I've used it to rehab consoles with broken disc drives. DIOS MIOS is a loader for GC games, since they use a different chip configuration on the motherboard. It might have some replacement case pieces, but it is absolutely just a modded Wii.
    As for resetting, all you need to do is HOLD the power button for about 5 seconds if it freezes like that.

    • @Bigjar420
      @Bigjar420 Před 2 lety +3

      Ur the first comment I’ve seen to talk abt DIOS MIOS.
      Also a hard reset might’ve still been needed. I had a used game that would brick my wii. It would freeze and not sure off so I’d unplug it. I’d need to keep it unplugged a couple hours or else the red light wouldn’t even turn on

    • @kurtweeks6812
      @kurtweeks6812 Před 2 lety

      @@Bigjar420 True, although in my experience, those are rare cases.

    • @Bigjar420
      @Bigjar420 Před 2 lety

      @@kurtweeks6812 yeah, I never figured out why. It was a marvel cartoon game

  • @CallyMan90
    @CallyMan90 Před rokem +1

    Looks like someone is buying cosmetically damaged official Wiis, replacing the outer case, modding them, then shipping them in the box for the case.

  • @andrewjimenez8440
    @andrewjimenez8440 Před rokem

    I hope you keep up the good work on videos that you do.

  • @randomgamer5783
    @randomgamer5783 Před 2 lety +29

    I bought my real Wii at a church sale for 20$ last week 🤣 I even got Super smash bros, metronidazole prime 3 and 2 GameCube sonic games 😂🤣😅

    • @jrob0021
      @jrob0021  Před 2 lety +9

      That's a steal

    • @randomgamer5783
      @randomgamer5783 Před 2 lety +1

      @@jrob0021 right? I've never played on a wii before, so its a new experience, I put the sensor bar right on top of my kinect sensor for the '360 lol

    • @billy-waynejeffcoat4828
      @billy-waynejeffcoat4828 Před 2 lety +2

      @The Hacker Lord CTGP it is for the games that were included.

    • @urukadooedwards7637
      @urukadooedwards7637 Před 2 lety +2

      I found one in the Trash not to long ago....Buuu Yeaaaa!!

    • @hugh.g.rection5906
      @hugh.g.rection5906 Před 2 lety

      @The Hacker Lord CTGP someone actually paid me to take a wii from them......easy

  • @GodOfAllThatWas
    @GodOfAllThatWas Před 2 lety +17

    Wish sellers seem to make listings confusing on purpose so you order the wrong thing. You seem to have acknowledged that you ordered the "Bare metal" instead of "Package 1" version in some of the comments. You didn't check any of the USB loaders. Those would be my first suspect on what roms they'd load since they'd be the Wii games... You can configure the USB loaders to load off the SD card. Try those, and maybe homebrew channel to see if they actually loaded any games.

    • @randomcow505
      @randomcow505 Před rokem +1

      they dont do it on pourpose when its like this, most of thiese sellers are guys running shop out of there basement rather than large scale factories and google translating the description because actualy good human translation is expensive
      there are scammers for sure, but a lot of the time its either guys buying stuff from recycling centers and repourposing it (honestly great, everyone wins reusing is better than recycling) or guys just making stuff from scratch

    • @turkeykaiser
      @turkeykaiser Před rokem

      It's just a translation thing. Most of these guys have really big shops on taobao with a lot of options. They probably only moved the base package over to Wish to avoid confusion. The shop I got my Wii from had 10 packages with pages of photos and explanations. I'm sure translation would have been a nightmare.

  • @noahboat580
    @noahboat580 Před rokem +2

    With the amount of consoles that exist in this world, especially in japan, i wouldnt doubt theres pallets of old wii hardware just being refurbished in questionable means. Always love seeing some homebrew stuff, i would buy a wii like that

  • @BingBONGBros420
    @BingBONGBros420 Před rokem +1

    "must be using some sort of an emulation software" "shits crazy" DUDE lmao

  • @HardWhereHero
    @HardWhereHero Před 2 lety +4

    You can launch Wii "roms" using the launch backup. They are definitely using the Wii software with it soft modded to add the additional options to the dashboard.

  • @dright24
    @dright24 Před 2 lety +10

    The games that come with it are on the SD card, you needed to go into the USB loader channel and start them that way. They are probably Wii games like Mario Galaxy

    • @googlewolly
      @googlewolly Před 2 lety

      I was also wondering that.

    • @dright24
      @dright24 Před 2 lety +3

      @@googlewolly when he opened the box there was a piece of paper telling him how to do it and he just tossed it to the side

  • @PatLund
    @PatLund Před 2 lety +2

    Seems like a real WII with a replacement case and a soft mod.

  • @JacknVictor
    @JacknVictor Před rokem +1

    As many have said, it's a second hand used Wii transplanted in to a brand new third party knock off case (as per the box) that has been modded. I've got a 'brand new' DSi from wish that came in a box for a replacement DSi case. They install them in to new cases that cost pennies because it makes them look brand new, in the hopes that the customer recieving it will think they are getting a new console.

  • @xdarkdragonx2727
    @xdarkdragonx2727 Před 2 lety +54

    IS NOT A FAKE WII ITS A SOFTMODDED WII

    • @richarddiditall
      @richarddiditall Před 2 lety +6

      Yep. It’s a real Wii, just soft-modded.

    • @jrob0021
      @jrob0021  Před 2 lety +4

      The internal parts may be real, but the case was 100% made in an attempt to look real, but it's not

    • @xdarkdragonx2727
      @xdarkdragonx2727 Před 2 lety +2

      @@jrob0021 the case is brand new thats why looks diferent

    • @jrob0021
      @jrob0021  Před 2 lety +3

      @@xdarkdragonx2727 it's brand new but fake. It is not an OEM case.

    • @xdarkdragonx2727
      @xdarkdragonx2727 Před 2 lety

      @@jrob0021 Its an oem case

  • @bassfamily86
    @bassfamily86 Před 2 lety +19

    Soulja boy is going to start selling this for $500

    • @HmmBird311
      @HmmBird311 Před 2 lety

      I'd buy it

    • @playstatlon1594
      @playstatlon1594 Před 2 lety

      @@HmmBird311 because your gay

    • @theformer1337agent
      @theformer1337agent Před 2 lety

      @@playstatlon1594 is there a problem if someone is gay? also, you’re not your, *mario from mario teaches typing is gonna turn you into a goomba*

  • @unicyclingistheshit
    @unicyclingistheshit Před rokem +2

    Would have been super interesting if you had opened the console up and compared it to the known genuine one. The internals would have told you for sure if it was fake or not. wouldn't expect a proper deep-dive, but a brief look would have been cool!

    • @TheExileFox
      @TheExileFox Před rokem +1

      as others say, this is probably OG hardware in new case with some softmodding

  • @Jessica-hc5yo
    @Jessica-hc5yo Před rokem +2

    Wow this Fake console was too realistic to be fake...

    • @cknsok
      @cknsok Před rokem

      Agreed. I just watched the whole video waiting for the catch.

  • @gamma_dc8289
    @gamma_dc8289 Před 2 lety +5

    I'm used to USB Loader GX. I never knew there was a toy story themed USB Loader lmao

  • @The_Foxymew
    @The_Foxymew Před 2 lety +11

    So judging from the other comments, and the box, I'm guessing they had a bunch of old Wiis (European apparently) that probably had busted cases. So they bought some cheap cases, probably made so people could have custom cases, by painting them or whatever. And then just used that case to put it all in and shipped it out?

    • @viewingonipad2132
      @viewingonipad2132 Před 2 lety +2

      Yep it has a replacement case. However, he said he knows nothing about modding. What he could of done was read the paper and do what it says. He didn’t buy the product with the extra items too. Even though it has a Japanese sticker, that’s a part of the replacement case.

  • @Madone19
    @Madone19 Před rokem

    I'm laughing hard when you said "yellow or orange tape." Do you not know your colors just asking... 😂

  • @lemonadesnake
    @lemonadesnake Před rokem +3

    The Wii is exactly the same as a regular Wii, except they have modded it with homebrew applications such as USB loaders and emulators. Replacing the Wii system os would brick the Wii and is impossible.

  • @LandonEmma
    @LandonEmma Před 2 lety +4

    when you push the home button on the game it loads the files from the game to load the exit to the menu which is how I knew that you were new to the modding scene.

  • @SackthingPSFive
    @SackthingPSFive Před 2 lety +5

    The fake Wii logo looks like ‘Wü’

  • @Malabus73
    @Malabus73 Před 2 lety +1

    Biggest surprise was that it was actually delivered.

  • @ObtuseAcute1
    @ObtuseAcute1 Před rokem +1

    Dios Mios is the gamecube boot loader, you can also load the GameCube games off the SD card or USB depending on what IOS was modified. You need a program to convert the GC roms into a weird format though.

  • @ki11aqueen5
    @ki11aqueen5 Před 2 lety +63

    Lmao I love how everyone is telling this man its a real wii. When it IS!
    Jesus it got annoying how this guy was amazed that its actually a WII who would of thought?! Lmao

    • @tiduszk
      @tiduszk Před 2 lety +11

      Even more annoying was when he said they didn't send him everything, then shows a screen that explains the two different packages, he bought the one with less stuff. He even showed that on screen too

    • @bechmk8442
      @bechmk8442 Před 2 lety +1

      Not just a regular wii, a soft modded wii.

  • @coolevlo1
    @coolevlo1 Před 2 lety +24

    Probably an official console that was renewed by a 3rd party.

  • @makkmchammer4247
    @makkmchammer4247 Před rokem

    I like how you accidentally smacked the Wu with the Wii.. lol

  • @touchme8425
    @touchme8425 Před 2 lety +1

    This guy will believe the earth is flat sooner than acknowledge the existence of different colors on fonts lmao

  • @pedrosretrogamefinds
    @pedrosretrogamefinds Před 2 lety +5

    Honestly it's not a bad deal for what your getting! But they should have at least included all the hookups for it. 👌

  • @Pixelcraftian
    @Pixelcraftian Před 2 lety +50

    The logo looks like *W :)* lmao

  • @variaxi935
    @variaxi935 Před rokem +1

    This video is EXACTLY what it feels like to get drugs from a new dealer with a sketchy rep lmao

  • @JoseRivera-bt3zk
    @JoseRivera-bt3zk Před 2 lety

    Home brew channel 👌. Really brings me back to the early 2000’s. I remember how much of a pain it was to use the smash bros home brew exploit.

  • @PercyPanleo
    @PercyPanleo Před 2 lety +6

    It's just a modded EU Wii with an aftermarket replacement shell lol

  • @xtrlegend4583
    @xtrlegend4583 Před 2 lety +16

    Nothing fake, the 10-20 pre loaded games are probably in usb loader gx

    • @override7486
      @override7486 Před 2 lety

      Or games = emu hbrew on SD. Need to remember it's chinese listing...

    • @OhSayWhatIsTruth
      @OhSayWhatIsTruth Před rokem

      The outer shells were fake.

  • @budgetcoinhunter
    @budgetcoinhunter Před 2 lety +3

    Yours was a legitimate Wii's internals (See: 4.1E on the System Settings screen). Most likely they had a shitty shell and got a replacement for it, and then soft-modded it (I wondered if it was real/modded when I saw instructions for CFG/USB Loader). Not a bad deal, all things considered, and it clearly runs out-of-region software, so looks like a good buy.

  • @coconutgun4383
    @coconutgun4383 Před rokem +4

    As shady as wish is, that’s an awesome find

  • @roshenramnarine9970
    @roshenramnarine9970 Před 2 lety +7

    Usually on modded wiis the games only appear inside the usb loader

    • @justananimefan1570
      @justananimefan1570 Před 2 lety

      You can install forwarder apps to make the games launch directly from your wii menu like a Wiiware or Virtual console game

  • @Stumpfization
    @Stumpfization Před 2 lety +3

    Definitely a normal Wii which was put into a aftermarket shell. Thats why it came in the packaging of the aftermarket shell. It's a normal Wii with homebrew on it.

  • @therealhypnotix
    @therealhypnotix Před 2 lety

    You found homebrew like years after its been gone...this has been known my man, and is a legit thing! Also, did you stop to think maybe the case of the Wii was damaged so they bought a replcement and put the parts in it to resell it?????

  • @judge81
    @judge81 Před rokem +1

    Man they literally told you to boot up USB loader with a note to access games and you ignored it, now a bunch of clowns think you got scammed when actually they were legit, it's a really good video that kind of got ruined because you didn't read, it was actually kind of them to do that note.

  • @blasphemylord6663
    @blasphemylord6663 Před 2 lety +5

    thank you. I was searching for this yesterday and couldn’t find a video until now!

    • @mullaleo85
      @mullaleo85 Před 2 lety

      So Satan plays Wii when not doing evil things now.

    • @blasphemylord6663
      @blasphemylord6663 Před 2 lety

      @@mullaleo85 lmao yeah well satan doesn’t do evil things tho

  • @Sora2k9
    @Sora2k9 Před 2 lety +17

    Seeing someone with no knowledge about Wii modding is funny, I think out of any console the Wii has the biggest modding community.
    Also, it was hilarious to see Dios Mio boot up when he started playing Luigi's Mansion and him being like "Dios Mio? I don't know what that is" lmao

    • @whatsyourname049
      @whatsyourname049 Před 2 lety +1

      Mother of god he doesn’t know Dios Mio? -Church

    • @Sora2k9
      @Sora2k9 Před 2 lety

      @@whatsyourname049 LMAO

    • @DetectiveOnan
      @DetectiveOnan Před 2 lety

      "dio mio" is a common Italian exclamation of disappoint

  • @sandordugalin8951
    @sandordugalin8951 Před rokem +1

    Take a shot every time he says "exactly like a Wii."

  • @techcrafter_jw
    @techcrafter_jw Před 2 lety +3

    You chose the bare metal package! That's why the av-cable, ... were missing. You should've looked more closely into the description. There are two different packages listed there.

  • @BobbiRakus
    @BobbiRakus Před 2 lety +4

    I bet it said 10 to 20 games because that’s how many you can fit on the SD card depending on the size of the games! 😁

  • @ssfbob456
    @ssfbob456 Před 2 lety +16

    So it's a molded Wii loaded up with emulators. Actually kind of neat, I'd get one.

    • @thestupid69
      @thestupid69 Před 2 lety +1

      Oh. Molded? So the seller found it in a trash can and sold it?

    • @JBLilPaper
      @JBLilPaper Před rokem +1

      @@thestupid69 precisely

  • @Chriva
    @Chriva Před 2 lety +17

    Definitely a real wii in a shoddy shell.
    The internal hardware is way too advanced to just be "replicated" the same way they do/did to older hardware.

    • @rickylaflour9294
      @rickylaflour9294 Před 2 lety +2

      Yup it was probably a old console they bought for dirt cheap reshelled and homebrewed

    • @UNSCPILOT
      @UNSCPILOT Před 2 lety +2

      Agreed, at best they would try to emulate the Wii, and that would cost way, way more

    • @beardalaxy
      @beardalaxy Před rokem

      @@UNSCPILOT not to mention hooking up the raspberry pi or whatever they would use to all the actual wii ports and peripherals and making sure dolphin could read it and pair with it flawlessly.

  • @JamieLikesGames
    @JamieLikesGames Před rokem

    Amazed you didn’t have a thumbnail with a shocked face saying “OMFG ITS A FAKE!!”

  • @bj0urne
    @bj0urne Před 2 lety +6

    I mean, the box does say custom "case".

  • @d00msdayz
    @d00msdayz Před rokem +1

    Funfact: Dios mios means "My god" from that GameCube logo with it saying dios mios below it

  • @Vocaloidinmyheart
    @Vocaloidinmyheart Před rokem

    this is so fun to see as a person who's modded consoles since 2010

  • @boeingnz
    @boeingnz Před 2 lety +18

    Nintendo made millions of these console. Japan is exporting them as junk. Basicly cheaper than making fake console.
    The Mii you have are probably from the last owner.

  • @thetoythief8940
    @thetoythief8940 Před 2 lety +4

    Might be a heavily modded wii

    • @blurengo
      @blurengo Před 2 lety

      it’s not heavy modded, you can probably set up that’s currently on that wii in like 5 hours, it’s just homebrewing (which you can do in like less than 10 minutes) then installing a bunch of emulators and putting roms

  • @williamsibert7441
    @williamsibert7441 Před 2 lety

    Hello I’ve recently subscribed to the channel, I’m a gamer slash collecter myself. I watched the recent Xbox Series X video on the used one you bought and others like the recent Nintendo switch. My question to you is are you trying to educate the general public about buying questionable merchandise off eBay to let them know what you get and the experience.

  • @hayaschu626
    @hayaschu626 Před 2 lety +12

    The special stuff is emulators like retroarch Is a thing with alot of emulators