Same. Thankfully I was aware that Netflix was ending support for the Wii so we managed to buy her a smart TV for that Christmas just before they ended support.
I LOVED using the wii for Netflix, it's honestly better than my smart TV today, the pointer was just so quick and intuitive compared to using a d pad like on my TV remote
My grandma had a Wii that she used for Netflix, and when the server went down and she didn’t know what happened, she asked me if I could fix it. Instead of telling her the servers were down I modded the thing and patched it with Wiimmfi (she had Netflix on disc)
The thing that baffles me the most is how this Wii, which was advertised as the "Family Edition", only came with 1 WII REMOTE? Honestly it wouldn't've mattered if they removed the GC compatibility as long as it came with at least 4 Wii Remotes so a family of 4 could all play on the Wii together out of the box, instead of spending extra for 3 extra Wii remotes. If Nintendo had done that, I feel like this variation would've actually seen some sales.
Pretty sure the idea of a “family edition” is just that it’s more budget conscious. Not that you can enjoy it with the entire family right out of the box. That’s incredibly dumb, especially considering that not every family is the same size. One family buying this console could’ve been buying it literally just for their one child, while one family could be buying it for all five of their children and the two parents. Even including two controllers is dumb because then that former family just gets an extra controller for no reason whatsoever and ends up feeling like they paid extra for something they aren’t going to use when the entire point is the reduction of features for less money.
The Wii Mini ultmately makes more sense because the venn diagram of people who owned a Wii but never touched a Gamecube game and people who owned a Wii but never connected it to the internet would practically have been a circle.
Fun fact: They did NOT sell these types of Wiis in Japan whatsoever. They just did not introduce this one (RVL-101) there, so no Japanese Wiis ever have a chance of being GameCube-portless. Also, White and Black Wiis can be RVL-001 (GC compatible) or RVL-101 (not GC compatible). You can tell just by the logo orientation, but you have to be careful if you're in the market for a Wii. A Red Wii will NEVER be GC-portless as it was only ever sold before they started introducing the Family Edition-style Wii, and the color is exclusive to 001. So at least if you buy a red Wii you will easily know what you're getting.
I apreciate Scott's Stash a lot. I love your videos so much and while a big part of that are your great scripts and edition, your natural charisma and yapping ability is amazing and I'm so thankful of getting these frequent smaller videos of you talking about whatever you want. The recent Mario Party video was great and I'm definetely going to enjoy this one too
When I was a kid my cousins ‘upgraded’ their normal wii to one of these (I have literally no idea why they would do that) and gave us their original wii. I was thrilled, but I bet they weren’t! Just a fun story about my rich relatives being not so smart with their money and me getting a free wii out of it.
Hah that sort of reminds me of the time my uncle started using his disability checks he stated getting from being hit by a city service vehicle to buy him whatever the hell he wanted and when I was visiting he saw I was super into splatoon 2 at the time and so he bought it to rub it in my face only to realize he couldn’t actually play multiplayer since he didn’t know you had to actually pay for that. He’s not like this anymore but he and his parents overspend and it will come back to bite them.
The Wii Mini being a "cabin wii" here in Canada is so true. My grandparents have a Wii and they used to live at a trailer camp during the summer in the 2000s and 2010s, and they'd always bring their Wii with them. They thought it annoying having to pack it with them so they got a Wii Mini and kept it there.
My friend shared a Wii with his brother and his brother sold the old Wii to get this "new" version. My friend was obviously pissed because he lost all of his saves and the GC functionality for zero benefit.
In Brazil we only "officially" got this version of the Wii, but the exact bundle was awesome, a black Wii, with 2 Remote plus, Wii Sports, Resort and Strikers Charged, for a relatively small price. In that regard cost wise the revision wasn't that bad.
I recently found this version of the Wii out on the streets with 2 controllers and 2 games. Everything still works but the games barely had any progress made on them. I could easily tell that this was a family Wii
My house got robbed as a kid and they took the wii and all the games. My parents got me a new one and it’s was this bad boy. Fun fact, this model has better picture quality than the original
Only some consoles do that I think, if I remember correctly the actual drive in family edition consoles are missing two plastic arms that would hold miniDVDs in place
@@supahas3821 You’re probably right but I swear I remember watching a video where someone was able to get GC games to run on the Family Edition. Maybe I’m misremembering and all they did was get ISOs to run on the console, which wouldn’t be as impressive.
You can actually plug the GC adapter and play with your controllers just fine on a modded system! I don't think it doesn't work on Wii games with GC support though
I have this AWFUL memory of being on my (then) girlfriend's house because she borrowed a black wii from her brother and she asked me if I could hack it so she could play gamecube games since she had one as a kid. I spent like 4 hours reading through guides and downloading iso files for all the games she wanted, even brought one of my old GC controllers to give her... just to touch the damn wii and seeing that it didn't had the gamecube controller ports.
You can play GC games on this revision with Nintendon't and the classic controller pro. The only thing you'll be losing out on is analog trigger support.
5:44 I think the blue one originally came out with Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and I always assumed it was because Sonic was blue but no I guess it was planned all along and they probably thought "well Sonic is blue, we're making blue Wiis now why not"
5:58 this is just my guess but I think the reason why this is it's because with the family edition I've seen some models where it's basically an original model Wii motherboard without the GameCube ports installed. In fact where the GameCube ports go is a separate piece & if you remove it On some models you can see the GameCube port holes. Even looking at the mother board you can see where the ports were going to go. The reason why it can't play GameCube games is because of the disc drive itself. Not the actual console. I imagine you could probably add the ports to the console & swap out the disc drive with one that is GameCube compatible. It should work & make it a backwards compatible family edition Wii.
I think the shell is almost unchanged, you could even probably just pop the internals from a GC wii into it and be fine, just remove the tabs on the top flap and remove the screws
@@LxMxNxG it's pretty much the same shell but with a new coat of paint. The only difference is where the GameCube ports were is now one long piece of plastic that screws on. The whole console itself is literally an original Wii but without native GameCube support. I've seen people make them GameCube compatible. You just need to add the ports & swap out the disc drive. Even though it shows the GameCube disc on the disc channel on the family edition. The disc drive is the only thing stopping it from playing GameCube games. The Wii disc drives are interchangeable so you can swap it out & it'll work with no problem.
I know you can get it to play GameCube isos from USB using homebrew. It was kinda stupid that Nintendo simply put a disc drive in that didn't support GameCube. The rest of the hardware was still fully capable.
I remember the Wii Family Edition was sold at Costcos, was pretty cheap like only $100 for each system and came with two games Wii Sports and Resorts! It’s was a good redesign for newcomers to the Wii, especially people in the fitness industry, unlike the Wii Mini which came out way too late and you can’t even stream video like Netflix nor UA-cam, which at that time, kids were using their Wii to watch Netflix in the early 2010s!
I got this for black friday at walmart for 99$ in 2011. It was a great deal with cheap black friday games. It still holds up today. Also thank you Scott for being the only channel that acknowledges that Giest exsisted.
I don't care what anyone says, Wii mini as stupid it is, it's really cool - it's like a console that you stealthily leave in the house of someone who hates technology, if this make any sense.
Pretty sure they were talking about the Lime Green Wii prototype shown off alongside the White, Black, Blue and Red Wiis during E3 (2005 I believe). The others did release, White and Black were available normally, Blue was a Wii Family Edition (See the video), and Red was available in Mario 25th Anniversary consoles.
6:00 How have I never realized the small disc was a gamecuve disc? I literally have been playing on a wii since I was a kid, I've seen the disc channel millions of times, and I never once thought about the seconds smaller disc until now.
Something about the IO being horizontal on the Wii Family Edition bothers me. From what I understand, if you swap out the disc drive on the Family Edition for an original Wii drive, it will read GameCube discs no problem. You’ll just lack the means of plugging in a controller.
As someone who got the Wii Family Edition in 2011 back when it was still known as just the "Wii", my disappointment was immeasurable when I think of how many of us kids were tricked.
The gamecube controller and memory card slots can be solderd back on. The only hardware thing stoping gamecube games is the disc drive. It seems the only reason it doesnt have it is to have a explanation for the price cut. Gamecube games can be played via nintendont (a piece of homebrew, intended to be launched by a backup loader like USB Loader GX or WiiFlow lite. If you want to use GC controller without soldering them on you can use a GamCube controller adaptor for Wii U and plug that into USB1 (the higher up usb port). If you get a third party Gamecube controller adaptor that goes to usb make sure it has Wii U compatability (eg via a switch on it or only supporting wii u). Also using a Wii family edition and a Wii U and a Wii mini upright will damage the disc drive and the discs quicker.
3:06 thus was the wii bundle I bought as a kid, and got so many hours of playtime ou off. I bought it at the time for ~€100, so that's a pretty good deal for 2 games and a motion plus controller
Yeah, this was a weird one. It's basically an early prototype version of the Wii Mini, but with the same form factor (sans color) as the original. But yet not as stripped as the Mini. Sort of like a "middle ground" since it still had internet compatibility and an SD card slot. But as you noted: People who complained about that already had a full-featured Wii, lol! So it was kind of like something for those who didn't care about the loss of Gamecube stuff for any reason. Like maybe they still had a Gamecube or didn't care about the games that had Gamecube features. This unfortunately did lead to some confusion though as some thought it "did" have Gamecube compatibility until they got a disappointing surprise. Some people were able to return it in time, but others found out too late and the return window closed. That's kind of an issue with console revisions compared to handheld ones because with handhelds you were usually getting an upgrade of some kind with a few exceptions while with consoles the aim is generally to just make it cheaper by removing stuff from it. Neither ideas are bad in themselves, but it's that lack of model revision consistency that didn't help matters.
I have this version of the Wii. I HAD to have it because it's blue...that was my sole reason for buying it, otherwise, my siblings and I already had a launch model Wii.... I still have my blue Wii, still with the box and all of the inner-fixings. I actually used it a lot when I went off to college, left our family Wii at home, and I used it a lot until the Wii U came out a year or two later. I've considered modding it and getting some use out of it, it's basically been in the box for 12 years since the Wii U released, but my Wii U and its internal vWii are modded, so it doesn't even make that much sense to put the work into doing the Wii itself as well. I did fire it up a few months ago just to make sure it still works, though - since I think Wii's have capacitor issues if they aren't used for some time, seemed to be working fine. I thought about selling it at one point, but they really aren't worth much at all - even CIB.... I think the receipt is still in the box as well - which I believe I only paid like $90-$100 for it. This particular version in North America was a Black Friday/Holiday timeframe release for that discounted price. I think after that and for quite a while, they sold the blue Wii as a Skylanders bundle, you could only get them as stand-alone consoles without any sort of a pack-in for a really short amount of time. But even with that being the case, nobody wants them...they aren't worth a darn to anybody except those of us who have them for no logical reason. 🤣
The Wii U had already been released at that time, but one day my father came back with what was mentionned here as the european family edition, with wii sports and wii party, in white. He brought it to a friend who modded it, so we weren't allowed to set up internet on it (I think it was mostly him being scared of bricking it by Nintendo detecting a modded Wii than actual problems that could arise) we had over 800 games on a hard drive ! It was amazing. I went to look for that Wii recently at my parents house, they lost the hard drive and the wiimotes, but I plugged it and it works just fine, so whenever I'll get my paycheck I'll probably buy a knockoff pair of wiimotes and try to set up a hard drive with games, as my father told me all the important files for the mod are in the SD card.
I went out of my way to get one of these just so I can try to solder the gamecube ports back on. Thing is, all the necessary traces and contact points are still there on the motherboard, so theoretically it could work.
AMD bought out ATI in 2006, they then started phasing out the ATI name for their graphics chips. The previously known "ATI Radeon" graphics chips would be phased to simply, "Radeon" or "AMD Radeon." That was in late 2010, while the Wii Family Edition was released in late 2011. Nintendo had a WHOLE year to change the molds to have the AMD logo on it, but they either were too lazy, production had already started, or the chip was still technically made by ATI, and not AMD, probably the latter
Our family's wii was a Family Edition, which I'm pretty sure my dad just bought because it had "Family Edition" in the title. Just recently homebrewed it, same process as a normal wii. It was bundled with a Wii Sports/Resort bundle disc, with both games on one disc (which seems to be somewhat rare in America?), despite this video featuring one not bundled with a game, so I guess it wasn't all that bad. I don't know, this is probably my nostalgia saying "okay it's a solid wii, it's not THAT bad".
The Wii Family edition is like bringing your toddler brother to show and tell because he’s missing his left hand and right thumb. It’s not that he lost them; he just never had them to begin with
3:50 I just call that the "No Gamecube for you edition" specifically for that reason I got it from a Walmart thinking it was limited edition all those years ago 💀
I've always loved the wii mini's design, it reminds me to the mini dark hershey's my dad used to bring home I somehow managed to resist the urge to give it a bite the first time i saw one
See i had a family edition wii as a kid, but my step brother had a backwards compatible model but his broke and he replaced it with one of these blue family edition wiis and he actually broke the top of the wii trying to get to the GameCube slots, interestingly enough the shell actually still has the Cutouts they just didn't put anything in the slots and glued the lid shut lol
One thing to note is that the original Wiis could play DVDs using homebrew because the drive supported it, but since the Family Edition this is no longer possible.
My "favourite" part of this is that it still only has one set of controls and multiple party games. Somewhere along the line, Nintendo forgot what a family looks like.
Fun fact, the family edition's motherboard is actually identical to post-launch Wii systems. It actually has the solder points for a GameCube controller ports, and is fully compatible with Gamecube games (in terms of chipset), it is just a software lockout. These later releases actually have better power management, and are frequently used by modders to create "GameCube Handhelds"
I think the disc drive is different though, I saw Spawn Wave make a video comparing two consoles side by side and the family edition disc drive couldn’t hold gamecube discs in place
@@ZenithKnight I can confirm this myself, since back when we first got a family edition one, we noticed the panel where you put the memory cards and controllers was screwed on, so when they were unscrewed, we saw the slots for where they would go, but there weren't any internal components to plug them into. Yet for some reason the data management center still had the Memory Card section. In hindsight, a bunch of this stuff highlights how cheaply the Wii as a whole was made.
1:34 when ps2 has everything built in: “oh wow this is the best console ever! i love this thing” when ps3 has everything built in: “what the actually fuck is this!? what were they thinking >:(“
My parents bought my nephew a Wii Mini for his birthday when he was 8. Mind you, this was YEARS after even the WiiU came out, but he was so happy with it.
I still have a Wii my family bought in 2011. It was a black Wii of the original model (the one with GameCube ports). Sadly, at some point that I think was during the 2020s, its disc drive stopped reading game discs. Fortunately, it still boots up and there are three Virtual Console games on it (Zelda 1, Mario 1, and Earthworm Jim).
Should’ve engraved “live. laugh. Love.” On all family edition wiis
Genius.
Love, Laugh, Toaster Bath
And on the Wii mini they should've engraved Live, Laugh, Death.
Live, Laugh, Lockheed Martin
@@BlackPlasticBag_nah. It should’ve said: “Live, Laugh, Loathe”
My aunt was super disappointed when netflix stopped supporting the Wii. She had been using her family Wii as a Netflix box for years
Same. Thankfully I was aware that Netflix was ending support for the Wii so we managed to buy her a smart TV for that Christmas just before they ended support.
I LOVED using the wii for Netflix, it's honestly better than my smart TV today, the pointer was just so quick and intuitive compared to using a d pad like on my TV remote
My grandma had a Wii that she used for Netflix, and when the server went down and she didn’t know what happened, she asked me if I could fix it.
Instead of telling her the servers were down I modded the thing and patched it with Wiimmfi (she had Netflix on disc)
@@daddykarlmarx6183
I think the Apple TV does this too
Don’t know what exactly made the previous Wii not as family friendly.
definitely the gamecube controller ports, Odama isn't family friendly...
You could play Geist on the first one!
Definitely the ability to play Tom and Jerry war of the whiskers
It was white
Shovelware.
My childhood Wii was a family edition and I found out when my friend let me borrow his copy of Mario Sunshine, it was a really disappointing day
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@@Paco8478ludd
I don't get it 😂
🤔
@@WackazI guess this revision cannot run Gamecube games
The thing that baffles me the most is how this Wii, which was advertised as the "Family Edition", only came with 1 WII REMOTE?
Honestly it wouldn't've mattered if they removed the GC compatibility as long as it came with at least 4 Wii Remotes so a family of 4 could all play on the Wii together out of the box, instead of spending extra for 3 extra Wii remotes. If Nintendo had done that, I feel like this variation would've actually seen some sales.
*at least 2 Wii remotes
@@dominicyeomans8107lmao yeah how could you possibly expect 4 controllers included to ever be an option?
Pretty sure the idea of a “family edition” is just that it’s more budget conscious. Not that you can enjoy it with the entire family right out of the box. That’s incredibly dumb, especially considering that not every family is the same size. One family buying this console could’ve been buying it literally just for their one child, while one family could be buying it for all five of their children and the two parents. Even including two controllers is dumb because then that former family just gets an extra controller for no reason whatsoever and ends up feeling like they paid extra for something they aren’t going to use when the entire point is the reduction of features for less money.
The Wii Mini ultmately makes more sense because the venn diagram of people who owned a Wii but never touched a Gamecube game and people who owned a Wii but never connected it to the internet would practically have been a circle.
consider the lack of any form of wii sports
We were one of those people that never connected the Wii to the net 😞
No? The Wii would have been hugely popular for Netflix and Hulu. GameCube games were not as popular as Netflix
@@brendanirvine6088 no it literally was not
@@brendanirvine6088 Fun fact. The Wii did not support copy protection for the video signal, so I used my Wii to rip Netflix movies lol
Fun fact: They did NOT sell these types of Wiis in Japan whatsoever. They just did not introduce this one (RVL-101) there, so no Japanese Wiis ever have a chance of being GameCube-portless.
Also, White and Black Wiis can be RVL-001 (GC compatible) or RVL-101 (not GC compatible). You can tell just by the logo orientation, but you have to be careful if you're in the market for a Wii. A Red Wii will NEVER be GC-portless as it was only ever sold before they started introducing the Family Edition-style Wii, and the color is exclusive to 001. So at least if you buy a red Wii you will easily know what you're getting.
Not to be confused with the Red and Black Wii Mini.
hahah i have a red wii
i've actually a US black -001 lol
@@beckybecky125 me too, they aren't very rare iirc, although the family edition is defiantly more common
And light-blue/cyan Wiis are ALWAYS RVL-101, right?
Glad to see he’s NOT talking about the Wii Mini this time around!
Yeah
Because he already did?
I apreciate Scott's Stash a lot. I love your videos so much and while a big part of that are your great scripts and edition, your natural charisma and yapping ability is amazing and I'm so thankful of getting these frequent smaller videos of you talking about whatever you want. The recent Mario Party video was great and I'm definetely going to enjoy this one too
Wow remember when a Nintendo console had the capability to stream Netflix?! What a nostalgia trip
I still have the Netflix app on my wii, but it doesn’t work anymore!
The Switch would never
@@JmKrokYWell it can do Hulu, for….some reason.
yeah I had it on the NES. I'm built different
Well yes, I do remember the Wii U
When I was a kid my cousins ‘upgraded’ their normal wii to one of these (I have literally no idea why they would do that) and gave us their original wii. I was thrilled, but I bet they weren’t! Just a fun story about my rich relatives being not so smart with their money and me getting a free wii out of it.
Hah that sort of reminds me of the time my uncle started using his disability checks he stated getting from being hit by a city service vehicle to buy him whatever the hell he wanted and when I was visiting he saw I was super into splatoon 2 at the time and so he bought it to rub it in my face only to realize he couldn’t actually play multiplayer since he didn’t know you had to actually pay for that. He’s not like this anymore but he and his parents overspend and it will come back to bite them.
I'm sorry but your cousins aren't the brightest lol
It had to have been because of color or something. If it wasn’t this would be even more sad lmao
The Wii Mini being a "cabin wii" here in Canada is so true. My grandparents have a Wii and they used to live at a trailer camp during the summer in the 2000s and 2010s, and they'd always bring their Wii with them. They thought it annoying having to pack it with them so they got a Wii Mini and kept it there.
Wow! 😂
Apparently “family” means “objectively worse in every way” in Nintendo’s eyes. I’ll keep that in mind.
My friend shared a Wii with his brother and his brother sold the old Wii to get this "new" version. My friend was obviously pissed because he lost all of his saves and the GC functionality for zero benefit.
In Brazil we only "officially" got this version of the Wii, but the exact bundle was awesome, a black Wii, with 2 Remote plus, Wii Sports, Resort and Strikers Charged, for a relatively small price. In that regard cost wise the revision wasn't that bad.
Thought he was flipping it off in the thumbnail at first, and didn’t even question it.
gift this to an orphan and theyll be complete again
“You… you found my mom?”
“No, but Wii here.”
@@holisticreviews”Wii are your family”
Grandma and Grandpa will be so disappointed when they find out that their copy of Super Smash Bros Melee does not run on this.
Grandpa's been practicing his shield drops
Poor guy’s never gonna be able to wavedash again
As a Canadian I can confirm that we do in fact have a lot of cabins and cottages
Don't forget Wii Minis as well
@@kittypaisley2029 I never forget the Wii mini
I recently found this version of the Wii out on the streets with 2 controllers and 2 games. Everything still works but the games barely had any progress made on them. I could easily tell that this was a family Wii
lucky theres a family wii
Lucky theres a wii that positively can play@@MegaZeta
My house got robbed as a kid and they took the wii and all the games. My parents got me a new one and it’s was this bad boy. Fun fact, this model has better picture quality than the original
Thank god, the last wii was full Violence in movies and sex on tv
unless it's a mii
Where are those good, old-fashioned values on which Wii used to rely?
@@asianpengi680 Luckily there's a Family Wii
@@subjectnether959 lucky there's wii that absolutely can do, all things that make us laugh and cry
@@mariacheezballzofficial420 he's... a... family.... Wiiiiiii
That Wii is what I like to call “scooby-doo fruit-snack blue”
The revision nobody asked for
But what we all needed!
Fun fact: you can hack the Wii Family Edition and make it read GC games. Granted, you’ll have a controller issue but it can boot games.
Only some consoles do that I think, if I remember correctly the actual drive in family edition consoles are missing two plastic arms that would hold miniDVDs in place
@@supahas3821 You’re probably right but I swear I remember watching a video where someone was able to get GC games to run on the Family Edition. Maybe I’m misremembering and all they did was get ISOs to run on the console, which wouldn’t be as impressive.
@@leeartlee915I believe it's possible to swap the disc drive with one that can read gamecube games.
@@shanez1215 I mean, it’s all kinda moot. There’s over a 100 million Wiis out there and I think like 80% of them play GC natively.
You can actually plug the GC adapter and play with your controllers just fine on a modded system!
I don't think it doesn't work on Wii games with GC support though
I used to think the sideways Wii was so cool and be sad I didn't have it, but now I'm happy I can actually play GC games.
You can lay the original model flat on its side, if you want to...
@@thisisnotachannel Ya but it looks extremely ugly when you do
I hacked mine and did it anyway
@@Raphe9000 it looks literally the exact same as the family
I would really like to see the extent of Scott's collection, because he really pulls out shit I've never even heard of and they're always CIB.
I had to look it up because I'm a boomer. CIB stands for cunt is bustin. It means a thing is above average. 🌈
I have this AWFUL memory of being on my (then) girlfriend's house because she borrowed a black wii from her brother and she asked me if I could hack it so she could play gamecube games since she had one as a kid.
I spent like 4 hours reading through guides and downloading iso files for all the games she wanted, even brought one of my old GC controllers to give her... just to touch the damn wii and seeing that it didn't had the gamecube controller ports.
😂
You can play GC games on this revision with Nintendon't and the classic controller pro. The only thing you'll be losing out on is analog trigger support.
5:44 I think the blue one originally came out with Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and I always assumed it was because Sonic was blue but no I guess it was planned all along and they probably thought "well Sonic is blue, we're making blue Wiis now why not"
5:58 this is just my guess but I think the reason why this is it's because with the family edition I've seen some models where it's basically an original model Wii motherboard without the GameCube ports installed. In fact where the GameCube ports go is a separate piece & if you remove it On some models you can see the GameCube port holes. Even looking at the mother board you can see where the ports were going to go.
The reason why it can't play GameCube games is because of the disc drive itself. Not the actual console.
I imagine you could probably add the ports to the console & swap out the disc drive with one that is GameCube compatible. It should work & make it a backwards compatible family edition Wii.
I think the shell is almost unchanged, you could even probably just pop the internals from a GC wii into it and be fine, just remove the tabs on the top flap and remove the screws
@@LxMxNxG it's pretty much the same shell but with a new coat of paint. The only difference is where the GameCube ports were is now one long piece of plastic that screws on. The whole console itself is literally an original Wii but without native GameCube support. I've seen people make them GameCube compatible. You just need to add the ports & swap out the disc drive. Even though it shows the GameCube disc on the disc channel on the family edition. The disc drive is the only thing stopping it from playing GameCube games. The Wii disc drives are interchangeable so you can swap it out & it'll work with no problem.
I know you can get it to play GameCube isos from USB using homebrew. It was kinda stupid that Nintendo simply put a disc drive in that didn't support GameCube. The rest of the hardware was still fully capable.
Much like gba games with the dsi
I’m glad I still have my original Wii because a lot of the value I get from it stems from the GameCube compatibility
6:20 Oh my god, Scott's hand is floating. I knew he was cursed
I remember the Wii Family Edition was sold at Costcos, was pretty cheap like only $100 for each system and came with two games Wii Sports and Resorts! It’s was a good redesign for newcomers to the Wii, especially people in the fitness industry, unlike the Wii Mini which came out way too late and you can’t even stream video like Netflix nor UA-cam, which at that time, kids were using their Wii to watch Netflix in the early 2010s!
Families hate Gamecube.
This was a part of the massive revision massacre of 2009-2011
I got this for black friday at walmart for 99$ in 2011. It was a great deal with cheap black friday games.
It still holds up today.
Also thank you Scott for being the only channel that acknowledges that Giest exsisted.
sounds like an amazing deal
Civvie 11 did a great video on Geist
I had no idea there was a Wii mini as a kid until one day I noticed one just sitting in the redbox at my walmart.
This Wii in its blue colour was my childhood!!! Except mine came with a copy of mario and sonic at the London 2012 Olympic games
Mine came bundled with that game too
Miku profile picture works too well when talking about this shade of blue
Scott the Woz. Keeping Nintendo relevant since 2012.
And they've needed it since 2006...
@@thisisnotachanneldidn’t the switch outsell the Wii
Blue wii remote is gorgeous though
8:06
aka weezer blue
What's with these homies dissing my Wii?
DSi blue
It’s literally turquoise.
Nintendo Switch Lite confirms it.
Love the Wii videos, what a peak gaming era
I remember feeling ripped off that my Wii didnt come with a stand and standing it up vertically anyways just so it would look more correct.
6:46 We all don't have cabins in Canada, Scott. We have igloos. It's called research.
I don't care what anyone says, Wii mini as stupid it is, it's really cool - it's like a console that you stealthily leave in the house of someone who hates technology, if this make any sense.
i get what you mean, its like a wii you’d give to the amish lol
Thanks for giving me an excuse to stay up 11 more minutes
hell yeah, watching netflix in 480i
both the rvl-001 & rvl-101 support 480p
I wanted that green wii so goddamn bad
That's blue:/, are you color blind?
Pretty sure they were talking about the Lime Green Wii prototype shown off alongside the White, Black, Blue and Red Wiis during E3 (2005 I believe). The others did release, White and Black were available normally, Blue was a Wii Family Edition (See the video), and Red was available in Mario 25th Anniversary consoles.
6:00 How have I never realized the small disc was a gamecuve disc? I literally have been playing on a wii since I was a kid, I've seen the disc channel millions of times, and I never once thought about the seconds smaller disc until now.
Finally someone acknowledges that the Wii mini isn't good, but it IS kinda cute.
Shut up you have no idea what you are talking abiut
i think this is the 46th time scott has talked about console revisions lol
Yeah, it seems like all he does on this channel is talk about stuff he's talked about before. Kinda getting annoying, in my opinion.
8:04 is when all the people who live in North Carolina rather laughed or got mad
Something about the IO being horizontal on the Wii Family Edition bothers me.
From what I understand, if you swap out the disc drive on the Family Edition for an original Wii drive, it will read GameCube discs no problem. You’ll just lack the means of plugging in a controller.
They should've absolutely went ham on the different colours for the Wii.
I love my family edition Wii, it gave me so many great childhood memories and I had no idea it was different from the original model until this year.
Bro I really want a Wii in this color, I wish they also made it in the normal version
3:33
The finger slide lining up with the sound effect in the song is perfect lmao
As someone who got the Wii Family Edition in 2011 back when it was still known as just the "Wii", my disappointment was immeasurable when I think of how many of us kids were tricked.
Thanks! I finally know why some of my friend's WIIs had no gamecube ports
The gamecube controller and memory card slots can be solderd back on. The only hardware thing stoping gamecube games is the disc drive. It seems the only reason it doesnt have it is to have a explanation for the price cut. Gamecube games can be played via nintendont (a piece of homebrew, intended to be launched by a backup loader like USB Loader GX or WiiFlow lite. If you want to use GC controller without soldering them on you can use a GamCube controller adaptor for Wii U and plug that into USB1 (the higher up usb port). If you get a third party Gamecube controller adaptor that goes to usb make sure it has Wii U compatability (eg via a switch on it or only supporting wii u). Also using a Wii family edition and a Wii U and a Wii mini upright will damage the disc drive and the discs quicker.
Name unclear: I expected this console to have a family.
Now I’m filing for divorce from this bachelor.
3:06 thus was the wii bundle I bought as a kid, and got so many hours of playtime ou off. I bought it at the time for ~€100, so that's a pretty good deal for 2 games and a motion plus controller
Yeah, this was a weird one. It's basically an early prototype version of the Wii Mini, but with the same form factor (sans color) as the original. But yet not as stripped as the Mini. Sort of like a "middle ground" since it still had internet compatibility and an SD card slot. But as you noted: People who complained about that already had a full-featured Wii, lol! So it was kind of like something for those who didn't care about the loss of Gamecube stuff for any reason. Like maybe they still had a Gamecube or didn't care about the games that had Gamecube features.
This unfortunately did lead to some confusion though as some thought it "did" have Gamecube compatibility until they got a disappointing surprise. Some people were able to return it in time, but others found out too late and the return window closed. That's kind of an issue with console revisions compared to handheld ones because with handhelds you were usually getting an upgrade of some kind with a few exceptions while with consoles the aim is generally to just make it cheaper by removing stuff from it. Neither ideas are bad in themselves, but it's that lack of model revision consistency that didn't help matters.
I have this version of the Wii. I HAD to have it because it's blue...that was my sole reason for buying it, otherwise, my siblings and I already had a launch model Wii.... I still have my blue Wii, still with the box and all of the inner-fixings. I actually used it a lot when I went off to college, left our family Wii at home, and I used it a lot until the Wii U came out a year or two later. I've considered modding it and getting some use out of it, it's basically been in the box for 12 years since the Wii U released, but my Wii U and its internal vWii are modded, so it doesn't even make that much sense to put the work into doing the Wii itself as well. I did fire it up a few months ago just to make sure it still works, though - since I think Wii's have capacitor issues if they aren't used for some time, seemed to be working fine. I thought about selling it at one point, but they really aren't worth much at all - even CIB.... I think the receipt is still in the box as well - which I believe I only paid like $90-$100 for it. This particular version in North America was a Black Friday/Holiday timeframe release for that discounted price. I think after that and for quite a while, they sold the blue Wii as a Skylanders bundle, you could only get them as stand-alone consoles without any sort of a pack-in for a really short amount of time. But even with that being the case, nobody wants them...they aren't worth a darn to anybody except those of us who have them for no logical reason. 🤣
The Wii U had already been released at that time, but one day my father came back with what was mentionned here as the european family edition, with wii sports and wii party, in white. He brought it to a friend who modded it, so we weren't allowed to set up internet on it (I think it was mostly him being scared of bricking it by Nintendo detecting a modded Wii than actual problems that could arise) we had over 800 games on a hard drive ! It was amazing. I went to look for that Wii recently at my parents house, they lost the hard drive and the wiimotes, but I plugged it and it works just fine, so whenever I'll get my paycheck I'll probably buy a knockoff pair of wiimotes and try to set up a hard drive with games, as my father told me all the important files for the mod are in the SD card.
I went out of my way to get one of these just so I can try to solder the gamecube ports back on. Thing is, all the necessary traces and contact points are still there on the motherboard, so theoretically it could work.
This is truly one of the Wiis of all time
the family edition confirms that the wii has parents
Scotts Stash vids to listen to while falling asleep keep me sane
The best nintendo advertising channel
AMD bought out ATI in 2006, they then started phasing out the ATI name for their graphics chips. The previously known "ATI Radeon" graphics chips would be phased to simply, "Radeon" or "AMD Radeon." That was in late 2010, while the Wii Family Edition was released in late 2011. Nintendo had a WHOLE year to change the molds to have the AMD logo on it, but they either were too lazy, production had already started, or the chip was still technically made by ATI, and not AMD, probably the latter
5:16 Scott begins casually removing a piece of tape from the box.
Our family's wii was a Family Edition, which I'm pretty sure my dad just bought because it had "Family Edition" in the title. Just recently homebrewed it, same process as a normal wii.
It was bundled with a Wii Sports/Resort bundle disc, with both games on one disc (which seems to be somewhat rare in America?), despite this video featuring one not bundled with a game, so I guess it wasn't all that bad. I don't know, this is probably my nostalgia saying "okay it's a solid wii, it's not THAT bad".
The Wii Family edition is like bringing your toddler brother to show and tell because he’s missing his left hand and right thumb. It’s not that he lost them; he just never had them to begin with
5:27 don’t be silly Scott, that’s chartreuse.
3:50 I just call that the "No Gamecube for you edition" specifically for that reason
I got it from a Walmart thinking it was limited edition all those years ago 💀
This is the most system a system has ever systemed
Geist is a fantastic game. I love it so much. The multiplayer slaps so hard.
I've always loved the wii mini's design, it reminds me to the mini dark hershey's my dad used to bring home
I somehow managed to resist the urge to give it a bite the first time i saw one
See i had a family edition wii as a kid, but my step brother had a backwards compatible model but his broke and he replaced it with one of these blue family edition wiis and he actually broke the top of the wii trying to get to the GameCube slots, interestingly enough the shell actually still has the Cutouts they just didn't put anything in the slots and glued the lid shut lol
It’s nice to see an upload on the WII !
Scott has too much power. I watched this video once and I'm currently buying this exact Wii model.
I like to think Scott has a shower thought and the second he gets out he Gets the camera
One thing to note is that the original Wiis could play DVDs using homebrew because the drive supported it, but since the Family Edition this is no longer possible.
As a Canadian who’s family had a cabin I saw many other cabins have Wii minis inside
My "favourite" part of this is that it still only has one set of controls and multiple party games. Somewhere along the line, Nintendo forgot what a family looks like.
At 5:58, the aspect ratio is wrong! That Wii is outputting in 16:9, why is it pillarboxed to 4:3? Wii was a 16:9 console!
The Wii outputs in 16:9 by default, but in the settings you can change it to output in 4:3
Fun fact, the family edition's motherboard is actually identical to post-launch Wii systems. It actually has the solder points for a GameCube controller ports, and is fully compatible with Gamecube games (in terms of chipset), it is just a software lockout. These later releases actually have better power management, and are frequently used by modders to create "GameCube Handhelds"
I think the disc drive is different though, I saw Spawn Wave make a video comparing two consoles side by side and the family edition disc drive couldn’t hold gamecube discs in place
@@supahas3821 yep, that made it extra expensive, so they replaced the drive as well
@@ZenithKnight I can confirm this myself, since back when we first got a family edition one, we noticed the panel where you put the memory cards and controllers was screwed on, so when they were unscrewed, we saw the slots for where they would go, but there weren't any internal components to plug them into. Yet for some reason the data management center still had the Memory Card section.
In hindsight, a bunch of this stuff highlights how cheaply the Wii as a whole was made.
1:34 when ps2 has everything built in: “oh wow this is the best console ever! i love this thing”
when ps3 has everything built in: “what the actually fuck is this!? what were they thinking >:(“
I'm really starting to like these dank pods style videos
My parents bought my nephew a Wii Mini for his birthday when he was 8. Mind you, this was YEARS after even the WiiU came out, but he was so happy with it.
The Wii Family Edition can play Game Cube games as the hardware is still in there, but you need to use homebrew to play from an SD card or USB drive
When I was a kid I remember tearing the top plate of this Wii off trying to get to the GameCube ports lol
Next video: The Gamecube component cables?
(Please).
And others options: N64 Games on 3DS, GBA and DS Games dual releases.
Fun fact: if you swap the disc drive for the one from an original wii, you'll be able to play gamecube games.
Family Wii seems like a console you give to your little brother.
Yeah i DO want you to play GEIST
I still have a Wii my family bought in 2011. It was a black Wii of the original model (the one with GameCube ports). Sadly, at some point that I think was during the 2020s, its disc drive stopped reading game discs. Fortunately, it still boots up and there are three Virtual Console games on it (Zelda 1, Mario 1, and Earthworm Jim).
I thought he was flipping it off in the thumbnail. But then I realized it wasn’t the Wii mini.