The Wii Family Edition
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- Опубліковано 11 кві 2024
- I crack open one of the most forgettable Nintendo console variations: the Wii Family Edition
This video was originally released via Card #12 of the Scott The Woz Collectible Trading Cards in late 2022.
Edited by Dominic Mattero and Scott Wozniak
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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
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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I don't get it 😂
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@@Lunar_PendragonI guess this revision cannot run Gamecube games
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
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
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?
Glad to see he’s NOT talking about the Wii Mini this time around!
Yeah
Because he already did?
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
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
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! 😂
As a Canadian I can confirm that we do in fact have a lot of cabins and cottages
gift this to an orphan and theyll be complete again
“You… you found my mom?”
“No, but Wii here.”
@@holisticreviews”Wii are your family”
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
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
Thought he was flipping it off in the thumbnail at first, and didn’t even question it.
Same
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.
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
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.
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
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.
Apparently “family” means “objectively worse in every way” in Nintendo’s eyes. I’ll keep that in mind.
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.
😂
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. 🌈
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
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 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.
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
This was a part of the massive revision massacre of 2009-2011
Families hate Gamecube.
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
hell yeah, watching netflix in 480i
both the rvl-001 & rvl-101 support 480p
That Wii is what I like to call “scooby-doo fruit-snack blue)
I wanted that green wii so goddamn bad
That's blue:/, are you color blind?
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
@@LETxMYxNUTSxGO 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.
Blue wii remote is gorgeous though
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.
I remember the Wii Family Edition was sold at Costcos, was pretty cheap like only $100 for each system and came with two games Wii Sports and Resorts! It’s was a good redesign for newcomers to the Wii, especially people in the fitness industry, unlike the Wii Mini which came out way too late and you can’t even stream video like Netflix nor UA-cam, which at that time, kids were using their Wii to watch Netflix in the early 2010s!
5:44 I think the blue one originally came out with Mario and Sonic at the London 2012 Olympic Games, and I always assumed it was because Sonic was blue but no I guess it was planned all along and they probably thought "well Sonic is blue, we're making blue Wiis now why not"
Thanks for giving me an excuse to stay up 11 more minutes
I’m glad I still have my original Wii because a lot of the value I get from it stems from the GameCube compatibility
I remember feeling ripped off that my Wii didnt come with a stand and standing it up vertically anyways just so it would look more correct.
Love the Wii videos, what a peak gaming era
I got this for black friday at walmart for 99$ 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
3:33
The finger slide lining up with the sound effect in the song is perfect lmao
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.
8:06
aka weezer blue
What's with these homies dissing my Wii?
DSi blue
It’s literally turquoise.
Nintendo Switch Lite confirms it.
6:20 Oh my god, Scott's hand is floating. I knew he was cursed
I had the Wii family edition as a kid and it butterfly effected me from being a normal 6 year old, to knowing that Doki Doki Panic was mario 2, to being the strange man I am today.
I think I went through the same process, I learned about Mario 2’s true identity at like 8 years old..
That happened to me when I learned about "The Lost Levels".
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.
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.
Scotts Stash vids to listen to while falling asleep keep me sane
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.
This is truly one of the Wiis of all time
Thanks! I finally know why some of my friend's WIIs had no gamecube ports
It’s nice to see an upload on the WII !
Im wondering if the PS5 PRO is also going to look like an ice cream sandwich. That is what the PS5 looks like right now.
In before fudge bar
the family edition confirms that the wii has parents
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.
5:16 Scott begins casually removing a piece of tape from the box.
Geist is a fantastic game. I love it so much. The multiplayer slaps so hard.
8:04 is when all the people who live in North Carolina rather laughed or got mad
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 💀
The best nintendo advertising channel
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.
Awesome job, scoot!! Please review families next!!
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.
Scott the Woz. Keeping Nintendo relevant since 2012.
And they've needed it since 2006...
@@thisisnotachanneldidn’t the switch outsell the Wii
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
THE GAMECUBE ISN'T FAMILY FRIENDLY!!!
i had this wii when i was younger, i loved it back then because i was 7 years old and loved nintendo, and i had no problems with it. but when i got older and learned about the wii with gamecube support.. yeah i wish my parents got me that one. but wii is wii and i like wii so it’s not a problem
Happy this video came out the day after I bought a Wii mini
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.
That's my definitive version of the SNES i don't understand the hate for it
It's because it was a really common console to make counterfeits of. If you try to buy a SNES Jr, you can easily end up with a fake if you're not careful.
People hate the Jr cuz it lowered the quality by removing support for the S-Video Cable.
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. 🤣
Yeah i DO want you to play GEIST
Very interesting edition!
They should've absolutely went ham on the different colours for the Wii.
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.
I can't even lie. This is the specific Wii that I wanted for the color. After installing Homebrew, the lack of GameCube support is a non issue with a USB adapter to connect a GameCube controller.
Name unclear: I expected this console to have a family.
Now I’m filing for divorce from this bachelor.
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
we had one of these redesigns when i was a kid, and my brother uncrewed it and took it apart certain that there was gamecube ports hidden under the plastic 😭😭
it still worked after that somehow
This is the most system a system has ever systemed
Scott "handheld revisions are usually better" not really, we went from the DS lite to the DSi and they removed GBA support, we also went from the GBA with the comfortable vertical design to the SP with the cramped horizontal design and they removed the headphone jack, then the Gameboy Micro was built for ants, the PSP go removed the UMD slot and the E-1000 removed online functionality.
I'll give you the micro and PSP Go, but the DSi introduced a proper menu with tons more features and downloadable games, which at the time I could argue made up for no longer being able to play the games from a system that just about discontinued. And you mentioned the DS Lite, which itself vastly improved over the original. And I dunno what you're on about the SP, it may not have been quite as comfortable but the beautiful screen and clamshell design almost unanimously cement it as one of the greatest redesigns of any console.
The SP had a backlight. That alone would've sold me on an upgrade.
@@user-zw3on4bx2tthe original ags-001 sp had a frontlight, only the later ags-101 sp had a backlight
@@gamecubeplayer doesn't matter. Being able to see the screen without obnoxious glare from a worm light is a plus in my book.
The memories
Fun fact: if you swap the disc drive for the one from an original wii, you'll be able to play gamecube games.
Broke my white model back in 09, got this back in 2011, and hated that I couldn’t play GameCube games anymore. Had that exact blue model.
We had a Wii that could play Gamecube games, but back then, i didnt even know the Gamecube existed.
I'm really starting to like these dank pods style videos
The wii family has been my main wii since 2011
this is first time im hearing of this variant.
When I was a kid I remember tearing the top plate of this Wii off trying to get to the GameCube ports lol
I thought he was flipping it off in the thumbnail. But then I realized it wasn’t the Wii mini.
As a Canadian who’s family had a cabin I saw many other cabins have Wii minis inside
5:27 don’t be silly Scott, that’s chartreuse.
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 like to think Scott has a shower thought and the second he gets out he Gets the camera