The Wii was my first Nintendo console, although for some reason I got it right before the Wii U released..., instead of just that 😭(It wasn't backwards compatible either, since I got the Family Edition)
Hey, me too! I was really annoyed to find out it couldn't play GameCube games; I was really looking forward to being able to play Pokemon Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness.
Actually, the Wii disc drive (well, the GameCube compatible ones, anyway) can actually read and play DVD videos, but Nintendo didn't feel like paying DVD FLLC royalties for the logo on the box of every Wii. Nintendo just disabled the feature in the Wii menu but you can use homebrew to get it to work
To play the DVD’s you need to homebrew your Wii and download WiiMC. WiiMC is a media player for the wii and you can play videos on it. Insert a supported DVD disc into the console and browse the video files you want to play.
The "Everybody Votes Channel" could of easily inspired a huge part of Splatoon, being Splatfests. Dogs vs. Cats was an actual theme, being the first in North America and 6th in Europe.
I still have my launch edition Wii with the stand. I never noticed the Logo was changed in later models to be horizontal! I love the GameCube emulation & controller ports. It's kind of weird that the adult games are on the GameCube mostly.
Fun fact: GameCube is not even getting emulated, it's running native in GameCube Mode, which is just restricting Wii Hardware to GameCube Hardware basically
7:47 honestly as a kid I used to be completely freaked out whenever the screen where it says that the game cant be read I got freaked out because it was black with white text and honestly today it’s still kind of creepy😅
when i was like 4 or 5 i broke my wii sports resort disc, homebrewed my wii u when i was 10, got the game back some time later, swapped the environment to aroma about a month ago, and am now mad that 1: wii sports resort randomly disappeared from my home menu (cant even use tiramisu sigpatcher to play it, the icon is just GONE), and its also not on nusspli :(
I had a third party sensor bar, I can’t describe the amount of times I flicked a lighter to boot up nsmbw because we didn’t have batteries. We celebrated new batteries so we could plausibly play Mario Party 8.
Fact 40 is the Joycon lights. In reality, player 5 has the first two lights, player 6 with the first three and player 7 with all four. There was no eighth wiimote support
15:44 : I used to work as a QA tester for a QA company back in the days of the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and in our bug reports for Wii products, we HAD to use the official naming. That's when I knew not to use "Wiimote"
While I wasn’t necessarily afraid of the Wii SD Card Menu, I did think that it was like a “Dark Wii,” like, ‘Oh. This is a thing. Not sure if I’ll ever have an SD Card to do this with, but ok.’ (I have an SD Card now and I modded my Wii, and it’s an RVL-001).
8:04 the first Wiis had disc drives with dvd support but that support was never used and the dvd support was later removed from the disc drive. if you have a compatible wii then you can use wiimc
On #39 they also removed the SD card slot, Component cable support, and you couldn’t use any online functionality at all even through the usb broadband adapter that was released for the Wii. So it was strictly a Wii Ultra Light.
I had a gyration Mouse when I was in college. Around 2001. It's insane not knowing I was buying something partly owned by nintendo. It was a cool house, you could pick it up in the mouse turned into a pointer. Brilliant idea, surprised they never caught on... On PCs
5:45 The LEDs for players 5 to 7 are counting in binary, with the top LED representing the number 4, the 2nd LED is blank, the 3rd LED represents 2 and the 4th LED represents 1, e.g. the 1st and 3rd LED lit result in 4 + 2 = 6. The only odd one out is the number 8 which can't be represented that way.
7:38 Any kind of musicless error screen or message that looked slightly different from the main Wii menus was always so eerie to me. Not to mention anti piracy screens.
One you missed In Wii Sports Tennis if you unselect all players you can enter a spectator mode which allows you to watch a tennis match from multiple perspectives.
Totally was weirded out by the "No SD Card" menu. When I was young (couldn't read, young) I didn't know what that message meant, and thought it was scary.
Woohoo Island sounds like something snatched from The Sims 4: Lovestrucvk Expansion Pack; a _Romance_ focused pack, or in the words of lilsimsie: "The Sims is releasing a WooHoo pack." so... yeah
When i was a kid i was scared of the song that plays in supermassive galaxy from mario galaxy 2 for some reason, and also the sd card menu, but because i thought i was going to brick the wii or something lmao
I somehow already knew 4 and 5. I was just like, "What if I do this?" and that happened. Although, I favored going way to the left, and throwing the ball with a twist to the right.
Never used a Netflix disc to load Netflix.. It was a free download from the Wii shop channel.. it also became unsupported/decommissioned several years ago, several years after the news and weather channels.. now i use mine to play NES and SNES and Sega console games
all of these were super obvious. how is this supposed to be facts YOU Didn't Know but then you say stuff like "did you know the wii was called the revolution in development?!" like yes i think pretty much everyone did
For the other light patterns on the remote, it kinda looks like binary for 5,6 and 7, although the highest bit is shifted left. And then I have no idea for eight, probably just a random pattern they chose. 5:40
(Addition) 1:57 ...And, Any other actions like D-Pad direction throwing, Spikeball, curveball, and splitter will be displayed in the 2 player tutorial where they show you what they do. (Kinda surprised when I finally got to read it)
Bonus: The Wii Classic (and pro) controller can be use on the NES Classic controller slots. So if you have them and don't wanna buy an expensive NES Classic controller, you're in luck 👍 (Also you can mod your NES or other Classic consoles to play more games. Hackchi) In their defence, 17:15 Like thry said in the presentation "Everyone please turn off your phones, we're getting a lot of wireless interference." I played that game, and the motion controls played perfectly. 💯♥ I don't understand your fear of the sd card menu 😀 Why? I miss the Mii(s).. And games where you could use Mii(s).. That was awesome.
I have the weirdest thing going on with my Wii it will play disc games fine but if I open A downloaded game it will go to like the tvs Home screen for the hdmi port options and will go back to the game if I hit the home button on Wii controller And won’t stop unless I hit Wii menu
Another fun fact about the Wii: you can fit every single Wii game ever released in the US market on just over 500 gigabytes of hard drive space 😂
So get a 1tb hard drive then?? (512gb drives are actually 465gb) :)
@@MiiGameplaysHD exactly
@MiiGameplaysHD nope. 512GB, 465GiB. Some platforms just don't know the difference. E.g. Windows. The pager for the disk takes some space, too.
@@MiiGameplaysHD get a 960gb hard drive
@@MiiGameplaysHD 512GB drives are 465 GiB, they are different units, in linux that is showed correctly
The Wii was my first Nintendo console, although for some reason I got it right before the Wii U released..., instead of just that 😭(It wasn't backwards compatible either, since I got the Family Edition)
What’s up Albert Boris! Love your vids
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Hey, me too! I was really annoyed to find out it couldn't play GameCube games; I was really looking forward to being able to play Pokemon Colosseum and XD: Gale of Darkness.
You just made me feel ancient
Same
My Wii has a stand. I thought all Wiis were like that until I started watching videos about it on the internet
Actually, the Wii disc drive (well, the GameCube compatible ones, anyway) can actually read and play DVD videos, but Nintendo didn't feel like paying DVD FLLC royalties for the logo on the box of every Wii. Nintendo just disabled the feature in the Wii menu but you can use homebrew to get it to work
Really?
Really? I'll have to try that.
To play the DVD’s you need to homebrew your Wii and download WiiMC. WiiMC is a media player for the wii and you can play videos on it. Insert a supported DVD disc into the console and browse the video files you want to play.
It doesn’t work out of the box though. You need to be able to run custom software, that enables the functionality.
@@RipVanFish09 I never said it was
9:20 "they really dont matter" WOOO
I also thought the sd card menu was the dark wii 😂
Bruh same
Yeah me too
The "Everybody Votes Channel" could of easily inspired a huge part of Splatoon, being Splatfests. Dogs vs. Cats was an actual theme, being the first in North America and 6th in Europe.
That's a good thing they could revive this concept
@@AiNe_lnk I FORGOT ABOUT THIS FOR THREE MONTHS THANK YOU FOR REMINDING ME
9:18 the ‘WOOO’ at the end of this clip killed me. That was so random. 🤣🤣
truer words have not been said
🤔@@Commander-Spiff
I still have my launch edition Wii with the stand. I never noticed the Logo was changed in later models to be horizontal! I love the GameCube emulation & controller ports. It's kind of weird that the adult games are on the GameCube mostly.
Fun fact: GameCube is not even getting emulated, it's running native in GameCube Mode, which is just restricting Wii Hardware to GameCube Hardware basically
i have a wii
Morse code is crazy
you know nintendo is lacking in content rn if this is the type of content we’re getting from nintendo youtubers (great video btw i love the wii)
Switch 2 can't come quick enough 😂
To me this is cool, some new info for me to learn about the Wii. Also Florida cops playing Wii on duty LOL
7:47 honestly as a kid I used to be completely freaked out whenever the screen where it says that the game cant be read I got freaked out because it was black with white text and honestly today it’s still kind of creepy😅
He was so happy when he got the strike 7:01
Fr it was so funny😂😂😂
Over an hour too!
One time, I lost my copy of Wii sports and still can't find it to this day. :(
Same
Ah, so that´s why I´ve found 2 copies of it
when i was like 4 or 5 i broke my wii sports resort disc, homebrewed my wii u when i was 10, got the game back some time later, swapped the environment to aroma about a month ago, and am now mad that 1: wii sports resort randomly disappeared from my home menu (cant even use tiramisu sigpatcher to play it, the icon is just GONE), and its also not on nusspli :(
same :(
I found another one on ebay when my original copy quit working
Note that some of these facts are either already known by most or incorrectly stated.
5:35 Okay I actually didn’t know that! Good job!
DAMN , even the cops plays the wii 🤣
As my sister owns just dance 2017, I can confirm it is a Wii game
It is also a Wii U game.
@@repoversemedium and a ps3 game i had it on there
I have Just dance 2019 For wii.
I had a third party sensor bar, I can’t describe the amount of times I flicked a lighter to boot up nsmbw because we didn’t have batteries. We celebrated new batteries so we could plausibly play Mario Party 8.
4:07 The Gamecube was backwards conpatible with the gameboy advance but idk i w would consider it backwards since they were during the same times
Notice nothing was said about the Homebrew Channel.
Because that's not a Wii channel
Fact 40 is the Joycon lights. In reality, player 5 has the first two lights, player 6 with the first three and player 7 with all four. There was no eighth wiimote support
Super Smash Bros. For Wii U
If the Queen (RIP) didn’t use her Golden Wii, I hope King Charles will honor Nintendo’s piece of hardware 👑
11:32 "that's obese :D"
15:44 : I used to work as a QA tester for a QA company back in the days of the Wii, PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 and in our bug reports for Wii products, we HAD to use the official naming. That's when I knew not to use "Wiimote"
The Wii Mini is underrated as heck.
The Wii is the best Nintendo console with the switch as a close second
Wii U is actually better than Switch, but, ah well.
Nah, The Nintendo was by far better than the Wii U. The Switch is alright for the stuff you can do with it but The DS still remains better.
The Wii is the first place I watched Netflix and I still have the now worthless disc.
5:36 ist Binary Code for 5-8
yep
How
No it's not
Five is 0101, Six is 0110
Doesn't match any of the lights on the photo
How can it be? In binary, 8 should have only a single light, since 8=2³
I WAS also scared of the SD card menu
Wii: Wiimote Players (We)
Wii U: Wiimote Players (We) And Gamepad Player (You) [We And You]
While I wasn’t necessarily afraid of the Wii SD Card Menu, I did think that it was like a “Dark Wii,” like, ‘Oh. This is a thing. Not sure if I’ll ever have an SD Card to do this with, but ok.’ (I have an SD Card now and I modded my Wii, and it’s an RVL-001).
8:04 the first Wiis had disc drives with dvd support but that support was never used and the dvd support was later removed from the disc drive. if you have a compatible wii then you can use wiimc
On #39 they also removed the SD card slot, Component cable support, and you couldn’t use any online functionality at all even through the usb broadband adapter that was released for the Wii. So it was strictly a Wii Ultra Light.
Nice video, there are some things i didn't know about the wii, and i did not remember that they had a sd card slot
This video reminds me of the good old days.
I had a gyration Mouse when I was in college. Around 2001. It's insane not knowing I was buying something partly owned by nintendo. It was a cool house, you could pick it up in the mouse turned into a pointer. Brilliant idea, surprised they never caught on... On PCs
Plankton's robotic revenge was the last spongebob game on the Wii
SCOTT PILGRIM AT THE BEGINNING🗣️🗣️🗣️🔥🔥🔥
boxing on wii sports club had support for 2 wii remote pluses
I always preferred the black background of the SD card menu
thank you for all the nostalgia haha gonna go play Mario Kart Wii now
5:45 The LEDs for players 5 to 7 are counting in binary, with the top LED representing the number 4, the 2nd LED is blank, the 3rd LED represents 2 and the 4th LED represents 1, e.g. the 1st and 3rd LED lit result in 4 + 2 = 6. The only odd one out is the number 8 which can't be represented that way.
7:38 Any kind of musicless error screen or message that looked slightly different from the main Wii menus was always so eerie to me. Not to mention anti piracy screens.
alot of these were just observations of regular gameplay
One you missed
In Wii Sports Tennis if you unselect all players you can enter a spectator mode which allows you to watch a tennis match from multiple perspectives.
5:04 at this point, you’re basically holding a brick
5:09 now it’s a brick with extra protection
9:23 : Satoru is really the Ole Kirk Christiansen of Nintendo. He saw the potential of the Switch, but never saw the success of the console.
i remember we had a spelling test in school and the teacher said to spell the word "we" and I wrote "wii" on my paper. got a few laughs at home
5:33 Those are the only 4 patterns that can be made with that light configuration without conflicting with the original ones.
7:50 : I won't judge. I was scared of Yoshi's Island death jingle AND curtain when I was a kid so...
Totally was weirded out by the "No SD Card" menu. When I was young (couldn't read, young) I didn't know what that message meant, and thought it was scary.
Woohoo Island sounds like something snatched from The Sims 4: Lovestrucvk Expansion Pack; a _Romance_ focused pack, or in the words of lilsimsie: "The Sims is releasing a WooHoo pack." so... yeah
The correct spelling is "Wuhu Island", but it's pronounced the same so your point still stands.
And for another glaringly obvious fact; Water is wet.
You do realize not everyone knows all of these facts.
Water isn't wet. Water makes things wet.
10:00 : Because for them, everything is a Nintendo. XD
Hah "Wii YOU" "Wii U"
LOL! 😂
you just got it?
7:40
I used to imagine that it was kind of a basement, nothing there, just empty
5:38 they could've had around 12-15/16 players with those lights
yeah but who the fuck owns 16 wiimotes anyways
16 player smash bros would be insane
I always thought the SD card menu was so cool, I was like “wow, a dark theme!”.
Too bad I didn’t how to use an SD card at the time lol
11:00 there was a netflix wii channel released later.
28.
WRONG! the SNES was the first one.
Lets go i love Nintendo
Sadly my wii broke
My sister is prue 😈 evil
You’re sister must learn a lesson.
*pure
The only sd card menu I needed was the homebrew launcher.
When i was a kid i was scared of the song that plays in supermassive galaxy from mario galaxy 2 for some reason, and also the sd card menu, but because i thought i was going to brick the wii or something lmao
Man, I must have played Wii Sports and Wii Sports Resort a lot! Since I know practically all of these related to those games.
I somehow already knew 4 and 5. I was just like, "What if I do this?" and that happened. Although, I favored going way to the left, and throwing the ball with a twist to the right.
I didn't realize that most of these are easter eggs. I just found them, and thought it was normal.
I bought Tiger Woods Golf because you can play it as Disk Golf! I also bought the steering wheel to use as a disk.
I remember back in the day when my sensor bar broke, i used 2 candles and it worked way better than the bar itself
Never used a Netflix disc to load Netflix.. It was a free download from the Wii shop channel.. it also became unsupported/decommissioned several years ago, several years after the news and weather channels.. now i use mine to play NES and SNES and Sega console games
Switch Stop, This is sick!
5:36 That’s for the Switch.
I never had a Wii, but I had a Wii U.
Growing up, I watched so much SkyDoesMinecraft on my Wii...
I (unfortunately) grew up with a Wii mini
I just realized most of these are not secrets, its just that im terrible at Wii Sports Resort ;(
Thankfully netflix became an normal app on the wii or i would have missed alot of shows back in the day man
10:27 literally me when i was trying to not mix up with Tama Tonga
all of these were super obvious. how is this supposed to be facts YOU Didn't Know but then you say stuff like "did you know the wii was called the revolution in development?!" like yes i think pretty much everyone did
I didn't? I wasn't even alive at the time the Wii released. Maybe you should take a break from the internet. 😅
Mac what is your favorite Wii game? Mine is wii fit +
Easy, Wii Sports Resort
That’s my second favorite 🥎
I wonder if fact number 44 was where Nintendo got the idea for the Nintendo Switch’s Joy Cons.
The Wii gun is game changing for the Goldeneye reboot. Do 100 for wii
I knew that Wii used to be Revolution. I know that from Logopedia
My dad sent our nunchock flying up to the lamps and smashed one of the lamp screens
For the other light patterns on the remote, it kinda looks like binary for 5,6 and 7, although the highest bit is shifted left. And then I have no idea for eight, probably just a random pattern they chose. 5:40
(Addition) 1:57 ...And, Any other actions like D-Pad direction throwing, Spikeball, curveball, and splitter will be displayed in the 2 player tutorial where they show you what they do. (Kinda surprised when I finally got to read it)
I still have the original straps on my wiimotes
Same. I didnt know they were recalled.
@@katalystkatapatheticalyssa5987 yeah
Bonus: The Wii Classic (and pro) controller can be use on the NES Classic controller slots. So if you have them and don't wanna buy an expensive NES Classic controller, you're in luck 👍 (Also you can mod your NES or other Classic consoles to play more games. Hackchi)
In their defence, 17:15 Like thry said in the presentation "Everyone please turn off your phones, we're getting a lot of wireless interference." I played that game, and the motion controls played perfectly. 💯♥
I don't understand your fear of the sd card menu 😀 Why?
I miss the Mii(s).. And games where you could use Mii(s).. That was awesome.
I have a Wii Netflix disc! I found it at a thrift store for 2 bucks
8:46 doesnt these map a mario kart 7 circuit?
Yes, this course was adapted to be a race track in Mario Kart 7.
i was scared of bieng left alone with the wii on lul
The candles DID NOT WORK! I just tried it.
They do, you gotta put them 9 inch apart, look it up
@@lvkillawolfvl1921 OK I'll try it again.
They do, but they just suck honestly
I CAN USE THE PURPLE SWORD ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!! IVE ALWAYS WANTED TO DO THAT
For fact 28 what about the Super Gameboy or the Gameboy Player? Do you mean built in backwords compatibility?
0:37 Overthrow the government???
Uh, I think so!
I have the weirdest thing going on with my Wii it will play disc games fine but if I open A downloaded game it will go to like the tvs Home screen for the hdmi port options and will go back to the game if I hit the home button on Wii controller And won’t stop unless I hit Wii menu
2:33 Eskimo?😂
mario party 9 also had a wii system update on the disc that puts netflix on it.
lol I got digital netflix for the wii (netflix doesn't work anymore on it)
Was it supposed to be a joke “Wii U” and “Wii You” or am I tripping
i was always scared of the sd card menu😭