£7 Nintendo Wii - Wiill It Wiirk?

[@TheRetroFuture2]

Firstly - This was meant to be on my main channel but I just wasnt happy with it. Secondly - I completely forgot to mention, shipping a Wii from Japan isn’t free. There was postage and import costs but there was another item in the box worth a few hundred dollars so the shipping and import costs were fairly low compared to the overall value of the box. Hope you enjoyed :)

[@kyledymond7958]

Dang, I wanted to be the first comment

[@demonical.obsessions]

Second comment 🙃

[@RealMichaelMTZ]

Can you fix wii games

[@samazard596]

I enjoyed a lot arigatou for the entertainment 👍

[@olddisneylandtickets]

Dang Elliott I know that disappointment when you don't have the correct cables or thing to connect to, I still enjoyed your video though.

[@thefray123]

6:51 "Yeah theres that one..." Spit out my coffee laughing but it was absolutely worth it. Elliot you're a freakin riot man.

[@perpetualcollapse]

I remember buying a complete Wii with Wiimotes for $10 over the summer. I already had 5 Wiis but the more the merrier.

[@laran110]

You can never have enough Wii in your life.

[@CommodoreFan64]

For a complete unit that's not a bad deal, I usually pick them up at the Goodwill with just the power brick for $2 a pop, and take them to 2nd, and Charles where they give me upwards of $40 for them. I only keep one around as a backup personally.

[@Kumimono]

You might have incontinence problem. Heyoo.

[@qui8495]

I can't judge you. I collect ds's

[@qk7x]

@@CommodoreFan64 Goodwiill*

[@goblinmcgameface]

Now THAT is an expert title. Also please do more of this, I haven’t even watched the full video, I know I just want more haha.

[@bulldozernolan]

@DrawCatDraw! boo hoo

[@DinoNuggies4665]

69th like, anyone who likes it after me is dead to me

[@goblinmcgameface]

The Zelda & Mario Kart channels have - or well had - specific purposes. Zelda - an update channel. Used to fix a game-breaking bug in Skyward Sword. Mario Kart - used to check your online status and online rankings and tournaments. Those were the days haha.

[@goblinmcgameface]

@DrawCatDraw! I remember checking for tournaments and what not on there. Now it’s just a dud.

[@toone1562]

@@goblinmcgameface you can still use it with a patcher and wiimmfi

[@GormGear]

What we learned in this video: * Elliot can't wii * He has a D on his wall

[@mischiefthedegenerateratto7464]

Wiid

[@MrLuigge]

🤣

[@funnystoriesshorts481]

Agwiid

[@wisxper]

A d on his wall!!!

[@JuicyJakeRepairs]

this video confirms it, Elliot struggles to Wii

[@Nicole73737]

Your content has inspired me to start collecting and refurbishing some classic Nintendo handhelds!

[@dedbeatztheredninja54]

Same, im currently doing all the ds's for under $400

[@OnlyALittleEmo]

Same and I hate him for it. Ebay has become an additction

[@bronzepkmn]

Same I have 25 bucks to start and I want a gba to fix up but can't find any for that price

[@Chibichief]

@@bronzepkmn yard sales gotta get up early though

[@Ricar2002YT]

I was about to type how you can use homebrew to fix the video issues and read pal games but you already saw it on stream. Getting homebrew on a wii is fairly simple and fast + Its super worth it. You should do it!

[@geraldgutsueii3324]

"i'm in need of a wii." surely there's a bathroom nearby, don't let us stop you.

[@Chriva]

It's possible to change the region but you have to softmod it first. Tons of info can be found on the net if you really want to play with it :)

[@cadenpierson2212]

“Apparently my light switch just turned into a d on the wall” I’m dying

[@BopDiva]

I have an authentic Japanese Nintendo Wii. It has the RVL-001 (JPN) label on it. It has Japanese text on the Wii Remotes and everything.

[@yuvyx3288]

I see what you did there with the title Elliot. Very clever.

[@SCRNSH0T]

I think wii all saw what he did

[@calvinmiller3959]

*eliiot

[@demonical.obsessions]

Wiil it wiirk?????, Elliot i love you man ❤️

[@markmendoza3852]

Always watching here in Philippines every 4:00am 💜💜💜💜💜

[@MartyTuro]

I swear this guy always posts videos at the best time

[@erenaydilekci2334]

This was very fun to watch please give us more

[@mancavehobbies6213]

I need a Wii hold on ...pause video be back in a minute lol

[@3dprintinglife]

😄

[@CommodoreFan64]

£7, man that's expensive for a Wii, I've seriously picked up good condition units without the Wiimotes here in the US for $2 USD a pop at my local GoodWill over the years, and sold them to 2nd and Charles(they sell new/used Games, movies, music, books, random pop culture crap, and give you trade in credit, or cash for used stuff) for $40 USD a pop, then they go ahead, and charge $65 USD - $70 USD for them behind a glass display case.

[@hungrydinosaw6435]

i read the title and wondered how he would intertwine 'work' and 'wii' but when he said it... yeah ngl pulled it off about as well as expected

[@gf-zi5hr]

that's a D-terminal plug with left and right audio jacks

[@enjirube1]

Came to say this ^

[@MrSonnyfy]

I was wondering what the heck that was, never seen it. Thank you

[@jordanmillraney5481]

I’ve heard that the D-terminal plug has a component output?

[@starx2212]

@@jordanmillraney5481 d terminal is rgb/component I think

[@leecroft1983]

I take it D-terminal is mainly used in Japan (and the Asian region ?) I haven't seen this cable where i live, the UK so doubt it is used in the rest of Europe.

[@SparksNZeros]

that connector type is called a D-Terminal, it often gets used on RGB/Component monitors and Broadcast equipment, it was a lot more popular in Japan than anywhere else.

[@G3GENGIFT]

Well yea, thats... a video xD I love the way your humor has evolved over the time, super funny :)

[@matej_simko989]

Yes new repair video finally 👍🏼

[@matej_simko989]

Oh or not nvm lol.

[@TheSkaldenmettrunk]

Very interesting. I never saw a cable like that. Btw: you could give your broken Wii to Joey

[@DanResanti]

I bought mine for $25, it is a black too, just like this one, but is is a NTSC one lol. Great video mate

[@kazzzzzzu3469]

Elliot my man you always crack me up🤣🤣🤣

[@hylianfire]

Crazy! I just bought a banged up old black Wii yesterday for $5 Australian at an op shop. AND IT WORKED! It also had Spyro Dawn of a Dragon.

[@ToxoRetro]

Was the non-Insomniac Spyro any good?

[@hylianfire]

@@ToxoRetro I tested the game. The upside is that it worked. The downside is that it seemed too serious compared to the originals. Pretty sad, really. :/ i'm sure theres some fans out there.

[@ToxoRetro]

@@hylianfire Ah well, worth a try as part of a cheap bundle. Cheers. 😄

[@ctrlaltrees]

0:08 Elliot channeling the Swedish Chef there

[@paulofduty2005]

0:08 Thanks for the screensaver Elliot!

[@ProjectZro]

for anyone that cares, the reason for the screen flicker and black & white display: the display is PAL and japan runs on NTSC. The same thing happens the other way around or if you have a different region game as well. If you hack it you can force PAL and it will work.

[@therandomnobody3407]

You have now reminded me that my original new mario super Mario wii disc that was the first game I ever played was to damaged to read and had to be trashed.

[@skittlesraindrop9014]

That absolute happieness when he toldvthe pun was 👏🤌👌

[@cmb1972]

Nice pick up on the Seiko 8306 you have MyRetroWatches working on, l have worked on a couple and they have lovely movements. I have four Sealion versions in my collection...so far!

[@Imwhisper76ontwitch]

This was like the best comedy 🤣

[@SATOhara3173]

I broke into an uncontrollable laughing fit at "we got... logress"

[@PowerPandaMods]

Europe and Japan are actually both the same region (Region 2). What you're running into is the difference between Europe being PAL and Japan being NTSC.

[@HyperSniperCo]

I got a Wii from my local thrift store and it had Paper Mario, all 3 Donkey Kong Country games, a ton of NES VC games, and a non-working disc drive, all for $25. A great deal if I do say so myself.

[@eatnooM]

I believe that cable is a D-Terminal cable! Probably best off just grabbing a component cable for a fiver to replace it and using homebrew to get around the region lock - if you can follow instructions, it's pretty simple.

[@stuff31]

Wii approve of your efforts

[@themysteryfighter]

Love the intro lolololooool. Keep up the awesome work!

[@leecroft1983]

I use my Wii for playing GameCube. I use my Wii U for Wii and Wii U games. Good to see you got an earlier Wii model that allows GameCube playback.

[@CompuKonstantin]

I paid 6€ for my wii. It was missing the A/V cable, the WiiMotes and the sensor bar (which you can replace with 2 candles on top of your TV). But hey, it works, I can’t complain.

[@mrcheesecupcake]

Now i understand how lucky I am to have a Wii that is perfect

[@samazard596]

That's cool for the price my god 😍

[@pentium1654]

Region changing it is quite simple, I recommend changing it to NTSC-U, then you’ll have it in English. It won’t plug into PAL signals, but you could get an HDMI adapter and plug it into any old HDMI tv/monitor. I don’t think it’ll play PAL games, however.

[@IanC14]

"I am in need of a Wii" Best pop to the loo then!

[@yeety1208]

By the way, instead of using the instant option on Google translate, you can press scan, which takes a photo and you can highlight the text to translate. It's more reliable as it isn't having to work all the time

[@michaeldemers2716]

The first thing you need to do is get a 2GB SD Formatted to FAT and add the Homebrew Channel then Nintendont and use a WiiU Pro Controller with it now that it supports it. After you jailbreak it use a larger SD formatted to Fat 32 like a 128 GB just use special software on windows. Great for all kinds of Emulators like Mednafen and Retro Arch. Once you Jailbreak it you can also add Wiiware Wads easily. I suggest gamecube Hudson Select series and Wiiware like La Mulana,Castlevania Adventure,Contra and Gradius Sonic 4 was great too and Retro City Rampage. Don't forget you can put in a USB with Gamecube games on it as well just put your games in named folders and name the directory Games and put your game folders in it and inside your games folder you will have named game folders with your games inside named game I believe and if it has two disks name the second disk2. I think IDK it's been a while.

[@Jdbye]

The AV cable is basically the Japanese equivalent of SCART, which you may have heard of. The Framemeister supports it I believe (great little device for converting various inputs to HDMI)

[@Sterling20073]

I've got 6 white Wii's & red & black too all picked up for £8-15 each max. Only 1 i paid more for (45) was the blue 1 that happens to be more featureless than the regular white version

[@aerthian77]

didn't expect to laugh to Wiil it Wiirk 🤣🤣🤣

[@KeinPunktlichkeit]

I bought a PS1, PS2, a couple games, a few controllers and a bunch of different wires from a car boot sale (yes I live in the UK) for £20 an both the consoles worked.

[@kaiwen]

What you can do is basically Homebrew the Wii with lettetbomb and use something which is called AnyRegionChanger. You can use that to Switch from 4.3J TO 4.3E or 4.3U. This is a far known trick because peeps back then bought games from the Japanese wii shop. Why, because it was cheaper lol

[@Rynelan]

The Wii is super easy to softmod. Region lock can be removed that way. But I'm pretty sure the language of the system itself can't be changed. Or depending what broke on your Wii. You might be able to use the Japanese Wii to fix your own :)

[@EdgyShooter]

I remember that when I was in the Netherlands, they had a stack of Wii's in a second hand store for €5! Also had a stack of the balance boards too 😅

[@callmememe1308]

Have you tried plugging it into a more modern TV? Most if not nearly all modern TV's should accept both Pal and NTSC signals. There are even some older CRT TVs sold in PAL regions that should accept NTSC. I would recommend trying to connect the Wii to a modern TV. The only problem would be if the TV didn't support either composite or component, and in that case, a composite to HDMI converter should work (most of them that you'll find online should have a switch to change between PAL and NTSC).

[@MrMegaManFan]

I know this is your secondary channel but I still miss hearing "Hey guys, Elliot here."

[@KyleYoung2012]

I bought a 7 $ Wii last year I already had the cables all I needed was the system and mine worked fine,my old ones disc tray got jammed up so I had been wanting one for awhile all that was wrong with it was a few scratches plus its the game cube backwards compatible one as well

[@starrycat1445]

Someone probably said this but the Mario Kart Channel is the online one thing, I recognize it from my friend’s Wii. Also when I tried to set up my Wii on a TV by myself a few months ago, the screen was flickering and in black and white but that was because it was in the wrong ports. The cables don’t stay in all the time though so I need to see how much my Vaio can handle a Wii capture card, since most PC games don’t load on it despite everything else working super well.

[@kevanswaffles]

3:35 Very important zoom, thanks 👌

[@RetroZero64]

Its possible to run region locked games through the Homebrew channel as far as I know. The setup is pretty easy and only takes a few minutes

[@harryandy44]

Failed. But I like the excitement it brought you, closely followed by crushing disappointment

[@pocketsuke]

Zelda one is the skyward sword save patcher, to fix bugged saves. (if you did the temples out of order it would soft lock your progress)

[@Zarrlpg3d]

The reason why that wii is showing up with black and white and has that glitchy row on the bottom is because you're using a pal screen on a ntsc device, where the voltage and frame rates are different, it'll still show a picture but it'll be black and white because of the different voltage and framerates :>

[@Omegapork]

I got a Wii for $5 Canadian buckaroos. It had a bit of the case melted, and a bit of the match that melted it was still embedded, but it worked.

[@benbissell6311]

Love this type of video

[@fireexitmancustoms]

I was wondering if Japanese TVs were 50 or 60Hz, now I know! As soon as I saw the black and white and flickering it gave me flashbacks to accidentally putting PS2 games into 60Hz mode...

[@gary2255]

Hi Elliot great content as always, just a quick one could you link what you use to get the birdseye view of the items you are working on in your videos.

[@TheToastedGoblin]

Got one for free recently. 1st model. Came with original remotes. Just had to buy my own sensor and display cable

[@dudeboy10gplays7]

Can we have some more GameCube and n64 stuff???? Plsss I love all ur gameboy stuff but please, i think it will rly help grow ur channel as loads of ppl live this kind of stuff

[@effevideogamescollector]

Like always the best.❤️👌🏻

[@dbnpoldermans4120]

Hahahaha, I was laughing so hard. Kind of painful to watch, but still very interesting You just put yourself out there! cool! Can't you just change the language?

[@ToxoRetro]

Assuming that the console is in stock condition, the language select is part of the region makeup. Euro consoles have a choice of various languages, I believe North America has the choice of English and French (the latter for certain Canadian provinces), whereas Japan only officially uses Japanese so the language menu is missing.

[@bobmcbob4399]

I bought a JPN wii in china at the beginning, not realising that the lock thing locked me out of the UK market entirely. I have since hacked it and now the Homebrew menu is in lovely english and all the games play now.

[@MarkyShaw]

Sorry if this has been answered. I came across that type of connector recently looking for old monitors on eBay. Seller told me it's a DFP connector, stands for Digital Flat Panel Connector. I've *never* seen them before but apparently it started showing up in early models of LCD screens.

[@jordanfunk661]

Consider a wii portable, they are getting pretty popular on KZbin, perhaps a sponsored project from WiiBoy?

[@KenSch2020]

Those are the cables that are hard to find for the wii the legendary digital cables that gave 480p picture. (You got the holy grail of cables) those are the holy grail if they are made by Nintendo and only by Nintendo because they were hard to find.

[@Silver94ig]

As far as I know, the black and white screen means, that you try a NTSC region console on PAL TVs. It happened with my PS2, where I wanted to play a NTSC game on my PAL console. If you would mod the Wii, you could switch the settings, though.

[@officialroxxmusic]

Great video, Ewiiot!

[@PandaBot2001]

I helped get my friend a Wii for £5, it has no cables or wiimote but it was £5. The store said "they couldn't verify it worked", so we got it and used my cables. It worked.

[@joshwest8443]

I cant wait for carboots to start again, I used to be able to pick one up for a fiver most weeks

[@TheBatNaz]

Thats a D-Terminal connector - its a Analogue HD video connector, sort of a Japanese equivalent to a DVI connector

[@fivestringpat]

YES THE WII MONITOR IS BACK

[@RoseT20]

" I hope that the wii isn't region locked" oh boy was he in for a spolier

[@Robborti]

In this episode, Elliot has a 7 pound wii

[@mrsg1137]

That cable is D-Terminal, it is... japan exclusive. I have a spare cable if you need it lol

[@CrayonConoisseur]

That title is hilarious 😂

[@SwareJonge]

The cable shipped with it seem to be d-terminal and that's basically YPbPr but squished together in one cable

[@lillbutz5953]

I had my WII show up black and white but that was just because I bricked it trying to homebrew it back in the days.

[@griftereck]

I got a nintendo Wii at the bootsales, 2 years ago. was £5. I had to send off for a cleaning disc, not available in my crummy town. It worked ok after cleaning. had some games, the controller and the nunchuck thingummy. the balance board, are there any games that use that? went to CEX and could get games for pennies. Have thought about getting home brew channel, but their site wasnt online, the last time I looked

[@swissbrony23ch72]

You can actually unlock the Region Lock by using the Homebrew Channel.

[@PatSmashYT]

I saw an asian guy smack a $5 goodwill Wii with a hammer and it still worked

[@Bruh-rj5vw]

me who has a £5 wii: I HAVE THE HIGH GROUND!

[@wjuniorstylist]

The screen is black and white because of pal/ntsc incompatibility. Theres actually ways to change the whol console region, system language, and all to EU or USA trought softmod, if you want to, I've done this penty of times with japanese consoles here in Brazil.

[@jimbox114]

Heck I bought one for $2.39 at a local thrift shop. Not only did it work but it had cooking mama inside of it.... COOKING MAMA!

[@BeatSaberLoser]

you do know cash converters were selling og wii's but i couldn't find them that cheap at any other one. Ill let you know if they go bac down in my local cash converters and i can pick one up.

[@sunnycooper9440]

keep up the good wiirk

[@jkpopper646]

Wii never thought about regional locks, wii thought cheap wii

[@ncot_tech]

0:32 - Well you should have gone before starting the video. You'll just have to hold it in now.