Nintendo Wii!

[AutisticMilly]

For my birthday this year, I’m asking for a new Wii console. The Wii is a very nostalgic console for me. Plus, there are some great games, such as Super Mario Odyssey, that I never got to play. What are your favorite Wii games? Which games do you think I should ask for?

One I know I am going to ask for is Warioware: Smooth Moves, which I loved playing at my friend’s house. I also have both Warioware titles on Nintendo Switch.

 

[Rocco]

I really like the Lego games, especially Lego India Jones and Lego Pirates of the Caribbean.
I also liked the resident evil games on the wii. I still have a ps2 and a wii, I play them for a few weeks each year or so, it is always exciting and nostalgic.

 

[Princess Viola]

For my birthday this year, I’m asking for a new Wii console. The Wii is a very nostalgic console for me. Plus, there are some great games, such as Super Mario Odyssey, that I never got to play.

Do you mean Super Mario Galaxy? Because Mario Odyssey is the Switch one.

 

[AutisticMilly]

Do you mean Super Mario Galaxy? Because Mario Odyssey is the Switch one.

Yes! Facepalm

 

[saturnv]

The Wii had many great games. Here are my favorites.

Mario Galaxy 1 and 2
Metroid Prime Trilogy
New Super Mario Bros
MLB Power Pros
Dr Mario Online Rx
Pikmin

 

[tkcartoonist]

Xenoblade Chronicles was pretty good, but good luck finding it cheap: it was a stupid Gamestop-exclusive when it came out, so there aren't many copies floating around. However, it was rereleased on both the New 3DS (I still hate that name) and Switch.

A game I never got a chance to play but want to is Muramasa: The Demon Blade. I've played Odin Sphere from the same developers, and the rerelease of that game took some elements from Muramasa.

 

[Captain Jigglypuff]

I have a Wii but I haven’t played it very much since I got it. I typically play games on my Switch. But I do have some games on the Wii that aren’t on the Switch such as Bully.

 

[saturnv]

The Wii is good for running emulators for older systems. It is pretty easy to softmod using just a computer and an SD card. The classic controller is nice for NES and SNES in particular.

 

[damoisellepeachy]

Oh I love the Nintendo Wii, it’s the console that holds so much of my childhood memories. I especially love replaying Super Smash Bros Brawl

 

[Princess Viola]

The Wii is good for running emulators for older systems. It is pretty easy to softmod using just a computer and an SD card. The classic controller is nice for NES and SNES in particular.

Oh yeah, definitely.

If you got a Wii and you're at all interested in retro gaming - softmod it

Hell, even if you're not into retrogaming, you should absolutely mod your Wii.

Like do you have a lot of games lying around? You can back them up to an SD card or a USB drive and just...run them off that instead. You don't have to constantly be getting up to change discs.

 

[FilterFreq]

Wii is awesome. My parents had a console that was collecting dust around 2015 so I softmodded it, put retroarch on it and still use it for that and playing old Gamecube classics to this day. The Tony Hawk games get a lot of mileage, and I'm kind of addicted to all of the extreme sports games from back then.

I'm surprised it still works, too. I think they got it in 2009, so it's got some longevity there!

 

[Angular Chap]

It's a real shame the WiiWare channel was shut down, so many great hidden gems on there that I never got around to playing. Looks like the only way to play those games now is to softmod the console (already done!) and, er...sail the 7 seas while wearing an eye patch and with a parrot on my shoulder...

I'm surprised it still works, too. I think they got it in 2009, so it's got some longevity there!

Yes, the Wii is a reliable console and can take quite a beating. No red rings of death or yellow lights of death, unlike the early 360s and PS3s. I replaced the thermal pads on a Wii, but they were too thick so when I screwed the heatsink back on, it bent the motherboard. I didn't notice until years later when I opened the console again for another mod. Still works! Some modders even trim the motherboard to make a portable Wii.

 

[FilterFreq]

sail the 7 seas while wearing an eye patch and with a parrot on my shoulder...

That reminds me that the one really popular island doesn't exist anymore (or at least not in the way that it used to). Thankfully I have whatever Wiiware I wanted from a few years ago (probably just Cave Story and Frogger, weirdly), but preservation efforts really seem to be a losing battle these days, unfortunately.

One day we will have to tell future generations what certain games looked like because they will be lost to time

 

[Mono]

Hope you enjoy it when your birthday comes up! My favorites are the Star Wars and Batman LEGO games. As mentioned a few times in this topic already, I too use it (mostly, in fact) for emulation. My absolute favorite console is the Sega Mega Drive. Still have about 40 physical games, but I actually only still play them on Wii through emulation.

Might be good to check how you are going to hook it up, though. Personally, I have a 5 plug component cable that gives me a pretty good result. Sadly though, I will no longer be able to use this cable if/when I ever have to replace my TV. As supposedly (at least here) TV's no longer have the connection for it. I did get a Hyperkin HDMI cable, but I'm not sure how I feel about that one's result yet. Keeping that just in case, but I hope better options will be available should my TV ever die (it's over 10 years old already).

Of course, I think you can just use the standard A/V or a SCART cable. But maybe there are other people here that can help you (or us) to get a better picture quality.