I remember the day Loadiine for the Wii U came out and we needed to be on 5.3.2 so I shot a used Wii U (still in pretty good condition luckily) on eBay and bought Splatoon to update to that firmware.
Also I bought Sm4sh the month after to have higher compatibility in Loadiine.
The next big thing (it seemed like we've waited centuries for that to happen) was when RetroArch finally came to the Wii U. It was very unstable in the beginning but has matured to a very good port nowadays.
My final biggest console hacking moment was when shortly after plutoo, derrek and naehrwert showed at the 34c3 that they were able to conquer the Switch's security, a video of
some kind of a RetroArch port appeared on YouTube:
That fulfilled my deepest wish since the announcement video of the Switch. As a big lover of retro games, that time around I used to play a lot of retro games on the Wii U and while the Switch was revealed and I realised, what it was (technically the Wii U gamepad but hosting the whole console so it's
really portable), my only thought was:
I need that console and god please, let it be hackable and make a RetroArch port happen.
I was even playing Chrono Trigger (once again) that time so that YouTube video was like a "There you go, mate" from god himself (still don't believe in him but back then I did for at least that day
).
And please don't tell me I could have bought a controller grip for my Smartphone for having RetroArch on the go there.
As much as I enjoy playing retro games, I'll take the Switch games as well.
Spent countless hours in Breath of the Wild and Diablo III.
Edit: Can't end this post without saying thank you to
@m4xw for all he has done. RetroArch is pure joy on the Switch these days.