Back in the old days, I leveraged my Wii as both a console and a DVD player. I still have DVDX installed on my Wii. It did not allow loading DVDs directly from the disc channel. You needed to use homebrew. I used MPlayer CE for this most of the time, because WiiMC didn't exist until later.
I guess I am lucky the disc drive in my Wii still works. My console is old enough to have bootmii in boot2 as well. Plus before USB loaders started maturing, and before I bought an external hard drive, I ran backups through Neogamma.
Being able to go from WBFS to Fat32 on that hard drive was a game-changer. I then became fond of watching movies and videos off the hard drive. Before I got my chromecast in my room, I would use youtube-dl (yt-dlp nowadays) to download 360p versions of videos I wanted to watch by a lazy, EZ-PZ shell script. 360p because that would guarantee I wouldn't accidentally download a video that was either slightly too high res, or audio quality that was slightly too high, because WiiMC will attempt to either downscale or downmix (or both) if either went beyond some threshold. The very rare problem videos would get thrown into MPlayer CE.
Ah, those were the days. It's incredibly cool to see the Wii scene still kicking. Modding your Wii console really opens up a whole universe of stuff you can do.
I am curious to see how this pans out.
I guess I am lucky the disc drive in my Wii still works. My console is old enough to have bootmii in boot2 as well. Plus before USB loaders started maturing, and before I bought an external hard drive, I ran backups through Neogamma.
Being able to go from WBFS to Fat32 on that hard drive was a game-changer. I then became fond of watching movies and videos off the hard drive. Before I got my chromecast in my room, I would use youtube-dl (yt-dlp nowadays) to download 360p versions of videos I wanted to watch by a lazy, EZ-PZ shell script. 360p because that would guarantee I wouldn't accidentally download a video that was either slightly too high res, or audio quality that was slightly too high, because WiiMC will attempt to either downscale or downmix (or both) if either went beyond some threshold. The very rare problem videos would get thrown into MPlayer CE.
Ah, those were the days. It's incredibly cool to see the Wii scene still kicking. Modding your Wii console really opens up a whole universe of stuff you can do.
I am curious to see how this pans out.
Full decompilation is not really my thing, but I very much do appreciate the efforts of those who do
