A collection of recommendations on what to get for your Wii!
Priiloader - allows you to change NAND controls and settings, make the Disc channel movable, regionfree everything, etc
WiiModLite - allows you to alter IOS, install WADs, and most importantly for PAL users, you can change the region to US/NTSC (Console Video Mode), which allows you to play NTSC WADs in 480p60 on your Wii! (I think it needs a specific IOS to run WADs, it should be 58 - need to install as WAD iirc); however *some* retail games might be forced into english language, so you need to change it back to PAL when needed. I also think any region Wii also needs the IOS 80 additionally installed to run WADs from the SD card you didnt purchase with the Wii you're playing on!
USB Loader GX - allows HDD/USB/SD loading of Wii games, cheats, a lot of visual improvement options (disabling deflicker, forcing progressive scan, etc)
Quake GX (best version) - This is the 0.08 version from Piko, most stable and has and good enough features, with which you can also save your game, *but* you have to always start a new game first when launching it at another time before loading the save, otherwise the game is in some kind of bots/multiplayer mode and is very broken (enemies models are suddenly replaced by an upgrade item model; when you go into the next level, it's the mp version of the map)
Duke Nukem 3D (best version) - This is the milestone revision, which has better pointer controls, has the lowest chance to crash, and least issues in the menus; I suggest to put the Mighty Foot on DPad Down instead of Up, the items to switch on Left/Right, and to use on Up. Also you might want to reduce the axis speed for movement and aiming slightly
Mario Kart Wii CTGP-R Mod
Nintendont Gamecube Launcher - enables progressive scan for 99% of PAL games, regionfree Gamecube games, and to have a more stable and higher framerate
Not64 & Wii64-Rice - 2 different N64 emulators, Not64 is mostly more stable and has more options, but doesnt run some games at all or very poorly; Zelda romhacks (Sands of Time, Escape from the Facility, etc), Spacestation Silicon Valley and Star Wars Shadows of the Empire run and work much better with Rice. For *many* games, I rather recommend the VC releases, XBox 360 / XBone remasters/ports or the PC decomps/recomps!
There is a small collection of Zelda 64 hacks as Wii WADs on archive.org, you will find it...
WiiStation - most up to date and compatible PSX/PS1 emulator
WiiXplorer SS - allows you to move, rename, delete files & folders, and edit *most* text files
I also highly recommend the VC injections and forwarders made by "Zorg" (Youtube, he puts a link to his website in a comment on each video) and saulfabreg (he is on gbatemp too), especially the N64 ones (gfx are fixed for Starfox 64 by Zorg), including Zelda 64 romhacks.
USB-Loader-GX and Dolphin can download cheat databases for almost any Wii game automatically! With that, you can improve your games drastically with some QoL stuff.
Attached are Metroid Prime Trilogy PAL codes to use with USB Loader GX, which reenable missing Beam Charge GFX in Prime 1 and to have infinite Beam ammo in Prime 2 without a button combination required (originally it needed that), but I also included a complete set in a text file!
Metroid Other M: There is a 3rd person missiles cheat code for PAL and US, it makes the game play much better. You can try Redux too though, but installing it is very complicated... one other cheat code I think is very fun, that would be the one to have instant speedbooster charge.
Zelda Skyward Sword: There are a bunch of QoL & graphic tweaks cheat codes and texture packs which make it better than even the Switch version in my opinion, especially if you can use an original Wiimote & Nunchuck.
Donkey Kong Country Returns: There is a cheat code that makes it possible to play with Classic & Gamecube controllers on original hardware, on Dolpin you rather don't need it, you can just put the motions on controller buttons anyway!
Priiloader - allows you to change NAND controls and settings, make the Disc channel movable, regionfree everything, etc
WiiModLite - allows you to alter IOS, install WADs, and most importantly for PAL users, you can change the region to US/NTSC (Console Video Mode), which allows you to play NTSC WADs in 480p60 on your Wii! (I think it needs a specific IOS to run WADs, it should be 58 - need to install as WAD iirc); however *some* retail games might be forced into english language, so you need to change it back to PAL when needed. I also think any region Wii also needs the IOS 80 additionally installed to run WADs from the SD card you didnt purchase with the Wii you're playing on!
USB Loader GX - allows HDD/USB/SD loading of Wii games, cheats, a lot of visual improvement options (disabling deflicker, forcing progressive scan, etc)
Quake GX (best version) - This is the 0.08 version from Piko, most stable and has and good enough features, with which you can also save your game, *but* you have to always start a new game first when launching it at another time before loading the save, otherwise the game is in some kind of bots/multiplayer mode and is very broken (enemies models are suddenly replaced by an upgrade item model; when you go into the next level, it's the mp version of the map)
Duke Nukem 3D (best version) - This is the milestone revision, which has better pointer controls, has the lowest chance to crash, and least issues in the menus; I suggest to put the Mighty Foot on DPad Down instead of Up, the items to switch on Left/Right, and to use on Up. Also you might want to reduce the axis speed for movement and aiming slightly
Mario Kart Wii CTGP-R Mod
Nintendont Gamecube Launcher - enables progressive scan for 99% of PAL games, regionfree Gamecube games, and to have a more stable and higher framerate
Not64 & Wii64-Rice - 2 different N64 emulators, Not64 is mostly more stable and has more options, but doesnt run some games at all or very poorly; Zelda romhacks (Sands of Time, Escape from the Facility, etc), Spacestation Silicon Valley and Star Wars Shadows of the Empire run and work much better with Rice. For *many* games, I rather recommend the VC releases, XBox 360 / XBone remasters/ports or the PC decomps/recomps!
There is a small collection of Zelda 64 hacks as Wii WADs on archive.org, you will find it...
WiiStation - most up to date and compatible PSX/PS1 emulator
WiiXplorer SS - allows you to move, rename, delete files & folders, and edit *most* text files
I also highly recommend the VC injections and forwarders made by "Zorg" (Youtube, he puts a link to his website in a comment on each video) and saulfabreg (he is on gbatemp too), especially the N64 ones (gfx are fixed for Starfox 64 by Zorg), including Zelda 64 romhacks.
USB-Loader-GX and Dolphin can download cheat databases for almost any Wii game automatically! With that, you can improve your games drastically with some QoL stuff.
Attached are Metroid Prime Trilogy PAL codes to use with USB Loader GX, which reenable missing Beam Charge GFX in Prime 1 and to have infinite Beam ammo in Prime 2 without a button combination required (originally it needed that), but I also included a complete set in a text file!
Metroid Other M: There is a 3rd person missiles cheat code for PAL and US, it makes the game play much better. You can try Redux too though, but installing it is very complicated... one other cheat code I think is very fun, that would be the one to have instant speedbooster charge.
Zelda Skyward Sword: There are a bunch of QoL & graphic tweaks cheat codes and texture packs which make it better than even the Switch version in my opinion, especially if you can use an original Wiimote & Nunchuck.
Donkey Kong Country Returns: There is a cheat code that makes it possible to play with Classic & Gamecube controllers on original hardware, on Dolpin you rather don't need it, you can just put the motions on controller buttons anyway!
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