Any Wii Fans Out There?

Some of the Wiiware games are not too bad, Megaman 9 is a must have if you like old school make you want to toss your contoller types of games ;) Then there is Monkey Island and Strong Bad as well and Contra, Gradius and Castlevania Rebirth games.

Strife89I partially softmodded my Wii the day I got it (Dec. 25), but I was too timid to go further than standard homebrew. Yesterday (12/29) I finally worked up the nerve to prepare my Wii for burned games with the aid of a guide. I managed to obtain New Super Mario Bros. Wii and burn it for NeoGamma (r8 beta) and so far I'm liking it. Old school meets new school once again, more or less. This is a 4.2 Wii, mind. :PPlaying emulators with the Wiimote (and the Nunchuck on Wii64) as the controller ain't half bad either. :) It's nice to see old SNES and Genesis games on my TV again, without paying for Virtual Console titles. Plus, I finally get to experience Mario Kart 64 and the original Super Mario 64, as I never had an N64 and never had hardware that a PC-based 64 emulator liked. (I DID get to play Zelda: OoT on a friend's 64 several years ago, so for that game it IS memory lane for me, on Wii64).I still fire up my real Wii Sports disc, as it's the only game I have on me that really USES the Wiimote (although I find that my reflexes are better trained for my fingers than my entire hands and arms ^^;).I'm trying to get a Mario Kart Wii ISO, but there are a ton of torrents to pick from and very few are active. Indeed, the one that appears to be best overall tops out at 132 KB per second - making the image an almost 20 hour download, during which time the rest of my Internet connection with more or less be useless (IRC keeps disconnecting, pages keep aborting mid-load, and general slowness for even simple pages. Then again, I AM on DSL. :/).I haven't softmodded for WiiWare WADs yet, but I hope to work up the nerve to do so soon.

I would definitely throttle your connection, more like 30 KB/s DL, and maybe 5 KB/s UL. Sure it takes a lot longer, but at least you can still use internet. I had mine go up to 900 KB DL and I would have sluggish internet so I throttled it for usability as well as flying under the radar so to speak. Every little precaution helps.