Mad Wii Haxx

I've been messing around with soft modding my Wii for a few months now. Wii hacking has really gotten great this year. You can play homebrew games, or 'backups' or games you own, along with Virtual Console and WiiWare titles you for some reason bought and then backed-up. I love the homebrew community; it's always 'against pirating' but makes pirating so very accessible. But, it is legal to backup a movie, cd, or game you own and use it, so there's not much to be done.

Anyway, I love my Wii now. I've owned one since just after launch, and while there are some great games on the system, we're in it's third year and it's the same old song and dance: Great first party titles released sporadically.
I own most of the important ones: SSBB, Mario Galaxy, Mario Kart (plus 4 wheels), Super Paper Mario, and of course Twilight Princess. I even rebought Resident Evil 4.

And then there are the games I wish I hadn't bought. Red Steel is one of them. I believe I rented it once, played it, didn't care for it, saw it for $10, bought it anyway (this happens a lot). Wii Play was only worth the Wiimote that came with it. And blast works I haven't even opened yet (although I hear that ones pretty good).

There are a nice handful of games I wouldn't mind shelling $20 out for though: I've always loved the Trauma Center games, since the DS days; Madworld is supposed to be awesome and No More Heroes I know for a fact is. I can't decide between the PS2 or the Wii for Okami though. And the new Punch-Out that was just released was supposed to be pretty good too. Metroid Prime 3, Zak and Wiki, House of the Dead: Overkill... actually, there must be about 10 games on the Wii that look pretty awesome and I don't have yet.

But there is a lot of crap and shovelware out there too, and it's released so much more often that it gets hard to take the Wii seriously. (Well, it was hard to take seriously from the moment they changed the name from Revolution to Wii).

But a soft-modded Wii is pretty incredible: I can play "backups", VC games from an SD Card, and even load full games up on an external USB hard drive and connect it right up, no discs required.

The Wii Hacking and Homebrew community is going strong, and I'm loving it. I think I'll go load some more WiiWare onto my SD card now.