In Which A Wii Is Bought, The Internet Delved, And Generally A Happy Ending

I bought a Wii last Saturday. It came with an original Wii Sports game but the console itself was softmodded. The problem was the console was modified from a Japanese (or Chinese?) version into a US version but the original Wii Sports game was Japanese and region locked so I couldn't play Wii Sports on it. The only reason I wanted a Wii was to play boxing on it. Last Christmas vacation my cousins invited me to play Wii Sports Boxing with them and from then on I wanted a Wii for myself so badly. Good thing I had some money from my Christmas bonus and money I was saving for medical emergencies. XD Okay okay. It's a bad idea but I wanted the Wii so bad!

Back to the story. I delved the internet backwaters looking for a solution. I tried googling for "Wii Hack" or some such and after a few blog posts referencing other blog posts and then an obscure "to come solution" I found a comment saying that "Geck OS" made region free playing possible. It's a good thing my Wii came with the Homebrew Channel or else I'd have gone crazy on how to hack my Wii to display that channel. This Homebrew Channel makes running homebrew on the Wii so much easier because I don't have to have an original Twilight Zelda something saved game to make my Wii crash and some other hardware to make my Wii boot into a configurable mode every time I need to run homebrew. By the way, homebrew means anything not made by the makers of the console or licensed game makers.

I wrote a bunch more stuff here but I think I'm just rambling. Long story short: Geck OS didn't work but after much more delving I found Menu Loader and I was able to play my original Wii sports game albeit in Japanese (Chinese ?).

The Boxing game is crazy fun. My arms are tired.