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Since the Wii was launched a few years back, it fast became the top selling console worldwide, knocking the Xbox 360 and PS3 off their perches, despite not having the same hardware capabilities of those 2 machine. Perhaps a great deal of why it did this is the fact that the console was accessible to the entire family from babies to grandparents. But if you as a Wii owner have been finding limits to the system, here is food for thoughts as I try to best explain benefits to softmod wii systems, which can change the machine dynamically
Basically what a softmod is, is changing how the console works by using software, enabling and disabling certain features of the machine. This enables you to run third-party software and add channels to your Wii like the Home-Brew Channel or turn your machine into a proper multi-media home entertainment device.
The Home-Brew Channel, once installed, shows up as as a normal channel in your Wii menu, and when launched opens a new menu with a list of applications that is stored on a USB drive or SD card.
When we talk about softmodding, the question of piracy comes up as the term is often thrown in with terms like jail-breaking, chipping or home-brewing, but that is not what it is all about. While you many be able to run game back-ups, it is expected that you do own the original disc, but this way you don't have to worry about your discs breaking, and you can even run the games directly off your USB drive.
This USB loading feature also means you are able to access all of your games easily from one source, and running the games via USB actually seems to make them load faster. For a machine like this, where so many of the games are party games, with quick play, it is great to be able to just switch between them without having to use the disc, especially as some discs cost an arm and a leg, and you don't want it to get damaged.
Being able to using a media player on your console is a great bonus, and there are a number of media players you can add to your system, so you can watch DVD's, video files and listen to music. There are also radio programs for internet radio and comic book readers. For many people these novelties add to the system. Especially if you live in one of the many countries that cannot access the official store that may offer some of these things.
The list of home-made software to download and install on your Wii grows every day, and some of them are great fun and some are even very useful. Apart from the third-party games and game tools, there are things like a metronome for your Wii, web page browsers, magazine readers, recipe collections, alarm clocks and map systems. You are even able to turn your controller into a spirit-level for projects at home like hanging pictures, or you can make the whole thing a whiteboard and use the Wii mote as a pen.
Of course another great thing is being able to play many older games from previous platforms, with one of the many game emulators you can now use. It is not just old Nintendo games, but almost all of the older systems, even the original Playstation and some of the PC classic games. Returning to nostalgic games like the many Quest games by Sierra or the adventure classics like Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle, to name but a few, almost makes it worth it by itself.
Basically what a softmod is, is changing how the console works by using software, enabling and disabling certain features of the machine. This enables you to run third-party software and add channels to your Wii like the Home-Brew Channel or turn your machine into a proper multi-media home entertainment device.
The Home-Brew Channel, once installed, shows up as as a normal channel in your Wii menu, and when launched opens a new menu with a list of applications that is stored on a USB drive or SD card.
When we talk about softmodding, the question of piracy comes up as the term is often thrown in with terms like jail-breaking, chipping or home-brewing, but that is not what it is all about. While you many be able to run game back-ups, it is expected that you do own the original disc, but this way you don't have to worry about your discs breaking, and you can even run the games directly off your USB drive.
This USB loading feature also means you are able to access all of your games easily from one source, and running the games via USB actually seems to make them load faster. For a machine like this, where so many of the games are party games, with quick play, it is great to be able to just switch between them without having to use the disc, especially as some discs cost an arm and a leg, and you don't want it to get damaged.
Being able to using a media player on your console is a great bonus, and there are a number of media players you can add to your system, so you can watch DVD's, video files and listen to music. There are also radio programs for internet radio and comic book readers. For many people these novelties add to the system. Especially if you live in one of the many countries that cannot access the official store that may offer some of these things.
The list of home-made software to download and install on your Wii grows every day, and some of them are great fun and some are even very useful. Apart from the third-party games and game tools, there are things like a metronome for your Wii, web page browsers, magazine readers, recipe collections, alarm clocks and map systems. You are even able to turn your controller into a spirit-level for projects at home like hanging pictures, or you can make the whole thing a whiteboard and use the Wii mote as a pen.
Of course another great thing is being able to play many older games from previous platforms, with one of the many game emulators you can now use. It is not just old Nintendo games, but almost all of the older systems, even the original Playstation and some of the PC classic games. Returning to nostalgic games like the many Quest games by Sierra or the adventure classics like Full Throttle and Day of the Tentacle, to name but a few, almost makes it worth it by itself.
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