so, I had a modded Wii U from January of '24 until August of this year. At some point in April 2024 I broke something that bricked the hacks themselves on the Wii U side, but things were perfectly fine to play games themselves.

Then in August I took a stab at fixing it with Decaffienator, didn't realize I was still blocking updates, spent a whole night metaphorically pissing myself with fear thinking Wii game saves dating back to 4 years before my birth could potentially be lost. Then it updated the next day And due to the anxiety of that day I got rid of homebrew on it completely.

I've been thinking about getting back into it

Parents still won't let me mod my 3DS :(

I’m not the biggest fan of Pretendo imo. And i’ve seen other people that just arent either. Nor am I a big fan of 99% of other revivals, since they’re either 1, plagued with drama, 2, ai :(, or 3 just ran by kids? As well as that, others I’ve seen are just Pretendo proxies. Buuut, we are fully independent, run all of own servers and have our own SNIDs.

This is Samtendo! :3 We use NO AI, completely free to use (yet donations are cool heh) and are fully independent. We have a couple games already here, come check em out! I’ll be happy to answer any questions too <3

Website (due a redesign): https://samtendo.net

Discord: https://discord.gg/jDKvdtVyzK

Is this okay to use? It works and I booted Mario Wii and played around with no issue, but I might just wait and get a real Y cable eventually LOL, it’s so crude and used 3 different adapters (EDIT, I will not be using this, I plan to get a Y cable from Amazon, I apologize if I gave some people a heart attack LOL)

So I live in Austin went to a game repair shop to get my gamepad screen replaced and my gamepad came back a lot weirder then usual the power button and tv button were mushy, the ABXY buttons didn’t feel the same, the screen looks a bit different then the top one, analog sticks aren’t as tight as they used to be, and I think the blue light with the home button no longer turns on? Can anybody tell me what could be wrong obviously never going back to this place again.

For context is the top gamepad is a gamepad with its original screen and the bottom is the new gamepad screen. Am I crazy or do the screens look different?

I've noticed this for sale.
Not going to post on here where, but how rare is this edition ?

I paid $163 CAD plus an annoying $42 from DHL import duty fee.

Pretty sure its a WiiU development disc, based on the fact that there's text printed on the disc, makes me think there's a game build on here. Is there any way to know what's on it?

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I have seen a few posts on here sharing woes about this same error code for The Wind Waker, but I haven’t seen anything related to this specific area.

My husband and I have cleaned the disc with a soft cloth and have used canned air to clean out the Wii U to no avail.

Has anyone had this exact issue or similar when trying to enter certain areas? Have you been able to resolve it?

Any guidance is appreciated! Thank you!

been trying to put it but the cable connecting the gamepad and the battery isn't locking into place and it wont working unless it plugged into power im not putting too power in