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20 years in 10 days.

2026

Today

  • My little collection of console Merch from this era

    r/wii

    The Merchendis from this consoles are so cool. I also found a Wii fit Beanie online, but it did nor arrived Jet. My Goal will BE the Wii Sports Jacket 🥹 wich ist totaly hard tonfind (Specialy in Europe i Guess )

  • I've been working on a native Celeste port for the Wii. Here's how it's going so far!

    r/WiiHacks

    Hey everyone! So, I've been working on getting Celeste running natively on the Wii, and I figured some people here might find it interesting. It started out pretty simple. I just wanted to see if I could get the core…

  • Feeling nostalgic about forgotten games

    r/wii

    So there's a game that I used to play when I was younger. I remember nothing about it's name, just that the main menu seems to me in a hotel and that the game had a variety of game modes, from darts to Frisbee golf…

  • Button 2 and 2nd Player LED don't work

    r/WiiHacks

    Initially, the controller wouldn't even turn on; the battery contacts were green and corroded. After cleaning everything with vinegar and IPA, it now powers on, but button 2 and the blue LED for the second player…

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  • Boot directly into game on USB

    r/WiiHacks

    Is it possible somehow to boot directly into a game on a USB drive? I know I can boot into USB Loader GX or whatever, but I'd like to not have to press any buttons at all before the game starts loading.

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Further back: a few picks per source.

Oct 26

September 2026

  • Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2609 Latest release

    Dolphin Emulator

    Welcome to Dolphin 2609's accompanying Progress Report! Like everyone else, we've been doing our best to weather the Techpocalypse brought on by AI, but it's really come after us in the past few months. Our website has…

August 2026

July 2026

June 2026

  • Dolphin Progress Report: Release 2606

    Dolphin Emulator

    Welcome to the Progress Report for Dolphin Release 2606. We usually prefer to launch toward the beginning of the month, but a slew of important, large, and technically challenging changes had us working overtime. Strap…

April 2026

January 2026

  • Ordering Pizza On The Nintendo Wii (Again)

    Hackaday

    The Nintendo Wii first launched in 2006, and quickly became a fixture in living rooms around the world. It offered motion-controlled bowling, some basic internet features, and a pretty decent Zelda…

Eighteen quiet years.

From 2006 to 2008, WiiVolve covered the Wii several times a week, and almost daily around launch: news, reviews, previews, cheats, and Direct2Wii, a newsletter delivered to the console itself. The last post, in March 2008, promised a reconstruction. This is it.

“…a group of unpaid high school students in the middle of their school years.”

WiiVolve Reconstruction Plan, March 1, 2008
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The teal-era WiiVolve header, as captured in 2009: the name in white letters on a glossy dark grey bar, with a faint [2] at the right end.
The teal-era header, as captured in 2009, recovered from the Wayback Machine. See the teal era

2008

  • WiiVolve Reconstruction Plan

    The final post

    WiiVolve will be undergoing a change that will change our vision for the site.

2007

2006

  • Nintendo and Sony Sell Out

    Many, many sold out. If you didn’t get one on time, you may just be out of luck.

  • The Battle Begins: Wii vs PS3

    This Friday the PS3 releases. On Sunday, the Wii. Which to buy? We’ve gathered the pros and cons for both systems. Read this before you go shopping!

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    Milestone

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  • Trauma Center Interview

    Our Atlus interviewFeature

    Considering everyone’s questions from last month, WiiVolve decided to have a little chat with Atlus USA about their upcoming launch title for Wii, Trauma Center: Second Opinion. We interviewed Tom Hulett of Atlus USA…

  • Welcome to WiiVolve.com!

    The first post

  • New Site Coming Soon

    Where it all startedMilestone

    Your Number One Source for Wii News! (The page’s artwork was never archived.)

That’s the very first page. You made it all the way back to 2006. Back to today