So, I just found a Wii in the garbage.

[needler420]

Even Wii's with dead disc drives are very useful because you can put homebrew on any Wii via SD card and make it so you can even boot Wii ISO's from a hard drive on top of all the other SD card functional emulators. The Wii is literally one of the easiest game systems to mod. The only totally useless Wii is a bricked one, or one with a dead SD card slot.

I wouldn't say being able to use illegal roms is useful to the industry.

In that same sense you might as well make fun of everyone who buys a physical copy of a retro game instead of running an ISO in a emulator. If you're going to run illegal roms on a wii why even bother collecting NES/SNES/N64 etc just use roms and emulators for free too.

But you just use those legal homebrew apps. You'd never run illegal back ups.