What is vWii Hacking? Well, if you are looking to exploit the Wii U’s backwards compatibility with the Wii System Menu, then you are in the right place. vWii is the mode the Wii U enters when you go to the Wii Menu. It stands for "virtual Wii." This means that basically anything you can do on an original Wii, you can do on a Wii U, including hack and install homebrew applications.


The Wii U can be used to play GameCube games after hacking the vWii.
You can back up your Wii games to a USB Hard Drive and play them from the external HDD.
You can play millions of games using a wide variety of emulators.
You can play homebrew games or even develop them if you feel so inclined.
The possibilities are actually pretty limitless...

Definitive vWii Hacking Guide

Shout out to Wiitaly user student and GBA Temp user asper, as this guide pulls heavily from that guide.
Shout out to GBA Temp users Cyan and FIX94 for making suggestions on how to improve the guide as well as developing several tools used in it.
Shout out to GBA Temp user zeldaism for suggesting a simpler process for formatting USB HDD's, Bootice.