How to Determine Your Wii's System

This short guide will show you how to determine what operating system your Nintendo Wii is currently running.  This information is very important if you plan to perform any modifications, because the steps for modifying will be different depending on the system.

After powering on you wii, select the "wii" button in the bottom left hand corner of the main menu screen.  This will take you to the Data Management/ Settings page.

Select Settings, and on the next page you will be able to see you system version in the upper right hand corner of the screen.  As seen below, my wii is running 4.2u.

What can you do with this data?  Well you can hack your nintedo wii to play burnt games, for starters.