The NTSC-U library spanned multiple generations of gaming history, with prices originally ranging from 500 to 1000 Wii Points depending on the platform. List of Virtual Console games for Wii U (North America)

Today, the Wii Shop Channel is closed. You cannot buy new titles. The only way to experience this library in its original digital form is to resurrect a dormant Wii console and hunt down machines that were loaded between 2006 and 2019. This is the story of that collection—and why it remains the most impressive digital retro library ever assembled.

Within the modding community, "completing the collection" means verifying the SHA-1 hashes of every official VC ROM. The actual tickets (the decryption keys) for each title have been dumped. A true collector has a 1:1 encrypted NAND backup of a Wii that owned every NTSC-U title.

The Virtual Console operated on a specific file structure known as (Wii Directory).