Poking around in my PSP. Back then, you had to physically and permanently modify a battery to gain entry. Then Wii released, and the rest is history.

A friend of mine, all the way back in elementary school. He helped me mod my Wii U. 8 years later and I'm still doing it xD

And same reason: poor.

3ds. I saw someone use custom themes online and I had so much fun modding, I went over to more consoles

it was around 2022/2023 when i discovered modding, i dont remember much of it, but i do remember that i found out my wii was modded years after i got it in 2016 lol

i found modding when the nintendo servers shut down for the wii u and my reason to mod was to play online (lil fun fakt abt me while i modded this wii u: my brother wanted to help but he just sat there while i modded)

and i forgot how i found modding

i had watched michael mjds video of installing macos 9 on the wii, and i was intrigued. that was like 3-4 years ago

my dad had a ps vita in a cupboard just collecting dust. eventually, i found it, found its charger and modded it. before that was my kindle, but i dont think that counts :3

Xbox 360. I discovered the new softmod methods back in March, and I downloaded some homebrew stuff that I thought would be useful for such an old Xbox. The next month, I modded my 3DS to get all of the games back that had disappeared from my home menu for some reason

I hate having devices locked down, especially when theyre fully functional without ''official support''

a frend of mine showed me their modded 3ds one day, and we learned that my at-the-time unmodded 3ds could download play with his modded one. i eventually disided to mod my own using the 3dshacks guide and an SD reader borrowed from a different frend. i just didnt want it dead

I first modded mine wayyyyy back because I wanted to get a pre-release game.... guess who got permanently banned from official servers lol.

Thanks for sharing! I know I already said my reason, but I also had more reasons, such as using Checkpoint to preserve my physical games and also for Miiverse, but also to play some games that were eShop exclusives. The end :p