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And you thought mods for Wii games weren't possible.

As we all know, Super Smash Bros. Brawl has been available for nearly two years at this point. Being the most popular entry into the series yet, there have been an unbelievable number of players experiencing the beefy offering.

Though it's an undeniably good game, for some people (like myself), something felt a bit off about it. As a huge fan of Melee, the decrease in speed and gravity was a bit of a turn off, and regardless of all of the balancing that went into the characters from Sakurai and his team, the game still had glaring flaws.

As the community often does with games they love, they tinker with them to try and make them even better. Unfortunately for the Brawl community, large scale mods have more or less been exclusively available to PC gamers.

Thankfully, a crafty bunch of Wii hackers managed to create a code set that on-load, modifies a massive number of variables changing the Brawl experience greatly. They call this new experience, Brawl+.

Being that this mod requires access to the Homebrew Channel and the Gecko Loader to use, it goes without saying that modding your Wii is necessary to take advantage of the game mod. Fortunately, no shady business is necessary as the mod requires you to use a legitimate copy of the game to play it.

Being the computer geek I am, I modded my Wii quite a while back. Thus installing the mod was no more work than adding a few files to my SD Card in strategic locations.

Booting up the game was simple with the Gecko Loader, requiring me to simply select "Launch From DVD." After simply seeing the character select screen, it was obvious that this mod had changed quite a bit from the standard Brawl experience.