Back early in the Wii homebrew scene (2009 maybe?) a friend of my older sister's came over and installed a bunch of emulators and stuff on our console. I wasn't very old so I didn't understand the technical side of it, but man playing Kirby's Nightmare in Dreamland on the TV absolutely blew my mind. Eventually the homebrew channel was wiped (probably by a system update) and I learned how to do it myself.

Still gotta wonder where that guy ended up. Softmodding a Wii to impress a girl seriously sounds like something I would do