My own Memorial Days are typically full of family revelry: picnics, drinking, outdoor games, too much sun (followed by a week’s incubation and then a week’s worth of peeling). This year, I’m not doing much of anything, and for those of you in similar positions, you may find this Wii hack a productive way to fill your time.

The hack, which comes to us via mikeandheth.com, teaches you how to load your Wii discs from an attached USB hard drive. Without explaining too much (and unnecessarily leeching credit), the hard drive hack saves you all sorts of time and space that you might spend hunting for discs, changing discs, waiting for discs to load, and just about anything else that is limiting about physical media.

The one caveat I’ll offer: M&H do suggest keeping your Wii on older firmware versions than the most current (though they offer plenty of great reasons to do so). If this makes you uncomfortable for any reason, you probably won’t like their guide very much. I will say, though, it’s worth reading, and worth examining some of the hackable possibilities of your Wii. It is yours after all, and despite what Nintendo will tell you, there’s no reason it shouldn’t do what you want.