Softmodding A Wii

[Delete Delete Delete]

After picking up a Wii at the Carboot sale for £15 and softmodding it. I was suprised how easy it was. I've installed Genesis, Snes, Nes and MAME emulators on it. Is this currently the easiest and cheapest way to make an emulation machine at the moment. Wii's seems to be dirt cheap.

[Ferris]

Probably - I've given away 2 Wiis and a Wii U in the last few years. I bought them "refurbished" 2nd hand from the Canadian CeX equivalent for next to nothing, and remember they were laughably easy to hack (though I didn't have a go at the Wii U).

Didn't realize you could get emulators for them though, regretting giving mine away now. Could get another one second hand for peanuts if I really cared though...

[kngen]

After picking up a Wii at the Carboot sale for £15 and softmodding it. I was suprised how easy it was. I've installed Genesis, Snes, Nes and MAME emulators on it. Is this currently the easiest and cheapest way to make an emulation machine at the moment. Wii's seems to be dirt cheap.

How did you manage this? I got one to do much the same, but got as far as putting Homebrew on it then giving up after all I got was some bubbles and any tutorial I could find online would just direct me to github, which would as well be in sanskrit.

I should mention that I'm fairly shit at this sort of thing.

[Ferris]

How did you manage this? I got one to do much the same, but got as far as putting Homebrew on it then giving up after all I got was some bubbles and any tutorial I could find online would just direct me to github, which would as well be in sanskrit.

I should mention that I'm fairly shit at this sort of thing.

I put homebrew on it, put ISOs onto an SD card and played off that. I followed a youtube tutorial as I am also shit at this sort of thing

[Delete Delete Delete]

How did you manage this? I got one to do much the same, but got as far as putting Homebrew on it then giving up after all I got was some bubbles and any tutorial I could find online would just direct me to github, which would as well be in sanskrit.

I should mention that I'm fairly shit at this sort of thing.

After getting the Homebrew channel I googled for the emualtors and extracted them to the SD card, then put the Roms on a seprate USB stick. Then when I bott up the Wii and go to the channel the Emualtors are on the menu, I then opened them and changed the settings to point at the USB instead of the SD.

[The Boston Crab]

Best thing is you can also emulate N64 and GC through the internal shit, don't need to do anything else. Also you can play Wii games.

[kngen]

Nice one folks, I'll have another stab at it

[Johnny Textface]

Do all N64 games work now? Last time I did this it was hit and miss.

[The Boston Crab]

Apologies if I'm wrong about that but can't you just download the Wii shop versions?

[Huxleys Babkins]

If you can get hold of a cheap Wii U you can do everything you can with a Wii plus install Wii U games, run emulators with a bit more grunt and have it output in HD via HDMI.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-homebrewed-wii-u-is-an-amazing-retro-console.39306/

[madhair60]

Unfortunately you also have to fanny around with the piece-of-shit space-taking-up gamepad

[Huxleys Babkins]

You can mostly just chuck it in a drawer and use a pro controller instead.

[peanutbutter]

If you can get hold of a cheap Wii U you can do everything you can with a Wii plus install Wii U games, run emulators with a bit more grunt and have it output in HD via HDMI.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/a-homebrewed-wii-u-is-an-amazing-retro-console.39306/

You've to softmod the wii u and then softmod the wii u's virtual wii iirc?

I got one a while back and only really used it for BotW and a bit of MK8 tbh. From what I recall you can play GameCube games on the controller, which is pretty neat really.

[madhair60]

You can mostly just chuck it in a drawer and use a pro controller instead.

Hakchi literally requires it to boot anything in my experience. Once you've done that you can switch to the Pro, but it's a fucking fannyabout. I'd recommend a standard Wii over Wii U anyday for emulation

[Huxleys Babkins]

Hakchi literally requires it to boot anything in my experience. Once you've done that you can switch to the Pro, but it's a fucking fannyabout. I'd recommend a standard Wii over Wii U anyday for emulation

CBHC has superseded Haxchi and doesn't require the gamepad at all.

[madhair60]

CBHC has superseded Haxchi and doesn't require the gamepad at all.

Well then!!