The community found a way to inject every Wii game into the VC wrapper Nintendo used some years ago. Of course the Wii U is backward compatible with the Wii. You can inject a game if you want to have the game on your Wii U home screen (installing them on Wii U memory or Wii U HD), or you can inject Nintendont itself if you want to store your ISOs on the SD card.
Nintendont also has a bult-in widescreen patch which works for most games and using cheats you can force 60fps on some games!Ĭompatibility list (If you are interested in enhancements with default settings every GC game works) Nintendont works on Wii U, which means every single GC games can be played! You can play the games using the GamePad, the Classic Controller or the official GCN controllers with the Smash or the MayFlash adapter. This is, in fact, the best way to play NDS game on a bigger screen. The official NDS emulator is way better and most of the library works. The Rare titles are the outliers here, unfortunately, with only Banjo-Kazooie working flawlessly (Tooie with some minor slowdowns). The compatibility isn't great but every single first party game works, alongside Mischief Makers and the Bomberman, Goemon and Castlevania games. You can inject N64 roms into the official VC emulator. This means you can use the official S/NES mini controllers! Not only you can play the games on the GamePad, but RetroArch also supports USB controllers and WiiMotes.
RetroArch is available on Wii U and let you play virtually every single game released on NES, SNES, Master System, MegaDrive, PC-Engine, GB/C/A and so on. If you buy an used Wii U for 100$ and hack it you'll get: The homebrew community turned Wii U into an amazing platform to own. Right now convenience/charm is winning out over authentic scanlines.Let's say it, with Switch getting more and more ports there's no reason to buy a Wii U. both are quality solutions to retro gaming. Do you want a system to hook up to HDMI? That's the basic question. The emulation feels about the same to me, maybe miniSNES is a slight bit faster. But when this CRT dies I'm not getting another one. Sometimes I just want to sit in front of phosphor glow.
I'm still keeping the CRT and Wii around for 240p gaming. but I would never go back to those controllers after using a new Nintendo controller.
I have some 8bitdo and Cirka SNES style controllers and they are not bad. I partially got the miniSNES just for the controllers, as I actually could use the fact they connect to a Wii remote. Even though I like the Wii, booting it and fiddling with wii remotes is kinda annoying. The general Nintendo polish of the thing, the physical power and reset and the speed of the system to get you into a game really makes it better. I'm pretty sensitive to emulation lag after a certain threshold, and the miniSNES is really far below that threshold. I haven't A/B them, but the CRT filter makes the games look good enough and I haven't noticed any issues with the emulation. And maybe it's the newness, but I'm really happy with the miniSNES. And I just got a miniSNES as an exit strategy for dying CRTs. I use a Wii hooked up to a CRT and output games in 240p when I can.