Gaming NINTENDO WII IF A DECADE OLD ON FRIDAY

[foob]

One of the greatest benefits of being a late adopter is the hacking has already reached maturity so I was able to choose my hacking path. Been loving my Wii ever since!!!!

Absolutely And most games are so cheap...people are virtually giving them away with their consoles. Definitely got more value in the Wii than what I paid.

 

[september796]

Homebrew is what mostly kept it alive. Glad too see the Wii is still relevant now because of Homebrew.
The Wii homebrew devs are so dedicated the N64 emulator on the Wii is better than on the PS3 which is very surprising. I could say the N64 emulator is almost perfect. They even managed to get a semi-DS emulator with some games actually running. Again the PS3 a stronger console could not do this. Just amazing isn't it?

what n64 emulator are you talking about? coz I have tried a couple (a few years ago though) and they run at low framerate... yea almost unplayable but truly unenjoyable.
I don't know about now.. did they release a new emulator or improved over the years that make it 'almost perfect' as you say?
if so I have to try it out

 

[Emerald X]

Damn... what a fucking great console. Only quirk are the half useless accessories just floating around haha.

 

[Alex658]

Nope. At least not a playable one.

What is the name of this "almost perfect" n64 emulator for Wii? I'm curious...

I got my wii like a month ago, it was in 4.3u and thanks to Cyan and the USBloadergx/Nintendont threads and the people helping me there i got it working flawlessly.
I installed letterbomb and cIOS following and old dated tutorial but they helped me reconfigure it. Ever since then i've been playing some good ol' snes/gba/gcn games. Mine seems to be a 2007 model and so i can't install priiloader as boot2 (or anything really)

 

[Zero72463]

Not64 aka Mupen64 is one of the best emulators. It plays most of the common n64 games I have tried. You need to configure it properly. Wii64 is also good, but not as good.

If one of you is gonna bitch about how it isn't perfect its my opinion deal with it.

 

[Zenzirouj]

TBH, I never really liked the Wii. SMG 1 & 2 definitely some of the best & most satisfying gaming I ever experienced, but as a whole I feel the Wii's catalog was negatively affected by the gimmick. And ironically, also by the commercial success of the console, which resulted in a shitload of crap getting released.

Gamecube Forever. Seriously.

But I'm somewhat hopeful for this Switch thing.

Agree completely. The Wii signaled a massive shift in Nintendo's priorities. I can't really blame them, since going casual + full-gimmick has made them gobs of cash, but they've really dropped the ball on innovation or simply making great games without focusing on whatever feature they're trying to force. It's one thing to introduce waggling as a new option, but another thing altogether to force everything to use it in order to be released.

But I'm not bitter or anything.

 

[Jayro]

I was 23, standing in the rain for 9 hours until Target opened at launch. I was on number 25 in line, out of 42 consoles they had.

 

[valeasr123]

great console