Hacking Emulators on the Wii U

[MSearles]

What are the best emulators for the Wii U? Snes, NES, Sega, etc.

Thank you

 

[Deleted member 375186]

I wish.

 

[GalladeGuy]

None. There are no emulators for the Wii U yet. The homebrew scene is still fairly new. Just be patient.

 

[MSearles]

None. There are no emulators for the Wii U yet. The homebrew scene is still fairly new. Just be patient.

Not even through vWii?

 

[GalladeGuy]

Not even through vWii?

Through vWii you can use any emulator for Wii. I'm talking about hacking for the actual Wii U itself.

 

[Mazamin]

I think that it's not worth the efforts. Why would you need emulators on wii u? You could just get them on pc or mobile phone. I am open to any critics on this.

 

[GalladeGuy]

I think that it's not worth the efforts. Why would you need emulators on wii u? You could just get them on pc or mobile phone. I am open to any critics on this.

Not all people have a powerful enough phone to emulate anything above SNES though. And PCs are very expensive if you want anything good.

 

[rw-r-r_0644]

Not all people have a powerful enough phone to emulate anything above SNES though. And PCs are very expensive if you want anything good.

..and it's a bad experience using touch buttons for playing

 

[Raylight]

Not likely to happen till nintendo stops supporting it so they will leave the exploits alone.

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..and it's a bad experience using touch buttons for playing

I hate touch controls idk how anyone plays that way especially when your fingers start to stick to the screen.

 

[MSearles]

Not likely to happen till nintendo stops supporting it so they will leave the exploits alone.

I thought that already happened. There are only a handful of good games for the Wii U. It's definitely not worth the $300 it costs.

 

[GalladeGuy]

..and it's a bad experience using touch buttons for playing

That too. The screen is also pretty small on most phones.

 

[Kafluke]

I think that it's not worth the efforts. Why would you need emulators on wii u? You could just get them on pc or mobile phone. I am open to any critics on this.

Umm Cuz this is the wii u forum?

 

[Mazamin]

Umm Cuz this is the wii u forum?

Well I like homebrews, and piracy exists... So you have many better alternatives of emulators

 

[hippy dave]

For NES and SNES the official emulators (Virtual Console) would be a pretty good start.

 

[geheim]

I'd love to have a retroArch port for WiiU Wouldn't it be possible now we have a HomeBrew Launcher??
VC Injection isn't working that good, at least with N64... A real homebrew N64 Emulator would be great...

 

[rw-r-r_0644]

I'd love to have a retroArch port for WiiU Wouldn't it be possible now we have a HomeBrew Launcher??
VC Injection isn't working that good, at least with N64... A real homebrew N64 Emulator would be great...

It's not so easy as it may appear. I was trying to port snes in userspace but I gived up after that i seen that snes9x has 50+ files. And I did not find any snes emulator easy to port because most of them, differently than LiteNES (that is a nes, not snes emulator), are heavily platform dipendent with complex build scripts

 

[hippy dave]

Judging by retroarch for 3DS, it's likely to come to Wii u once homebrew is more established, the homebrew libraries are in a more mature state etc. Will take time.

 

[brienj]

I have several open source emulators sitting in my development folders, waiting for the ability to use sound on 5.5. Once that's figured out, I will proceed on finishing the ports.

 

[codychaosx]

There are several virtual console games that are able to be played through loadiine.