Hacking Gameboy Games on Nintendo Wii

[keras]

"This video shows my Nintendo Wii running Gameboy and Gameboy Color games on Wii RIN, a program designed to run Gameboy and Gameboy Color emulators.

Here's EVERYTHING that was used:
1x unmodded Wii (no chip)
1x Zelda: Twilight Princess
1x SD card plugged into front SD port
1x GameCube controller for emulator
1x Wii remote/nunchuck "

Link to Video
http://www.n4g.com/gaming/News-131608.aspx

Now we just need it in full screen

and maybe some exploid to play

games

 

[m0dm0use]

where can we find the app for the Wii? and is it gameboy or gameboy colour?

 

[Bob Evil]

Read his post again, m0dm0use ... it's gameboy and gameboy color ... as it would be.

 

[Beware]

It wouldn't be an exploit. There would have to be an emulator written.

 

[HaTaX]

Here's the webpage from the author (I think it is at least...):
http://mirakichi.hp.infoseek.co.jp/software/RIN_Wii.html

 

[Bob Evil]

It wouldn't be an exploit. There would have to be an emulator written.

Freddie Munkury is quite correct.

 

[Richy Freeway]

As the creators site seems to be down, I've mirrored the files on rapidshare. Got them from http://www.dcemu.co.uk/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=101533

Binaries : http://rapidshare.com/files/105423571/RIN_Wii_bin.zip.html

Source : http://rapidshare.com/files/105423572/RIN_Wii_src.zip.html

Haven't tried it yet, gonna find some GB roms and give it a go.

Edit : Just ran it up via the twilight hack and it works very well. Had a quick go on Zelda, Contra and Tetris and the emulation seems spot on.

 

[NikoK]

Will we be seeing a way to load this from a channel off of SD?

 

[Lumstar]

GB and GBC should be easy. GBA is possible given effort, as PSP shows.

DS emulation itself could be done. But most games wouldn't run at playable speeds. Wii isn't fast enough.

 

[TSPhoenix]

The Wii does have the starlet chip which is ARM and thus may be able natively process DS instructions. If this chip inside the graphics card is accessible it might be possible to have it translate DS graphics to something native to the graphics card which could lower the emulation overhead. Chances are this is not possible due to the nature of the starlet. Its a far fetched theory I know.

Hopefully Snes9x will actually run decently on the Wii, it was kind of funny how the GBA emulator on PSP ran faster than the SNES emulator.

 

[SkH]

Wow!!! Awesome!!!!

 

[misticknight]

does this save yet? and also, can you load games from a menu like SNES9X or can you only have one game on the card at a time (thats how i heard it works but i could be wrong).

 

[Richy Freeway]

It doesn't save yet. Yes you can load games from anywhere on the SD card, the menu system is pretty crude but it works.