Homebrew Is there any reason to use an actual Wii?

[StarTrekVoyager]

Dolphin will become a far more interesting and appealing prospect when it becomes possible to run the fully featured "all bells and whistles" version of it via Retropie.

It'll never happen. The RPi 3 is less powerful than a real Wii.

 

[Most-Wanted]

PC in the living room setup as a console using Emulation Station, The motherboard is a Asus z97 AC wifi , It comes with blutooth so I can use my Wii remotes

I advise everyone to do this, I love the setup

Emulation Station is the Overlay of RetroPie an OS for Raspberry pie, This is a lot better then that small device since you can now Emulate PS2 and Wii games

 

[HeavyMetalLoser]

My only computer is a low-spec laptop, so Dolphin is not a viable option for me. Using my Wii guarantees full speed and compatibility with Wii and Gamecube games, and it also functions very well as an emulation machine for everything GBA and older. Even some N64 games run decently (Banjo-Kazooie, Diddy Kong Racing, Rocket: Robot on Wheels.)

It also helps that my main TV is a 720p Vizio that my brother sold me for like $25. It handles 480p sources incredibly well, clear, bright, and sharp with less than a single frame of input lag.

 

[urherenow]

My Wii is both soft modded and chipped (so copied games spin at full speed). I'll be keeping it as long as it works. I do have a dolphin bar (or whatever it's called) for my PC, but only used it once or twice. I'm pretty sure I have unopened Wii games still, and unplayed (used) Gamecube games for it. Picked up the GC ones because I never got into GC but there were a couple of titles I must play someday as a matter of principle (Metroid and Zelda... though I do have Wind Waker HD now, but no way else to play the Metroid games unless they are part of the trilogy set). Now I'm just rambling...

 

[rkChdrkls]

These days dolphin can emulate the Wii and GameCube in 8k resolution if your PC is up to the task. A real Wii looks blurry as fuck on a HD TV whereas a good PC can make Wii games look a lot neater (though still with aged textures).

So unless you're living on a tight budget and buying a Wii is cheaper than a new PC, is there any other reason to use a real Wii?

The upscaled resolution don't look that good to me and are still a bit blurry at anything other than the TV/Monitor's native res. Nothing beat a wii picture on a crt imho (particularly some of the later ones that support 480p).

 

[DinohScene]

I got a sundriver in me Wii so yes.
Not to mention me lappy is from '07 and I like playing on actual hardware.

 

[Hayleia]

It'll never happen. The RPi 3 is less powerful than a real Wii.

But the sentence was talking about a possible future, so maybe it was thinking about the RPi12, not the RPi3.

 

[barronwaffles]

Network/WFC play isn't what I'd consider accurate enough, so I'd rather use a real console.

 

[duwen]

But the sentence was talking about a possible future, so maybe it was thinking about the RPi12, not the RPi3.

Yes. I never specifically mentioned raspberry pi 3, just a fairly generic 'retropie'... granted, it could be a decade or more away... maybe we'll even have orginal xbox emulation possible by then!

 

[G0R3Z]

Dolphin will become a far more interesting and appealing prospect when it becomes possible to run the fully featured "all bells and whistles" version of it via Retropie.

...but, tbh, this is a largely objective question the Op's posed anyway - in so much as it can apply to virtually every old system versus whatever emulator is best supported for that particular system... "Is there any reason to use an actual [insert any old games console/handheld here]" ...the answers will be almost identical to those in this thread.

Some people just like the actual hardware. Even if a PC can run Gamecube at 4K, with SSAO, AF and all of the bells and whistles, people will still play on an original console. There's those who don't want to invest in a PC, configure it, the legal gray area of Emulators as well. Retro gamers are a peculiar bunch.

 

[duwen]

Some people just like the actual hardware. Even if a PC can run Gamecube at 4K, with SSAO, AF and all of the bells and whistles, people will still play on an original console. There's those who don't want to invest in a PC, configure it, the legal gray area of Emulators as well. Retro gamers are a peculiar bunch.

Echoed almost exactly what I said in my first post in this thread...

My feeling's entirely.
It's strange though... I use my Wii U to play Wii games in HD, my Wii to play GC in 480 via component, and my GC (with Gameboy Player) to play GB/GBC/GBA via RGB SCART... us retro collectors are a strange breed

...a peculiar bunch indeed!

 

[netovsk]

@StarTrekVoyager Oh I'm sorry then, I'm having a hard time finding the motion bar connect port and the gamecube controlller port on my computer, it just has USB and PCI and those don't fit any of the mentioned above.

 

[StarTrekVoyager]

@StarTrekVoyager Oh I'm sorry then, I'm having a hard time finding the motion bar connect port and the gamecube controlller port on my computer, it just has USB and PCI and those don't fit any of the mentioned above.

Lol, of course I wasn't saying that. But Dolphin now supports native GC controller input through the official Smash Wii U GC adapter. Which means exactly zero input lag BTW. And you can find the DolphinBar BT sensor bar for about 20 bucks on Amazon.

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But the sentence was talking about a possible future, so maybe it was thinking about the RPi12, not the RPi3.

Even then, this is quite false. Currently the Pi Foundation guys are having a hard time trying to find ways to boast more power in prevision of the Pi 4, which might never be released

 

[netovsk]

@StarTrekVoyager You can probably find an used Wii for less though. I see the point in both choices.

 

[StarTrekVoyager]

@StarTrekVoyager You can probably find an used Wii for less though. I see the point in both choices.

Actually, GC games through Wii component are garbage. It's nothing near the genuine GC component cable ($400) or the GCVideo mod ($70).

 

[barronwaffles]

Actually, GC games through Wii component are garbage. It's nothing near the genuine GC component cable ($400) or the GCVideo mod ($70).

'Garbage' is a bit of a stretch - it doesn't quite have the same level of clarity but it's more than adequate at that price point.

 

[Procyon]

RiiConnect24, and CTGP are two things not available on Dolphin + no bans on Wiimmfi for lag.

 

[queendude]

Wiimmfi.

 

[Procyon]

Wiimmfi.

See my previous post.

 

[Sathya]

but you cant use your mii on dolphin. and its look nice if you have a real wii and hack it!