Emulation on the Wii is possible now!
I myself have tried and ran the following emulators today:
- SNES9x GX (SNES)
- FCE Ultra GX (NES)
- GenPlus (Genesis / MegaDrive)
- RinWii (GameBoy / GameBoy Color)
I ran all these applications via the Zelda Hack...
It's quite easy really. Do a google search for the Zelda hack, then get the application "sdloader" for the Wii. Follow the instructions and you end up with an option to run any *.elf on the Wii (this is it's executable's format)... With the "sdloader", one can then run the desired emulator. All you need is Zelda and a SD card...
All emulators and the rom images end up on the SD card so no further hardware is required (except saving, this is mostly done on a GC mem card).
If you want some fancy GUI to start these applications, then look for the "homebrew launcher", which mimicks the Wii's own menu. One has to organize all application in some really easy to follow order, so the "homebrew launcher" works properly but it's easy as pie!
Since I got a PAL Wii, I end up with some serious TV signal problems, most of these applications run in black and white for me, but this problem is also apparently fixable as "GenPlus" runs in full color and speed!
As far as I know, there's currently only one option to run these emulators WITHOUT the zelda hack:
There's one "homebrew channel NOLIMIT" floating araound the net... This is an unauthorized hack 'stolen' from Team Twiizers (I think)... Their original had a time limit of 10 minutes, which is gone in this unofficial version...
Nobody knows yet if this will harm your Wii, so I do not recommend it's use
I'm now off to try Lopst's port of SNES9xGX, which has added support for the classic controller! WOOHOO!