Future of Booting Emulators on the Wii

Post by **racketboy** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 10:27 am

Those of you that are familiar with the Wii hardware, what do you think the future holds for booting emulators on the Wii?
As it is right now, running emulators isn't to the level or running them as a convenience.
Do you think we will get to that point anytime soon and how to you imagine it happening?

Hacking Virtual Console/Wii Ware?
Booting from a hacked disc straight to emus on SD cards?

Post by **Phantom of Krankor** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 11:21 am

I hope for the homebrew to grow to the level that I can create or just add in my own channels for everything. Not only for roms but for other programs and what not. Channels for games that will never be released, ie Mother/Earthbound 0, Goldeneye, Crouching Tigers Hidden Dragon 2003, Marvel Vs Capcom, etc, along with VLC. Actually I would be happy just for there to be a way to transfer saves to gamecube memory cards from SD cards. I would buy a Wii right now for that function.

Post by **diehllane** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 5:13 pm

I have no problem with where emulation is at on the Wii. I don't mind running the emulators in GC mode straight from the discs I had when I had a modded GC.

Eventually, I would like to see the ability to load and run Emulators off SD cards or a USB flash drive.

Post by **racketboy** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:49 pm

diehllane wrote:I have no problem with where emulation is at on the Wii. I don't mind running the emulators in GC mode straight from the discs I had when I had a modded GC.

Eventually, I would like to see the ability to load and run Emulators off SD cards or a USB flash drive.

Is that with a modchip? (pardon my ignorance)

Post by **diehllane** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 6:59 pm

Yes. I am running the D2CKey in my Wii. I had a bunch of emulators for the GC when I had a GC chipped with the Qoob Pro.

Post by **metaleggman** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:07 pm

You can use Twilight Princess to play emulators on the Wii without it being modded. The thing there is that it isn't super convenient, so it's prolly not worth the effort.

Post by **Niode** » Fri Apr 18, 2008 8:23 pm

News just in. Somebody has figured out how to decrypt VC titles. So it won't be long until somebody figures out how to roll your own channels on wii with a proper front end (at the moment it's just a blank placeholder) They've stated that the titles on VC are just roms and that they work perfectly well on emulators!.

Post by **Curlypaul** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 4:50 am

Phantom of Krankor wrote: I would be happy just for there to be a way to transfer saves to gamecube memory cards from SD cards. I would buy a Wii right now for that function.

Damned right that would be useful, and I'm sure that it would have took nintendo a minimal amount of time to make it possible had they have wanted to.

As for the actual thread question, It would be cool if we could get access to the emulators nintendo wrote for the virtual console one way or another but I dont think we are going to find a reliable way to do this until the next gen and nintendo stop forcing you to update the bios.

Post by **ImportBoy** » Sat Apr 19, 2008 11:24 am

At this point I think modchip makers are going to have come up with something that is able to store two different firmwares/system softwares. That way when an official update comes along that breaks everything you can roll back or switch.