Installing the Emulator: First, eject the SD card from your Wii and hook it up to an SD card reader attached to the computer you’re working on. The first order of business is to grab the NES emulator and start copying files to your Wii’s SD card-the place where all your homebrew software and ROMs will end up. Installing and Configuring Your NES Emulator Let’s start with setting up NES emulation. Grab a few ROMs to test your system before proceeding:Īrmed with a few ROMs to make testing easier, it’s time to setup and configure the emulators. The following sites maintain extensive catalogs of retro gaming ROMs for everything from the Atari to the Playstation. If not, don’t worry-it’s nearly impossible to even search for “emulator ROMs” without practically falling into a giant pile of them.

If you’re a long time retro game fan there’s a good chance you already have a pile of ROMs sitting around waiting to be loaded into the newest emulator to come across your work bench. We’ll go over where you can dig up ROMs in the first section. For SNES games, however, the Wiimote is a poor fit as you need to do some pretty fancy fingering to use the SNES X and Y buttons.įor SNES emulation we strongly recommend either using the Wii Classic controller (offers a perfect 1:1 fit for the SNES’s A, B, X, Y configuration) or a GameCube controller (the right-hand button layout is slightly different than the SNES controller but it’s close enough that you should have no problems using it).įinally, you need game ROMs to make this work-without them you’ll have an awesome emulator setup with no games to actually load in the emulator. Second, the regular Wiimote works awesome for NES emulation (as, held sideways, it is essentially a thick NES controller). This tutorial will not walk you through the soft mod process. Make sure to install the Homebrew Browser while you’re at it. Therefore, we strongly suggest you read over The Complete Softmod Guide to ensure you are performing the correct mod technique for your particular Wii. While we have shown you how to hack your Wii for homebrew before, new editions of the Wii operating system software require different techniques for soft-modding. At least one game ROM for each emulator you’re installing.įirst, this project requires a soft-modded Wii unit that can run homebrew software.One copy of SNES9x GX for SNES emulation.One copy of FCE Ultra GX for NES emulation.One Wiimote and/or GameCube controller.One modded Nintendo Wii unit capable of running homebrew software.For this tutorial you will need the following items read over the list below and then check out the notes following for additional details.

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