The reason why those emulators didn't support 4:3 is because they were actually in 4:3. The Wii only renders a 4:3 framebuffer, which is stretched out to 16:9. Whenever you're running a game in widescreen, it is anamorphic. With the exception of games on the Xbox that actually run at 720p, that's how all of the 6th and 5th gen consoles did it. I know the Wii isn't 6th gen, but it is still relevant because it's just a super GameCube.
@@FrameRater If I am not mistaken, this issue is mostly fixed when you do things in the vWii on the WiiU, but the aspect ratio feature might also just be with official releases.
@@Tiktaalik the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4/Pro, Xbox One/S/X, WiiU and Switch all put out a native widescreen image. I only mentioned the original Xbox because it actually had the ability to put out actual widescreen. You usually got Anamorphic widescreen, but in the case of certain games, like Amped 2, the game can natively run at a full 1280x720.
Really cool to see footage of my GBA Doom II PC Conversion romhack from a TH-camr, I remember like 8 years ago running the original ROM on VBA and it lagging like hell.
Guys like you help keep the homebrew scene and it's derivatives turning. Even small works continue to inspire attract and bring joy to people in droves
You can run emulators at what ever settings you want. It's an emulator. Just change the settings. Also. The emulators on the Wii are almost all ports of other emulators. So they work on any system. It just depends what controllers you want to use.
A very good, and cheap alternative to old consoles with flashcarts. Get yourself a Mayflash Controller adapter and you've practically got the real deal.
@@NATESUCKSATGAMING lmfao bud 240p and 480i are 15Khz signals -- Modern displays output *only* 30 khz signals, meaning you cannot natively run emulators at 240p or 480i unless the hardware supports being played on a CRT (and not a PC CRT, those are typically 30 khz as well) -- and even then, the emulator does need to know that this is the output resolution
@@jonathanlaurent3059 - No....no it's not. I installed both, and while I use Retroarch it's only for Capcom system 1 and 2 - and the final burn alpha emulator. Retroarch is cool...but you have to go thru the ENTIRE SD card, for EVERY game, EVERY time. It's not nearly as convenient as Wii Mednafen is. Not even close bro, sorry.
@@ewjfpoefjwoiefj That is one plus of small channels, still this is one of the few times I'll actually say that he does indeed deserve more subs/likes/views because of how much effort he puts in
Thanks for sharing! I still use the Wii occasionally so this will be a good resource. Also, I wasn't expecting the Oasis parody in the middle, but then again, I didn't expect anyone to name their game system "Wonderswan," either...
14:46 There was a missed opportunity here. "With the exception of Grand Dad. So I suppose compatibility while great, isn't 100%." Should've been "With the exception of Grand Dad. So I suppose compatibility while great, isn't grand."
The Wii still makes the best little emulator box you can get. Having a single system that can output an accurate 240p signal for CRTs and the 480p for modern TVs is awesome. Nintendont could somewhat be considered an emulator though, it'd be worth looking at in the future. It runs Gamecube games in Wii mode. Beyond letting one play Gamecube on non-BC Wiis and WiiUs, it also lets you use Wiimote+Nunchuck or the Classic controller for Gamecube games, lets you quit to the Wii menu without power cycling, and use virtual memory cards. Mario Kart Arcade GP and F-Zero AX work in it as well, but MK Arcade GP 2 doesn't yet.
That's weird, because I located a MK GP2 ISO and played it with nintendon't and I don't notice any issues, it even saves to the Mario Card properly. I haven't even found a MK GP1 ISO yet, just sometimes a MAME version.
@@ggg235 Most 1080 screens handle 480i/p signals just fine over component video as long as you have decent quality cables. I have a similar setup, and use my modern TV for Wii, GameCube, and N64 games at 480p, while I use the CRT to run 8/16 bit emulators at true 240p. If you have to use only 1 TV, most 240p emulators also support a 480p line doubled mode that modern TVs handle much better than real consoles' signals. All games will look good on either TV if set up properly, so pick whichever you'd rather play on.
@@piratebear3126 Idk i ended up connecting a standard RGB cable to my CRT TV since it's all i have atm and it looks amazing there. I'm looking to buy a component original cable to try it on the flat screen as well. I had tried this with my PS2 and the PS2 looked god awful with component cable on the flat screen. That's why I was asking on your opinion :P
Yeah I can relate. Spent about a year pimping my Wii out - painstakingly going through every emulator/rom to make sure they played...and of course cramming as much stuff as possible. Still love it - still play it.
I still can't believe that G4TV's Attack of the Show actually showcased Wii emulation on freaking LIVE Television! I'm sure the crew got hit with a C&D from Nintendo and decided not to ever air it again.
@@user-bp5py6bh3g Well actually what i meant to say was that they actually told people on live tv how to hack the Wii from needing a copy of Zelda Twilight Princess (Wii version) and then add the files to sd card, and showing the installation of The Homebrew Channel, etc...
I had stunt race FX as a kid, it was surprisingly good. I thought it was great how you could drive underwater in that glass tunnel in one of the stages.
As someone who plays a hacked Wii nearly everyday, I can confirm Nintendont is fantastic for GameCube games and USB Loader GX for Wii games. It doesn’t emulate them of course, it just plays them natively.
37:40 That's supposed to happen!! The screeching audio/flashing bars are the game being loaded into the Spectrum's RAM in cassette format. As foreign as it sounds to American home computer users, games on cassette were much more common than cartridges outside North America (mostly in Europe, which is where the Spectrum's primary market was anyway)
@@Bubba__Sawyer you can connect it using a usb cable to the back of the wii. As far as i am aware nintendont is the only piece of software that supports this
2:47 "I don't know anything about this hardware besides brand name" It really shows... You were trying to load PC-98 games on a PC-88 emulator, of course it's not going to work...
The weird noises and visuals on the ZX Spectrum emulator was the game itself loading. That's how ZX Spectrum games look and sound while they're loading, because ZX Spectrum games were mostly distributed on tape. Looks like the emulator doesn't support the "Fast Load" option that's on most other Spectrum emulators.
I don't see how this video doesn't have more views. This video covered EVERYTHING, and you did it very well, I might add 🙂. With the exception of a PC, the Wii is one of the best emulation beasts there is.
I threw together WiiSXR over a few months based on what I could find. I generally reworked the code to optimize WiiSX. I didn't think I did too much, but apparently it worked better than I thought. I didn't aim to improve compatibility at all over WiiSX, just speed improvements.
Hmm, here's a tip if you ever do one of these kinds of videos again: If you ever run across another NEC PC98 emulator, I believe you should be testing Touhou in it. People that emulate that system are generally in it for one of two things: early Visual Novels sort of games or to see the original Touhou games. It'd be more useful to see those running, then, as those would be the games people would most likely boot in it.
I used to play emulators on my Wii all the time. The best are the Snes and GBA. They seem to run almost 100% for me. 64 games are playable, but usually too glitchy to really enjoy fully. I'm glad I'm not the only one that had trouble loading roms in some of the other systems especially the PC, Dos, and Mame emulators. They aren't very user friendly plus with lots of compatibility errors, it can be very stressful to even get working. Thanks for going through all this effort, I know how much work this was. There's also nintendon't for gamecube. Its not really emulating because it uses the gamecube hardware built in, but it would be nice to include.
Retroarch on a WII on a CRT is mind blowing. I have well over 5000 roms working perfectly in native resolution. Mame2003 cores are out there and FBA plays a couple thousand arcade games also. Plus the version of retroarch you are using 1.7.7 doesnt do switchres properly, use 1.7.6.
Virtual Console and Emulation is the true legacy of the Nintendo Wii. Motion Controls were only used to sell the system but we can all see that this was a gimmick that aged badly. Some were good but most motion controlled games were just made to trick non-gaming families into buying them. Almost like what happened to the games on the Atari 2600 and the NES that had many games that were just junk.
The wii used to be my go to emulation machine when i was a teenager, i even modded it to run gamecube and wii games off my usb flashdrive then i got my gaming pc that can run even more emulators. Good times
@DOZR rare It's very easy to do. Download cIOS manager and the IOS you need (just google how to play .wbfs Wii games on your Wii) and once you inatall it, you'll be able to use USBLoader without it crashing. EDIT: It seems that you can just use a WAD manager to install all the necessary IOS. I would recommens doing that. There is a tutorial on TH-cam by Tech James showing how to fix issues with USB Loader by doing this.
THANK YOU. The most in-depth view of the current emulators on the Wii. You did an excellent job considering how many you looked at. There are some things you may have overlooked, some emulators actually are probably working as good as the real hardware if set up correctly but I do understand that a lot of the computer based emulators need prior knowledge of the system and often end up being too much trouble for most to bother with. When it comes to WiiMednafen I am in total agreement. I have no idea why more are not singing the praises of this fine emulator. One more you kinda missed which is outstanding is the Cannonball project which brings Out Run to the Wii in a way you won't believe. It is an amazing piece of work, do check it out!
I don't know how I haven't heard of WiiMednafen, but it sounds like the overall best emulator for Wii Homebrew. I also remember the first emulators on the Wii back when the Twilight Hack was still the method of accessing homebrew, and the "Homebrew Channel" wasn't an actual channel yet. There were some older versions of SNES, NES, and Genesis emulators, and not a whole lot else that I can remember.
You forgot to mention Snes9x RX, which is a GX fork focused on full speed for heavy games, like the FX ones. BTW, mGBA is *not* the WiiMednafen's core, but an old version of VisualBoy Advance. Also, the reason why you were seeing extra things emulating Game Gear on GenesisPlusGX is because you had the GG Screen option set to Extended like when you're playing on a Power Base Converter, a misconfiguration on your part.
@@CowboyJoseph64 it does have screen centering, but no screen zoom per se. Nevertheless, it does screen stretching, if that's your jam. I do prefer pixel perfect aspect ratio, tbh.
You should make a video about emulators on GBA. No, I'm not kidding. I know there's at least emulators for NES, GB/GBC, Master System/Game Gear, and ZX Spectrum. Are there any others out there?
Jesus Christ there's also PC Engine, SNES, Neo Geo Pocket, MSX, DOS, BBC Micro, Sharp X1 Turbo... I doubt a lot of these emulators work good, but hot diggety DAMN.
The true blessing and to me the #1 reason to use a Wii to emulate old games instead of my gaming PC, is that the Wii can effortlessly connect to a CRT TV and at least here in Europe, if connected through a SCART RGB cable is capable of displaying those games at real 240p with authentic scanlines. Even if the emulation itself might not be 100% accurate in some cases, it doesn't get more authentic then that ! No modern console/computer can do that. I'll keep my Wii 4ever 😁
I just like being able to play on the couch without moving my pc everytime cause all the retro games i play are usually around snes era. so the wii was fine for me since I had it laying about. Still use it to this day once in a while to play some mario or castlevania thanks to virtual console and snes9x for light gun games.
I remember getting on alright with NES lightgun games in the FCEX-whatever-it's-called emulator; allowed me to actually play Duck Hunt in sorta the way it was intended!
@@nighttrash4890 you gonna pay $60 for a broken game on day one that needs updates for 5 months before it can be played? YOU ARE NOT SUPPORTING THE INDUSTRY YOU ARE GIVING MONEY TO THE CORPORATE MASTERS. Learn to speak Chinese cause they own you.
If you have wii softmodded, all you need is usb loader (for wii games), snes, nes, gba (gb,gbc), virtual boy emulators. It runs perfectly and so much fun. I have nes just to find some random gem but snes is imo the best console ever. In your roms folder in root put all the selected games you like and then keep all the rest in a separate folder so you can explore less known titles.
For PCE/TG16 CD emulation you need the System Card BIOS file. The Arcade card too for a few games. Its the same on PC. Also, Air Zonk is amazing lol. Crazy that it was on a HuCard.
@@bubbythebear6891 For TG-CD games to work, A. you’ll need to place the syscard3.pce file in the firmware folder (nufont variant for some translations), B. you must load up the .cue file (the .bin file is too large to be read), and C. the CUE sheet must match the title (in such a case, Track 1, which is the main game). That was what I ran into when I started Rondo of Blood. Not sure about Atari Lynx, though. It doesn’t seem to recognize .lyx files, though. Maybe .lnx?
Are you referring to the Pelican Wii stand? www.amazon.com/Pelican-Accessories-Wii-Console-Stand-Nintendo/dp/B000Q7ZNDQ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
I can definitely vouch for SNES9x Gx being a great emulator for the Wii. It can be used with pretty much any controller (although I often use a GameCube one myself) and it's got savestates built-in which is really handy. I often use it to play Live-a-Live since my repro cart no longer saves.
Probably! There are also two USB ports on the back of the Wii, so it's safe to assume those types of controllers may work. Plus you've got the ones that pair to the Wii like the Classic Controller.
Had my wii modded like this for yrs it’s the best console for home brew, just recently done my wiiu also My wii literally has 1000s if games on an ext hd
MAME ROM packs change often. In RetroArch MAME to get them to work correctly you need to check what rom pack the core you're using expects. That goes for MAME in general too. It's not user friendly but makes sense when you look at the technical reasons for it. Not gonna go in to details about it here.
Really appreciate this video! Was thinking of getting a Wii to add n64 and ps1 emulators too but it’s clear I should use a ps1 classic instead and wait for the n64 Classic!
just for information. Nintendont can emulate the Game Cube memory card and is compatible with third-party controller. You don't need an early model with GC's memory card and joystick compatibility to boot it. You just need the right configuration for your wii model.
20:24 The special stages in Sonic CD perform like that on real hardware as well, sadly. That's something that the 2011 Christian Whitehead HD remaster fixed. th-cam.com/video/fkNA3-Nb3bM/w-d-xo.html Otherwise, great video.
That disclaimer was painful to listen to. Simulation of theft? No, it’s outright theft. Deleting the files afterward is legally just disposing of evidence. “Yes, I did take that stuff from the warehouse, officer, but I burned it all after I recorded myself using it!” Yeah, admitting to theft _and_ destruction of evidence isn’t a legal defense I’d go with in court... Having said that, I genuinely don’t care, these games should mostly either be free or available cheap anyways. Nintendo _is_ in the right legally, though, since emulation can be shown to hinder sales of virtual console games, as well as uptake of their Switch online membership which comes with NES and SNES emulation and a growing collection of games for both. As I said, I don’t really care, but acting like the good guy while blatantly stealing, then trying to word it in a certain way as to seem more ambiguous than it is? A little bold.
@@stedmangg Are you sure? The timer on the top had the seconds running down slower than real-time. Shouldn't an emulator fix console-hardware-specific slowdowns anyways? I mean, if it's truly accurate then I suppose that's cool but it did feel slower than usual to me.
This was Awesome!!! I gotta figure out how to add them to the home screen... I wish HomebrewBrowser had a "Add Shortcut to Desktop" Function after you install something LOL
I downloaded Not64 and Diddy Kong racing, everything was fine, besides one or two minimal graphical errors, but once I beated it, the second run became unplayable, the screen is just white
The DSI and the 3DS in DSi mode do the same thing with the crashing. TwiLight Launcher's most stable skin is the default DSi launcher, so make sure to only do that. R4 and AceKard skins either didn't load the saves, or crashed when you loaded a game. Only difference between the DSi and 3DS crashes are the fact that the 3ds needs a hard reboot and dsi could do a soft one, mostly because the soft reboot was a hard reboot and didn't require you to reboot manually
Mednafen is alright on the PC, but being a console-only emulator, a frontend is required. Medneffe seems to work. (This is being done on linux on arch, Mednafen is in the repositories and mednaffe is in the AUR as a binary)
I love those videos, when i bought my xbox classic i wasn't really aware of what i was going to get, the only videos i could find on the emulators available were tutorials or showing the interface and when there was some gameplay it was usually Super Mario World, Sonic or another basic game that any emulator should run without issues, so videos like this are very helpful, if i could give you an advice maybe talk about some features the emulators have like save states, rewinding or fast forward, this could be obvious but some emulators can be quite limited, testing games that are hard to emulate like Virtua Racing, the sound in Earthworm Jim 2, Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension which if i'm not mistaken took a long time until you could play it on an emulator, or Top Gear 3000 also for the SNES, it's the only game that uses a DSP4 chip and it only became playable in 2007, looking forward to the next videos.
Great video! I went through this process of setting up my Wii with emulators a few year ago and boy what a trip! I ended up using WiiMednafen and RetroArch mostly. I got this cool piece of software called WiiFlow to serve as the front end and it's pretty nice all things considered! It displays box art and you can set custom background music for when you're browsing games, pretty cool. Anyway great video, maybe I'll fire up my Wii today!
Its a horizontal Wii stand with a storage box on the end that can hold a controller, nunchuck and sensor bar. www.ps4forums.gr/vb/showthread.php/114-Pelican-Wii-Console-Stand-Review
God that "Wii would like to Play" ad is still stuck in my head and it's been over 10 years
PSPMan3000 I used to hear that all the time!!! Memories.
That was 10 years ago?
That's kind of unsettling...
Nobody 2004-2007 were the ads. Over 12 years ago
@@HistoryandReviews doesn't change that it's unsettling
Me tooo thought i was the only one lol
The reason why those emulators didn't support 4:3 is because they were actually in 4:3. The Wii only renders a 4:3 framebuffer, which is stretched out to 16:9. Whenever you're running a game in widescreen, it is anamorphic.
With the exception of games on the Xbox that actually run at 720p, that's how all of the 6th and 5th gen consoles did it. I know the Wii isn't 6th gen, but it is still relevant because it's just a super GameCube.
Interesting!
@@FrameRater If I am not mistaken, this issue is mostly fixed when you do things in the vWii on the WiiU, but the aspect ratio feature might also just be with official releases.
And the 360/one isnt?
@@Tiktaalik the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4/Pro, Xbox One/S/X, WiiU and Switch all put out a native widescreen image. I only mentioned the original Xbox because it actually had the ability to put out actual widescreen. You usually got Anamorphic widescreen, but in the case of certain games, like Amped 2, the game can natively run at a full 1280x720.
So the system gets confused and thinks it still needs to artificially widen the picture?
Really cool to see footage of my GBA Doom II PC Conversion romhack from a TH-camr, I remember like 8 years ago running the original ROM on VBA and it lagging like hell.
Guys like you help keep the homebrew scene and it's derivatives turning. Even small works continue to inspire attract and bring joy to people in droves
Wii can run emulators at original 240p resolution, which is awesome for CRTs.
The Wii is gods very own console of choice for this reason
You can run emulators at what ever settings you want. It's an emulator. Just change the settings. Also. The emulators on the Wii are almost all ports of other emulators. So they work on any system. It just depends what controllers you want to use.
A very good, and cheap alternative to old consoles with flashcarts. Get yourself a Mayflash Controller adapter and you've practically got the real deal.
@@NATESUCKSATGAMING Actually not really. Resolution scaling on the consoles is completely different from PCs. Nvidia gpus scales 240 very poorly
@@NATESUCKSATGAMING lmfao bud 240p and 480i are 15Khz signals -- Modern displays output *only* 30 khz signals, meaning you cannot natively run emulators at 240p or 480i unless the hardware supports being played on a CRT (and not a PC CRT, those are typically 30 khz as well) -- and even then, the emulator does need to know that this is the output resolution
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WiiMednafen
Nah... Retroarch is better
Jonathan LC who asked?
@@Dr8cul4 Who are you? Shut up...
@@Dr8cul4 Whatever...
@@jonathanlaurent3059 - No....no it's not.
I installed both, and while I use Retroarch it's only for Capcom system 1 and 2 - and the final burn alpha emulator. Retroarch is cool...but you have to go thru the ENTIRE SD card, for EVERY game, EVERY time. It's not nearly as convenient as Wii Mednafen is. Not even close bro, sorry.
An hour-long FrameRater video discussing emulators for an outdated system?
Finally this monday's looking up, that's exactly what I need.
I would greatly appreciate an 'Emulation On 3DS / Playability Guide'
It's poorly documented on the internet
Syko same
Same
@@yzois sup quarantine bro
@@yzois 3ds first
I hate how you only have 57k subs. The work you put out is top-notch and deserves a lot more attention.
I like it because then people can have conversations in chat during live streams
@@ewjfpoefjwoiefj That is one plus of small channels, still this is one of the few times I'll actually say that he does indeed deserve more subs/likes/views because of how much effort he puts in
Take a shot every time you hear "WiiMednafen"
ON THE WWE NETWORK
Time for alcohol poisoning
Dead
I think i need some wiimednafen for my headache.
wiimednafen
Emulators on Wii: ...
WiiMednafen: I can do anything!
retroarch can as well
Thanks for sharing! I still use the Wii occasionally so this will be a good resource. Also, I wasn't expecting the Oasis parody in the middle, but then again, I didn't expect anyone to name their game system "Wonderswan," either...
14:46 There was a missed opportunity here.
"With the exception of Grand Dad. So I suppose compatibility while great, isn't 100%." Should've been
"With the exception of Grand Dad. So I suppose compatibility while great, isn't grand."
The Wii still makes the best little emulator box you can get. Having a single system that can output an accurate 240p signal for CRTs and the 480p for modern TVs is awesome.
Nintendont could somewhat be considered an emulator though, it'd be worth looking at in the future. It runs Gamecube games in Wii mode. Beyond letting one play Gamecube on non-BC Wiis and WiiUs, it also lets you use Wiimote+Nunchuck or the Classic controller for Gamecube games, lets you quit to the Wii menu without power cycling, and use virtual memory cards. Mario Kart Arcade GP and F-Zero AX work in it as well, but MK Arcade GP 2 doesn't yet.
That's weird, because I located a MK GP2 ISO and played it with nintendon't and I don't notice any issues, it even saves to the Mario Card properly. I haven't even found a MK GP1 ISO yet, just sometimes a MAME version.
arcade gp 2 did work for me though
I have a crisp 1080p tv but i also have a crt. To which tv would you recommend i hook up my wii to?
@@ggg235 Most 1080 screens handle 480i/p signals just fine over component video as long as you have decent quality cables. I have a similar setup, and use my modern TV for Wii, GameCube, and N64 games at 480p, while I use the CRT to run 8/16 bit emulators at true 240p.
If you have to use only 1 TV, most 240p emulators also support a 480p line doubled mode that modern TVs handle much better than real consoles' signals. All games will look good on either TV if set up properly, so pick whichever you'd rather play on.
@@piratebear3126 Idk i ended up connecting a standard RGB cable to my CRT TV since it's all i have atm and it looks amazing there. I'm looking to buy a component original cable to try it on the flat screen as well.
I had tried this with my PS2 and the PS2 looked god awful with component cable on the flat screen. That's why I was asking on your opinion :P
Since I shoved a load of emulators on my Wii years ago it's become a permanent part of my living room.
thescopedogable Dude yes! I’ve had my Wii since ‘07 and just added mores emulators. I play this thing more than my ps4.
Yeah I can relate. Spent about a year pimping my Wii out - painstakingly going through every emulator/rom to make sure they played...and of course cramming as much stuff as possible. Still love it - still play it.
@@mattpurvis927 we need a comprehensive guide, too much vad info out there
Nobody:
Modded Wii: Exception (DSI) Occurred
Me trying to run the port of Doom exception DSİ occured
Nobody:
Emulator names: dswiitendopc69420
.1.2.3.420.69.1337.42069.666.0.1
and then theres WashingtonDC
I still can't believe that G4TV's Attack of the Show actually showcased Wii emulation on freaking LIVE Television!
I'm sure the crew got hit with a C&D from Nintendo and decided not to ever air it again.
Why would they? Emulation isn't illegal.
Publicly that sounds like PR Nightmare trying to get into the legal ramification of emulation in the public
Not really. No one cares about emulation, there would be no PR lol
@@user-bp5py6bh3g Well actually what i meant to say was that they actually told people on live tv how to hack the Wii from needing a copy of Zelda Twilight Princess (Wii version) and then add the files to sd card, and showing the installation of The Homebrew Channel, etc...
@@user-bp5py6bh3g it's a grey area
I had stunt race FX as a kid, it was surprisingly good. I thought it was great how you could drive underwater in that glass tunnel in one of the stages.
I remember the Wii from back in the days. When we went to my uncles house for my parents to play Mii games, the good ol' days
Gotta respect the lack of an intro, just immediately starts the review I like that a lot
That Wonderswan song was..... My god it was beautiful.
As someone who plays a hacked Wii nearly everyday, I can confirm Nintendont is fantastic for GameCube games and USB Loader GX for Wii games. It doesn’t emulate them of course, it just plays them natively.
Does USB loader gx let you go to the Wii menu from GameCube games? Wiiflow doesn't.
"Oh hey, this guy has the same figures as framerater."
*checks the uploaders name*
"...Oh."
37:40 That's supposed to happen!! The screeching audio/flashing bars are the game being loaded into the Spectrum's RAM in cassette format. As foreign as it sounds to American home computer users, games on cassette were much more common than cartridges outside North America (mostly in Europe, which is where the Spectrum's primary market was anyway)
Wii emulation is badass. Playing gamecube games with a ps4 controller on my wii is insane. Nice video man. Makes me want to set mine up again.
How does a PS4 controller work on the Wii?
@@Bubba__Sawyer you can connect it using a usb cable to the back of the wii. As far as i am aware nintendont is the only piece of software that supports this
The wonderswan song had me dying.
Especially at the end of it with the little squeak, it made me laugh like a hyena
Is it gone now?
@@oof5992 it seems like it :(
@@Yodagamer1 Man...
2:47 "I don't know anything about this hardware besides brand name"
It really shows... You were trying to load PC-98 games on a PC-88 emulator, of course it's not going to work...
The man did say he didn't know 😁
You know, this is a high quality video. Great job this is very thorough.
The weird noises and visuals on the ZX Spectrum emulator was the game itself loading. That's how ZX Spectrum games look and sound while they're loading, because ZX Spectrum games were mostly distributed on tape. Looks like the emulator doesn't support the "Fast Load" option that's on most other Spectrum emulators.
I don't see how this video doesn't have more views. This video covered EVERYTHING, and you did it very well, I might add 🙂. With the exception of a PC, the Wii is one of the best emulation beasts there is.
Don't forget the OG Xbox!
@@FrameRater can i use this emulators on a wiiu?
I just love this channel so much. Thank you for all of the work you've put into these emu videos!
I threw together WiiSXR over a few months based on what I could find. I generally reworked the code to optimize WiiSX. I didn't think I did too much, but apparently it worked better than I thought. I didn't aim to improve compatibility at all over WiiSX, just speed improvements.
And remember, WiiMednaFen.
I'm disappointed you did'nt end the video on that.
take a shot everytime he says Mendafen and you'll be drunk in a few minutes.
You'll die, don't do it
0:00 Damn, That 80's Camera has Really good Video Quality!
Hmm, here's a tip if you ever do one of these kinds of videos again: If you ever run across another NEC PC98 emulator, I believe you should be testing Touhou in it. People that emulate that system are generally in it for one of two things: early Visual Novels sort of games or to see the original Touhou games. It'd be more useful to see those running, then, as those would be the games people would most likely boot in it.
Hey there's something you should know about Sega CD games on Genesis Plus GX, music will only play in .bin+.cue versions or iso+ogg combos
I'm use iso+wav with no problems
I used to play emulators on my Wii all the time. The best are the Snes and GBA. They seem to run almost 100% for me. 64 games are playable, but usually too glitchy to really enjoy fully. I'm glad I'm not the only one that had trouble loading roms in some of the other systems especially the PC, Dos, and Mame emulators. They aren't very user friendly plus with lots of compatibility errors, it can be very stressful to even get working. Thanks for going through all this effort, I know how much work this was. There's also nintendon't for gamecube. Its not really emulating because it uses the gamecube hardware built in, but it would be nice to include.
mGBA on wii is literally perfect. it plays both crash nitro kart and duke nukem (3D games) at full speed with no problems whatsoever.
We’re now as far removed from the Wii chronologically as the N64 was from the NES.
So Wii is retro now?
@@CB_GAMES777 Yes.
@@Anthonybrother no, the Wii is too modern too be the retro, all consoles prior 7th gen are indeed retro though.
@@codezero7981 naw wii is 2 generations behind the switch, its retro
Retroarch on a WII on a CRT is mind blowing. I have well over 5000 roms working perfectly in native resolution. Mame2003 cores are out there and FBA plays a couple thousand arcade games also. Plus the version of retroarch you are using 1.7.7 doesnt do switchres properly, use 1.7.6.
Virtual Console and Emulation is the true legacy of the Nintendo Wii.
Motion Controls were only used to sell the system but we can all see that this was a gimmick that aged badly.
Some were good but most motion controlled games were just made to trick non-gaming families into buying them.
Almost like what happened to the games on the Atari 2600 and the NES that had many games that were just junk.
Ngl motion isnt a gimmick m.th-cam.com/video/binPB4YbWmM/w-d-xo.html
The wii used to be my go to emulation machine when i was a teenager, i even modded it to run gamecube and wii games off my usb flashdrive then i got my gaming pc that can run even more emulators. Good times
@DOZR rare
What do you need help with?
@DOZR rare
You might be missing an IOS. I want to say it's 249, but I might be wrong.
@DOZR rare
It's very easy to do. Download cIOS manager and the IOS you need (just google how to play .wbfs Wii games on your Wii) and once you inatall it, you'll be able to use USBLoader without it crashing.
EDIT: It seems that you can just use a WAD manager to install all the necessary IOS. I would recommens doing that. There is a tutorial on TH-cam by Tech James showing how to fix issues with USB Loader by doing this.
THANK YOU. The most in-depth view of the current emulators on the Wii. You did an excellent job considering how many you looked at. There are some things you may have overlooked, some emulators actually are probably working as good as the real hardware if set up correctly but I do understand that a lot of the computer based emulators need prior knowledge of the system and often end up being too much trouble for most to bother with. When it comes to WiiMednafen I am in total agreement. I have no idea why more are not singing the praises of this fine emulator. One more you kinda missed which is outstanding is the Cannonball project which brings Out Run to the Wii in a way you won't believe. It is an amazing piece of work, do check it out!
I don't know how I haven't heard of WiiMednafen, but it sounds like the overall best emulator for Wii Homebrew.
I also remember the first emulators on the Wii back when the Twilight Hack was still the method of accessing homebrew, and the "Homebrew Channel" wasn't an actual channel yet. There were some older versions of SNES, NES, and Genesis emulators, and not a whole lot else that I can remember.
How did twilight hack work? How did the old homebrew "channel" work?
Note: VBA GX can do Gameboy Games, Gameboy Color Games, and Gameboy Advanced Games.
30:27 Actually I didn't know I had been waiting for this until it happened.
Thank you.
I love videos about emulation. Thanks for making this Frame!
oh my God, the reference to wonderwall is outstanding!
he defend
he spend
but most importantly
wiimednafen
You forgot to mention Snes9x RX, which is a GX fork focused on full speed for heavy games, like the FX ones.
BTW, mGBA is *not* the WiiMednafen's core, but an old version of VisualBoy Advance. Also, the reason why you were seeing extra things emulating Game Gear on GenesisPlusGX is because you had the GG Screen option set to Extended like when you're playing on a Power Base Converter, a misconfiguration on your part.
To be fair, I don't think genesis plus gx allows you to zoom in on the screen, so wiimednafen might still be preferable.
@@CowboyJoseph64 it does have screen centering, but no screen zoom per se. Nevertheless, it does screen stretching, if that's your jam. I do prefer pixel perfect aspect ratio, tbh.
@@DrAcOFoto I definitely do too.
You should make a video about emulators on GBA.
No, I'm not kidding. I know there's at least emulators for NES, GB/GBC, Master System/Game Gear, and ZX Spectrum. Are there any others out there?
Jesus Christ there's also PC Engine, SNES, Neo Geo Pocket, MSX, DOS, BBC Micro, Sharp X1 Turbo... I doubt a lot of these emulators work good, but hot diggety DAMN.
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@@Biskut Bump what?
@@CowboyJoseph64 nothing, you bump a comment so it gets more attention as it moves closer to the top
Polocatfan I swear if a comment has comments that moves it up
Merry Christmas Everyone
The true blessing and to me the #1 reason to use a Wii to emulate old games instead of my gaming PC, is that the Wii can effortlessly connect to a CRT TV and at least here in Europe, if connected through a SCART RGB cable is capable of displaying those games at real 240p with authentic scanlines. Even if the emulation itself might not be 100% accurate in some cases, it doesn't get more authentic then that ! No modern console/computer can do that. I'll keep my Wii 4ever 😁
I just like being able to play on the couch without moving my pc everytime cause all the retro games i play are usually around snes era. so the wii was fine for me since I had it laying about. Still use it to this day once in a while to play some mario or castlevania thanks to virtual console and snes9x for light gun games.
That Wonderswan song made my day, thank you
The most important thing I learned was that the PC Engine had a sequel
Yep, and it had a whopping 5 games released for it. It did have the best console version of Ghouls 'n Ghosts though.
man you are my new favorite YT channel to watch great info!
I remember getting on alright with NES lightgun games in the FCEX-whatever-it's-called emulator; allowed me to actually play Duck Hunt in sorta the way it was intended!
These emulation videos are so good please do more
Always Remember: Don’t Pirate 25 Year Old Games
;^)
Outsider that doesn’t support the gaming industry at all. It only supports the person who bought the game
NightTrash Yes, that's the point Outsider is making.
@@nighttrash4890 you gonna pay $60 for a broken game on day one that needs updates for 5 months before it can be played?
YOU ARE NOT SUPPORTING THE INDUSTRY YOU ARE GIVING MONEY TO THE CORPORATE MASTERS. Learn to speak Chinese cause they own you.
@@SAM-ru4vx i think ill give my money to nintendo selling mario maker 2 for $60 instead of ranjeesh from ebay selling an snes game for $200
If you have wii softmodded, all you need is usb loader (for wii games), snes, nes, gba (gb,gbc), virtual boy emulators. It runs perfectly and so much fun. I have nes just to find some random gem but snes is imo the best console ever. In your roms folder in root put all the selected games you like and then keep all the rest in a separate folder so you can explore less known titles.
FR: Yeah I'm not super into the wonderswan
*composes the only song about the wonderswan that will ever exist*
Love that Wii docking station hehehe! looks totally rad!
For PCE/TG16 CD emulation you need the System Card BIOS file. The Arcade card too for a few games. Its the same on PC.
Also, Air Zonk is amazing lol. Crazy that it was on a HuCard.
Do you know how to get it to work on Wiimednafen? I've tried, but I can't get Atari Lynx or TGCD games to work.
@@bubbythebear6891 For TG-CD games to work, A. you’ll need to place the syscard3.pce file in the firmware folder (nufont variant for some translations), B. you must load up the .cue file (the .bin file is too large to be read), and C. the CUE sheet must match the title (in such a case, Track 1, which is the main game).
That was what I ran into when I started Rondo of Blood.
Not sure about Atari Lynx, though. It doesn’t seem to recognize .lyx files, though. Maybe .lnx?
@@KimonoFlareonGX Thank you for the reply! I figured out TurboGrafx CD but never got lynx working. Guess I'll have to try again sometime soon!
PSP and Wii Homebrew lists would be awesome! Great video!
Excuse me, what is that wii addon/modification?
Agreed I want to know what it is
I am wondering the same thing too.
Are you referring to the Pelican Wii stand? www.amazon.com/Pelican-Accessories-Wii-Console-Stand-Nintendo/dp/B000Q7ZNDQ/ref=cm_cr_arp_d_product_top?ie=UTF8
@@joemanfred5738 dude what the fuck is wrong with the item description on that page
Wii stand fool
I love it when everytime you repeat WiiMednafen...sounds like a robot voice. LOL
I can definitely vouch for SNES9x Gx being a great emulator for the Wii. It can be used with pretty much any controller (although I often use a GameCube one myself) and it's got savestates built-in which is really handy.
I often use it to play Live-a-Live since my repro cart no longer saves.
How do you use other controllers on the Wii? Do they plug into the GameCube controller ports?
Probably! There are also two USB ports on the back of the Wii, so it's safe to assume those types of controllers may work. Plus you've got the ones that pair to the Wii like the Classic Controller.
When you started singing I couldn't wait for the plane to crash.
Had my wii modded like this for yrs it’s the best console for home brew, just recently done my wiiu also
My wii literally has 1000s if games on an ext hd
I was here for some of the capturing! I'm watching the video rn
MAME ROM packs change often. In RetroArch MAME to get them to work correctly you need to check what rom pack the core you're using expects.
That goes for MAME in general too. It's not user friendly but makes sense when you look at the technical reasons for it. Not gonna go in to details about it here.
Top tier video man. Hats off.
Really appreciate this video! Was thinking of getting a Wii to add n64 and ps1 emulators too but it’s clear I should use a ps1 classic instead and wait for the n64 Classic!
just for information.
Nintendont can emulate the Game Cube memory card and is compatible with third-party controller.
You don't need an early model with GC's memory card and joystick compatibility to boot it. You just need the right configuration for your wii model.
20:24 The special stages in Sonic CD perform like that on real hardware as well, sadly. That's something that the 2011 Christian Whitehead HD remaster fixed.
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Otherwise, great video.
I hacked my wii back in 2011, has a lot of really cool emulator options. Thanks for covering so many FrameRater, great video.
I use VBA (and GX) for standard Gameboy/Colour games. It's more convenient to have one emu. Can MGBA run gameboy games too?
That disclaimer was painful to listen to. Simulation of theft? No, it’s outright theft. Deleting the files afterward is legally just disposing of evidence. “Yes, I did take that stuff from the warehouse, officer, but I burned it all after I recorded myself using it!” Yeah, admitting to theft _and_ destruction of evidence isn’t a legal defense I’d go with in court...
Having said that, I genuinely don’t care, these games should mostly either be free or available cheap anyways. Nintendo _is_ in the right legally, though, since emulation can be shown to hinder sales of virtual console games, as well as uptake of their Switch online membership which comes with NES and SNES emulation and a growing collection of games for both.
As I said, I don’t really care, but acting like the good guy while blatantly stealing, then trying to word it in a certain way as to seem more ambiguous than it is? A little bold.
39:33 Looks like someone with parkisons using a PC
lol
Excellent video. Thanks for making it.
Sonic CD normally lags on the special stages
He told that on the video.
@@stedmangg Ohh, I didn't know that. I played Sonic CD on Gen Plus GX on the Wii and I haven't noticed any sort of lag.
@@stedmangg Are you sure? The timer on the top had the seconds running down slower than real-time. Shouldn't an emulator fix console-hardware-specific slowdowns anyways? I mean, if it's truly accurate then I suppose that's cool but it did feel slower than usual to me.
This was Awesome!!!
I gotta figure out how to add them to the home screen... I wish HomebrewBrowser had a "Add Shortcut to Desktop" Function after you install something LOL
Please name this series: Oops! All on [insert console here]
No
I just recognised that the intro is Sea is a Sea Line
Umm, what is that thing connected to your Wii? I've never seen that before.
Pelican Wii Stand. It is just for aesthetic purposes and you can find it on Amazon.
It is said once you boot Wiimednafen you can emulate life itself, no more food, no more shower, just mednafen.
lol
I downloaded Not64 and Diddy Kong racing, everything was fine, besides one or two minimal graphical errors, but once I beated it, the second run became unplayable, the screen is just white
The DSI and the 3DS in DSi mode do the same thing with the crashing. TwiLight Launcher's most stable skin is the default DSi launcher, so make sure to only do that. R4 and AceKard skins either didn't load the saves, or crashed when you loaded a game.
Only difference between the DSi and 3DS crashes are the fact that the 3ds needs a hard reboot and dsi could do a soft one, mostly because the soft reboot was a hard reboot and didn't require you to reboot manually
The Akmenu skin used to crash my 3DS with a Guru Meditation Error screen. The default DSi Menu skin is the more stable.
Mednafen is alright on the PC, but being a console-only emulator, a frontend is required. Medneffe seems to work.
(This is being done on linux on arch, Mednafen is in the repositories and mednaffe is in the AUR as a binary)
I’m currently writing my own Mednafen frontend. ✌️
I love those videos, when i bought my xbox classic i wasn't really aware of what i was going to get, the only videos i could find on the emulators available were tutorials or showing the interface and when there was some gameplay it was usually Super Mario World, Sonic or another basic game that any emulator should run without issues, so videos like this are very helpful, if i could give you an advice maybe talk about some features the emulators have like save states, rewinding or fast forward, this could be obvious but some emulators can be quite limited, testing games that are hard to emulate like Virtua Racing, the sound in Earthworm Jim 2, Dragon Ball Z Hyper Dimension which if i'm not mistaken took a long time until you could play it on an emulator, or Top Gear 3000 also for the SNES, it's the only game that uses a DSP4 chip and it only became playable in 2007, looking forward to the next videos.
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Great video. Your dedication to this channel is inspiring. Keep up yje great work
The Nintendo Wii: Cant even play the classic that is G R A N D D A D
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Great video! I went through this process of setting up my Wii with emulators a few year ago and boy what a trip! I ended up using WiiMednafen and RetroArch mostly. I got this cool piece of software called WiiFlow to serve as the front end and it's pretty nice all things considered! It displays box art and you can set custom background music for when you're browsing games, pretty cool. Anyway great video, maybe I'll fire up my Wii today!
what is that thing on the end of the Wii? 🤔
Its a horizontal Wii stand with a storage box on the end that can hold a controller, nunchuck and sensor bar.
www.ps4forums.gr/vb/showthread.php/114-Pelican-Wii-Console-Stand-Review
Thanks for this video! Very helpful
It's worth pointing out that the PlayStation emulators don't support light gun mapping with the Wii Remote. So sad. :,(
ye man I want to play point blank would be better use the Nintendo sensors on a lcd instead of buying a psx and a crt and the guns
Frame Rater: Remember every time you pirate a puppy is fed into a wood chipper
Me looking at my hacked consoles: ... Fuck
what is that attachment hooked on the side of your wii.