High capacity doesn't work for the mod process, low capacity SD cards are harder to find new, but you can pick up a 2Gb SD card from CEX for £2. You need a Wii, a computer with internet access and an SD card. No HDMI out of the box, although adaptors are available. You can get homebrew apps to turn the Wii into a DVD player, run Netflix, and lots more. The Wii remote doubles as a mouse on the Amiga. The Wii Classic controller has a great button layout for Gamecube, Snes and so on.Ī Wireless USB keyboard can be connected to the back and is perfect for the Amiga, Spectrum etc. Range of controller choices, Wii Classic Controller, Wii Classic Pro, Wavebird from your old Gamecube, even the humble Wii remote is great for 2 button games. Basically emulation on a Wii is FANTASTIC, right up to and including the 16 bit era.Ĭontrollers are wireless, and cheap. There's a PS1 emulator that plays a few games too). Some of the 32 bit generation can be emulated too (N64 Waverace and Mario64 work perfectly under emulation for example, although some other N64 games don't even start. The console also has 100% Gamecube and Wii compatibility of course, so you can back up all those games and store them on a USB drive. If you follow all the steps in this guide you'll end up with a console that plays everything from Atari 2600, Intellivision, Colecovision etc,, up to and including the Snes, Megadrive, Gameboy Advance, PC Engine, Amiga, and so on. Why should I turn my Wii into an Emulation Box?: How about connecting a USB hard drive full of your Wii and Gamecube games, as well as the arcade versions of F-Zero GX and Mario Kart (if you legally own the arcade machines of course) to your multi-region, Netflix compatible Wii that also plays DVD movies? I've gone into a lot of detail because Wii modding becomes addictive, and once you done the emulation stuff, you'll want to explore more.

This is a long thread, but don't panic, you only need to do the first few steps. If you can unzip files on your computer and copy them to an SD card, you can do the mod. If you have an SD card knocking about then you have everything you need to do the mod in a around 5 - 10 minutes. In fact, the amount of cool stuff you can do with a Wii will surprise you. Many people have a Wii console they no longer use, and it can be very quickly and easily modified to become a kick-ass emulation machine.

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