Though the Nintendo GameCube and Wii were discontinued years ago, lots of gamers continue playing these consoles’ immortal classics. While some do it on physical consoles, others download emulators to run their favorite titles on personal computers. If you’re a fan of GameCube and Wii and you own a powerful machine, you may try playing console games with Dolphin Emulator.
If you’d rather play your Wii games in stunning HD - and trust us, they look stunning - then all you need to do is follow these simple steps.jump. While you can’t play Wii.
This emulation tool will make your gameplay even more enjoyable since most games look much better on the emulator than they look on the original consoles. Moreover, with Dolphin, you’ll be able to run games at 1080p resolution in fullscreen mode, which is impossible on physical GameCube and Wii.
How to get started?
As has been noted above, all modern computers are capable of running Dolphin Emulator. A standard 3 GHz (or higher) dual-core CPU is quite sufficient for Dolphin. NVIDIA and ATI graphics cards are the best options for the said emulator. Still, if you have an integrated graphics card, don’t get upset. Change some necessary settings and you’ll be able to achieve the best possible speed of emulation (provided your processor is powerful enough).
- Nintendo Wii U Nintendo Wii U Mobile Mobile Nintendo 3DS Nintendo 3DS PS Vita PS Vita Mac Download Mac Download Xbox 360 Xbox 360 Playstation 3 Playstation 3 Playstation Portable (PSP) Playstation Portable (PSP) Playstation 2 Playstation 2.
- Connect game consoles to your Mac Connect your game console and enjoy an excellent live play experience – EyeTV Hybrid’s uncompressed analog video signals appear on the screen with virtually no latency.
Though Dolphin is compatible with the most popular operating systems (Mac, Windows, and Linux), we recommend using the Windows 64-bit OS, if possible.
As you know, you cannot play physical discs on the emulator, which means that you’ll need to create a virtual image of your GameCube and Wii games. Find a flash stick or an SD card. Make sure that it has enough space for your ripped games. Then, you’ll need to download a special program called CleanRip from Google. This program will help you make a copy of your GameCube or Wii game disc and subsequently run it on the new emulator. As soon as you decompress the obtained file, make sure to transfer its contents to your flash stick.
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Once you copied the folder to your flash stick or SD card, you can connect it to your Wii. Select “CleanRip” option and press the “Start” button.
When prompted, insert your GameCube or Wii disc into the console and proceed with dumping the disc on your USB flash drive.
You’ll need to wait until your disc finishes dumping. When the process is complete, take out your flash stick and connect it to your computer. Now you have games to play on Dolphin Emulator.
Downloading Game ROMs from the Internet
As you see, the process of ripping games is time-consuming and quite tiresome. There is an alternative way of obtaining GameCube and Wii games from the Internet. You can Google for either a specific game you want to play on the emulator or for GameCube/Wii games in general. The web is full with abandonware and retro gaming related websites offering countless ROM files of your favorite console games. We recommend checking out RomsMode, a safe to use online resource distributing high-quality emulation software and ROMs. On this website, you’ll select and download the best games to play on Dolphin.
- You probably know that downloading the ROM files of the games you don’t own is considered illegal. It’s up to you to decide whether or not to download the images of the console games you didn’t purchase. As for the ROMs of the games you own or owned back in the day, you have every right to download them from third-party sources and run them on your emulator.
Playing Game on Dolphin Emulator
Now that you have games to play, go visit the Dolphin Emulator official website and download the emulator to your PC.
Once you unpack the emulator and install it, visit its menu. From the menu, select “Config” and then the “Paths” option. After that locate the folder containing your ripped games or downloaded ROMs. Double-click on the selected game to launch it.
Now you can enjoy playing your favorite old school classics on your PC with Dolphin Emulator!
Posted August 27, 2012 by Jimmy S in Nintendo Wii
This tutorial will explain how to softmod your Nintendo Wii running 4.3x firmware. By softmodding your Wii, you can then run homebrew software and even emulators such as MAME, Atari 2600, NES, and others.
One of the best ways to extend the enjoyment of your Nintendo device is to hack in the ability to run emulators. NES, N64, Atari 2600, and MAME options are all available. You will need to have your Wii connecting to the internet and a free SDCard to follow this process and. This tutorial will only focus on getting your Wii softmodded to play emulators and other homebrew off an SDCard.
1. Be sure you are running 4.3 firmware on the Wii. You can check this on your Wii by going to Wii Settings and in the upper right is your firmware version. This should be Ver. 4.3U for USA, Ver. 4.3J for Japan, etc. Be sure to have your Wii connected to the internet as several of the applications needed require internet access.
2. On your Wii go to into Wii Settings > Internet > ConsoleInformation. Write down your MACAddress. We need this for the next step.
3.With your computer, go to http://please.hackmii.com and enter in your MAC Address. Click on the version of 4.3 firmware your Wii is on. This will save a zip file to your pc.
4. Extract the contents of the zip file onto an SDCard. The SD Card must be formatted in FAT32. Do not include the top mailbomb folder; just place the files.
5. Download my pre-compiled app pack and copy this to the root of the SDCard too. Once again do not include the top folder. Your memory card will now have a private folder, an apps folder, and a few other files in the root.
Your SDcard should look like this:
6. Put the SDCard with our contents we downloaded and extracted into your Wii device.
7. On the Wii go to the MessageBoard and go to Yesterday’sdate. You will see a LetterBomb icon, this is the HackMii package we created and will be used to softmod our Wii.
8. It will load the HackMii installer. Wait for it to load through the disclaimers.
9. Click on Install Homebrew Channel, and click the A button. The software will install.
10. (Optional) You may wish to to install Bootmii. This lets you back up your NAND flash. If you install it to Boot2, it will always launch the BootMii menu when you power on your Wii. If your only planning on doing homebrew and emulators, you can skip this step. Once we exit, we will be brought to the Homebrew Channel.
11. Basically at this point, we can now run homebrew emulators and apps from our SD Card. My app pack includes a few basic emulators and apps. The Homebrew Browser app lets you download emulators and updates from the web on your Wii.
You will now have the homebrew Channel on your Wii home screen which should have some pre-loaded apps and emulators.
Jimmy’s App-Pack:
Jimmy’s App-pack of software that I have gathered includes these emulators and apps:
cIOS38 v14 installer – For loading usb harddrive cIOS for USBLoader GX
FCE (NES emulator)
GenPlusGX (Genesis emulator)
Homebrew Browser (app download store for wii homebrew)
Multi-Mod Manager (MMM) – Removing Stubs/CIOS, USBLoader GX
SDLMame (MAME emulator)
WAD Manager 1.5 (load and remove wad files)
Wii2600 (Atari 2600 emulator)
Wii64 (N64 emulator)
USB Loader GX v1.8 (loads gamebackups)
SNESX9XGX (SNES emulator)
WiiExplorer (File explorer)
WiiMC (Media Player)
Any Wii system update will break the softmod so be sure to not update. If a game you buy requires the update, there is most likely a work around that will avoid the update.
Navigating in the homebrew channel
Home button brings up options to exit to Wii menu, shutdown, or boot to BootMii.
+ and – move between pages
1 button brings up Options for HBC
2 button changes from list to icon view
Manually Installing Apps to SDCard
Just download the homebrew app. Create a folder on the SDcards’s apps folder. For example, appsfungame and then copy files to folder. It will show up on the homebrew channel.
How to use Emulators
You will need ROMS for the emulators. Most of us usually have a large library but you can search your normal places for them. Basically, in the root of the SDCard are names of the emulators. In each emulator folder there will be a folder called roms. Put your appropriate rom files here.
Launch the emulator through the homebrew channel on your Wii home screen. Hitting the home key will bring up the settings screens that lets you configure the emulator, controllers, sound, upscaling, and other options.
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