/vr/ - Retro Games

Banner bomb, homebrew channel, Nintendont. Should take you about 15 minutes tops to get up and running. You can use the Wii remote on its side, but I would recommend getting some whatever to GCN adapters or a clone of the Classic Controller since real ones are impossible to find now.

Wii is a 7th gen console, and was released past the 2001 platform cutoff
>>>/v/

Not retro
Also playing on a Wii is the absolute worst way to play Gamecube games

>>6843919
Except it has backwards compatibility idiot

>>6843924
So does the Xbox One and PS3, fuck off back to /v/ with your zoomer shit

>>6843919
It's literally identical outside of not being able to use certain add-ons like GB player or the network adapter. What the fuck are you talking about?

>>6843901
are you stupid or have you not read the sticky

>>6843947
He thinks because the Wii isnt square and purple it plays different than the gamecube. He might be retarded or on the spectrum .

>>6843947
this
literally the only reason to own a GC over a Wii is ironically to play GBA games

>>6843947
>no gameboy player
>no network adapter for LAN play
>worse colors/blurrier visuals (github patch doesn't work)
>nintendont is riddled with incompatibilities
>reports of input lag with nintendont
>frequent crashes with nintendont
>running games on the higher timing wii processor leads to crazy frame drops and overall looks like shit
>Wii buttons don't feel good to press like the comfy gamecube
>Wii is an embarrassing console to have out next to your television, compared to the soulcube

Don't cheap out, just get a DOL-001 with a GC Loader PNP and a GB Player with an Everdrive. The only people who claim the Wii is any better are unwashed ESL poorfags.

>>6843972
Kind of hard to take anything you say seriously when you use "better buttons" and "Soulcube" as arguments. Also the visuals and performance are fucking identical and you're lying out your ass to validate the existence of your favorite purple purse. The Wii literally has a GCN inside of it and you can even play PSO online now.

>>6843972
>>Wii buttons don't feel good to press like the comfy gamecube
YOU CAN USE AN ACTUAL GAMECUBE CONTROL YOU FUCKING DUMBASS.

>>6843972
>no network adapter for LAN play
Nintendont supoorts it

>worse colors/blurrier visuals (github patch doesn't work)
>nintendont is riddled with incompatibilities
>reports of input lag with nintendont
>frequent crashes with nintendont
>running games on the higher timing wii processor leads to crazy frame drops and overall looks like shit
this is all literally false, the Wii turns itself into a Gamecube when it needs to run GC games, and every Nintendont problem is due to user configuration error. Fuck off with your baseless desesperate claims

so, it all comes down to the GBA player or if you really like how a Gamecube feels

>>6843543
To mod Wii is so easy that you won't even notice how you did it.

>>6843978
I mean on the console retard
>>6843983
Anyway to me this is the only answer, the GBA and GBC libraries are two of the best nintendo ever published so there's no point in cheaping out and getting a Wii

>>6843983
He doesnt realize it can play gamecube games from the disc.

>>6843990
Yes, the gamecube controller plugs into the wii. Golly you are a mess.

>>6843993
probably trying to cope with the fact that he owns a totally skippable console

Why are nintendont users the most cope driven poorfags on this board? I tried it, shit sucks. Just use a Gamecube on a CRT

>>6844000
All consoles are totally skippable lmao
I think you're the one coping with an interior experience. It's okay, if I was struggling to pay rent I would cheap out and use a Wii as well.

>>6844001
>dude just buy another console and pay $80 for each physical game and wait a week for each one to come instead of getting all the games for free and playing them identically on your same CRT
no thanks

>>6844007
>ODEs don't exist

>>6844015
Yeah, you know what else exists?

The fucking Nintendo Wii.

>>6843972
Not true. It is actually the perfect choice to play GCN games because of its backwards compability as the GCN is part of the Wii's hardware. Nintendont runs perfectly fine, I had no issues with a library of over 200 games (first and third
party). I've experienced no frame drops as well, like you claim. Hell, even Melee pro players used the Wii for Smash tournaments.
If you have the earlier models of the Wii with the GCN ports to plug in your GCN controllers, as well the MC, it is the best you can get for GCN vidya.
Obviously, it seems purists like you may not like it. But it is what it is.

Here's some examples of copeposting you'll see from Wii owning losers

>Who cares about GBA games? Or Game Boy games? Or GBC games?
>Th-they fixed the shitty visuals! Here, this broken GitHub link proves it!
>There's no input lag on Nintendont! Wait, don't google it! Uh, that's the other version of Nintendont!
>Ah yes, my shitty third party multiplat runs in silky smooth 60 fps... Wait, ignore all those dropped frames!

SO much cope, get a job stinky!

>>6844020
Not retro

>>6843543
The Wii scares hardware fags because it's a legitimate way to play almost any pre-7th gen Nintendo game without many of the issues that plague other devices or emulators, and it's even soulful to boot. You even get the added benefit of Nintendo button mappings/aesthetics being largely standardized so you can play a Gameboy game on a Wii remote and feel right at home.

>>6844039
Do you really think it's running N64 and SNES games on original hardware? Wiifags can't be THIS stupid, can they?

>>6844040
No, I just think the emulators on Wii are particularly good and it's easy to set up. Once again, the hardware fag recoils in dismay.

>>6844051
>It's emulation...but it's good emulation!
Is there a bigger cope on this entire board?

>>6844056
>Is there a bigger cope on this entire board?
Says the guy who still cant cope with the Wii being better than the gamecube
/thread

>>6844082
This

>>6843940
>>6843919
/vr/ has had Softmod Wii emulation discussion since year fucking one, you stupid tourist.

>>6844082
Embarrassing, still not a single real argument
It's okay that you cheaped out, but "good enough" for you isn't going to be good enough for everyone.

>>6844106
>"good enough"
Who are you quoting?

>>6844105
>this board has been shitted up by faggots like me for years! it's not gonna stop now!

i'm emu gang.

>>6843998
No, he literally means the power, reset, and open buttons on the Gamecube itself.

>>6844140
they do feel really good i cant front

>>6844115
>>6844106
>>6844056
>I WENT INTO A THREAD ABOUT DISCUSSING EMULATION AND PEOPLE WERE TALKING ABOUT EMULATING GAMES ON IT!
>HOW COULD THIS HAVE HAPPENED TO ME!

>>6843972
>>no gameboy player
you can emulate those too fag
>>no network adapter for LAN play
there's a version of nintendont that makes it possible
>>worse colors/blurrier visuals (github patch doesn't work)
not a big deal, haven't noticed any difference
>>nintendont is riddled with incompatibilities
literally untrue
>>reports of input lag with nintendont
same as before
>>frequent crashes with nintendont
where the fuck are you seeing this
>>running games on the higher timing wii processor leads to crazy frame drops and overall looks like shit
it RUNS ON BACKWARDS COMP FAGGOT
>>Wii buttons don't feel good to press like the comfy gamecube
YOU CAN USE A REGULAR GC CONTROLLER THERES PORTS ON TOP OF THE WII YOU FUCKING FAG
>>Wii is an embarrassing console to have out next to your television, compared to the soulcube
it looks like something you plug on your tv, the gc as cool as it is just looks like a toy

t. have both

>>6843990
>the GBA and GBC libraries are two of the best nintendo ever published so there's no point in cheaping out and getting a Wii
All those games and more can literally be played on the Wii with emulation

>>6844034
>There's no input lag on Nintendont! Wait, don't google it!
I Googled it. Literally the first result

>>6843543
Wii basically makes the Gamecube useless. Gamecube kiddies have a weird attachment to their purple lunch box because when they were kids that's all their poor parents bought for them. If you didn't have a PS2 or Xbox you were stuck with the gaycube and it has ruined a generation of autistic men.

>>6844275
>>>running games on the higher timing wii processor leads to crazy frame drops and overall looks like shit
>it RUNS ON BACKWARDS COMP FAGGOT
Isn't that literally the point of Nintendont that it DOESN'T use back compat? DIOS MIOS had the problem of the GC back compat mode only having a tiny bios that left little room for hacking in features. Nintendont's approach was to run the GC games on Wii mode and emulate GC mode as best they can.

I have a Gamecube with a GCHD HDMI adapter for my discs and running a GB player and then a Wii with Nintendont for everything I don't have on disc.
Wiis can scratch the shit out of your discs so I don't recommend them even for Wii games (I have a WiiU for that), but they do play roms super easily, the visuals on a Wii2HDMI look a tiny bit muddy compared to the Gamecube over a GCHD but it doesn't bother me (Also I've heard this has been improved but I haven't taken the time to update).
If you don't have a physical library you should definitely go with a Wii, I spent a few hundred dollars on my GC set up (which is peanuts compared to what I have in games) but you can obviously get up and running on a Wii for a fraction of that.
If I'm gonna play a GC game I own I'm gonna pop in the disc and run it off the gamecube for that ritualistic gamecube feel, but the Wii is the better choice for most people who aren't faggoty disposable income having purists like me.

>>6844549
>purists like me
>not using a crt

>>6844725
Yeah, no argument here. I just prefer playing on an HD television. I love them jaggy pixels. I gave my crt away when I last moved since I wasn't using it, and I just use a retrotink x2 for anything that doesn't have an HDMI out, a reasonably priced HDMI mod (no Ultra HDMI mod for even me until prices fall), or a good FPGA alternative, like an AVS or Super Nt.

>>6843543
Not retro dipshit

>>6843543
poor op tried to get some advice on wii emulation and got autists pissing and shitting on eachother whilst fighting over some of the pettiest shit i've seen

>>6843972

>>6844725
6th gen and up is made for LCD

>>6844906
I just wanted to play A Link to the Past on my Wii hooked up to a shitty old CRT in my dark unfinished basement next to several dozen empty beer bottles and the DVD of Trigun I've watched like 50 times but apparently that isn't hardcore enough or "retro" enough for the creatures here.

>>6843972
Why this guy keeps lying in every thread? What does he have to gain?

>>6845097
People like to say dumb shit to stir up trouble. We've all done it, it's good for a laugh, but it can become neurotic and life-damaging when taken too far.

>>6845097
He's right about the GCN console buttons tho

>>6845130
Yes, I can totally understand his preference for GCN but at this point he is just missinforming people.

>>6845130
The button you press literally one time?

>>6845238
Yeah
They feel great to push, they nailed those buttons.

>>6845247
that's cool but using that as an argument in the face of a machine with 10x more games (for free) and more features is pretty fucking retarded

>>6845247
Until they started to stick from regular use and required annual cleanings, sure.

>>6843543
WiiMednafen is quite the robust emulator for your SNES needs.

>>6845272
>>6845275
I'm not making an argument at all, I even said earlier the Wii is the smarter purchase if you don't have a physical collection
I just like those buttons thats all, theyre good

>>6845294
Fair enough, anon. Can't argue with that.

>>6845287

>>6845294
I didn't mean to imply that you were making that argument, just that the argument in general is stupid because the other faggot is hung up on it

>>6845287
is it the most accurate?

>>6845514
Not speedrun-accurate, but accurate enough

Not retro

>>6845604
so delete the thread... oh, i can't.
farts on you

>>6844127
based sataniaposter

>>6845674
itoddlers and nintendo fags have so much in common.

>>6845087
Except for that they weren't, especially not the PS2

A modded wii is easily the best value console for someone with a CRT, it's kind of crazy, it more or less makes every piece of nintendo hardware that preceded it, including the handhelds, unnecessary to own if you mostly just care about playing the games. It even functions as a neo-geo, CPS1/2, genesis, etc, like whatever flaws it might debatably have are minor when you consider how little it costs and that you can go from knowing nothing about how to mod it to totally unlocked in 30 minutes. There's also really nothing more practical and easy for it's purposes that'll spit out 240p over component natively, you have to be really gay or autistic to hate on it honestly

>>6846414
>supports 1080i natively
>made for 480i on a CRT
what did you mean by this?

>tranny mods ruin the board by allowing zoomers' childhoods on
>a week later people already start posting DS/Wii threads
WOOOOOOOW who could have predicted such a thing?

>>6843543
It is the cheap way to, and more accurately to, play gamecube games on the cheap. However jewtendo forcing people to know how emulators are a thing and that leading them to buying these things means that wii's no longer cost 40 usd and instead are like 150+ when only 4 years ago or so it'd habe been like 80 and seven 40.

>>6843901
I almost agree with you.

>>6843919
It's actually the smartest way. A gameing pc that can a dolphin emulator full speed will cost over 300 usd. Buying the games would be very costly too. Wii's are literally the smartest way and there's going to be perfect accuracy as it's got native support.

>>6844127
Gamecube is the one thing that wrekts the emu-neet culture's day so say's I.

>>6846464
there's like 5 games that have 1080i support on the ps2 without using GSM. 2 of them are gran turismo 4 and tourist trophy. do you really think that those games are going to look better on a mid 2000's LCD at 1080i than on a CRT via component at 480i? think about you and everyone you knew in 2001.. or '02, '03, '04, the peak years of the ps2. How many people had LCD's as their main tv at that point? the only systems "meant" for LCD screens are the ones that do 720p and up

>>6846694
>do you really think that those games are going to look better on a mid 2000's LCD at 1080i than on a CRT via component at 480i?
Yes.

>>6843919
This is actually wrong, as Nintendont lets you use the Wii's full clock speeds
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPrejZ0J-2c

>>6846773
>motion blur
>crappy contrast, washed out colors
>low res textures upscaled, looks like shit
>input lag
sounds tight

Do any of you guys have it set up so it launches straight into homebrew channel so you don't have to set up the sensor bar? I'm looking into doing that.

>>6847028
priiloader

>>6843972
>github patch doesn't work
Are you fucking retarded?
Seriously, every fucking thread you post this absolute FUD.
How sad is your fucking life shitcubefag?

>>6844034
>Who cares about GBA games? Or Game Boy games? Or GBC games?
I LITERALLY just got done playing golden sun on my wii using mgba at 240p over component. It was perfect.
Keep coping faggot that you wasted $300 bucks getting a shitcube set up faggot.

>>6844457
>emulate GC mode as best they can.
It's not emulation if it's literally the same hardware running at a higher clock speed moron

>>6844549
>Wii2HDMI
no shit it looks bad retard
use actual good component cables

>>6847028
mine boots straight into nintendont

can we PLEASE stop having threads about the based wii so prices don't go up? Thanks.

>>6844549
this is such a cringey post wow
>i'm such a purist and a baller that I can't even make room for a CRT or spring for an actual scaler

>>6847891
the thing is that it's mostly a crazy good deal for people with CRT's and if reading /vr/ is any indication it's a small percent of people who actually will expend the effort to get one/use one. if all you want is emulation on a modern display you can do it way better with pretty much any PC

>>6847891
I don't think it will ever go up in price like for example the PS2 has (another console that sold a shit ton), it's a pretty niche console now even though it was ironically casual as fuck during its lifespan, the gimmick didn't age and no one is really nostalgic about it besides Wii sports and bing bing wahoo games. There is a barrier of entry of actually having knowledge of its backwards compat and emulation capabilities. It might go up a little bit when more zoomers start getting nostalgic about it though, but it's not going to be nearly comparable to the situation the GameCube is in.

>>6844034
>Who cares about GBA games or Game Boy games or GBC games
You can play all of these on the wii just fine...

>>6844001
Are you the same anon who didn't know about Priiloader? Don't talk shit about what you don't know then.

>>6844034
>Ah yes, my shitty third party multiplat runs in silky smooth 60 fps... Wait, ignore all those dropped frames!
What do you mean dropped frames? What's wrong with Nintendont?

>>6846464
>supports 1080i natively
>512x960i signal
You are stupid and don't know shit.

>>6846597
> A gaming pc that can a dolphin emulator full speed will cost over 300 usd.
Yeah, but you should have a PC that can run Dolphin anyway. A decent PC should be a part of every retro gamer's setup unless you're autistic enough to own literally every retro console you want to play on and they're all hacked/flashcarted. And even then you're missing out on PC exclusives.

>>6848601
>And even then you're missing out on PC exclusives.
Anyone who's interested in retro now was a PCfag before. They don't care about your personal emulators.

>>6848390
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPrejZ0J-2c&t=3s

>>6848601
For console emulation gen 6 and below it makes more sense to play it off a CRT, which most of us would rather not have our computers constantly hooked up to.

Running Dolphin is fine if you just suddenly get the urge to play pikmin and need to get it out of your system or something.

>>6848086
you underestimate nintensois

>>6843972
Are you a ebay seller with a bunch of shitty condition Gamecubes to sell?

>>6844823
read the fucking op you goddamn retart

>>6844457
>emulate GC mode
what the fuck are you on about? wii IS an overclocked gc, shit runs native

Is vimms trustworthy? I want to try some gamecube on my wii, where do I go?

>can't fucking set up a USB Loader
Kill me

>>6851323
Trustworthy? Yes, at least in the sense that you won't get a virus. But you still shouldn't use it. They watermark their roms and their download speed is fucking awful bottlenecked garbage.

>>6847891
They're already several times more expensive than they used to be so the damage is done.

>>6851379
oh okay that's interesting
I hate how roms have headers and different formats and shit. On the real hardware SNES roms just run and the header is unnecessary and shouldn't even exist. Other systems sound like a pain in the ass.

>>6850387
I saw it multiple times. Where's a dropped frames there? Every graph looks absolutely fine.

>>6850387
I don't get it, games literally run better on Nintendont. Did you just contradict yourself?

>>6851925
He sure did.

>>6847028
You do Priiloader and boot straight into USBLoaderGX with all your Wii games and GC/ROMs which'll redirect you into their own loader.

>>6845097
He desperately wants people to waste money on an everdrive like he did.

My Dolphin Bar + Controllers just came in and work great.

What is a good and speedy WII Game download site?

>>6852110
You'll have to ask /v/ for wii games, this is a retro game board

>>6852115
pls

>>6845097
He's been at this for YEARS with the same easily disprovable shit too, it's so sad.

>>6847028
Mine boots straight into the Wiiflow plugin menu, every emulator + Wii + GC immediately accessible from boot. It took ages when I set it up years ago but it's based.