Wii

[RiderLeangle]

Bit of a weird question, But would emulation even be possible at all? Its not as much the console that serves the problem but the controller. So is anyone even going to try?

[azoreseuropa]

No, you gotta wait for Wii emulator to occurs in 5 years from now then few commercial games will running in 10 years after this. Again, you will need a powerful computer, much powerful than core 2 duo so why bother ? It's not going to happening for total of 15 years from now, ok ?

[Jale]

A bit off-topic, but the Wiimote can be used as a controller for emulators such as Project64.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=B_8oMSyeepQ

And yeah, anything above Dreamcast won't be correctly emulated.

[RiderLeangle]

So even if there was a Wii Emulator possible, You'd still need the WiiMote and a computer with Bluetooth just to use it?

[azoreseuropa]

So even if there was a Wii Emulator possible, You'd still need the WiiMote and a computer with Bluetooth just to use it?

It's possibly but it wont happen for about 10-15 years and you will need powerful computer... maybe 5 ghz and much more powerful video card in the future to run few commercials one day but for now it is silly to talk about it which didn't exist yet.

[TchuBacha]

10-15 seems a bit long to me. Maybe 5-7 years until an emulator can do something useful like launch a game similarly to the current PS2/Xbox emulators??? 10-15 and we'll possible see a near perfectly polished and fully working(ish) Wii emulator.

But as always maybe next year or maybe never

[~!!WhoCares!!~]

10-15 seems a bit long to me. Maybe 5-7 years until an emulator can do something useful like launch a game similarly to the current PS2/Xbox emulators??? 10-15 and we'll possible see a near perfectly polished and fully working(ish) Wii emulator.

But as always maybe next year or maybe never

You have a point, but I also belive its going to take a lot of years to fully emulate a wii. Like RockmanForte said its going to take at least 10-15 years. Its not going to be 5-7 years becuase there isn't any emulator out there that perfectly emulates the PS2,GC,XBOX. which means its going to be a long time to get a wii emulstor. Also it can be 20 years from now to emulate the wii because we need stronger computers to hold game roms, which take up alot of space.

[alexxi]

this might be a stupid questionm, but.....are there emulators for the wii(nes, snes, sega...)? For people who want to download them, burn them to a cd and play, instead of buying it from the Virtual console.

[TchuBacha]

this might be a stupid questionm, but.....are there emulators for the wii(nes, snes, sega...)? For people who want to download them, burn them to a cd and play, instead of buying it from the Virtual console.

Yes. I believe most homebrew, emulators etc.. that was created for the gamecube can run on a wii in "gamecube mode".

Wikipedia has an article about wii homebrew here.

[Jale]

I saw a documental saying the world is developing at an exponential rate. For example, let's say a GameCube emulator is fully playable 15 years after it was first released. It's possible to have a fully working Wii emulator in less than that time.