Contrary to popular belief that GameCube and Wii were inferior to their predecessors, lots of gamers still play Resident Evil 4, The Legend of Zelda: Four Sword Adventures, and Super Mario Galaxy and consider them the best titles ever created by Nintendo. And the players whose physical consoles are out of order avail themselves of emulators, special programs allowing them to play retro games on modern computers.
Connecting an external hard drive to your Wii to back up and play your games is a simple way to keep expensive discs out of harms way, decrease game load times, and organize your collection with. The Wii U has backwards compatibility with Wii games, so you can play your Wii games on the Wii U. There's a method you have to follow to play them. Synchronize a Wii Remote to the Wii U. You synchronize a Wii Remote to the Wii U the same.
Nonetheless, it should be noted that not all emulators are capable of running GameCube and Wii games that are more sophisticated and demanding than their predecessors. If you’re eager to revisit your favorite games, but cannot choose a reliable emulator for this purpose, go on reading our article. You’ll learn about the Dolphin emulator which can run the majority of Wii and GameCube ISOs (games) almost flawlessly.
A Few Words about the Dolphin Emulator
Some five years ago, fans of GameCube and Wii games scoured the Internet for a stable emulation tool that could help them quench their gaming nostalgia. Though many websites were replete with the “best” and “most stable” GameCube and Wii emulators on offer, none of the emulators was really capable of running the said games.
In 2003, Dolphin was released. It made a splash in the hardware emulation market. Much to GameCube and Wii fans’ disappointment, Dolphin’s pilot version was underdeveloped. The emulator crashed oftentimes and was unable to run a vast majority of the games. Still, over the following years, Dolphin underwent considerable improvements which couldn’t but please the gamers looking forward to playing their favorite games.
Thus, by 2009, the emulator became quite playable. Most commercial games, GameCube and Wii alike, run well on Dolphin. Due to the incorporated adjustments, the emulation speed improved, so much so the speed of games on some PCs was even higher than on original consoles. The quality of sound emulation also was considerably improved.
By late 2009, Dolphin could boast of such new features as automatic frame-skipping, which substantially increased its performance and stability, and a network game, which allowed users to play games online.
By the end of November 2010, developers had eliminated most sound problems, improved the emulator’s compatibility with a large number of games, and increased its speed and accuracy. Dolphin was capable of running most games at higher, 1080, resolution in a full-screen mode.
How to Get Dolphin
Looking for Dolphin right now?
Head to Dolphin Emulator official website and select the latest emulator’s version from there, provided that you own a powerful computer meeting Dolphins hardware requirements. Otherwise, your emulator may crash, freeze, or run games improperly.
In the “Download” section, you’ll find all Dolphin versions and more information about the available updates. Make sure to select and download the version compatible with your operating system (Mac or Windows).
How to Get GameCube and Wii Games for Dolphin
Now that you have the best emulator, it’s time to get some cool games for it.
If you still have old CDs, the ones you played on your console back in the day, you can rip their images, also known as ISOs, and start running them on Dolphin. Search the web for useful programs that can help you create such ISOs or visit ROMsMode, a website devoted to ROMs and emulation software, to get ready-made ISOs of your favorite games.
There’s a special game folder within Dolphin where you can put all the downloaded ISOs. You can access and load them easily any time.
Now you can start playing GameCube and Wii games on Dolphin.
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This guide is meant for the absolute beginner who has just softmodded their Wii and wants to add a ISO/WBFS file to their USB stick so they can play their games via a USB Loader app. The most common setup to play your Wii games via ISO/WBFS, is to have your all your HBC apps on your SD card while having your ISO/WBFS files on your USB stick.
Requirements:
- SD card that you already use that works for HBC
- USB Stick at least 4GB in size
- Softmodded Wii (Guide - https://mkwii.com/showthread.php?tid=1614)
- WBFS or ISO file of game that you are wanting to add to the USB
Visit this page - https://sourceforge.net/projects/usbloadergx/
Click on the large green Download button. You will be navigated to a new web page (still on sourceforge.net). After a brief moment, the download will begin..
Extract the download. You will see a folder called 'apps'. Move the apps folder to the root of your SD card. The SD card must be in FAT32 format. Place SD into Wii.
1. Insert your USB stick into your Computer.
2. Format the USB stick to FAT32 (Quick format will work)
NOTE if you use Linux and need to format a USB to FAT32: There is a program called 'gparted'. Simply google gparted FAT32, and you will find plenty of guides to format the USB.
3. Make a folder on the USB called 'wbfs' (without the quotations)
4. Now we will make a folder within the wbfs folder. The name of this folder varies depending on the title and game ID of your game. For demo purposes we will use the American MKW game (game ID of RMCE01)
5. Within the wbfs folder, make the folder called - 'MarioKartWii [RMCE01]' (without quotations)
6. The title of the game (no spaces) goes first, then the game ID within the brackets.
7. If your game is already in .wbfs format. We can simple drag and drop our American MKW game into the 'MarioKartWii [RMCE01]' folder. If your game is in .iso format, please see further below for solution.
8. Once the .wbfs file has been added to the USB we need to rename it to match its game ID, so for this guide we rename the wbfs file to RMCE01.wbfs
9. Eject your USB. Now you must plug in your USB stick into the correct port. If your Wii is laying flat, this would be the BOTTOM port.
10. Launch HBC, launch USB Loader GX. You will see your game listed on the main menu. Select and launch it. Congratz.
If your game is in .iso format read this:
You will need WIT Tools to change the iso to a wbfs file. Download WIT Tools https://wit.wiimm.de/download.html
For help installing WIT Tools, view this thread HERE
If you are on Windows:
1. Once the tools are installed, there is a new Wiimm folder within your Program Files (x86) folder of your C Drive. Within that Wiimm folder, is a folder called WIT. Drag your ISO file into that WIT folder.
2. Open up cmd/command prompt
3. Type this: cd C:Program Files (x86)wiimmwit
4. Now type this: wit copy nameofyourISO.iso newnameofyourISO.wbfs
5. And that's it you have made a copy of your game in the better wbfs format. Now you can complete the rest of the guide.
If you are on Linux:
1. Once the tools are installed. Open a terminal in the directory where your iso file is located.
2. wit copy nameofyourISO.iso newnameofyourISO.wbfs
3. And that's it you have made a copy of your game in the better wbfs format. Now you can complete the rest of the guide.
Troubleshooting:
If you get a black screen when attempting to boot your WBFS via USB Loader, there's a few reasons why this could happen:
1. Your USB stick is corrupted or near the end of its life. Reformat it to FAT32 (Do a FULL format, will take awhile)
2. Your WBFS file is corrupted, this could be because you possess a corrupt file of your game, or you simply pulled your USB stick out of your computer without properly right clicking on it and selecting Eject.
3. Your SD card containing your USB loader app is bad, reformat it.