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coffinbirth
Member
Ooooooof, that's a kick to the nuts. My Wii U is buried in a closet behind a six foot shelf, and I have no intentions of moving that bastard until I buy a new house.
Anyone here tried Wii U gamepad emulation in CEMU yet? It's been a long time since I checked in on that progress, and It's looking like might be my best bet at getting around to my Wii U backlog before I keel over.
Anyone here tried Wii U gamepad emulation in CEMU yet? It's been a long time since I checked in on that progress, and It's looking like might be my best bet at getting around to my Wii U backlog before I keel over.
coffinbirth
Member
You already answered you own question.
CherryFalls
Banned
Kirby rainbow curse
nintendo land
paper mario color splash
xenoblade chronicles x
star fox zero
mario party 10
mario & sonic olympics 2014
mario tennis ultra smash
Twilight Princess HD
Wind Waker HD
All good games imo - can only be played on wii u
And of course its fully backwards compatible with the original wii through hdmi. A lot of people have tvs with only hdmi connections now
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TLZ
Banned
Love the console. My most played console that gen. I turn it on every once in a while. I have haxchi on it and want to update to Tiramisu but I haven't turned it on since last year. Hopefully it's still ok.
It's ok but performance is bad.
NightmareFarm
Member
That's the best feature of it
Werewolf Jones
Member
Plugged in my Gamecube back in December for GBA Player and still works 20 years later. Nintendo don't do it like they used to.
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
Twilight Princess and Wind Waker will be ported for sure. The rest is average at best in my opinion.
Hayabusa83
Banned
Wii U is also fully backwards compatible with the Gamecube with some tinkering. I better check on mine.
fart town usa
Member
Devil's Third was ported to the Switch? Nice.
fart town usa
Member
I'll need to occasionally boot up the backup WiiU. Yes, I have a backup WiiU.
LordOfChaos
Member
NAND life being worn out? They only used some shit eMMC controller internally after all, almost as slow as a hdd
So used or not, would anything really help?
So used or not, would anything really help?
hemo memo
You can't die before your death
“The game that matters”
supernova8
Banned
Best way as in getting the best picture, the internal conversion/upscaling to HDMI of the Wii U is better than the component/composite signal the Wii sends out. With an mClassic(dongle > cable) you can improve the picture even more.
Here's what an mClassic can do with 480p content(diminishing returns the higher the res of the source)
As for worthwhile Wii exclusive games, surely you can you can put in some work of looking that up yourself since that's very subjective.
It also seems to have a positive impact on the Switch played in TV mode but in Japan those mclassic cables are so pricey (I think someone is hoarding them), I may as well as just upgrade my graphics card and emulate the damn thing instead.
cireza
Member
That's a good point. I will try to find some information in case.
cireza
Member
It doesn't look like it, but difficult to tell for sure 100%. Being powered doesn't seem to affect this type of storage as suggested by
LordOfChaos
.So I guess everyone who has a console from the bad batch is fucked ? How large this batch is is the real question.
There were many reports of people keeping the console stored and discovering the issue though. Would they still have gotten the issue had they used their console regularly ? Hard to tell.
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Drizzlehell
Banned
The utter contempt that Nintendo has for its idiotic customer base is the reason why I'm never gonna buy any of their consoles.
cireza
Member
It should be noted that if the NAND gets corrupted, it might be possible one day to bypass the NAND through some other device at boot. This is why making a backup before it gets bad is useful. And again, no idea on how many consoles are affected.
I updated the first post a little bit. I am quite surprised at the attention this topic suddenly got...
I updated the first post a little bit. I am quite surprised at the attention this topic suddenly got...
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Dr. Suchong
Member
Booted mine up fine just now.
No error codes to speak of.
No error codes to speak of.
Magic Carpet
Gold Member
I've lost the power brick to the Wii U, Can I substitute anything?
Henry Panic
Banned
I hear this is less of an issue with the black model. Similar to the issues the white Wii had that the black model didn't as well.
stranno
Member
I did a NAND backup yesterday (the best way to check every byte in the NAND), after ~3 years in a plastic box, and it was perfectly fine.
I wish Tiramisu and Aroma would have appeared before. Nowadays they seem like a waste, since nobody is using them creatively (aside the IOSU patches for piracy). The DRC and screenshots plugins are great tho.
Love Wii U since it is a very weird and obsolete, yet a bit capable, hardware for the year it came out. The Gamecube CPU architecture, the XBOX 360 GPU architecture and broken WIFI/BR/DVD standars left and right. It's pure Nintendo
I wish Tiramisu and Aroma would have appeared before. Nowadays they seem like a waste, since nobody is using them creatively (aside the IOSU patches for piracy). The DRC and screenshots plugins are great tho.
Love Wii U since it is a very weird and obsolete, yet a bit capable, hardware for the year it came out. The Gamecube CPU architecture, the XBOX 360 GPU architecture and broken WIFI/BR/DVD standars left and right. It's pure Nintendo
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Quasicat
Member
Mine still runs, but overheats occasionally. I’m really tempted to get a Steam Deck for this as TV time is more limited with the kids staying up later as they get older.
vodka-bull
Member
Didn‘t Switch kill the Wii U?
stranno
Member
Switch still lacks many of the Wii U hot features.
- Wii/Gamecube native support. Switch has like 3-5 Wii/Gamecube ports?
- DS emulation. DS VC emulation is absolutely wonderful and it plays like a dream in the Gamepad, even lacking DSi support. Switch has no DS emulation whatsoever and melonDS, on homebrew-capable units, it's not quite there in terms of performance.
- N64 emulation. This is getting better and bigger on Switch, but some games didn't look quite right and still long way to catch the full roster of Wii U.
- Wiimote support. I still don't know why Nintendo didn't include this. Since Joy-Cons are basically improved Wiimotes, it would have been really easy.
cireza
Member
It seems that he did not try on a system with bad nand though.
Sleepwalker
Member
Tams
Member
Finally got around to firing up my Wii U after over four years (and it getting shipped half way around the world).
Thankfully, all is working as much as it can in 2023.
The gamepad stick caps have suffered severe rubber reversion, and the console itself is quite loud (possibly damage from the shipping).
I think I'll hack it and backup the NAND.
Thankfully, all is working as much as it can in 2023.
The gamepad stick caps have suffered severe rubber reversion, and the console itself is quite loud (possibly damage from the shipping).
I think I'll hack it and backup the NAND.
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Kupfer
Member
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Lunarorbit
Gold Member
They're all dead then
NeoIkaruGAF
Gold Member
I turned on mine the other day after years of keeping it disconnected from power. It works, thankfully.
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Doczu
Member
Make a NAND backup then.
I need to turn on mine and check. It is soft modded, but i'm sure i don't have the nand backup. Gonna do it now, cause i was about to let my kid play on it
