Emulation on the Nintendo Wii - Turn Your Wii Into a Retro Gaming Centre

With the Homebrew Channel you can turn your Nintendo Wii into a retro gaming system and play all the games from all the consoles and home computers of the 80's and 90's.

In this video I'll walk you through the installation of an SNES emulator to cover all the steps in getting a system up and running. The rest of the emulators then follow the same basic installation process.

Don't forget to check out the project page on my main website at

How to Hack your Wii

Wii Emulator List

0:00 Introduction
1:45 Parts you need
3:03 What's available
4:26 Installing SNES9X_GX
15:05 Conclusions

[jakebirch]

Fantastic videos. Really detailed. I've now used your youtube videos to set up homebrew, USB Loader GX and some emulators successfully, after watching other channel's videos with no success. I am a bit of a dummy with stuff like this, and was having trouble with taking the screenshots for the artwork to go alongside the snes games. I kept getting an error message, but then realised I had to create a "screenshots" folder on my sd card first, then worked fine after this! Thanks for the great guides!

[s_u_K_r_a_m-oxqg]

Thank you much for the idea with the Screenshot ❤ this was the solution i was searching for weeks :-)

[Great-Documentaries]

2:20: That Wii Classic Controller is really not worth it. But the Wii Pro Controller is. THAT'S the one you should be recommending.

[Rockfletch]

You mention about putting files directly on to the Wii hard drive.. Have you linked up your Wii to your pc then? Also, the 'apps' folder on the SD card, is this something that should already be set up after installing Homebrew or do you need to create an 'apps' folder before proceeding with obtaining the emulator files?

[timneumann]

I didn't know you could do this on the regular Wii! Can you do this on the later model Wii U?

[UmarAbid]

Hi how do i emulate wii u their 0 guide on youtube for this can you tell me home brew app name that will work on wii for wii u please.

[josie]

i don’t see the links that show us how to soft mod the wii?

[Jebusisblatantidolatry]

Where are you plugging the sd card into??