Emulators on Wii

Nintendo Wii

Developer	Nintendo
Type	Home video game console
Generation	Seventh generation
Release date	2006
Discontinued	2013
Predecessor	GameCube
Successor	Wii U
Emulated	✓

Overview of the main popular systems that can be emulated without major issues.

For software that emulates the Wii, see Wii emulators.

Please visit Wii Guide for info on softmodding.

Contents

Multi-system

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
RetroArch	1.18.0	Mid	✓	✓	✓
RA-SS	git	Mid	✓	~	✓
Virtual Console	N/A	Mid	✗	✗	✓
WiiMednafen	git	Mid	✓	~	✓

RetroArch

Available cores (as of Retroarch 1.17)

Cores	Game/System	Recommended Working?
2048	2048	✓
CrocoDS	Amstrad - CPC	TBD
Caprice32	Amstrad - CPC/GX4000	✓
FB Alpha 2012	Arcade	TBD
FB Alpha 2012 CPS-1		TBD
FB Alpha 2012 CPS-2		TBD
FB Alpha 2012 CPS-3		TBD
FB Alpha 2012 Neo Geo		TBD
MAME 2000		TBD
Arduous	Arduboy	TBD
Stella 2014	Atari - 2600	✓
a5200	Atari - 5200	TBD
atari800		TBD
ProSystem	Atari - 7800	✓
Beetle Lynx	Atari - Lynx	✓
Handy		✓
Hatari	Atari ST/STE/TT/Falcon	TBD
Beetle Cygane	Bandai - WonderSwan/Color	✓
Cannonball	Cannonball	TBD
NXEngine	Cave Story	TBD
JAXE	CHIP-8/S-CHIP/XO-CHIP	TBD
Gearcoleco	Coleco - Colecovision	~
Frodo	Commodore - C64	TBD
VICE x64, fast		TBD
VICE x64, accurate		TBD
VICE xscpu64	Commodore - C64 SuperCPU	TBD
VICE x128	Commodore - C128	TBD
VICE xcbm5x0	Commodore - CBM-II 5x0	TBD
VICE xcbm2	Commodore - 6x0/7x0	TBD
VICE xpet	Commodore - PET	TBD
VICE xplus4	Commodore - PLUS/4	TBD
VICE xvic	Commodore - VIC-20	TBD
PrBoom	Doom	TBD
bk	Elektronika - BK-0010/BK-0011(M)	TBD
FreeChaF	Fairchild ChannelF	TBD
REminiscence	Flashback	TBD
Game Music Emu	Game Music Emu	TBD
vecx	GCE - Vectrex	TBD
Gong	Gong	TBD
gw	Handheld Electronic	TBD
squirrelJME	Java ME	TBD
Jump 'n Bump	Jump 'n Bump	TBD
LowRes NX	LowRes NX	TBD
lutro	LUA Engine	TBD
minivmac	Mac II	TBD
o2em	Magnavox - Odyssey2 / Philips Videopac+	TBD
freeIntv	Mattel - Intellivision	TBD
fMSX	Microsoft - MSX	TBD
MicroW8	MicroW8	TBD
Bomberman	Mr.Boom	TBD
blueMSX	MSX/SVI/ColecoVision/SG-1000	TBD
Beetle PCE FAST	NEC - PC Engine / CD	✓
Beetle SuperGrafx	NEC - PC Engine SuperGrafx	✓
quasi88	NEC - PC-8000 / PC-8800 series	~
Beetle PC-FX	NEC - PC-FX	~
fixGB	Nintendo - Game Boy / Color	✓
Gambatte		✓
Gearboy		✗ (Crash)
gpSP	Nintendo - Game Boy Advance	✓
mGBA		✓
VBA Next		✓
VBA-M		TBD
FCEUmn	Nintendo - NES/Famicom	✓
fixNES		✓
Nestopia		✓
QuickNES		✓
PokeMini	Nintendo - Pokemon Mini	✓
Snes9x current	Nintendo - SNES/SFC	✓
Snes9x 2002		✓
Snes9x 2005 Plus		✓
Snes9x 2005		✓
Snes9x 2010		✓
Beetle VB	Nintendo - Virtual Boy	~
mu	Palm OS	TBD
retro8	PICO-8	TBD
PocketCDG	PocketCDG	TBD
TyrQuake	Quake	TBD
XRick	Rick Dangerous	TBD
ScummVM	ScummVM	TBD
SMS Plus GX	Sega - MS/GG	✓
Genesis Plus GX	Sega - MS/GG/MD/CD	✗ (Black Screen)
Genesis Plus GX Wide		✗ (Black Screen)
PicoDrive	Sega - MS/GG/MD/CD/32X	✓
GearSystem	Sega - MS/GG/SG-1000	✓
X Millenium	Sharp X1	TBD
EightyOne	Sinclair - ZX81	TBD
Fuse	Sinclair - ZX Spectrum	TBD
Beetle NeoPop	SNK - Neo Geo Pocket/ Color	✓
RACE		✗ (Crash)
pcsx_rearmed	Sony - Playstation 1	✓
numero	Texas Instruments TI-83	TBD
Thomson - MO/TO	Thomson - MO/TO	TBD
TIC-80	TIC-80	TBD
uzem	Uzebox	TBD
VAporSpec	VaporSpec	TBD
WASM-4	WASM-4	TBD
ECWolf	Wolfenstein 3D	TBD

RA-SS

A fork of RetroArch that aims to provide a more compact and user friendly experience. It adds several quality of life improvements such as auto-resolution switching, better multiplayer support, debloated menus, per-game and per-core settings, Wii Message Board integration, and more.

Wiimednafen

Emulates the following:

GameBoy/GameBoy Color
GameBoy Advance
Game Gear
Lynx
MegaDrive/Genesis
Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)
Neo Geo Pocket
PC Engine (CD)/TurboGrafx 16 (CD)/SuperGrafx (Fast version)
PC-FX
Sega Master System
Virtual Boy
WonderSwan

WiiMednafen has not been programmed to work in PAL systems and it will have black bars on top and bottom of the screen leading to a sort of widescreen stretch effect. Double-strike mode (240p) will not work properly on PAL systems even on a CRT and regardless of the cables used.

Arcade

MAME

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
MAME Wii	1.0	Mid	✓	✗	✓
MAME Wii Mod (mod of MAME Wii, WiiFlow support added)	1.0 r2	Mid	✓	~	✓
SDLMAME	0.125	Mid	✗	✗	~

Triforce Arcade

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Nintendont (任天堂NT)	git	High	✓	✓	✓
Quadforce Wii	4.1	Low	✗	✗	✗

Consoles

Atari 2600

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
StellaWii	2009	Low-Mid	✓	✗	✗
Wii2600	2.7.8	Mid	✓	✗	✓

Atari 7800

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Wii7800	0.5	Mid	✓	✗	✓

ColecoVision

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
ColEm for the Wii	1.0	Low-Mid	✗	✗	✗
WiiColEm	0.3	Mid	✓	✗	✓

GCE Vectrex

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
VectrexWii	0.3	Mid	✓	✗	✓

Magnavox Odyssey²/Videopac

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
O2em	1.0	Mid	✗	✗	✓

Mattel Intellivision

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
JzintvWii	1.0.2	Mid	✓	✗	✓

NEC PC Engine (TurboGrafx-16)

Name	Version	Nunchuk Support	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Hugo-Wii	2008.12.14	✓	Low-Mid	✓	✗	~
WiiEngine	1.5bb	✓	Mid	✓	✗	~
WiiMednafen	git	✓	Mid	✓	~	✓

NEC PC Engine SuperGrafx

Name	Version	Nunchuk Support	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
WiiMednafen	git	✓	Mid	✓	~	✓

NEC PC-FX

Name	Version	Nunchuk Support	Accuracy	Dolphin	Wii U	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
WiiMednafen	git	✓	Mid	~ (Slow)	~ (Slow)	✓	~	~

Nintendo 64

Name	Version	Nunchuk Support	Accuracy	Dolphin	Wii U	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Not64	git	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Wii64	1.1	✓	Mid	✗ (Low Compatibility)	~ (Low Compatibility)	✓	✗	~
Wii64 glN64	git	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓	✓	TBD
Wii64 Rice	git	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓

There's frequent hiccups and graphical glitches in most N64 games on either emulators. Tinkering with settings might help in some cases. (Source)

Nintendo GameCube

Name	Version	Nunchuk Support	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Nintendont (任天堂NT)	git	✗	High	✓	✓	✓

This requires a bit of explaining.

When the Nintendo Wii was launched, it introduced native backward compatibility with the GameCube, allowing memory cards and GameCube controllers to be used with GameCube games. This is widely known and it allowed Dolphin to support the Wii early in its open-source era. However, this compatibility was lost when Nintendo released newer models called the Wii: Family Edition (although the ports were merely stripped from the casing; the circuit board still contains the areas where the connectors would go, see Wikipedia's section on it) and the Wii Mini (which also lacks an SD card slot as well.) Also on the Wii U, the GameCube ports don't exist at all, only being offered afterward as a USB peripheral in order to play Super Smash Bros. for Wii U.

However, homebrew developer FIX94 has developed Nintendont, an interpreter that allows all versions of the Wii (and the Wii U) that can run homebrew to read and run GameCube games, not only from a disc, but from SD cards and USB devices too. This comes with the added benefit that more controllers are supported past the normal GameCube ones, which makes it possible to play on consoles that don't have GCN controller ports.

Some notable features are the ability to use other controllers like the Classic Controller, Wiimote+Nunchuck, and some HID USB controllers, memory card emulation, playing TRIFORCE arcade games (after converted to an .iso), and recently Broadband Adapter emulation using the Wii's wireless communications.

Nintendont can run standalone via HBC, but it's recommended running it indirectly through a usb loader. All big three usb loaders support it: usb loader gx, wiiflow lite, cfg loader. Make sure you're using the latest version of the loader.

Nintendo NES/Famicom

Name	Version	Nunchuk Support	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
FCE Ultra GX	3.5.4	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓
FCE Ultra RX	v1.7.0 - 20190119	✓	Mid	✓	~	✓
FCEUX TX	1.1.7	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓
WiiMednafen	git	✓	Mid	✓	~	✓

Nintendo SNES/Super Famicom

Name	Version	Nunchuk Support	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Snes9x GX	4.5.5	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓
Snes9x RX	5.5.0	✓	Mid	✓	✓	~
Snes9x TX	1.1.3	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓

Snes9x-GX is optimized for compatibility, RX for speed, while TX is similar to GX including some options from RX (but not speed).

SEGA SG-1000/Master System/Genesis/Game Gear

Name	Version	Nunchuk Support	Accuracy	SG-1000	SMS	Genesis	CD	32X	Pico	GG	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Genesis Plus GX	git	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓
PicoDrive	1.18.0	✓	Mid	✗	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
SMSPlus	14/12/2008	✓	Mid	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗	✓
WiiMednafen	git	✓	Mid	✗	✓	✓	✗	✗	✗	✓	✓	~	✓

PicoDrive

While it is only available as a libretro core and is behind Genesis Plus GX and WiiMednafen in terms of compatibility and accuracy, it is currently the only way to play 32X games on the Wii.

Slowdown may occur when on 3D sections of Genesis games or 32X games.

SEGA Saturn

Name	Version	Nunchuk Support	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Yabause Wii	r2926 beta26	✗	Low (Extremely poor performance)	✓	✗	~

SNK Neo Geo

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
GxGeo	r23	Mid	✗	✗	✓

Anything bigger than 25MBs won't load because the Wii doesn't have enough memory. Some uncompatible roms can be modified in order to work. A good compatibility list is available on a Spanish website.

SNK Neo Geo CD

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
NeoCD RX	1.0.02	Mid	✓	✓	✓
NeoCD-Wii	0.5	Mid	✓	✗	✗

Sony PlayStation

Name	Version	Accuracy	Dolphin	Wii U	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
WiiStation (highly enhanced port of PCSX-R with elements from PCSX-ReARMed)	3.2	Mid-High	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
WiiSX	4.1	Low-Mid	✗ (Low Compatibility)	✗ (Low Compatibility)	✓	✓	✓
WiiSXR (port of PCSX-R)	Beta 2.3	Mid	✓	✓	✓	✗	~
WiiSXRX (enhanced port of PCSX-R)	3.3	Mid	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
PCSX-Revolution	rev.50	Low-Mid	✗ (Low Compatibility)	✗ (Low Compatibility)	✓	✗	✗

Handhelds

Atari Lynx

Name	Version	Accuracy	Dolphin	Wii U	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
WiiHandy	0.4	Mid	✓	✓	✓	✗	~
WiiMednafen	git	Mid	✓	✓	✓	~	✓

Bandai WonderSwan

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
WiiMednafen	git	Mid	✓	~	✓

LED Handheld

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
LedHeadWii	1.2	High	✓	✓	✓

Nintendo DS

Name	Version	DSi	GBA	Accuracy	Dolphin	Wii U	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
DeSmuME Wii	r253	✗	✗	Mid	✗ (Very Slow/Low Compatibility)	✗ (Very Slow/Low Compatibility)	✓	✗	✓

Nintendo Game Boy/Color/Advance

Name	Version	GB/GBC	GBA	Accuracy	Dolphin	Wii U	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
gb4gb	1.0	✓	✗	Mid (able to emulate link cable)	✓	✓	✗	✗	~
GnuBoy GX	081214	✓	✗	Mid	?	?	✓	✗	~
Enhanced mGBA	20220105	✓	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓	~	✓
mGBA	0.10.3	✓	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
RIN Wii	2008	✓	✗	Mid	✓	✗ (Black Screen)	✓	✗	~
Visual Boy Advance GX	2.4.8	✓	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓	✓	~
WiiMednafen	git	✓	✓	Mid	✓	✓	✓	~	~

emGBA has around 13%-17% worse performance than regular mGBA on heavy GBA games. (Source)

Nintendo Virtual Boy

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
WiiMednafen	git	Mid	✓	~	✓
WiirtualBoy	0.1	Low-Mid	✓	✗	✗

SNK Neo Geo Pocket

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
NeoPop GX Wii	0.71.2	Low-Mid	✓	✗	~
NeoPop Wii	20090203	Low-Mid	✓	✗	✗
WiiMednafen	git	Mid	✓	~	✓

Trojan LCD Game

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
TrojanWii	2008	Mid	✗	✗	✓

Computers

Amstrad CPC

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Wiituka	0.98.8	High	✗	✗	✓

Apple IIe

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
WiiApple	0.0.7	Mid	✓	✗	✓

Atari 800/XL/XE/XEGS/5200

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
WiiXL	0.1	Mid	✓	✗	✓

Atari ST

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
AtaWii	Beta1	Low	✓	✗	✗
Hatari Wii	v0.0.5	Mid	✓	✗	✓
HataWii	20091901	Mid	✗	✗	✗

BBC Micro

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Beebem Wii	0.1	Low-Mid	✓	✗	✓

CHIP-8

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Chippy Wii	1.0	Mid	✗	✗	~

Unless you use an ancient HBC, you might receive a invalid elf error. The elf-dol_converter should workaround this.

Commodore 64

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Frodo	2.4.1	Mid	✓	✗	✓

Commodore Amiga

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
UAE Wii	v12	Mid	✓	✗	✓

DOSBox

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
DOSBox Wii	v1.7	Mid	✓	✗	✓

Microsoft MSX

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
blueMSX-Wii	1.0.3	Mid	✓	✗	✓
MiiSX	0.4	Low	✗	✗	✗
uMSX	0.2	Low	✓	✗	✗

NEC-PC 88 series

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
QUASI88 Wii	0.6.3 beta6	Low-Mid	✓	✗	✗
wii88	0.1.1 (based on official quasi88 0.6.4)	Mid	✓	✗	✓

NEC-PC 98 series

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Neko Project II (猫Project II)	0.83 beta 6	Mid	~	✗	✓
Neko Project II Wii (猫Project II Wii)	0.1 B3 (based on NPII 0.81a)	Low-Mid	✓	✗	✗

Philips VG 5000

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Dcvg5k	1.0	Mid	✓	✗	✓

Sinclair ZX Spectrum

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
FBZX Wii	v15	Mid	✓	✗	✓
FUSE Wii	2009	Mid	✓	✗	~

Tandy CoCo - Dragon 32/64

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
XRoar-Wii	0.4	Mid	✓	✗	✓

Tandy Radio Shack TRS-80

Name	Version	Accuracy	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
SDLTRS-Wii	0.2	Mid	✓	✗	✓

Miscellaneous

Game recreations and source ports

Name	Version	FLOSS	Active	Recommended	Supported games
Action
Digger Remastered	0.2	?	✗	✓	Digger
OpenBOR	3.0b6391	✓	✓	✓	beat em' ups
Adventure
ResidualVM wii	0.2	?	✗	✓	Grim Fandango
ScummVM	2.8.1	✓	✓	✓	Adventure games and RPGs from the late 80s and 90s
Fighting
KOF Flames Of Courage V5	v5f	?	✗	✓	The King of Fighters
FPS
Descent Wii	1.12 git (forked)	✓	✗	✓	Descent
EDuke32 Wii	Website	?	✗	✓	Duke Nukem 3D
Freespace 2 Wii	beta 3	?	✗	?	Freespace 2
QuakeGX Quake Wii (merged with QuakeGX)	0.0.5-2	?	✗	✓	Quake 1–2, ThreeWave CTF mod for Quake 2, QuakeWorld
Wii-DOOM Wii-HERETIC Wii-HEXEN Wii-STRIFE	r33	✓	✗	✓	Wii-DOOM: Doom I–II, Final Doom Wii-HERETIC: Heretic Wii-HEXEN: Hexen Wii-STRIFE: Strife: Quest for the Sigil
Wii-HEXEN II	Website	✗	✗	✓	Hexen II
Wii-ROTT	Website	✗	✗	?	Rise of the Triad
Wolfenstein 3D Wii	1.3	✓	✗	✓	Wolfenstein 3D, Spear of Destiny
Maze
MegaZeux	2.93	✓	✓	✓	Caverns of Zeux and other ZZT-style ascii games
Pacman	1.04	?	✗	✓	Pac-Man (arcade)
Pinball
SpaceCadetPinball	git	?	✗	✓	3D Pinball for Windows – Space Cadet
Platform
Abe's Amazing Adventure Wii	r3	?	✗	?	Abe's Amazing Adventure
Abuse Wii	git	?	✗	✓	Abuse
Bermuda Syndrome Wii	git	?	✗	✓	Bermuda Syndrome
Cave Story Engine 2 Wii Port	git archive	✗	✗	?	Cave Story
hode	0.4.9 git	✓	✗	✓	Heart of Darkness
Jump 'n Bump	0.3.1	?	✗	?	Jump 'n Bump
MazeOfGaliousWii	0.63.3	?	✗	?	The Maze of Galious remake
OpenHCL	git	?	~	✓	Hydra Castle Labyrinth
OpenJazz	git	?	✗	✓	Jazz Jackrabbit
Sonic CD 2011 Decompilation	git	✓	?	✓	Sonic the Hedgehog CD (2011)
Sonic Mania Wii	git	✓	✓	~ (WIP)	Sonic Mania (Encore DLC optional but the user must compile the port to access it)
Puzzle
Jewels	1.01	?	✗	?	gljewel
OpenSupaplex	git	✓	✗	✓	Supaplex
Racing
CannonBall	git	?	✗	✓	OutRun
RoadFighterWii	1.0	?	✗	✓	Road Fighter
RPG
EasyRPG	0.8.0	✓	✓	✓	games created with RPG Maker 2000 and 2003
Exult Wii	2.0	✓	✗	✓	Ultima VII
RSC-C	git	?	✓	✓	RSC Preservation (OpenRSC)
Sandbox
Wiicraft	git	?	?	?	Minecraft v1.2.5
WoxelCraft	git	?	✗	?	3D Voxel Engine (Minecraft)
Shoot 'em up
OpenTyrianWii	1.7	?	✗	?	Tyrian
Sim - Construction/Management
OpenTTD	1.3.2	?	✗	?	Transport Tycoon Deluxe
TBS
DopeWars	1.1	?	✗	?	DopeWars (Palm OS)
Visual Novel
CPyMO	v1.1.9	✓	✓	?	PyMO Visual Novel / AVG Game Engine

Other games

Name	Version	FLOSS	Active	Recommended
Super Mario War	git	?	✗	✓