Nintendo Classic Mini: Super Nintendo Entertainment System

[Machiavelli]

Can you save progress?

Yes, to the external hard drive where all of the games are stored, it functions just like saving a game to the system memory (same with saved data), the Wii u is happy for you to add a HDD because the top spec Wii u was released with a paltry 32GB of memory. I have every retail title for the Wii u on mine as well as all of the 'virtual console' titles available to download for Wii u and all of the independent games available to purchase from Nintendo's eshop. I have also added 'retroarch' which is what 'retropie' uses to emulate previous consoles - the Wii u can run them far better than a raspberry pi for instance. On the virtual Wii (the Wii u has 2 sides - Wii u and vwii) I have all of the Wii titles and it plays gamecube games - again all stored on a HDD. It supports perfect play just like having the disc would, no problem with saving or playing with modern wireless controllers (no lag, no slowdown), I have also added a few emulators to the vwii side - again the same as what's available on raspberry pi. I posted a guide a few pages back, since then Nintendo have pushed a firmware update to version 5.5.2, the guide was based on the older version 5.5.1. - if you have a Wii u on 5.5.2 the guides I posted are no longer achievable. I'm sure there will be a hack for 5.5.2 in the future but for now it's only doable if you have a machine on 5.5.1. Maybe Nintendo have closed the exploit down and what I've done won't be achieved again? I'm glad I did mine when I did, especially when Nintendo are taking the piss with the mini NES/SNES and charging a small fortune for them.
If you fancy doing it with a Wii u on 5.5.1, give me a shout - it's a piece of piss to do IF you follow the guides.

 

[blueboyforever]

A Wii u with a few very basic hacks is the way to go for all of Nintendo's back catalogue from the NES to the Wii u. All games running as if you had the disc from a small external hard drive. I've got 1000's of games from all previous systems which all work perfectly in full screen with no lag from wireless controllers. There is no comparison to what the Wii u can achieve for retro gaming (I also have all of Sega's offerings and I've just added retroarch to mine as well which allows me to play all of the MAME catalogue of arcade games).

Yeah I've been reading about what you've done with your Wii U. I actually have a Wii U but I'm not very good with computers, can just about manage to get kodi haha. Sounds cool though!

 

[Tricky Dickys Right Foot Shot]

I'm just going to buy a raspberry pi and load some emulators on there.... It's immoral yes, but I'm not getting suckered in into this hype farce Nintendo are creating by releasing a small amount of mini consoles, so people end up pre ordering before finding out it has about 2 weeks of value before getting bored of it.
Nintendo have been sucking the devil's cock for years now, pretty sure they were the first to use micro transactions in games as well... cunts!!

 

[Machiavelli]

Yeah I've been reading about what you've done with your Wii U. I actually have a Wii U but I'm not very good with computers, can just about manage to get kodi haha. Sounds cool though!

What software version is your machine on?
You can check by going to "system settings" (the spanner icon), the version number will be displayed in the top-right corner.

 

[Machiavelli]

I'm just going to buy a raspberry pi and load some emulators on there.... It's immoral yes, but I'm not getting suckered in into this hype farce Nintendo are creating by releasing a small amount of mini consoles, so people end up pre ordering before finding out it has about 2 weeks of value before getting bored of it.
Nintendo have been sucking the devil's cock for years now, pretty sure they were the first to use micro transactions in games as well... cunts!!

Not just Nintendo mate, Sega and Atari have released mini consoles. I can see Sony and Microsoft following suit soon. They've realised a lot of folk are interested in nostalgia and they enjoy playing the games they grew up with, I suppose they've offered the retro games for download to current consoles but they're also aware of how popular things like raspberry pi's are so they've decided to cash in and produce the hardware to run classic titles as opposed to just downloading them to your modern device. Nintendo are the masters of nostalgia, and whilst I wouldn't purchase one of these mini consoles (because my Wii U has every Nintendo offering on it with 1000's of games), I can see why they would be popular to the non techie who wouldn't risk "breaking something" on a Wii U to achieve retro happiness.
Good luck with the raspberry pi, I started with one of these before I hacked the Wii U I have a pi3 type b (top spec available) and it has severe limitations, anything above SNES/Megadrive runs into problems with bad emulation, missing graphics, terrible slowdown, lag on the controllers, corrupted save data (losing it unless you back it up regularly). The latest consoles available on there are N64, which is unplayable and the PS1 which is frustratingly hit and miss. You can add the same programme (retroarch) which is what the raspberry pi uses for its own emulators found on retropie to the Wii U as well.
If you really want to stick two fingers up to the good folk at Nintendo - then buy a secondhand Wii U and transform Nintendo's embarrassingly worse console to date into a super reliable system for playing retro games.
Mine can play:
NES
SNES
N64
GBA
Gamecube
Wii
Wii U
Master System
Mega drive
Mega CD
Neo Geo
MAME (arcade game emulator)
It does have some PS1 support but it's hit and miss so I haven't bothered setting it up.
I have thousands of games for all of the systems above on external HDDs, which I've been playing for months without a single problem.

 

[vonkeynotvenky]

Not just Nintendo mate, Sega and Atari have released mini consoles. I can see Sony and Microsoft following suit soon. They've realised a lot of folk are interested in nostalgia and they enjoy playing the games they grew up with, I suppose they've offered the retro games for download to current consoles but they're also aware of how popular things like raspberry pi's are so they've decided to cash in and produce the hardware to run classic titles as opposed to just downloading them to your modern device. Nintendo are the masters of nostalgia, and whilst I wouldn't purchase one of these mini consoles (because my Wii U has every Nintendo offering on it with 1000's of games), I can see why they would be popular to the non techie who wouldn't risk "breaking something" on a Wii U to achieve retro happiness.
Good luck with the raspberry pi, I started with one of these before I hacked the Wii U I have a pi3 type b (top spec available) and it has severe limitations, anything above SNES/Megadrive runs into problems with bad emulation, missing graphics, terrible slowdown, lag on the controllers, corrupted save data (losing it unless you back it up regularly). The latest consoles available on there are N64, which is unplayable and the PS1 which is frustratingly hit and miss. You can add the same programme (retroarch) which is what the raspberry pi uses for its own emulators found on retropie to the Wii U as well.
If you really want to stick two fingers up to the good folk at Nintendo - then buy a secondhand Wii U and transform Nintendo's embarrassingly worse console to date into a super reliable system for playing retro games.
Mine can play:
NES
SNES
N64
GBA
Gamecube
Wii
Wii U
Master System
Mega drive
Mega CD
Neo Geo
MAME (arcade game emulator)
It does have some PS1 support but it's hit and miss so I haven't bothered setting it up.
I have thousands of games for all of the systems above on external HDDs, which I've been playing for months without a single problem.

You can do it all on a PC too, I have all the available emulators and ROMs for the grandkids.

 

[Machiavelli]

You can do it all on a PC too, I have all the available emulators and ROMs for the grandkids.

I messed about with the dolphin emulator on PC which runs GC/Wii, sacked it off because it wasn't full-proof because they're emulating the games/consoles, it doesn't feel the same as playing games the way you did in yesteryear - I didn't play Nintendo/Sega on a PC. Cemu is in its infancy for running Wii u games so that's hit and miss, the beauty of the Wii U is it runs Wii U roms from a HDD as perfectly as having the disc, and because it has a virtual Wii mode it can do the same with Wii games and GameCube games (the Wii could run gamecube discs) but they're not emulated one bit, they're perfect. Having tried PC emulators and raspberry pi's I would confidently say there is no comparison to a hacked Wii U. I can't stand gaming on a PC tbh. ;-)

 

[vonkeynotvenky]

I messed about with the dolphin emulator on PC which runs GC/Wii, sacked it off because it wasn't full-proof because they're emulating the games/consoles, it doesn't feel the same as playing games the way you did in yesteryear - I didn't play Nintendo/Sega on a PC. Cemu is in its infancy for running Wii u games so that's hit and miss, the beauty of the Wii U is it runs Wii U roms from a HDD as perfectly as having the disc, and because it has a virtual Wii mode it can do the same with Wii games and GameCube games (the Wii could run gamecube discs) but they're not emulated one bit, they're perfect. Having tried PC emulators and raspberry pi's I would confidently say there is no comparison to a hacked Wii U. I can't stand gaming on a PC tbh. ;-)

I take your word for it you're doing it and are happy with the results obviously, the fusion emulator for Sega is literally flawless as is the Project64 for the Nintendo 64 but some PSX ROMS are a bit hit and miss and a too much joshing about with the bios to be taken seriously.

 

[Machiavelli]

I take your word for it you're doing it and are happy with the results obviously, the fusion emulator for Sega is literally flawless as is the Project64 for the Nintendo 64 but some PSX ROMS are a bit hit and miss and a too much joshing about with the bios to be taken seriously.

Everything I've tried/owned has problems after the 16bit generation of consoles but will happily run NES/SNES Master System/Mega Drive without issue. Wasn't the developer of project64 a bit precious and kept adding adware/malware to his programme? Either way project64 has some definite flaws and limitations because it's still an emulator and N64 is by far the most difficult system to emulate. I haven't got an N64 emulator on the Wii U because there isn't a good one out there, instead I have all of the n64 games Nintendo released for download to the Wii u from their own eshop (as well as all of the available titles for NES, SNES, GBA & DS), this means they're not emulated, so they play/run perfectly as they are official Nintendo releases, I can play them off TV as well using the Wii U gamepad. My hacked Wii U can also run USA/Jap games because after hacking it is region unlocked so I can add all of the releases that never made it to Europe. Another thing it avoids is downloading dodgy roms from dodgy sites with security issues, the games I have are 100% because they come directly from the eshop as if I was paying for them and downloading them to my machine. Honestly, the Wii U has no competition.

 

[vonkeynotvenky]

Everything I've tried/owned has problems after the 16bit generation of consoles but will happily run NES/SNES Master System/Mega Drive without issue. Wasn't the developer of project64 a bit precious and kept adding adware/malware to his programme? Either way project64 has some definite flaws and limitations because it's still an emulator and N64 is by far the most difficult system to emulate. I haven't got an N64 emulator on the Wii U because there isn't a good one out there, instead I have all of the n64 games Nintendo released for download to the Wii u from their own eshop (as well as all of the available titles for NES, SNES, GBA & DS), this means they're not emulated, so they play/run perfectly as they are official Nintendo releases, I can play them off TV as well using the Wii U gamepad. My hacked Wii U can also run USA/Jap games because after hacking it is region unlocked so I can add all of the releases that never made it to Europe. Another thing it avoids is downloading dodgy roms from dodgy sites with security issues, the games I have are 100% because they come directly from the eshop as if I was paying for them and downloading them to my machine. Honestly, the Wii U has no competition.

You're beginning to convert me to trying it myself mate :)

 

[Machiavelli]

You're beginning to convert me to trying it myself mate :)

I think you will struggle to hack the Wii U side as it needs to be on software version 5.5.1, the latest one (5.5.2) was pushed somewhat unexpectedly a fortnight ago - everything I've done to mine won't work on 5.5.2 for now. To hack the Wii U side (using Haxchi & CBHC) you need to download an official virtual console game (I used brain training DS, which was free at the time) from Nintendo's eshop - the game is sacrificed (meaning you can't play it or add it to your collection afterwards, that's why I sacrificed brain training) and converted to a "ticket" which basically tells your console you can download and play all of the Wii U titles and Wii u virtual console goodies - including those perfect N64 games mentioned before, as if you purchased them from the eshop. You will not be able to visit the eshop to get brain training without Nintendo updating the software to 5.5.2. If you had a Wii U with 5.5.1 AND any virtual console game already installed to its memory - you could do it. If you watch this it will show you the eshop hack available which lists all of the 100's of games available:


This allows you to add all of the latest software versions for all of the games as they're released and ALL of the DLC for every game available ;-D

You could still hack the Wii side of it though as the software for the Wii u doesn't effect the standalone Wii side using USB Loader and Nintendont. That would allow you to play Wii and Gamecube titles perfectly and the retro Nintendo and sega emulators commonly found elsewhere. By the time you've done that something would've been done with 5.5.2 and you can do the Wii u side then.