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- Nintendont - | Yes, you CAN play GameCube games on your Wii U!
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DracoBlade
Member
I'm curious as someone with only basic soft modding experience:
Will future Firmware of any kind immediately disable functionality of wii's homebrew channel or would it take a coordinated strike from Nintendo on the mod itself to eliminate its functionality?
Will future Firmware of any kind immediately disable functionality of wii's homebrew channel or would it take a coordinated strike from Nintendo on the mod itself to eliminate its functionality?
L4DANathan
Member
....One more reason to buy a WiiU then. Damn my lack of money.
zephervack
Member
Man, keep asking but no answer, do I need any other controllers to play GameCube? All I have is the Wii U gamepad.
When the Wii U boots into Wii mode, it literally becomes a Wii (which is why the gamepad turns off and the Pro Controller doesn't work). The Wii U and the Gamepad don't use standard WiFi and the Wii doesn't know how to communicate with it, much less that it exists.
Yes, you'll need another controller. The gamepad gets turned off when the Wii U boots into Wii mode. You can use any of the following controllers,
Wii U Pro Controller (my personal recommendation)
Classic Controller (would be the better controller due to the analog triggers)
Classic Controller Pro
The Dual Shocks (3 and 4) also work, but I haven't tried them since I'm content with the Pro Controller.
Also, if you have (or can get) an adapter, you can use the GC controllers. Mayflash makes an adapter that lets you plug the GC controller into a Wiimote and use it as a Classic Controller, for example.
As far as I've heard, no game pad. Looks like wii u pro and PS3 controllers work. I'm hearing that wii remote and nunchuck work well for fps's. I'm assuming that GC controllers will work when the adapters come out.
In April of this year, Nintendont could only launch Wind Waker, and at a very low framerate. By now, it plays nearly every single GameCube game, full speed, with significantly faster load times.
Magnet_Man
Member
I'm dumb as a rock with modding but I have had the HBC for at least six years on my Wii and now the Wii U with no issues whatsoever and I played online all the time. I don't think they'll be able to do anything to it at this far stage in the game. Especially with the nature of the Wii U's virtual Wii set up. Of course if you send it in for repair as we've seen they'll probably give you trouble.
DracoBlade
Member
My god the Wiiu just got significantly better then! Thanks sir!
jconsolmagno
Member
Wow, after trying to mess with controller config files, powered on Wii U Pro Controller and bam. it works. Does any other controller connect over Bluetooth as well?
Also, can we play Wii Backups just as easy? Would love to play Mario Kart Wii with controls that are like Mario Kart DD. I own MKWii but have not played much because I hate the controls and do not have any GC controllers.
Also, can we play Wii Backups just as easy? Would love to play Mario Kart Wii with controls that are like Mario Kart DD. I own MKWii but have not played much because I hate the controls and do not have any GC controllers.
I recomend using a Playstation controller even if only because you start hearing Imagine in your head ... Imagine all the consoles living life in peace...
Not 100% true. Although you can't use the gamepad as the controller, one of the updates awhile back allows you to output Wii games to the gamepad screen and also use the gamepad sensor bar for Wii games.
He's still correct.
The Gamepad is no more than a mere TV when the console is in Wii Mode. It's a pure dumb terminal video receiver. That's all.
He is correct about it not being a controller, but he is wrong about it turning off. That is why I said what he said is not 100% true.
oh yeah thats true
Not on my gamepad, and not on my PC monitor. I am just baffled that they would switch it back to 16:9.
I have the same adapter from Solaris. Can you share your settings on the Framemeister?
zephervack
Member
Thanks guys, I do have DS3s lying around so I will use that
, no Bluetooth im assuming?Nope. Wii U mode remains unhacked. Sorry.
only if the WiiU is softmodded at some point and a GC loader becomes available.
Nintendont it's Wii homebrew
Maybe! the reason we can still play gamecube games on a Wii U is because it has native Wii support - and the Wii is literally an overclocked gamecube with more RAM. If the next nintendo console is compatible with Wii games, then yes - gamecube games will still be compatible. lol.
I admit, I don't know anything about the Wii U hardware side of things. I guess Gamecube games would run natively on it if the architecture really is as similar to the Wii's as it seems.
gamepad support for Gamecube games once Wii U mode is hacked would be great!
RobotVM
Member
Day 1: See this thread. Think yea I want to play GameCube games on my Wii U. See I need brawl. Make a plan.
Day 2: Go to Gamestop buy used Brawl. Go home only have a 4gb SD card. Make plan.
Day 3: Buy said 2gb SD card. Put brawl in Wii U game is not readable.
Now I am sitting here pissed as hell. My luck sucks.
Day 2: Go to Gamestop buy used Brawl. Go home only have a 4gb SD card. Make plan.
Day 3: Buy said 2gb SD card. Put brawl in Wii U game is not readable.
Now I am sitting here pissed as hell. My luck sucks.
damn son
you've got a dodgy brawl disc. is it scratched? lets hope its not the console about to spontaneously combust, or you'll end up like this:
RobotVM
Member
damn son
you've got a dodgy brawl disc. is it scratched? lets hope its not the console about to spontaneously combust, or you'll end up like this:
I even tried turning it off and on again :-(
Yep. Luckily, I use a gamecube controller via a usb adapter.
Chances are that the smash bros gamecube adapter will be supported within a day of its release so we only have a couple of weeks to wait really for a widely available solution.
Hang on, does this mean that wavebirds could become possible? If so I might have to look into installing this.
Magnet_Man
Member
Try pressing minus. It'll rotate the four face buttons clockwise one space. Pressing it again will turn it back to normal though.
I am expecting the Gamecube adapter to get patched in at some point. If they can get the bongo drums to work I will go nuts.
jconsolmagno
Member
Hey guys, how do we get a memory card to work? As in I want to create a virtual memory card to save to, can't figure out how.
The Xtortionist
Member
F-Zero GX actually has button mapping in the options menu.
Game works great for me but story mode crashes the system for some reason. Maybe a bad rip? Grand Prix is fantastic.
F Zero GX crashes if it is in DiscEX format. Use just a clean ISO. Works fine then.
The Xtortionist
Member
Just tried this and was able to load the story mode prologue cutscene, but the game crashed when I tried to skip it.
ugh
The Xtortionist
Member
NTSC
Maybe PAL works and NTSC doesn't? Odd. I'm thinking it has to be something with the FMVs since Grand Prix plays fine. No notes about it on the compatability list either.
BumblebeeCody
Member
KojiKnight
Member
No one should take this advice as fact. Just because nintendo HASN'T done anything doesn't mean they won't. This hack would be VERY easy to detect and if Nintendo ever felt the need to take action they can.
Portugeezer
Member
So you can play them on the game pad? That is fucking awesome, GCN games should hold up well on the pad.
FlammableD
Banned
So if I have CleanRip and GCMM on the SD card, can I rip to HDD? Or does it all have to go on SD card?
either is fine.