[SOLVED] Wii emulator

[go_beep_yourself]

Is there such thing as a Wii emulator for Linux?

[AthlonMDK]

no, not even for windows... so i think you'll have to buy one ;)

[NoSmokingBandit]

having the correct motion-sensitive controls and writing the program would cost too much and take up too much time. Wii's arent expensive so its better to just buy one.

[disturbedite]

are you kidding? the wii is still a profitable console being developed still in some ways. there is no way heaven or hell nintendo would allow it to be emulated so soon...

[acoustibop]

Depends: if the code was legally written, there's not much they could do about it apart from adopting Sony's bullying tactics. And, although they seem quite eager to defend their rights, they've never stooped that low before.

[disturbedite]

Depends: if the code was legally written, there's not much they could do about it apart from adopting Sony's bullying tactics. And, although they seem quite eager to defend their rights, they've never stooped that low before.
yeah right. they fiercely depend their IP.

[badrunner]

Yes there is a wii emulator, nintendo make it themself like they do for all their systems. You need to be a registered nintendo developer and purchase it from them, its quite expensive.

[dfreer]

yeah right. they fiercely depend their IP.

Technically, it would be the programmer of the wii's IP, and not Nintendo's :p

[disturbedite]

no, i'm referring to nintendo defending their IP, not the author(s) of a wii emulator.

[RemmyLee]

An emulator does not infringe on intellectual property and I hate it when people say that they do. This has gone to court and it's been beaten.

Sony tried to sue Connectix over the Virtual Game Station and failed. As for there being an emulator of a system that is "new", the GameBoy Advance had an emulator within weeks of its release and DS emulation began before the system even came out. I know, I was involved.

I've spent 11 years in the emulation community and never once has there been any successful legal action against an emulator.

http://www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990128S0014
http://www.tgdaily.com/content/view/19742/139/
http://www.news.com/2100-1040-246453.html
http://cse.stanford.edu/classes/cs201/Projects/copyright-infringement/emulationlawsuits.html

Emulators are perfectly legal. Interpreting and recompiling code is perfectly legal, and that's what an emulator does. As far as Wii emulation, I can with 100% assurance say that it's being worked on. That doesn't mean we will see anything playable anytime soon. The system specs, 729MHZ CPU, 243MHZ GPU... getting decent speeds on even the bleeding edge hardware would be near impossible.

[hikaricore]

As far as Wii emulation, I can with 100% assurance say that it's being worked on. That doesn't mean we will see anything playable anytime soon. The system specs, 729MHZ CPU, 243MHZ GPU... getting decent speeds on even the bleeding edge hardware would be near impossible.

QFT

I advise everyone to look at the current status of the most advanced PS2 emulator.
Then take a look at when the PS2 was released.
Now compare that date with today's date, and do some math.

Finally add that number of years to today's date and there's a good expectation of when Wii emulation will be on par with today's PS2 emulation. ^_^

What? You're lazy you say? Oh imagine that.
Well here I did it for ya: July 25, 2014 is when you can expect a half playable Wii emulator.

End of story.

[acoustibop]

An emulator does not infringe on intellectual property and I hate it when people say that they do. This has gone to court and it's been beaten.

Sony tried to sue Connectix over the Virtual Game Station and failed. As for there being an emulator of a system that is "new", the GameBoy Advance had an emulator within weeks of its release and DS emulation began before the system even came out. I know, I was involved....

However, the costs of the case for Connectix were enough to enable Sony to make Connectix sell out to them - and VGS then sank without trace...

Sony did the same to another commercial Playstation emulator producer, Bleem! Sony also lost this case but, again, the costs were enough to put Bleem! out of business. I still have a legitimately purchased copy: it was the first Playstation emulator I ever tried.

That's what I meant by Sony's bullying tactics. Keen though they are to defend their intellectual property, Nintendo have never, AFAIK, stooped to those depths.

Edit: but, yes, RemmyLee, both those cases established clearly that emulation is not illegal, certainly in the US. In fact, Connectix' case demonstrated that hacking the Playstation BIOS to write their own was not illegal, as long as they didn't include any of the original code.

[hikaricore]

Good job, you've proven that emulation is legal but if you try and make money on it, corporations will rape you in bum and you'll burn in hell.

[dfreer]

On a completely unrelated note, I just checked out hikaricore's bleach beryl theme, nicely done.

Even better, the airtight legal disclaimer at the bottom of the page :p

[disturbedite]

Good job, you've proven that emulation is legal but if you try and make money on it, corporations will rape you in bum and you'll burn in hell.
thats exactly what i was trying to say. i don't believe it is myself, but they (the companies/corporations) sure do.

[mellowd]

Yes there is a wii emulator, nintendo make it themself like they do for all their systems. You need to be a registered nintendo developer and purchase it from them, its quite expensive.

No there isn't. There is devkit avalible but it's not an emulator

[hikaricore]

On a completely unrelated note, I just checked out hikaricore's bleach beryl theme, nicely done.

Even better, the airtight legal disclaimer at the bottom of the page :p

For those who missed it:

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all references to canada, cows, billy corgan, polar bears, ect.; living or dead are purely coincidential. also random fits of confusion, anger, loss of purpose, and/or canada; may be blamed on you...in which case you will be killed in the slowest possible way while watching the sexual organs of any of your close friends be unwillingly fed to large satanic carebears. all comments dealing with the non-existance of god are to be taken as fact unless otherwise proven by written notice/birth certificate. you may be castrated in the state of neveda for molesting small children. throwing lit candles at large bulls may be hazardous to your health, unless of course you are dead....then the proceeding statement is null and void.

[highspike69]

How can you burn cds?

[werfu]

QFT

I advise everyone to look at the current status of the most advanced PS2 emulator.
Then take a look at when the PS2 was released.
Now compare that date with today's date, and do some math.

Finally add that number of years to today's date and there's a good expectation of when Wii emulation will be on par with today's PS2 emulation. ^_^

What? You're lazy you say? Oh imagine that.
Well here I did it for ya: July 25, 2014 is when you can expect a half playable Wii emulator.

End of story.

I wouldn't say so. The Wii is in fact a PowerPC with a ATI graphic chip. I realy doubt that IBM or ATI would have deeply modified their design specificly for Nintendo. Its been long since the games directly talk to hardware. Emulating the hardware itself is pretty easy, the PowerPC architecture is heavily documentated. The graphic chip could prove to be more touchy, but the graphic chip has been designed nearly at the same time as the X800 and friends chips from ATI, so theres nothing there that our current graphic card couldn't do.

The Wii runs an OS. It's that OS that need to be recoded. Or the other way around would be one could take directly the Wii firmware and try to build an emulator around it (an heavily modded PearPC???). Or the simpliest way, would be to put an ATI card into a PPC-Mac and start to code!

[acoustibop]

How can you burn cds?

LOL! A cigarette lighter works pretty well...

Seriously, many distros now include applications for that. In Ubuntu, for instance, just putting a blank disc in your burner will open a dialogue to burn to it.