/Nintendont

A Wii Homebrew Project to play GC Games on Wii and vWii on Wii U

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Nintendont

A Wii Homebrew Project to play GC Games on Wii and vWii on Wii U

Features:

  • Works on Wii and Wii U (in vWii mode)
  • Full-speed loading from a USB device or an SD card.
  • Loads 1:1 and shrunken .GCM/.ISO disc images.
  • Loads games as extracted files (FST format)
  • Loads CISO-format disc images. (uLoader CISO format)
  • Memory card emulation
  • Play audio via disc audio streaming
  • Bluetooth controller support (Classic Controller (Pro), Wii U Pro Controller)
  • HID controller support via USB
  • Custom button layout when using HID controllers
  • Cheat code support
  • Changeable configuration of various settings
  • Reset/Power off via button combo (R + Z + Start) (R + Z + B + D-Pad Down)
  • Advanced video mode patching, force progressive and force 16:9 widescreen
  • Auto boot from loader
  • Disc switching
  • Use the official Nintendo GameCube controller adapter

Features: (Wii only)

  • Play retail discs
  • Play backups from writable DVD media (Old Wii only)
  • Use real memory cards
  • GBA-Link cable
  • WiiRd
  • Allow use of the Nintendo GameCube Microphone

What Nintendont doesn't do yet:

  • BBA/Modem support

What Nintendont will never support:

  • Game Boy Player

Quick Installation:

  1. Get the loader.dol, rename it to boot.dol and put it in /apps/Nintendont/ along with the files meta.xml and icon.png.
  2. Copy your GameCube games to the /games/ directory. Subdirectories are optional for 1-disc games in ISO/GCM and CISO format.
    • For 2-disc games, you should create a subdirectory /games/MYGAME/ (where MYGAME can be anything), then name disc 1 as "game.iso" and disc 2 as "disc2.iso".
    • For extracted FST, the FST must be located in a subdirectory, e.g. /games/FSTgame/sys/boot.bin .
  3. Connect your storage device to your Wii or Wii U and start The Homebrew Channel.
  4. Select Nintendont.

Notes

  • The Wii and Wii U SD card slot is known to be slow. If you're using an SD card and are having performance issues, consider either using a USB SD reader or a USB hard drive.
  • USB flash drives are known to be problematic.
  • Nintendont runs best with storage devices formatted with 32 KB clusters. (Use either FAT32 or exFAT.)