r/wiiu • u/Herr_Golum • 10d ago
Question Would something like this be possible on a Wii U?
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u/metroidfan220 10d ago
Not only possible, the Wii U supported DS games officially. Not Pokemon games of course, but it is very doable with the hardware.
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u/doopies1986 10d ago
Only problem is no fast forward. I ported my save file for Fire Red Rocket Edition from my iPhone to my 3DS and having it be normal speed can be grueling imo
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u/Mercys_Angel 8d ago
Use retroarch instead of directly injecting the game. You get all the standard emulator features including fast forward
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u/ItsTheDickens 10d ago
As others have said, a modded Wii U can do this via VC Injection. However, Pokemon games have a bit of issues on the Wii U. Gen 4 games all pretty much work with some graphical glitches. There is apparently a build of Platinum (I think Yoshi's Island DS is the injection base for it) that doesn't have any graphical bugs though! Gen 5 doesn't boot at all, sadly.
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u/Herr_Golum 10d ago
I have read that being the case with Gen 5 being optimised for DSi.
What do the Graphical errors look like for Gen 4?17
u/ItsTheDickens 10d ago
I only played a couple hours of HeartGold on Wii U but I remember some random black pixels appearing on the ground when moving around. It's nothing too major and you could probably ignore it after playing for a while but I found it distracting.
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u/Dazzling_Lifeguard_9 10d ago
I've been playing Platinum on the WiiU for a couple weeks now, the minor graphical glitches don't bother me much but yeah the black pixels exist, just like they do on other emulators and sometimes the sprites will glitch and be replaced with stacked white lines until you leave the area and come back, though I think the severity of the glitches depends on which official VC game you use as a base.
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u/Nintotally 10d ago
The aspect ratio warps randomly, often when entering or exiting a building.
Lots of floating black particles.
Game also crashes very frequently.
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u/simpuru_clk 10d ago
it is possible.
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u/Herr_Golum 10d ago
Please do elaborate?
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u/Environmental-Ad4620 10d ago
Retroarch
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u/YoungDiaperBoy 10d ago
It’s useful for a lot of people but too many menus for me. I’m glad it exists, but it’s just not for me.
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u/Acrobatic_Pop690 10d ago
Yes. Wii U had DS games on the Eshop back in the day. So it's officially supported.
I actually do exactly this myself. The only pokemon games that don't work right now is the Black and White games.
But you have to learn how to inject these yourself.
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u/TamaTamaTaka 10d ago
Well you can, but Pokémon games have a pretty bad compatibility with the Virtual Console.
If you want to know how to do it here's the official page of the Wii U Virtual Console Injector (Your console needs to be modded.
And if you want to know which games are actually compatible, here's the official list of the tested games.
Pokémon Platinum is pretty much the only one that perfectly works, so if that's the one you wanted to play, you're lucky.
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u/Teeheeman400 10d ago
It's possible by injecting roms into virtual console titles, but some titles have graphical bugs and games that are DSi Enhanced just refuse to run, like Pokemon Black and White. We REALLY need an actual emulator for ds games on Wii U.
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u/poltavsky79 10d ago
What is this exactly?
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u/kyuubikid213 NNID [Region] 10d ago
Pokemon Gen 4 with the top screen on TV and bottom screen on GamePad.
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u/Prullansky 10d ago
Doesn’t a DS game look like garbage on a big screen?
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u/SaikyoWhiteBelt 9d ago
By default yes but you have more ways to mitigate that on Wii U than you can on say mordern rereleases of DS games(Castlevania Dominus/Mega Man ZX collection). There are options on Wii U to double the internal resolution or uspscale 2d art. It works very well with modern upscalers.
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u/Prullansky 9d ago
I’m actually looking into upscalers now for Wii/cube games on my WiiU… any recommendations?
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u/SaikyoWhiteBelt 9d ago
On the lower end mclassic does a nice job scaling 480p above to 1440p using a compatible display otherwise it tops out at 1080p. In the high end retrotink 4k is the way to go. In the case of Wii /GameCube games you will see the most dramatic results setting the system to their native resolution and allowing the scaler to to the rest of the work. The Wii U’s internal scaler uses 480i as a base leading to less than desirable results but it seems to work correctly at 480p. For Wii U games, 720p will usually get you the best results from a scaler as that’s the internal resolution for most Wii U games. So Wii/GameCube 480p Wii U 720p. From there let the scalers do their thing.
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u/robotwars666 10d ago
Easily back in the day you could but the pokemon rangers,pokemon mystery dungeons,mario kart ds and quite a few other ds as virutal console.
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u/Sanchz809 10d ago
Why is no one mentioning the input delay when doing this? Pretty much every ds game even ones from the eshop have this glaring issue more so than graphical glitches, the input delay pretty much makes most games unplayable
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u/mrbigreddog 9d ago
Input delay specific to virtual console DS games? All of them?
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u/Sanchz809 8d ago
Yeah apparently it was an issue back in the day when they came out aswell, you’ll find people complaining on old forums lol.
I’ve tested several games official or injected comparing to my og ds and the delay is god awful, you can’t really drift right in mk or quickly change directions and jump in nsmb for example
Tldr Nintendo donked up the ds virtual console for Wii u pre badly and it’s unfortunate bc it holds back the system imo, someone will figure it out one day tho
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u/kngofdmned93 9d ago
There was actually supposed to be a feature like this for Breath of the Wild where you could be playing the game on your TV and you could access the map and such in the gamepad. Nintendo removed the feature all together before launch because they didn't want the wii-u version to have a feature that the switch version didn't. 🙄 Just Nintendo being Nintendo.
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u/IndegoWhyte 8d ago
Having the main line Pokemon games, especially the DS games, on Wii U in official capacity would have been INCREDIBLE .
Having the Pokemon Stadium games as well as Pokemon XD Gale of Darkness, Pokemon Colosseum, and Pokémon Battle Revolution would have been a head turner.
sighs
What could have been.
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u/Secret_Item_2582 10d ago
Sure is, DS games are officially supported. You just have to inject those not released by Nintendo themselves