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Dolphin isn't a Wii U emulator, are you confusing it with the Wii?
by TazeTSchnitzel 5y ago
Dolphin isn't a Wii U emulator, are you confusing it with the Wii?
- umvi 5y agoDolphin can't play Wii U games, but it can play games released on Wii U's Virtual Console platform, which is the case here
- nohr 5y agoI never knew that! This project is just so well done. Always amazing to find out new features.
- umvi 5y agoActually I may have been mistaken. Paper Mario was also released for Wii Virtual Console (not exclusively Wii U) so I may have downloaded that one.
- chungy 5y agoAre those games distributed as Wii titles rather than Wii U? I'd imagine that you can't actually play anything exclusive to the Wii U virtual console.
- umvi 5y agoI'm not sure how it works technically under the hood. I got Paper Mario as a ".wad" file instead of the normal .iso that you see for GC/Wii/WiiU games, and Dolphin was able to load the .wad file.
- chungy 5y agoShall I assume you didn't copy it from your Wii U console? if you downloaded it from somewhere, it probably was the original Wii version.
- DSMan195276 5y agoMy understanding is that `wad`s are specifically for the Wii (and Google seems to back me up on that), so regardless of where they got it from the fact that it was a `wad` means they were playing the Wii version. If it was an actual Wii U version it would be some other format.
- umvi 5y agoAh, you are probably right, my mistake. Unfortunately I can't edit my original comment now. I was under the impression it was a Wii U file since I downloaded it from a reddit link I found that said it was a Wii U Virtual Console title. But, doing some research it was also released for the original Wii VC at some point, so it's likely that's where the file came from.
- TazeTSchnitzel 5y agoThe Wii U Virtual Console games only run on the Wii U.