People in the console video game modding community sometimes release Windows-only small computer programs that help you with one step of modifying your console.

People in the console video game modding community sometimes release Windows-only small computer programs that help you with one step of modifying your console. If the program doesn’t require complicated interaction, it’s easier for me to open it in Wine than to exit OS X and boot into Windows just to use it. One Windows-only modding program is Lunar IPS (http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/240/ http://www.romhacking.net/utilities/240/), which patches ROM files using a custom patch format for GameBoy Advance games. Another program was Wii Code Manager (which now has a cross-platform replacement in Java), which let you select a subset of cheats from a database in a text file, then compiled those cheats into a GCT file so they could be applied to a game. I’ve also used Wine to try out very small games, such those created in game jams. I wouldn’t want to play a game permanently like that, because the game saves might be locked into the Wine version and Wine might turn out to be too slow, but Wine is fine for trying out the game to figure out if I want to play it, or playing a simple game that doesn’t save.