https://github.com/FIX94/Nintendont

A Wii Homebrew Project to play GC Games on Wii and vWii on Wii U
https://github.com/FIX94/Nintendont

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

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/FIX94/Nintendont
• Owner: FIX94
• Created: 2015-05-08T17:07:14.000Z (over 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2024-07-28T13:20:29.000Z (about 2 months ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-07-28T14:41:41.759Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: C
• Homepage:
• Size: 101 MB
• Stars: 1,871
• Watchers: 126
• Forks: 321
• Open Issues: 134
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • Changelog: NEWS.md

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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

* BBA Emulation (see [BBA Emulation Readme](BBA_Readme.md))

### 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 will never support:

* Game Boy Player

### Quick Installation:

1. Get the [loader.dol](loader/loader.dol?raw=true), rename it to boot.dol and put it in /apps/Nintendont/ along with the files [meta.xml](nintendont/meta.xml?raw=true) and [icon.png](nintendont/icon.png?raw=true).

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.

### Compiling:

For compile Nintendont yourself, get the following versions of the toolchain compiling PPC tools:

* **devkitARM r53-1**

* **devkitPPC r35-2**

* **libOGC 1.8.23-1**

These versions can be downloaded here: https://www.mediafire.com/folder/j0juqb5vvd6z5/devkitPro_archives

On Windows, run the "Build.bat" batch script for build Nintendont.

On Unix, run the "Build.sh" script.

Please use these specific versions for compiling Nintendont, **because if you try to compile them on latest dkARM/dkPPC/libOGC, you'll get a lot of compiler warnings and your build will crash when attemping to return to Nintendont menu**, so be warned about that.

### 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.)