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  2. Virtual Console - Wikipedia

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    The Virtual Console [a] was a line of downloadable retro video games for Nintendo's Wii and Wii U home video game consoles and the Nintendo 3DS family of handheld systems. The Virtual Console lineup consisted of titles originally released on past home and handheld consoles and were run in their original forms through software emulation (excluding Game Boy Advance titles on the 3DS and Wii ...

  3. Wii system software - Wikipedia

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    The Wii system software is a set of updatable firmware versions and a software frontend on the Wii, a home video game console.Updates, which could be downloaded over the Internet or read from a game disc, allowed Nintendo to add additional features and software, as well as to patch security vulnerabilities used by users to load homebrew software.

  4. List of Wii games with traditional control schemes - Wikipedia

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    It does not include Virtual Console downloadable titles, as generally all Virtual Console games were compatible. Additionally, while all Wii models are compatible with the Classic Controller, the later Wii Family Edition and Wii Mini models removed the GameCube controller ports, leaving the controller incompatible with such devices. [1] [2

  5. Backward compatibility - Wikipedia

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    Classic video games are a common example used when discussing the value of supporting older software. The cultural impact of video games is a large part of their continued success, and some believe ignoring backward compatibility would cause these titles to disappear. [ 10 ]

  6. RetroArch - Wikipedia

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    RetroArch is a free and open-source, cross-platform frontend for emulators, game engines, video games, media players and other applications. It is the reference implementation of the libretro API, [2] [3] designed to be fast, lightweight, portable and without dependencies. [4]

  7. Ten years later, was the Nintendo Wii a success or a failure?

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    Crazy as it is to say, the Wii is now officially 10 years old. Its arrival on November 19, 2006 created a sensation while launching a thousand Wii Remotes into unsuspecting television screens.

  8. Dolphin (emulator) - Wikipedia

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    In June 2022, the Dolphin developers announced that subsequent versions would not run on Windows 7, Windows 8 and Windows 8.1, citing that less than 2% of users and none of the developers still used these operating systems, making developing and testing on them difficult, and that the newest versions of the emulator's dependencies such as Qt no ...

  9. List of video game console emulators - Wikipedia

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