A Wii Homebrew Project to play GC Games on Wii and vWii on Wii U
- Works on Wii and Wii U (in vWii mode)
- GameCube BIOS Animation.
- Custom Background
- Loader Themes
- Custom Game Loader Themes
- Custom Text Color
- Added Preview Pack for loader and app themes (can be enabled or disabled)
- Want to try other mods? Original Nintendont FIX94 right from the update menu.
- 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)
- 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
- Game Boy Player
- Playstation 5
- Get the loader.dol, rename it to boot.dol and put it in /apps/Nintendont/ along with the files meta.xml and icon.png. For custom text colour, write the color's hexadecimal RGBA value in the blank textcolor.ini
- 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 .
- Connect your storage device to your Wii or Wii U and start The Homebrew Channel.
- Select Nintendont.
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GameCube Loader Animation https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOfJtJ03_As = CrisMMMod renders an animation which looks like the original GameCube BIOS start-up before every game launch. It's perfect if you can't find the BIOS files or want to feel the nostalgia of GameCube on vWii when starting PAL games. ** To activate it, simply go to Settings --> Skip IPL: and select "No"
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Custom Background = To use a custom background in Nintendont's menus, just place a background.png or background.jpg inside your /apps/Nintendont/ folder with a resolution of 640x480 pixels. Or you can simply download from avialable Nintendont's Settings Menu. ** To download the custom Themes directly from Nintendont's, please go to Settings --> Update --> and scroll down till "Theme Menu" --> then sroll down to "Download Preview Pack". ** Wait till the downloaded of the previews will be done, and then navigate to the different Downloads Themes to choose the Background that you like more. Done!
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Custom Game Loader
= CrisMMMods custom game background loader themes are now working for ALL GameCube games. They will appear when the game boots and come with or without a loading bar. (If you will download the themes by the Nintendont app it will create all the new Folder automatically) Create a folder named 'CustomGameLoader' inside your Nintendont folder and place files named after the following scheme: GAMEID3.png for themes without loading bar, and GAMEID3X.png for themes with loading bar (for example GZLX.png for Wind Waker theme with loading bar).
** To download the custom game background Settings --> Update Menu --> and scroll down till "Theme Menu" --> Download Loader Theme. Done! -
The exactly list to consult for the over 135 Text custom colors, it's here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_colors -If you cannot find in between of over 135 Text custom color tones build-in you can customize the Nintendont Text Menu Color = Download in this repository the blank textcolor.ini file and specify a custom text color by placing the color's hexadecimal RGBA value. -You can copy the hexadecimal RGBA value (example: 0x33FFFF - copy the code without 0x and paste like that --> 33FFFF add other two FF in the end will be like that --> 33FFFFFF ) from this site Hexadecimal RGBA Value site click here. Once pasted the hexadecimal RGBA value in the textcolor.ini click here to download save it, and place the file into the “/apps/Nintendont/” folder.
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Upgrade the Games Titles = If will be some misspelling of some games, once it will be upgraded the list file you can upgrade it by Nintendont Menu Settings without to do it manually. ** Settings --> Update Menu --> Download titles.txt. Done!
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Upgrade to the latest Controllers Supports for Nintendont = You can download the latest controllers.zip file from Nintendont. And place your particolar unzipped controller.ini file into the SD:/controllers/ .ini file. ** Settings --> Update Menu --> Download controller.zip. Done!
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Upgrade to the latest ID Games list file = You can download the latest gcn_md5.txt file from Nintendont. once it will be upgraded the list file you can upgrade it by Nintendont Menu Settings without to do it manually. ** Settings --> Update Menu --> Download gcn_md5. Done!
- 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 to buy a recent SD high speed card either using a USB Pendriver/ 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.)