After four years of staying on top, it's the first time for the Wii to experience a sales decline. Satoru Iwata owns up to the issue, but remains optimistic about Nintendo bouncing back into the game. Much of that is apparent as early as now - Nintendo is steadily adding more games into WiiWare and Virtual Console, grabbing more big Wiixclusives, unleashing the Black Wii, and even introduces a new king-sized DSi.

by Glenn M.

For those who want some arcade-style action on their Wiis, here's a new version of Wii homebrew dev Toad King's SDL MAME Wii, a Wii port of the popular SDL MAME arcade emulator.


Download: SDL MAME Wii v0.3

Now this is gamer love. A dad builds his daughter, Bella, her very own arcade machine and put it in her room, complete with 250 arcade classics and comes in flaming hot pink. News is a little old, but I figured I'd share it with you guys. Details, screens, and a video in the full article.

Here's an all-time classic making yet another appearance on the homebrew front, Pacman. This time, it's fit for the Wii and it's called Pacman Emulator 1.0.


Download: Pacman Emulator v1.0
Download: Pacman Emulator v1.0 (source)

Homebrew developer nuvalo was able to make some decent headway with the recently release Mame emulator, SDLMame 0.125 on Wii. The latest build of the emulator was finally able to solve the problem which randomly resets small ROMs while running them or loading their savestates. For more information on SDLMame 0.125 on Wii, check out our full article.

Download: SDLMame 0.125 on Wii (UPDATED)

If you're getting eyestrain from playing those MAME emulators on the handheld too much, then you might want to try out nuvalo's SDLMame for Wii-linux distro 0.125 on a wider screen. Released for the Nintendo Wii, this old-school arcade emulator makes use of the Wii-Linux Kernel POC 0.4 and is fully compatible with many well-loved ROMS.

Download: SDLMame for Wii-linux distro 0.125
Download: SDLMame for Wii-linux distro 0.125 (source)

The return of classic titles seem to be one of the "in" things in gaming nowadays. Homebrew developer softdev contributed to this trend by releasing Midway Space Invaders Emulator for the Nintendo Wii console. For more details regarding this old school port, check out our full article.

Download: Midway Space Invaders Emulator
Download: Midway Space Invaders Emulator (source)

A few days ago, Jurai dropped a gift on the PS3 Linux forums: the AdvanceMame .106 PS3 Binary. Basically the building blocks for MAME emulation on the PS3. And it's hot. People are obviously looking into the variety of things they can get their PS3 to run. I mean just look at YouTube.

See? Apparently the launch titles aren't enough to sate the more technical of PS3 owners.

Then just recently we find this questionable video of someone allegedly figuring out a way to get the Wii to run burnt DVD-R copies of games. If that's true (doubtful), then that means that people have either figured out the inner workings of the code behind Wii games, or they've found a way to get past Wii's copy security.

Let's assume that some time in the near future people have figured out how Wii games work. I mean they all eventually do anyway. Given enough time and motivation, coders come up with emulations for anything (or workarounds for anything).

Now it's time for us to ask you guys a (not so) stupid question. What would happen if people come up with a Wii emulator that runs on linux? Wii games on your PS3? Why not, they've already allegedly managed to get their PC to "see" a Wiimote. Yes, we know, there isn't even a decent emulator for the previous generation of consoles, but still, things are possible.

Some of you guys are thinking about it already. What do the rest of you have to say? One thing's for sure though, you won't be able to use the archival purposes excuse on this one.