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Is it possible to play Brawl Locally through an emulator?

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I am no longer able to play Brawl because my wii broke and was wondering if I were to emulate it on PC if me and my siblings can still play it with wii controlers?

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u/-Jigglypuff avatar

It's absolutely possible although first, by your wii breaking do you mean the disc drive failed? If the part that broke is the disc drive, then there's no need to do this, you can actually still play it on the wii with a bit of tinkering. You'd have to set-up the homebrew channel, get USBLoaderGX on there, a copy of your disc's Brawl ISO, and either a SD card or USB Drive. With all that you'd be able to load Brawl through it. And since it's on the Wii it'd play exactly the same as with your disc.

Apologies for returning so late but do you have a guide of sorts on how to do this?

Thankyou for the suggestion but I'm not very adept in that sort of thing. Additionally the issue is that the game disc isnt read 90% of the time and if it is then it crashes mid way through a match with no longer than 3 min.

u/J-Fid avatar

Is it just the Brawl disc that can't be read or any disc?

Brawl's CD is different from other Wii games, and is known for causing issues.

I actually bought two brawl CDs and one of them, directly after the brawl intro, tells me to eject the disk and power off the Wii, then consult the manual I lost 10 years ago. The other one just makes the screen go white and the only thing I can do is unplug the Wii. They were both off EBay and confirmed to be in good quality before hand.

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Do other games work?

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u/almightyFaceplant avatar

This might be what you're looking for. (How to use wiimotes on PC)

Thankyou. Do you know where to emulate the game? Every time I look it up its a 3yr+ post and I'm not sure if they're still accurate.

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Watch the video through to the end, it should explain the steps for setting up the emulator.

Thankyou very much (:

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