Snes9X GX for the Wii

Most of us have (or had) old SNES games that we loved.  With Snes9X GX for the Wii, we can play them all again!  If you still have your old SNES cartridges, there are devices that you can get to Rip the ROM files right off of them, though they are relatively rare.  Instead of going to that trouble, there are lots of sites on the Internet where the ROM files are freely available.  Of course, I only recommend actually using the ROMs that are from games you actually own.  We don’t want to encourage piracy.  If you do happen across a ROM for an old game that you don’t have, you may be able to pick it up at a fleamarket or garage sale.  Then, the way I see it, you’d have every right to run that ROM.

Back to the point, though.  Snes9X GX for the Wii is simply awesome.  If the initial user interface (game selection screen) were more polished, you might even think it was a Nintendo product.  The interface is easy to navigate with the Wiimote, even to the point of setting up your network connection so it can find your ROMs.  (In my case, I can read the remote directory fine, but can’t seem to write to it.  That’s OK, as Save Game files are small and it can write them to the SD card.)

When you are actually in a game and hit the Home screen, the game pauses and up comes a very Wii-looking screen, with dark bars coming in from the top and bottom, the close button in the upper right, even battery level indicators for all four Wiimotes.  Easy enough for even my 5 year old to navigate, I think…

Great work guys!