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Comment by sdegutis | Hacker News Reader

Fwiw, if you buy a Wii for $50 at GameStop, you can connect to the internet over wifi and buy many NES, SNES, GameCube, and N64 games for it and play them natively on the Wii. Here are some games we downloaded for our kids and all play together:

    Super Metroid
    Super Mario 1
    Super Mario 2
    Super Mario 3
    Super Mario RPG
    Super Mario World
    Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
    Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
    Sonic 3
    Kirby's Dreamland 3

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Yeah I have a handful for my favourite SNES games from the Wii Virtual Console. But my Wii has long been retired to a storage cupboard. Plus I would like a proper SNES controller for that authentic feel :) I keep thinking about doing a RetroPi and get a USB SNES controller but it isn't a priority for me really. Would be nice to be able to support Nintendo with a £50 SNES Classic next year though!

You can get a SNES to USB adapter on Amazon/eBay for not much, plug and play pretty much, just need to map it to your emulator.

You can't beat the feel of a genuine, 20 year old controller!

They also make them for pretty much every controller you could want - Even Wiiport to USB which means you could plug these NES Classic controllers into the PC to use with emulators directly.

I wish these all worked with Steam Link though :(

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