There were some forum threads back in 2016 and 2017 inquiring about running Nintendont in Dolphin, primarily for Triforce arcade games, but the consensus then was that it wasn't possible since Nintendont uses Starlet and Dolphin (at the time?) only does HLE for Starlet.
But it's been 6 years and I'm wondering if the situation has changed at all.
Or, heck, if things would even work with Devolution if you used its alternative method for verifying games on a Wii U's "Wii mode" (which I'm pretty sure works on a Wii as well) except, in this case, using Dolphin as the "console" combined with bluetooth passthrough and an emulated SD card containing a disk image dumped from the corresponding physical SD card (I say all of this because it's my understanding that a version of Devolution without the copy-protection was never released whether officially or unofficially).
My main interest is that, currently, on a real Wii, I used Devolurion and later Nintendont to be able to play Nintendo Puzzle Collection with a classic controller connected to the wii remote for the usual "pseudo wireless" connection typically used by virtual console games and the like on a real Wii.
Furthermore, I have a motherboard that is currently gathering dust, the Asus Z87-Pro, with native built-in wifi/bluetooth that that supposedly "just works" with bluetooth passthrough (at least on Linux, which is my planned OS to use), and those Haswell Xeon CPUs go for really cheap on ebay nowadays (the ones with integrated graphics even support Vulkan on Linux).
The issue however is that Nintendo Puzzle Collection is a GameCube game and that means it does not natively support bluetooth passthrough if directly launched in Dolphin like normal, but things like Devolution and Nintendont are actual Wii software and therefore, in theory, would support bluetooth passthrough (though Devolution doesn't work with the final generation of Wii remotes, like the Toad-themed one).
I am aware that USB adapters exist, but I was more interested in just trying to re-create my existing Wii hardware setup.
But it's been 6 years and I'm wondering if the situation has changed at all.
Or, heck, if things would even work with Devolution if you used its alternative method for verifying games on a Wii U's "Wii mode" (which I'm pretty sure works on a Wii as well) except, in this case, using Dolphin as the "console" combined with bluetooth passthrough and an emulated SD card containing a disk image dumped from the corresponding physical SD card (I say all of this because it's my understanding that a version of Devolution without the copy-protection was never released whether officially or unofficially).
My main interest is that, currently, on a real Wii, I used Devolurion and later Nintendont to be able to play Nintendo Puzzle Collection with a classic controller connected to the wii remote for the usual "pseudo wireless" connection typically used by virtual console games and the like on a real Wii.
Furthermore, I have a motherboard that is currently gathering dust, the Asus Z87-Pro, with native built-in wifi/bluetooth that that supposedly "just works" with bluetooth passthrough (at least on Linux, which is my planned OS to use), and those Haswell Xeon CPUs go for really cheap on ebay nowadays (the ones with integrated graphics even support Vulkan on Linux).
The issue however is that Nintendo Puzzle Collection is a GameCube game and that means it does not natively support bluetooth passthrough if directly launched in Dolphin like normal, but things like Devolution and Nintendont are actual Wii software and therefore, in theory, would support bluetooth passthrough (though Devolution doesn't work with the final generation of Wii remotes, like the Toad-themed one).
I am aware that USB adapters exist, but I was more interested in just trying to re-create my existing Wii hardware setup.
Dolphin 5.0 CPU benchmark
CPU: Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz 1.24v
GPU: Intel integrated
RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint of some variety + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64
CPU: Pentium G3258 @ 4.5GHz 1.24v
GPU: Intel integrated
RAM: 4x4GB Corsair Vengence @ DDR3-1600
OS: Linux Mint of some variety + [VM] Win7 SP1 x64