The Nintendo Wii has become a mecca for homebrew programmers and gamers. Since the moment the console hit the streets, ambitious and ingenuitive gamers have taken to turning the Wii into a retro paradise. Nintendo frowns on this practice because emulators can undercut sales on the virtual console, but the homebrew scene on the Wii has been thriving like the Xbox of the last console generation.
Announced this week via Nintendo Wii Fanboy, is the development of an PlayStation emulator for the Wii named WiiSX. While the full implementation of the program is not yet finished, developers have successfully managed to get several test games up and running, lacking only sound. The application currently plays PlayStation games off ISO files stored on an SD card, but USB and DVD support are planned. The development team expects to have a preview build of the application finished by the end of the year and a full release sometime in 2009.
If this is truly as promising as it sounds, I may have to dust of my collection of vintage PS1 games. Check the video of it in action below:
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