

The Wii U was designed to read game discs, which have the same form factor as CDs and DVDs. In that regard, no, the Nintendo Switch can’t play Wii U game discs, and that’s entirely due to the change of physical game formats between the Wii U and Switch. If you’re relatively new to the world of gaming, backwards compatibility refers to the ability of one console to play (physical) games from older consoles belonging to the same company. To be clear, this is the answer to whether the Nintendo Switch console is backwards compatible with the Wii U. In other words, it’s complicated, so what we’re going to do for this article is to walk through both responses and explain them in more detail.īut there’s not much point to dallying here in the intro for too long, so let’s get right to it. I think I've listed all of the ones I use, but if you're really curious I can pop out my SD and double check.Well, can you play Wii U games on Switch? The real answer to this question is both yes and no. What are you guys using? Which ones are the best? I usually just use VBA for Pokemon games, so it's not really an issue with which one I use. I use VisualBoyAdvance GX, or VBA GX for short, but I honestly just haven't given MGBA a try yet. I just played a bit with the mGBA, and Snes9 GX apps for a while.

Most people have both set up, and swap between depending on the game.

I personally have RX, if I remember right, but I haven't bothered with messing around with it much.įor the N64 ones there are pros and cons to each, even though Not64 is based off of Wii64. There's SNES9X GX, SNES9X RX, and SNES9X TX. There's three SNES ones, and they are all built on top of each other. I see two N64 emulators, two SNES emulators, and a couple GBA emulators too. Not exactly? There is that video that I mentioned, but nothing recently has been done. Is there a list of the pros/cons to each of these? I've noticed there are redundant emulation options for multiple systems. Here's a video I saw a few months back that went over most of the emulators available for the Wii:
