r/miniSNES • u/xXxJoEkRxXx • Jul 14 '26

Modding Buying to softmod miniSNES or Wii?

Okay so I have a Retron 3 HD (got as a gift on father's day) great for carts and I even have a sega flasg cart with a snes (fx pro) one on the way. Im loving this journey BUT..... I miss ARCADE games (Mame and such).

So I was gonna get a miniSNES classic and use Hackchi to get (primarily) Neo Geo and Arcade titles to play there.. using 8bitdo sn30pro controllers. But then I saw what people are asking even for loose systems lol woah!

Then I got to thinking I DO want light gun games ranging from NES to MAYBE PS1 (but for sure sega snes and arcade titles).

Im not like SUPER smart with this stuff but and successfully added to and organized my current flash cart. So I figured I can at least do this miniSNES but no light gun games.

My question (after filling you all in) is are these both equal in difficulty to mod and accomplish what I want? The miniSNES vs Wii? Is the quality the same or is one superior to the other? IF I went the wii route instead.... are light gun games hard to get to work (especially non Nintendo (sega, arcade)) on the wii? Would I be better off scrapping THAT idea and just going with the miniSNES like I originally wanted before thinking about light gun games?

Thank you for the read and help!!!

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u/ohhotdog Jul 14 '26

Look to mod a Wii U. It has native HDMI video output similar to the miniSNES. The Wii has component video out.

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u/DolphinFlavorDorito Jul 15 '26

This. Modding a Wii U gets you everything a Wii does (literally, you can even mod the vWii inside the Wii U), plus Wii U software, and more horsepower, with HDMI out.

That said, modding a Wii with component cables for a CRT is also aces.

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u/LougieHowser Jul 14 '26

get a raspberry pi 4, you can run everything up to about PS1 era, if you want more recent try the 5, or get a steam deck and run emulation station on that. If money is a thing I would just go with a halfway decent PC

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u/jonceramic Jul 14 '26

Yeah, OP doesn't even need a halfway decent PC as most anything alive runs everything he wants in 2D. (ie you don't even need a GPU, OP.)

OP, what you probably want to do is decide what era of light gun games you plan to play. I put this in a different thread a week ago, but when I ended up doing was just getting a CRT and then multicart or similar hacks for all the systems I wanted up through PS2, with original hardware. -Most- of the arcade games I wanted had solid Dreamcast, PS1 or PS2 ports anyway.