Nintendo Wii (2006)

The Wii sold on a pointer and an accelerometer rather than on pixels, and outsold both of its more powerful rivals doing it. Underneath it is essentially an overclocked GameCube, which is why it plays GameCube discs natively and why one emulator covers both.

At a glance

Released
2006
Plays in a browser
No — desktop app only
Native launchers
GameCube/Wii – Dolphin
Bring your own games
Yes, and only your own — Leumas hosts no game files

How it plays here

Nintendo Wii needs a native emulator, so it plays in the Leumas Consoles desktop build rather than in a tab. The app finds an emulator you have already installed and hands the game to it; it never bundles or downloads one for you.

Where your games live

Yours and nobody else's. Every game you upload goes into your own library, and no other member can list it, open it or reach the file — not by browsing and not by guessing its name. Leumas does not host game files, does not link to them and cannot supply them: you bring a copy of something you already own, and it stays yours.

Playing offline

The Windows build runs the same deck on your own machine with no network at all. Your library and your save states live in a folder next to the app, the emulator cores are packaged inside it, and it can also hand a game to a native emulator you already have installed.