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Play Sonic Mania on the Wii U

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Yep, that's exactly what the title says. 🦔 A few days ago I tweeted a video where I show Sonic Mania Plus running on my Wii U. Sonic Mania Plus on the Wii U. pic.twitter.com/wCZoENQCLy — NinStar (@ninstarxt) August 27, 2022 This tweet gained quite a lot of traction, so let's talk about it in details. The people behind the project First of all, I must say that this was only made possible thanks to the incredible work done by Clownacy in porting the source code of the Sonic Mania decompilation to the Wii U, as well as Rubberduckycoly and MGRich for making the decompilation project. You can check the source code on GitHub . It is worth noting that there is also another port being made by Radfordhound , his port is going to bring GX2 rendering, which should fix the lag on Special Stages, and support for more controllers. You can see more on his Twitter profile. In the meantime, a fun weekend project: I ported the absolutely incredible decompilation of Sonic Mania