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If you own a modded Wii and want to play Snow Bros. at full NTSC speed, your best bet is to learn the injection process yourself. Or, do what most modern players do: skip the WAD hunt and buy the excellent Arcade Archives version on your Switch or PS4. The snowballs roll just as well without the legal headache.

Nintendo’s Virtual Console libraries differed wildly by region. While Europe (PAL) saw a release of Snow Bros. on the Wii Virtual Console in 2009, North American players were left out in the cold. Why? Licensing. The rights to Snow Bros. were a tangled mess. Originally published by Toaplan (which went bankrupt), the console rights were shuffled between Capcom (for the NES port) and Tengen (for the Genesis/Mega Drive version). By the late 2000s, no one seemed entirely sure who had the authority to sell the arcade-perfect version in North America. snow bros wad ntsc

So, when a retro gamer searches for a “ Snow Bros. WAD,” they aren’t looking for a new Doom level. They are looking for a Virtual Console injector file to play Snow Bros. on their modded Wii or Wii U. Here lies the heart of the issue: Snow Bros. never received a standalone Virtual Console release in the NTSC region (North America and Japan). If you own a modded Wii and want to play Snow Bros