Nintendo's Prototype Wii Emulator for the GameCube

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  @nullset2 · 2 years ago

  So the wii wasn't two gamecubes duct taped together, it was a gamecube, a bunch of weird boards and TWO pcs duct taped together!

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• WH

  @whispercorner04 · 2 years ago

  This is like that Dave The Barbarian pun<br><br>&quot;And then, Nintendo engineers improvise the Gamecube succesor with a USB cable, a Linux PC and a Gamecube&quot;

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• JG

  @jgsh8062 · 3 years ago

  I can&apos;t believe we&apos;re STILL discovering new Wii and 3DS era stuff. Amazing!!

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• CI

  @citricdolphin · 2 years ago

  Something interesting about the Wii&apos;s design:<br>It doesn&apos;t have a normal operating system. All games run on bare metal. The Wii System Menu is practically just a game built into the console, and the popup menu when you press the home button is built into every game individually.<br><br>However, the Wii also has a co-processor called &quot;Starlet,&quot; which <b>does</b> have its own OS. That&apos;s the one mentioned in this video. It&apos;s in charge of trying keep things secure and providing API interfaces to games (e.g. USB access).

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• NO

  @NotMasterGamer · 3 years ago

  The editing quality is insane. I initinaly thought this video was from a channel with thousands of subs. I hope you don&apos;t stay criminally underrated

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• LE

  @Lethaltail · 3 years ago (edited)

  The &quot;Nov 5 2005&quot; date shown at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWrjrWdcTM&amp;t=484">8:04</a> is an artifact of me changing the date on my RVL_SDK VM to bypass the expiration date of the early RVL compiler i used to compile the System Menu shown at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWrjrWdcTM&amp;t=317">5:17</a>.

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• MO

  @morrisdennison8039 · 2 years ago

  Your telling me the modding community might make my gamecube into a Wii

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• RE

  @retpolanne · 1 year ago

  My god, what a mess. Still, I would be really happy and excited to work with such technologies. They were very clever with some “gambiarras”!

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• AD

  @adaneitor · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWrjrWdcTM&amp;t=401">6:41</a> this programmer must have felt really good getting hired by Nintendo

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• KA

  @KazoWAR · 1 year ago

  <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPWrjrWdcTM&amp;t=57">0:57</a> man, i haven&apos;t heard that jingle in YEARS.

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• SY

  @SylvesterAshcroft88 · 2 years ago

  This is a pretty clever workaround, for hardware limitations at the time, and the fact that they combined all that, into one little white box, is pretty incredible when you think about it, and my original Wii still works to this day, as if it just came of the box!

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• BR

  @BruceShankle · 3 years ago

  Wow, this looks like an surprisingly in-depth explanation of how nintendo developed the Wii... Without the Wii! Thanks for making this video, this is really fascinating content.

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