Nintendo Wii

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Nintendo Wii
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General
ManufacturerNintendo
Graphics HardwareATI "Hollywood" 243 MHz
Sound HardwareDSP, Dolby Pro Logic II capable

The Nintendo Wii (pronounced "wee") is a home video game console released by Nintendo on November 19, 2006. It is most famous for introducing and popularizing the concept of a motion-based controller, which doubled as a pointing device.

The Wii hardware is mostly backward-compatible with the Nintendo Gamecube, and as a result uses many of the same development libraries for homebrew.

Specs

  • CPU: IBM PowerPC, 729 MHz
  • Display: ATI 243 MHz, 480i, 480p, 576i
  • RAM: 88 MB (24 MB GPU, 64 MB main)
  • Storage: 512 MB NAND

Homebrew

Main article List of Wii homebrew software

The Wii is easily one of the most thoroughly hacked systems to date with quite a robust homebrew community. While the PSP has a strong set of homebrew resources as well, the WiiBrew community has its own wiki, a still-supported graphics library, and continued support despite the Wii U and Switch existing.

Once a Wii has been modified to enable the Homebrew channel, installing custom software is as easy as copying your compiled game to the SD card along with some text.

Resources