Nintendo Wii
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.
| Nintendo Wii | |
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| General | |
|---|---|
| Manufacturer | Nintendo |
| Graphics Hardware | ATI "Hollywood" 243 MHz |
| Sound Hardware | DSP, Dolby Pro Logic II capable |
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.
