Yeah, the original Wii revision with the ports for GC controllers and memory cards had legit GameCube hardware right on the motherboard.
In fact, a lot of Gamecube builds utilize that exact Wii motherboard, just heavily cut down. It’s pretty cool.
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Infernal_pizza@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
Wasn’t the Wii objectively better since it could also play GameCube games?
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I’m surprised they aren’t just desoldering chips off the Wii at this point. It wouldn’t be any less nerve-wracking.
lka1988@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
I see what you’re going for, but for the average console modder, it’s far easier to just trim the “wrong” motherboard than transplant the relevant chips onto a custom substrate.
mindbleach@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
People cramming a Gamecube into a GBA SP are not average.
defaultusername@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 days ago
The Wii can’f use the GameBoy Player, though.
By that logic, PC is objectively better because it can emulate almost any console.
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 6 days ago
Maybe, but the GameCube was really riding a particular techno aesthetic, both externally and in the menu design. It was really the very tail-end of the “just because we can!” breed of design.
The Wii went all nice and soft white, rounded buttons, happy and family-friendly, which was absolutely the correct move for Nintendo commercially to make it mass-market, but it lost something at the same time.