Comment on Nintendo Wii The Size Of A Game Boy Cartridge Finally Released Open Source

• Tattorack@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  Not really, as that’s emulation. I mean hardware that is smaller than was on the Wii (because it’s newer and we’ve had many years of miniaturisation) and natively runs the Wii system with all its functions.

  Yes, the Wii sold millions, but millions is still a finite number.

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  • _donnadie_@feddit.cl ⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Doing some sort of equivalent would be very expensive. Getting the chips and redesigning the PCB and its traces would be a lot of money.

    Doing an FPGA version would also be the same. People can barely do FPGA accesible for the N64 and PSX, and even then I think there’s limitations with those implementations.

    Boards trims of the Wii seem very plausible as the hardware wasn’t as complex as other consoles from the era. I have no idea about sizes, but there’s a chance the Wii has a smaller processor thanks to die shrinks.

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