When you did this, and your doorbell rang, was it a group of penguins, or japanese businessmen that said "Wii would like to play"?
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In court...
Ha ha ha. Did they really do another commercial with the same concept, but in court?
I believe you. I just never saw it. That's wild though....
I believe the joke is that Nintendo are aggressively litigious.
Wii
.....yeah. Thats what I said.
I can't tell if you got it or not, so just in case, I'm pretty sure OP was making a Wii/Oui joke.
I wonder if they dug further into the bit and we just missed it lol
Do you have a link to read more about what this is 😄
So basically homebrew is a mod for the Wii that basically changes some things about the os so that you can install just about anything you want through the homebrew channel, with it you can play emulators and arcade games and do some semi useful stuff like ftp or media player with visualizer and there are some apps for preventing bricking as well as restoring functionality to some games such as enabling online modes to Mario kart and some other things.
It is pretty easy to do, it is easier than creating a bootable flash drive for Linux because you dont have to flash anything, you just unzip a file to an SD card and pop it in and away you go. It is pretty fun too because after you go through the initial boot you get a message containing an image of a red envelope containing a cartoon bomb and next thing you know you have a channel which shows you a bubble screensaver (this is what the channel is like before you put any apps on it which is equally as easy to do)
Neat! I'm somewhat familiar with homebrew but I haven't kept up with it in years. I didn't know you could put Linux on it too
I wonder how it would do as a media center for the living room. I'd much rather use a Wii remote to navigate on a TV instead of buttons.
Being able to play Jellyfin off of it somehow would be amazing, I imagine it will need a custom app. Possibly based off of this thing? https://www.wiimc.org/about/
I have heard of people putting main linux on wiis but in my case I didn't do that niiofetxh just happens to be a neofetch fork for wii on the homebrew list of apps.
This is the bulk of where I got apps from https://oscwii.org/library
Yeah I put Linux on the Wii. It ran ICEwm. Very slow using a browser due to only 100MB of RAM and writing to the SD card. Acceptable performance as headless Linux, but the kernel couldn't install cifs (due to kernel size restriction) or some other tools
A Wii u might be better than a Wii. It was pretty underpowered from day 1 and that thing has no hardware video decode. The wiiu has hardware video decode for h264 video.
To be fair, I’ve heard Wii U isn’t particularly pleasant running Linux either. I’ve never run Linux on my homebrewed Wii U, but someone in my Linux Users Group brought theirs in once.
Honestly, it's just a search engine search away, a pretty well-covered thing.
Here's this for starters: https://wii.hacks.guide/
It's basically jailbreaking the console, after which you can run pretty much anything that the console has the power for, including the Linux kernel.
Thanks! I was looking up Niiofetch but it kept giving me results for Neofetch lol
There's a Wii console? I only know the controller.
Are you new to this world? Or just a youngling? While Wii wasn't a high power console, it exploded from easy of pickup and play games, and a good set of add on devices to expand its use. I.e. for lightsabre games or bowling it had a Gyros plugin to install into the wand controller so it couldcalculates rotations in space. The balance board was used for tracking your weight from things like step workout, or you could use it for ski games, or balance challenges. You could add traditional style controllers to play something like SuoerMario, or steering wheel to pop the controller into and hold the wheel in the air in front of you to drive,
Are you new to this world?
No. Just didn't care then for yet-another console and forgot about it. But the controllers are neat on PC.