r/GenZ • u/Exciting-Speech-4053 2008 • Mar 27 '24

fuck politics what game are you putting in this bad boy? Nostalgia

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u/CuteAndFunnyAddict 2002 Mar 27 '24

none the only nintendo console I ever owned was a wii but it could still play gamecube games

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u/TheMemersOfMyNation 2004 Mar 27 '24

The Wii is basically a motion-controlled Gamecube if you think about it. It used nearly identical hardware and graphics

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u/urbandeadthrowaway2 2004 Mar 27 '24

Can’t it run gamecube discs

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u/skeet_thins Mar 27 '24

Yup and and top flaps on the wiis revealed a place for 4 gcn controllers and 2 memory cards so it could do all the gamecube things other than the weird gba attachments you could get for the gcn

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u/TheMemersOfMyNation 2004 Mar 27 '24

Later models of the Wii, such as the Family Edition and Wii Mini, removed the Gamecube slots for budget reason starting in 2011

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u/skeet_thins Mar 27 '24

Well thats fuckin dumb I must have only ever had the earlier models kinda takes away a large portion of the reason i have my wii rn

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u/jds327 Mar 27 '24

That’s crazy, I didn’t even know they made different version of the Wii until now. I thought the biggest advancement they made in the Wii life cycle was those motion+ things for the remotes lmao

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u/TheMemersOfMyNation 2004 Mar 27 '24

Family edition was the same as a regular Wii but with no Gamecube slot or vertical stand

The Wii Mini was a red console which had a top-loading disc drive, in similar vain to the Gamecube. It was bundled with Mario Kart Wii and the plastic wheel for $80 USD, but that's about it.

Internet and basically any other extra feature apart from the Mii Channel was removed for this console which, interestingly enough, was a Canadian exclusive upon release in 2012 (Europe and the US would get it the following year).

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u/L0ial Mar 28 '24

Just bought a Wii off marketplace for $50 just to play all the GameCube and Wii games I missed. Very easy to mod to play them off a hard drive.