Building your own wii devkit?

turbolover · Post by **turbolover** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 2:38 pm

I was thinking that since the wii architecture is merely a beefier version of the gamecube's, couldn't you make a beowulf cluster of 2-3 gamecube's in order to mimic the power of the wii and then write on that?

Post by **Skyone** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:28 pm

Why bother? You'd have to implement the structure of the Wii such as the new DVD firmware and IR attachments AND controller architect. By the time you figure this out, the Wii 2 will be out.

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 3:56 pm

Aren't the official devkits under $2000? Why bother?

Post by **marshallh** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 4:06 pm

What will likely happen is that either DVD encryption will be cracked and you could run any binary you wanted on the Wii, or the Virtual Console system will be hacked so homebrew games could be downloaded.
It would of course be ideal if Nintendo accommodated for homebrew programmers, but given their track record, I doubt that would happen.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 5:48 pm

turbolover wrote:I was thinking that since the wii architecture is merely a beefier version of the gamecube's, couldn't you make a beowulf cluster of 2-3 gamecube's in order to mimic the power of the wii and then write on that?

Ah the CPU the Wii is going to use is going to be closer to the G5 the the G4, and the G4 is what the GameCube used. Meaning that a Power Mac G5 would be a better idea then a cluster would.

atarti2600a wrote:Aren't the official devkits under $2000? Why bother?

If that is true then yeah buying a dev kit shouldn't be an issue. Sounds a little like the Dreamcast, who's dev kits were that cheap.

turbolover · Post by **turbolover** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:13 pm

id like a devkit, but they only sell them to authorized developers, im more of a hobbyist

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Sat Nov 04, 2006 9:59 pm

If you could find someone to leak the devkit, it would be the best option to do that.

Harshboy · Post by **Harshboy** » Sun Nov 05, 2006 10:43 pm

vb_master wrote:If you could find someone to leak the devkit, it would be the best option to do that.

and you just know that will happen, like every other devkit.

hcmtnbiker · Post by **hcmtnbiker** » Tue Nov 21, 2006 9:34 pm

Harshboy wrote:and you just know that will happen, like every other devkit.

If Nintendo is run anything like Microsoft or Sony is all you need to know is either someone who works for either Nintendo or maybe even ATI to front for you. When the original xbox came out i had an opportunity to get a devkit of it, both offical hardware and software kits, because of who i knew at nVidia, but didnt have the money at the time.

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