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Nintendo Wii Hardware

DakeDesu · 2006-10-09T23:46:09

Yes, I know this thread has appeared before (I saw exactly one relevant one in search), but I did not see any useful information in that thread. Or atleast not enough to even bother trying to necro it. Well, apparently, according to http://wii.nintendo.com/hardware.html , the Nintendo appears to be using Broadway, PowerPC 970 for its chipset. Now, I can probably build a version of the Gnu Cross Compiler to compile from i?86-linux-elf to powerpc-*-elf, but I am wondering, what sort of emulators are already available for the Nintendo Wii? Normally when this much information on the hardware is known ahead of time there are already emulators. For example there were GBA emulators. A quick Google shows nothing but crap, so does anybody here know anything? Or do I need to use PearPC to test Nintendo Wii Homebrew ROMs? (Yes, there are ROMs out there that are legal... we should know better than to have that debate) So questions: Anything I should know about cross compiling from i?86-*-elf to powerpc-*-elf? Any decent emulation of the Nintendo Wii? Any decent Wii homebrew communities?