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by sigh_again 595 days ago
The Wii is pretty much a souped up Gamecube, hardware wise. the GPU, Hollywood (Wii) is a faster Flipper (GameCube). The CPU is an IBM PPC Broadwell, the direct successor to the Gekko in the GameCube. Memory, etc. The only difference is the controllers, really. And even then, since everything was external including the IR bar, there wouldn't be much preventing you from doing this on the GameCube. The very reason you can pop in a GameCube game in it and have it run without emulation is because... It's the same, but faster. Same thing that the Switch and Switch 2 will be.