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by mghackerlady 41 days ago
no, then it's an xbox in a wii shell. I'd say having two out of three makes it a wii. Plus, there really isn't anything stopping someone from writing a web server for the wii, it's just that running a different os makes this silly task much easier
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tantalor 40 days ago
> two out of three makes it a wii

So if I stick a modern hardware PC running a Wii emulator inside a Wii shell, then it's still a Wii?

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bombcar 40 days ago
This strikes at the root of the Biggest Controversy™ - if you beat a video game arcade cabinet on an emulator, did you beat it?

Things can be named analogously - if I have a machine that plays Wii games for me, and nothing else, I'll call it "the Wii".

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ssl-3 40 days ago
I have an old PSP that has only ever been used to play emulated NES games.

Shall I call it an NES?

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mghackerlady 40 days ago
Does it boot straight into NES games? Does it have an NES cartridge slot? Or controllers? What about the never used expansion port on the bottom? Is it in a NES shell?
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ssl-3 40 days ago
> Does it boot straight into NES games?

No.

> Does it have an NES cartridge slot?

No.

> Or controllers?

No.

> What about the never used expansion port on the bottom?

It does have an expansion port that I've never used.

> Is it in a NES shell?

No.

> [so it's not an NES, then]

It's mine, and I can call it whatever I want. :P

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mghackerlady 40 days ago
>It does have an expansion port that I've never used.

so not an NES one, then

>It's mine, and I can call it whatever I want. :P

that's fair, I call my switch lite a playstation 7. It'd be disingenuous to present it to others as an NES, however. If it meets most or all the criteria above, then it wouldn't be

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mikepurvis 40 days ago
> if you beat a video game arcade cabinet on an emulator, did you beat it?

Yes for the purposes of your own personal sense of achievement, no for the purposes of speedrun records.

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mghackerlady 40 days ago
It depends on how fully it emulates a wii and what restrictions it would have, but I'd say if the thing quacks and functions like a wii (you have support for the controllers, the disk drive, network things, etc.) it could be called a wii
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