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Does the Wii not have an OS? Or do you mean Wii U titles are far more integrated into its OS?
by HelixEndeavor 4y ago
Does the Wii not have an OS? Or do you mean Wii U titles are far more integrated into its OS?
- tech234a 4y agoThe Wii U titles appear to be far more integrated into the OS. On the Wii it appears that games were run at a pretty low level [0]. Also, on the Wii, although there is an updatable system menu capable of downloading and running some small apps, the menu shown when you press the home button while in a game was included with each game as part of the SDK, not as part of the OS [1]. (The Korean version of Mario Kart Wii was found to have unused files for a Chinese home menu [2].) Meanwhile on the Wii U it is possible to launch an entire web browser and certain other apps from the home menu and still return to your running game afterwards. [0]: https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2013/espresso/ https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2013/espresso/ [1]: https://wiibrew.org/wiki/HOME_Menu https://wiibrew.org/wiki/HOME_Menu [2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfFDAXNMj8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gfFDAXNMj8
- msk-lywenn 4y agoWii boots into a shell but when a game starts, it completely takes over. The menu you see when pressing the home button is not from the OS, it is called by the game into a linked library provided by Nintendo. Even shutting down the console by pressing the power off button had to be implemented by developers in order to be allowed to release.
- NathanielK 4y agoWii is pretty simple. If you pay attention, when you launch a game, tge He controller lights flash. This is because it's reinitializing Bluetooth iirc.