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The article mentions that the Wii U had gamecube compatibility. I wonder how that was achieved? And I'm guessing it can't take the small optical disks of the
by dm319 4y ago
The article mentions that the Wii U had gamecube compatibility. I wonder how that was achieved? And I'm guessing it can't take the small optical disks of the gamecube.
- pasquinelli 4y agoit could take gc disks.
- parker_mountain 4y agoIt could not take gc discs.
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- parker_mountain 4y agoThe Wii U could play gamecube games in wii mode, but it required jailbreaking and loading the images onto storage. So, I wouldn't say it was "possible" ootb.
- zerocrates 4y agoThe Wii plays GameCube games and accepts the controllers and memory cards, the Wii U doesn't. I assume removing the ports and the mechanism to load small discs in the disc slot were the main reasons for dropping it. The Wii was compatible with the GameCube largely by being basically an enhanced GameCube under the hood, and the Wii U is kind of a further step down that same road with its "vWii" backwards compatibility mode, so it's possible to use homebrew to play dumped GameCube games on a Wii U natively, only providing some light glue to hook things together. It's not officially supported though.