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The one that really bugs me is the Apple TV. It would be a great little box to use for terminals/thin client style work and there are a ton of old cheap ones. Having a $50 dollar used box that was low power and could run OSX would be great.
YUV appears to be a PAL-specific color space. I wonder how off an NTSC Wii would be. Presumably it would have the wrong color space until an equivalent conversion scheme was devised for NTSC.
I was surprised to see regional color spaces leak into the project, but I presume that Nintendo's iOS (the coincidentally-named system this is replacing) could handle that abstraction for game developers.
In addition to the incredible engineering work here the OP casually flexes by showing the development happening _in an economy class airplane seat_.
And the guy next to him is just staring at his phone, probably thinking, "I'm not even gonna ask". Although if it were me I'd probably annoy the heck out of him asking why he had a Wii on the airplane!
Before figuring out how to tackle this project, I needed to know whether it would even be possible. According to a 2021 Reddit comment: There is a zero percent chance of this ever happening. Feeling encouraged, I started with the basics: what hardware is in the Wii, and how does it compare to the hardware used in real Macs from the era. I LOL'd
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What's flex-worthy about this? There's a lot of dev work that goes on in economy class airplane seats. Or are VC valley programmers so rich they fly business everywhere?
It's uncomfortable and awkward (the Wii was on his leg in the first shot), and often you need to break concentration and pack things up to let someone out of or into their seat.
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And the guy next to him is just staring at his phone, probably thinking, "I'm not even gonna ask". Although if it were me I'd probably annoy the heck out of him asking why he had a Wii on the airplane!
Looks like a Switch 2 actually.
TIL Wii has only 88MB of RAM. Fortunately games weren't electron-based.