People just took it away from it's original meaning and made a new meaning for the word.
The new meaning basically being a software update/version.
The new meaning basically being a software update/version.
The closest thing to firmware that the Wii has is the IOS's. Games, channels, and the System Menu all run under an IOS.
So just because some sort of menu runs on a console, that makes it firmware?heres teh way i see iti don't call it firmware i just call it system menu. plus this just occured to me why are people calling it that? and firmware is more like Playstaion reltead?
iphone/pod touch, Androids firmwares version ###, computer OS version ###, game consoles & handhelds firmware versions ###
as for apps, DSiware, wiiware, 3DSware diffrent versions i just call them "the app name version ###"
What are you talking about? The Wii cannot run Windows, lol.So just because some sort of menu runs on a console, that makes it firmware?heres teh way i see iti don't call it firmware i just call it system menu. plus this just occured to me why are people calling it that? and firmware is more like Playstaion reltead?
iphone/pod touch, Androids firmwares version ###, computer OS version ###, game consoles & handhelds firmware versions ###
as for apps, DSiware, wiiware, 3DSware diffrent versions i just call them "the app name version ###"
i never actually looked deeply into how the wii runs yet, im not doing wii homebrew yet so far i just now the technical specs of the console.
i have seen videos on youtube of it running windows i forget which version but should be able to run a firmware & os.
what its currently running on no clue but for now i call it a firmware. unless corrected or told by an official source.
So just because some sort of menu runs on a console, that makes it firmware?heres teh way i see iti don't call it firmware i just call it system menu. plus this just occured to me why are people calling it that? and firmware is more like Playstaion reltead?
iphone/pod touch, Androids firmwares version ###, computer OS version ###, game consoles & handhelds firmware versions ###
as for apps, DSiware, wiiware, 3DSware diffrent versions i just call them "the app name version ###"
i never actually looked deeply into how the wii runs yet, im not doing wii homebrew yet so far i just now the technical specs of the console.
i have seen videos on youtube of it running windows i forget which version but should be able to run a firmware & os.
what its currently running on no clue but for now i call it a firmware. unless corrected or told by an official source.
What are you talking about? The Wii cannot run Windows, lol.
What are you talking about? The Wii cannot run Windows, lol.
prove it.
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He is completely correct. System Menu does not have any code to access low level functions or hardware of the Wii. That is all handled by IOS (which is firmware). The SM is not running when any other code is running (games etc.). It doesn't provide anything other than an interface to load other software. Pretty much everything you described is handled by IOS, not SM.i think you are too picky with your words and a troll so i guess it all works out.Actually a lot of that is wrong. Nothing runs under the System Menu. It can be removed. The Wii will operate without it (it won't do much though). It doesn't perform low-level operations. I don't think you understand how the Wii runs.the actual reason system menu is firmware: it is embedded in a nonremovable memory on the system, the system can not function without it, it has control over hardware and low level functions such as adding sdhc support and loading chanels from SD. in fact the only reason you wouldn't call the system menu firmware is the fact that it's rewrittable but by that far outdated defintion nothing has had true firmware since the early ninties even the firmware in dvd drives, hard drives, televisons monitors, and literally everything else is software flashable. by the true and outdated defintion of firmware it means not replacable without replacing hardware so by your logic what's next joostin, you going to complain about 360's disc drive flash being called firmware? we aren't in the 80's anymore the WII's system menu is firmware.
If you aren't trolling and really think that it is firmware, just read SifJar's previous post.The system menu is firmware isnt it (chuckles)
People called NES games tapes? Lol, they don't even look like tapes.People call it firmware for the same reason they used to call NES games "tapes", because they just don't know any better. Oh well, that's life, get used to it.