Gaming Gamecube Emulator confirmed?

[pedro702]

Oh, I see. Nintendont is a weird thing to me. Especially since the "v" in "vWii" stands for virtual. Not very straightforward...

while we call it vwii, vwii has everything a wii has it has the cpu and even its unique gx gpu wich isnt even used by the wiiu mode.

 

[Kioku]

while we call it vwii, vwii has everything a wii has it has the cpu and even its unique gx gpu wich isnt even used by the wiiu mode.

Oh, yeah. I forgot about that. Been a while. Very informative.

 

[Pacheko17]

This:

Yeah but the native NGC compatibility of the Wii it's because of hardware... missing on the WiiU... so, at the end it's like emulating, I know it's easy having vWii, but still kind of emulated NGC

Not emulation. Wii U has Wii hardware, so it doesn't matter.

 

[Chazpelo]

GCN (official short name for Nintendo Gamecube) backwards compabilty with the Switch seems not be possible. maybe for virtual console with emulation.

 

[pedro702]

GCN (official short name for Nintendo Gamecube) backwards compabilty with the Switch seems not be possible. I only think that NES backwards compabilty is on the switch.

obviously its a nes emulator... no one is gonna make backwaards compatible nes this days same with any consoles until n64... that hardware is very outdated and discontinued to be made backwards compatible this day and age.

 

[Dracari]

for how GCN on the WiiU works is much like WINE for Linux as in It's not Emulating Jack Squat its an Compatibility Layer thats talking Directly to the Existing Hardware translating between the WiiU's Newer OS to what it was for the GC thru vWii if that make's Sense.

Emulation: is in a tl:dr recreating bit for bit the processes of each every chipset and instruction of the intended target (be it a Console, a handheld, a piece of specific hardware.)
Virtualization: well rather than explain in detail take a look at a Virtual DVD Drive it's not emulating a Specific entirety random physical drive from a random Manufacture, More its a Driver that contains all the instructions needed to tell the operating system to interface with it and to treat it as if it was a real drive this is What GCN Compatibility on the WiiU is doing thru vWii More or less anyway. its the Same process the PS3 is offering PS2 Compatibility on "Most" of its "Phattie" SKUs (US/UK/JP 20GB and 60GB, while these regions's 80GB Models had the Physical GPU and Emulated the CPU (granted the PS3 "CELL BE" was powerfull enough to do that) but in doing so Compatibility suffered