Hacking VWII - Emulation or hardware?

[jaykureno]

Is the VWII run using emulation or is there actual wii hardware in the wiiu?

 

[tech3475]

AFAIK they basically 'downgrade' the Wii U to behave like the Wii, although vWii does have it's own NAND.

 

[Bug_Checker_]

Is the VWII run using emulation or is there actual wii hardware in the wiiu?

https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2014/console-hacking-2013-omake.html

 

[isira]

It's not emulation. The hardware is backward compatible with the Wii.

 

[the_randomizer]

It's a virtual machine, pretty much.

 

[DiscostewSM]

https://fail0verflow.com/blog/2014/console-hacking-2013-omake.html

That was an interesting read. While a lot of it is still over my head, the connections I could make intrigued me.

 

[Bug_Checker_]

That was an interesting read. While a lot of it is still over my head, the connections I could make intrigued me.

When you have an hour, watch the video and follow along with the slides.
Even just switching back between wii and wii u diagrams will give you a better understanding.

 

[OuahOuah]

Wii U is an overclocked Wii + tablet + HD.

If Wii processor could be overclocked, would be a Wii U

 

[Bug_Checker_]

Wii U is an overclocked Wii + tablet + HD.

If Wii processor could be overclocked, would be a Wii U

Of course that is complete bullshit but whatever.
Next time suggest rubber-banding three wiis together and then overclocking them. That still would not be accurate.

 

[apachehavok]

The wiiU GPU is a completely redo. It has the registers of the old wii but its now a completely shader based gpu. I would imagine though that on future consoles, wii emulation would be done entirely in software. Or they would pull a ps3 launch and have the hardware onboard seeing as its super cheap/runs very cool.

But yeah, similar CPU, MUCH different GPU

 

[the_randomizer]

CPU is the same architecture, PowerPC, but the GPU is another beast, emulation would be buggy as hell, so hardware virtualization is the way to go with vWii.