Comment by monocasa
WiiU also had the back compat hardware of the Wii, just couldn't take a gamecube disc in it's drive.
Similarly, a lot of the SNES internally looks like it was at least initially designed for back compat with the NES.
WiiU also had the back compat hardware of the Wii, just couldn't take a gamecube disc in it's drive.
Similarly, a lot of the SNES internally looks like it was at least initially designed for back compat with the NES.
It sounds like you're confusing the Wii's backwards compatibility with the PS3's. The Wii didn't have a separate "GameCube chip", its core was effectively an overclocked GC.
https://youtu.be/meZA9KHkFuY?si=5xrsSjNxKLxLnd6J
He explains it quite well. Sorry it’s German but I guess the information about the chips and reasons Nintendo choose them should be all over the net.
GC emulation wasn't emulation; it was done with a separate chip. It was more like native support. Eventually Nintendo removed that chip and backward-compatibility support from the console.
(so, even if you could put a GC disk in, it didn't have capability to natively play the game)