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It is a shame. On the original Xbox, Microsoft's official reasoning behind requiring the "DVD playback kit" was because they did not want to pay for the licensing fees (to Toshiba? I believe) for every console sold, as they knew not everybody would need it. Instead, they opted to put the license inside the remote receiver instead. In their eyes it was a win-win: people who wanted to use the Xbox to play DVDs still could, and they wouldn't have to pay Toshiba(?) for every console sold; just every DVD kit sold. Nintendo could've easily sold the DVD license on the Wii Shop Channel as an add-on to the Disc Channel if they didn't want to license every Wii console sold. Of course, licensing every console was intended from the beginning (as implied here at tcrf.net/images/2/27/Wii_Menu_DVD_DiskChannel.png), but for whatever reason they opted against it. It would've been nice.

@@awesomemercerdude Even before the Xbox, going as far back as the Amiga CD32, 3DO, Saturn, and PS1, they all had a separate add-on to play VCDs. Nintendo should have done the same with the Wii and WiiU.

I play my Wii games on Wii U and my GameCube games on Wii. They look better in 4:3.

Yea I was under the impression that it was patched out pretty early but people keep telling me otherwise. Oops lol

I couldn’t tell you. Our Wii is from Christmas ‘06. I was under the impression that DVD playback was phased out pretty quickly but someone else told me that some later models work. My friend has a black Wii we’re testing in the next few days. I know for a fact that the Wii has to be GameCube compatible. Wii Family Edition and Wii mini don’t work, and Wii U doesn’t work.

@@awesomemercerdude ah no worries. thanks for the quick response!

My OG Wii is just a GameCube machine these days and 4:3 GameCube games get stretched if you set the Wii to widescreen.

no way it’s the joker

That’s pretty cool lol. There was a period where the only DVD player I had in my room was a PS2. Back then I couldn’t figure out how to fix the screen settings so I watched First Man on an image less than half the size of the screen

WIiMC can still load youtube videos iirc, it just takes forever to do so

aye

I have a friend with a black GameCube enabled Wii. I’ll pass on the info and see if it works

apparently all the Wii models from before mid 2009 work cuz that was around the time Nintendo changed the Wii's DVD drive.

I know right

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I kinda forgot this existed ngl

thank you random citizen

we get there when we get there

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