Chamomile🐑

It's a good post but it hurts me to my soul.

find-and-replace every instance of "grimoire" in the story with "wii game".

Doesn't it have some weird highly configurable fixed function graphics? I remember that relating to why Dolphin at one point had shader compilation stutter issues to solve.

not 100% accurate, more accurate would be to say the wii u is a wii and three gamecubes duct-taped together. or, more accurate for the wii, it's a gamecube that's been given a cool dress and an ego boost.

also some corrections on the bulletpoints here:

• arcane toolchains are actually standard fare for console dev, regardless of architecture. POWER for servers and desktops at the time of the GC and Wii had about the same quality of toolchains available to it that you did on x86-PC then, but the GC used a unique variant of a specific PPC CPU and a large number of nonstandard things in its general system architecture that would've presented issues with something like the GCC of the era. It also wasn't quite... mandatory? basically you usually had to use the toolchain given to you by nintendo with your devkit, and nintendo gave you this shit.
• the majority of renderers prior to like... 2007? 2008? only provided fixed-function APIs or coprocs without the high-level concept of a shader. Shaders were kind of the new hotness at the time of the 360, ps3, and wii coming around, and the other consoles used them since they were explicitly trying to beat the curve technologically and had GPUs in them that were designed originally as high-end directx9 GPUs, with DX9 having subsets requiring shaders to meet.
• no notes abt the other two things it really IS an infernal device and the game menu thing really IS that weird. nintendo would be upset if you did the home menu slightly wrong. you could be forced through another submission wait to be allowed to publish your game if your game had a bug that affected the home menu's presentation. it's so weird.

I wouldn't really call CodeWarrior an arcane toolchain tbh. It was the standard toolchain on Mac until Xcode existed - I'm pretty sure Nintendo chose it specifically because it was a mature and well-understood compiler for targeting PowerPC.

one of my fav features of the series x is that it's the size of 2 gamecube+ the gba adapter

The game menu intro screen is hardcoded into a special partition on every game's disc

The PS1 did as well, IIRC.

The motherboard thing is so cursed I love it so much. Hello kids let's make a high quality console mod, step one, hacksaw.

I deeply wish I could appreciate this information to the fullest. I simply am not the right type of bitch. But I sure do love the nintendo wii.