Installing Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii!

For years, people have wondered if its possible to install Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii. So today I'm going to attempt to do just that. Let's see what I got myself into this time.

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Corrections:
06:44 - Since Basilisk II is a 68k Mac emulator, this image that was designed for it didn't work on the Wii because it didn't contain a PowerPC ROM.

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[raine]

"which is hands down the most frustrating feeling ever, when something works just fine for everybody else, but when you do the same thing, theres a problem."
truer words were never said

[kaicube]

17:09 I love when performance is measured in seconds per frame instead of frames per second

[metalspoon]

Running doom on mac os on linux on a wii is a sentence i would've come up with as a joke but you actually did it

[DunnsDayDash]

Holy shit, I wanted to cry watching this video. It was so refreshing to finally see someone else try to do something simple, but have problem after problem along the way, and finally figure it out after spending so much time on it. Tears of joy to know that im not the only one in the world dealing with this bullshit.

[sleppy_]

"Things are never simple on this channel"
-Michael (at 1:03)

[n.park]

What if most things that MJD has made or tested has worked, but he only uploads the videos when he encounters problems.

[aared]

I'm so impressed with the fact that you managed to get it working, especially as complicated as it was with all the workarounds

[realasspodcast]

I feel like the font issue could be down to difference in formats between TrueType and OpenType or something like that. Might be an idea to install fonts of different formats and see if any display correctly in TextEdit

[mrtylerlarson]

This is so freaking cool! I love the classic Mac glory days -especially when all of that 90’s bliss gets mashed into initially unrelated 2000’s bliss!

[joshuapettus]

Thank-you for answering an age old question I had ever since I found out that the Wii had a Motorola PowerPC chip. I didn't actually think it would be possible! Shame you can't get the mac version of Halo running :) That would have been too beautiful.

[curious]

This is my new favorite MJD video, the pacing is on point.

[nmac]

Hey MJD, it was me that sent you the "Mac on Wii" video some months ago. Thanks for making a tutorial of it, I couldn't find a way to do it

[tux]

Instantly subscribed. The fact that you would even do this, makes this my kind of channel.

[dani_rammstein]

I have met you in this video and you have a new follower. I love doing things like that on my own, pushing things to the limits of hardware or doing mindless mixes. I have always summarized with my friends playing PS Vita (Sony) to Forza Horizon 5 (Xbox) through Moonlight (PC) with a Wii remote (Nintendo) but now they will see my Wii with MacOS .. crazy

[johnphillips]

Please don't change dude. Informative videos are what the tech community need.

[wertywerrtyson]

I have a lot of nostalgia for that MacOS9 always brings such nostalgia. The computer was already old when I I got in the mid 2000s but I enjoyed it a lot.

[VKFVAX]

I love watching your videos. Friends and other nerds say I have too much free time to do silly things .. but you make me feel so much better about the crazy crap I do. Best Wishes to ye! :) Keep being awesome.

[MNGoldenEagle]

I wonder if the font issue has to do with hardware acceleration. You can see the same types of graphical corruption affecting the Quicktime Player UI, so maybe if you can disable graphics acceleration that might help clear up some of the corruption.

[livefreeprintguns]

I've been subscribed for about a year now, and this is the first time I cheered out loud (alone, by myself) when I saw the MacOS 9 bootscreen... amazing!

[Null_Experis]

I think it would be possible to get Mac OS9 running natively on Wii, not via a linux abstraction layer, but natively natively.
You'd just need to basically modify the entire OS to treat the wii hardware as native mac hardware, which means drivers and add-ons to teach OS9 how to use the Wii's hardware.
Something like the software uses for Sonnet CPU upgrades, something to redirect the bootloader, native SD card/USB support using the Wii's controller, new memory mapping, new GPU drivers (which might actually not be that hard since it's an ATI GPU).
It would be a lot of work for a meme.