Someone plugged Mac OS X into the Wii: wiiMac let the PowerPC version of OS A recent project called “wiiMac” wiped out the Wii’s bootloader, allowing the PowerPC version of Mac OS X to boot natively on the Nintendo Wii. You read that right, you are not fooling yourself by running an emulator, you are directly letting Wii start OS X!
Supports versions 10.0 to 10.5, but don’t think too much about what’s currently available.
The project page lists supported Mac OS X versions from 10.0 Cheetah all the way to 10.5 Leopard, which looks great. But the restrictions are also very straightforward: Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, optical disc drives, graphics cards, and audio are all “not supported yet” at the moment. So if you fantasize about turning your Wii into a mini retro Mac for listening to music and watching movies, don’t worry, reality will grind you to the ground.
Installation threshold: It requires soft modification, BootMii, and two SD cards. Wii Mini is not enough.
The installation instructions of wiiMac are also very reminiscent of that era: you need a Wii with an SD card slot (Wii Mini does not support it), the host must be soft-modified first, and BootMii (boot2 or IOS) must be installed. Then prepare an SD card in MBR format with a FAT32 partition to store the BootMii file, and another SD card of at least 4GB to install the Mac OS X system. If you have a little bit of IT knowledge, you can definitely solve this problem.
The image quality returns to 640×480, the Dock is reduced, and swap needs to be modified by yourself.
What’s even more funny is that the author also gave serious suggestions for system optimization: lower the resolution back to 640×480 (because the Wii’s output is like that), shrink or hide the Dock as much as possible to save space; he even suggested changing the swap file size from about 76MB to 7.6MB, and you have to change the parameters of dynamic_pager in /etc/rc. When you see this, you will understand: This is not the pursuit of “easy to use”, but the pursuit of “win if you can run”.