{"id":7743,"date":"2022-09-30T13:19:15","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:19:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/fan-discovers-gamecube-dev-kit-in-early-wii-menu-build\/"},"modified":"2022-09-30T13:19:15","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T13:19:15","slug":"fan-discovers-gamecube-dev-kit-in-early-wii-menu-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/09\/30\/fan-discovers-gamecube-dev-kit-in-early-wii-menu-build\/","title":{"rendered":"Fan Discovers GameCube Dev Kit In Early Wii Menu Build"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>A sensor of history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A GameCube development kit has been found in an early build of the Wii&#8217;s menu. <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/forestillusion\/status\/1575360592432730113\">Shared by Forest of Illusion<\/a> and provided to them by an anonymous community member, it&#8217;s possible that this was discovered on the very first Wii menu \u2014 the one used during E3 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/news\/2022\/09\/gamecube-devkit-discovered-using-early-nintendo-wii-menu\">Time Extension<\/a> reached out to Forest of Illusion for more details on this discovery, which is apparently the TDEV dev kit. And, according to the Nintendo preservation site, there&#8217;s a chance this was the model that showcased a number of games at E3 2006, the year the Wii came out, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/legend_of_zelda_twilight_princess\">Zelda: Twilight Princess<\/a> \u2014 which launched on both the GameCube and the Wii.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/fan-discovers-gamecube-dev-kit-in-early-wii-menu-build\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]Fan Discovers GameCube Dev Kit In Early Wii Menu Build<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<p><strong>A sensor of history.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A GameCube development kit has been found in an early build of the Wii&#8217;s menu. <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/forestillusion\/status\/1575360592432730113\">Shared by Forest of Illusion<\/a> and provided to them by an anonymous community member, it&#8217;s possible that this was discovered on the very first Wii menu \u2014 the one used during E3 2006.<\/p>\n<p>Our friends over at <a class=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.timeextension.com\/news\/2022\/09\/gamecube-devkit-discovered-using-early-nintendo-wii-menu\">Time Extension<\/a> reached out to Forest of Illusion for more details on this discovery, which is apparently the TDEV dev kit. And, according to the Nintendo preservation site, there&#8217;s a chance this was the model that showcased a number of games at E3 2006, the year the Wii came out, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/games\/wii\/legend_of_zelda_twilight_princess\">Zelda: Twilight Princess<\/a> \u2014 which launched on both the GameCube and the Wii.<\/p>\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/news\/2022\/09\/fan-discovers-gamecube-dev-kit-in-early-wii-menu-build\">full article on nintendolife.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":7744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}