Before figuring out how to tackle this project, I needed to know whether it would even be possible. According to a 2021 Reddit comment:

There is a zero percent chance of this ever happening.

Feeling encouraged, I started with the basics: what hardware is in the Wii, and how does it compare to the hardware used in real Macs from the era.


I LOL'd

I almost think such projects are worth it just to immortalize comments like these. There's a whole psychology of wrongness that centers on declaring that not-quite-impossible things will definitely never happen, because it feels like principled skepticism.