{"id":128515,"date":"2022-09-30T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-30T12:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nintendolife.com\/#article-138494"},"modified":"2022-09-30T12:45:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-30T12:45:00","slug":"fan-discovers-gamecube-dev-kit-in-early-wii-menu-build","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/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":"
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A GameCube development kit has been found in an early build of the Wii’s menu. Shared by Forest of Illusion<\/a> and provided to them by an anonymous community member, it’s possible that this was discovered on the very first Wii menu \u2014 the one used during E3 2006.<\/p>\n

Our friends over at 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’s a chance this was the model that showcased a number of games at E3 2006, the year the Wii came out, including Zelda: Twilight Princess<\/a> \u2014 which launched on both the GameCube and the Wii.<\/p>\n

The original version 0.1 Wii menu was discovered after the huge Nintendo leak back in 2020<\/a>, but with so much information, avid Nintendo fans have been digging through the details ever since. Among the other games demoed on the TDEV kit were Wii Sports<\/a>, WarioWare Smooth Moves<\/a>, and Excite Truck<\/a>.<\/p>\n