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Originally Posted by photon
I don't think so, the old games that are on the Wii now are programmed specifically for it (or they wrote an emulator or something).
I think there's been some progress cracking the Wii to run unsigned code (homebrew code, not just pirated stuff) but even then likely the game would have to at the very least be compiled for the Wii.
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Excepting of course that you can plug in Gamecube discs, so theoretically the Wii must be able to directly read those compiled for that system. Of course there's probably some sort of hardware flag to stop you from running off disk images. And it's probably still a bit soon to try and argue any Gamecube games as abandonware, since Nintendo specifically made the Wii backward compatible with them. In fact, the idea of the virtual console could make the entire Nintendo catalogue risky to consider abandonware, siince they could release anything back to the original NES on virtual console and make money off it potentially. I personally have a few old D&D abandonware games kicking around, but I don't think Commodore is coming back anytime soon to revive the 64 back catalog, so I figure I'm safe.
I actually thought Genecyst was fairly safe as well, but given SEGA's involvement with the Virtual Console, I wonder if the old images of Shining Force and Phantasy Star are safe???