wii os front-end running on windows

February 2nd, 2007 post a comment (6) stumble it! by: technabob

Some guy with too much time on his hands developed this painstakingly accurate menu system based on the Wii interface, coined “WiiOS.”

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The menu system is a very faithful reproduction of the Wii menu system, and he’s got it all tied together with his Wii-mote to let him control some emulated console games on his PC.

I’m sure Nintendo won’t be thrilled by the blatant copyright infringement in his design, but maybe they’ll give him a break and just appreciate the fact that he’s just a really dedicated Wii fanboy.

[via GoNintendo]

February 2nd, 2007 post a comment (6) stumble it! by: technabob

6 comments post a comment

1. ManChicken | February 2nd, 2007 at 11:09 am

Parody is protected speech ^_^

That looks like parody to me.
2. ManChicken | February 2nd, 2007 at 11:13 am

I’d be very interested in seeing the sourcecode for his bluetooth wiimote interface. Mmm… sourcecode.
3. technabob | February 2nd, 2007 at 11:52 am

The guy who wrote it was talking about releasing a version, but now it sounds like he won’t:

http://www.wiili.org/forum/wii-os-longer-video-t1342.html

It looks like it a VB application for the front end, but I it’s using GlovePIE for the wii-mote control driver:

http://carl.kenner.googlepages.com/glovepie
4. ManChicken | February 3rd, 2007 at 1:58 am

Even if he did release a version, I don’t think he’s honestly going to try to compete with Nintendo on it. Also, he’s not really copying anything (with the possible exception of images, but I have a feeling he’s modified them or otherwise derived them).

I don’t know. I just wish we lived in a country where a guy can write his own software without worrying about someone else trying to sue.
5. technabob | February 5th, 2007 at 10:31 am

Looks like this guy did decide to release a copy of his application afterall:
http://www.wiili.org/index.php/Wii_os

The download link is here:
http://www.zshare.net/download/wii-os-zip.html

Should be fun.
6. Dr. Drakken | May 17th, 2008 at 5:38 am

I don’t know what wii os is. Is it a program on your computer on wich you can play real wii games like MySims and Mario Party 8?

P.S. If my English isn’t correct, I’m sorry… =P