Gaming Fan Discovers GameCube Dev Kit That Uses Early Wii Menu Build

[tom_mai78101]

A GameCube development kit that uses an early build of the Wii's menu has been found. This was shared online by Forest of Illusion after being discovered by an anonymous community member. The Wii menu in the dev kit is potentially the same one used during E3 2006.

Our friends over at Time Extension reached out to Forest of Illusion for more details on this discovery, which is apparently the Nintendo GameCube 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 — which launched on both the GameCube and the Wii.

The original version 0.1 Wii menu was discovered after the huge Nintendo leak back in 2020, 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, WarioWare Smooth Moves, and Excite Truck.

GameCube Devkit Discovered Using Early Nintendo Wii Menu

It could be the same model as those used at E3 2006

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[The Helper]

I remember when the Wii first came out Zelda came out on both the Wii and Gamecube at the same time. It was a huge game that won a ton of awards but the fact is they both came out at almost the same time and is not mentioned in the article. This retro console history stuff is so interesting!!!