Nintendo Wii can run Mac OS X like it’s 2001 all over again

Over 101 million Nintendo Wii consoles have been sold since 2006, but only one of them runs Apple’s Mac OS X Cheetah. Here’s how it works.

Desktop setup with a monitor showing classic Mac OS X About window, a silver laptop on the left, a white Nintendo Wii on the right, and a plant and mug in the background

There aren’t many Wiis running Mac OS X in the world

That Wii is owned by developer Bryan Keller after he took considerable time to port Apple’s 2001 software. We’ve seen Wiis running everything from Linux to Windows NT before, but this is the first we’ve ever seen running a flavor of macOS.

Understandably, the process of getting 25-year-old software to run on 20-year-old gaming hardware wasn’t a short one. And it’s absolutely something we expect that most people would have given up on. Thankfully, Keller is made of sterner stuff.

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