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Forums - Nintendo - whats the chance of someone like me getting his hands on a wii dev kit?

NinjaKido on 22 January 2009

Oh right thanx.



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bardicverse on 22 January 2009
NJ5 said:
NinjaKido said:
Hmm what does a Dev Kit actualy contain , i'm guessing it's special hardware and software of some sort but exactly what ?

From what I know, a special Wii which is unlocked to play and test development versions of games, plus development tools and documentation to help make Wii games.

 

 

Also tools that link to PC for data transfers and compiling



NJ5 on 22 January 2009
bardicverse said:
NJ5 said:
NinjaKido said:
Hmm what does a Dev Kit actualy contain , i'm guessing it's special hardware and software of some sort but exactly what ?

From what I know, a special Wii which is unlocked to play and test development versions of games, plus development tools and documentation to help make Wii games.

 

 

Also tools that link to PC for data transfers and compiling

Maybe a Wii emulator for the PC too?

 



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bardicverse on 22 January 2009
NJ5 said:
bardicverse said:
NJ5 said:
NinjaKido said:
Hmm what does a Dev Kit actualy contain , i'm guessing it's special hardware and software of some sort but exactly what ?

From what I know, a special Wii which is unlocked to play and test development versions of games, plus development tools and documentation to help make Wii games.

 

 

Also tools that link to PC for data transfers and compiling

Maybe a Wii emulator for the PC too?

 

Most definitely. Hell, even basic cel phone dev tools come with emulators for the pc. I havent seen the contents of the Wii dev kit yet, so Im not certain exactly what all is in there, but those are all pretty standard things. =)

 



FaithRaven on 22 January 2009

I though anyone can get a dev kit as long as he got around $2000 to pay for it ...



 

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bardicverse on 22 January 2009

^^^^ nopes, there's a process behind it all



vonboy on 22 January 2009

bleh. then whats all of this about nintendo talking about individuals developing wiiware titles in their garages. is that just pr talk or something?

and by those standards posted earlier, i'd be screwed.



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bardicverse on 22 January 2009

^^^ again, wii dev kits are NOT WiiWare development software. The 2 are very different. Getting Wiiware development tools is apparently easy, but an actual Wii dev kit is a more involved process



twesterm on 22 January 2009
Esa-Petteri said:
If you really want one, just buy it. You just have to know some people to get one, but they can be bought easily. Just like Ps3/360 kits. :p

 

It's not nearly that easy and I would love for you to source where you say they can be bought easily. Even last-gen dev kits or even ones like SNES dev kits can't be easily obtained.

If a dev kit does happen to get into the wild somehow, Nintendo (or whosever dev kit it is) will be able to find out where it came from and wherever that place may be, those people probably won't be getting any more dev kits again.



 

twesterm on 22 January 2009
vonboy said:
bleh. then whats all of this about nintendo talking about individuals developing wiiware titles in their garages. is that just pr talk or something?

and by those standards posted earlier, i'd be screwed.

 

I *believe* (not 100% positive) WiiWare is something different and you may be able to get away with not having one but you still have to front (or find someone to front) a lot of money.