You Can Run Mac OS on the Nintendo Wii and Turn it Into the Ultimate Gaming and Productivity Machine - Gizmodo

Apple doesn’t like its operating systems running on anything other than Apple hardware, so getting the Wii to run Mac OS 9 isn’t as easy as popping an installation disc into the console’s disc slot and letting it run.

Not easy, but not impossible, because it turns out the PowerPC processor inside the Nintendo Wii is close enough to the PowerPC chips Apple used in its Power Macintosh G3 machines for this to work.

Pierre Dandumont explains how they managed to get Mac OS 9.2 running on a Wii on their website (courtesy of Google Translate) and as clever as the hack is, there’s layers of complexity that result in the operating system running less than perfectly.