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Nintendo Wii U

Operating Systems (IBM PPC Espresso + ARM9 bg)

Adélie Linux

Adélie does not set a root password in their rootfs images - therefore you cannot login!

Experimental support for Wii U, with workarounds required for the above issue.

https://wiki.linux-wiiu.org/wiki/Distributions/Adélie

Cafe OS/Menu

A pleasant and interesting assortment of icons and applications.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T9P_8_pwfU

https://wiiubrew.org/wiki/Cafe_OS

Console emulation (potential)

Whether these emulators support operating systems for these consoles is unknown; it must be looked into further. Consoles without meaningful OSes are not included.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WiiUHacks/comments/8e9m3j/best_emulation_setup_for_each_system_on_wiiu/

Nintendo Entertainment System – retroarch

Super Nintendo Entertainment System – retroarch, snes9x next, CATSFC

Nintendo Game Boy (Color) – retroarch, gacubeboy, Gbiine

https://gbatemp.net/threads/release-gacubeboy-emulator.435627 https://gbatemp.net/threads/game-boy-emu-for-5-3-2.417294

Nintendo Game Boy Advance – retroarch

Nintendo Pokémon Mini - PokeMiniU

Nintendo Virtual Boy - mednafen

Sega Genesis - retroarch

Sega Master System – retroarch

Sony PlayStation Portable – PPSSPP alpha

https://www.resetera.com/threads/homebrew-ppsspp-reaches-wii-u.45383

plus see Nintendo Wii listing

plus various other retroarch cores(?)

Debian

one of the more mature distros on offer for powerpc

Has a flashable image available, but installing a DE will be up to the user. Well supported, no net?

https://wiki.linux-wiiu.org/wiki/Distributions/Debian

DOSBox core in RetroArch

Windows 95 is confirmed, and presumably, ME, 98, 3.1, etc. could work.

https://www.reddit.com/r/WiiUHacks/comments/i7v29o/windows_95_running_on_wii_u/

Emulation Nest

This device runs an operating system which is known to emulate various devices with EOPs. See the AmigaOS, Classic Mac OS, DOS, and MSX pages.

Linux (base kernel)

This branch is a port of version 4.19

The foundational kernel port for the Wii U.

https://gitlab.com/linux-wiiu/linux-wiiu

https://gitlab.com/linux-wiiu/linux-loader

Lubuntu

download and write the downloaded image

Only a flashable image is available for this one.

https://wiki.linux-wiiu.org/wiki/Distributions/Lubuntu

PC emulation (potential)

Whether these emulators support operating systems for these computers is unknown; it must be looked into further. Computers without meaningful OSes are not included.

https://emulation.gametechwiki.com/index.php/Emulators_on_Wii_U

CHIP-8 – CHIP8 Emulator

Commodore 64 – YAPE 4 U 0.70.2

PICO-8 – fake-8 git

and see Nintendo Wii listing

Various retroarch cores