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The wii and gamecube had only CDs for storage so it doesn't run in to that issue.

They have their own very special requirements. For instance their equivalent of shaders are able to be changed much more quickly than PC architectures's GPUs generally allow.

But dolphin emulator enthusiasts mitigated that by creating huge shader caches by playing the games for hours, and then saving the shaders.

I don’t think they use shader caches anymore? Unless something changed since 2017?

https://dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/07/30/ubershaders/

Great story, I enjoyed reading this, thanks for sharing.

> Mali on Android: Not tested. We can safely say it wouldn't end well, though.

This brings memories; my canvas webpage had a number of problems with android mali devices.

The gamecube used mini-dvd and the wii used dvd

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