The identity of a "Nintendo Wii" is the combination of its enclosure, hardware, and software. To take only the enclosure and hardware and keep calling it the same thing is absurd. Where does it end? What if I keep the enclosure, but replace guts with an Xbox? Is it still a "Nintendo Wii"?
You can draw the line wherever you like but for me it is still a Wii even with a different OS. I would draw the line at replacing the hardware inside with XBOX hardware. Others may draw the line at the chassis.
There's also the fact that there's a modern, up-to-date Unix distribution for this in the first place, how cool is that.
So if I stick a modern hardware PC running a Wii emulator inside a Wii shell, then it's still a Wii?
Things can be named analogously - if I have a machine that plays Wii games for me, and nothing else, I'll call it "the Wii".
Yes for the purposes of your own personal sense of achievement, no for the purposes of speedrun records.
Shall I call it an NES?
No.
> Does it have an NES cartridge slot?
No.
> Or controllers?
No.
> What about the never used expansion port on the bottom?
It does have an expansion port that I've never used.
> Is it in a NES shell?
No.
> [so it's not an NES, then]
It's mine, and I can call it whatever I want. :P
so not an NES one, then
>It's mine, and I can call it whatever I want. :P
that's fair, I call my switch lite a playstation 7. It'd be disingenuous to present it to others as an NES, however. If it meets most or all the criteria above, then it wouldn't be