Installing Windows Me on the Nintendo Wii?

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Today we're going to attempt an install of Windows Me on my Nintendo Wii! I did this a few months ago with Windows 95, so let's see if we can upgrade it.
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#MichaelMJD #WindowsMe #NintendoWii

[@meligarcia]

Windows Mii what a great name

[@abandonedhhhv]

why do i have 7 likes that makes no sense (old comment was explaining the joke)

[@meligarcia]

@@abandonedhhhv You didn't need to explain the joke.

[@NotJohnTanner]

lel

[@NotHereBoi]

Tahera Nargis explaining the joke always ruins the joke

[@yxles]

I didnt even notice that it was Mii instead of Me

[@ProtoMario]

Man it'll be crazy in the future... 2020 - Windows Me on a Wii

[@binguslover0508]

mama miia

[@FlineGuy]

@@binguslover0508 is this mario or abba?

[@GenOner]

2000: whats a wii?

[@morsine]

At least it rhymes

[@shin3417]

Because the Wii is for mii and me and were going to download Win Me

[@videocommenter]

Nintendo Support: Hello, this is Nintendo Support, what do you need help with? Me: My Wii has a Blue Screen Of Death Nintendo Support: ...

[@solidsnakeandgrayfox]

Lol

[@plagueboned5208]

Nintendo Support: Get out

[@acepilotsmall9429]

@I'm sucotik correct

[@adastrapgh]

Well, technically the Wii has a BSOD, it’s just not easy to trigger

[@smashfanx7560]

nintendo support: . . . nintendo support: . . . nintendo support: seriusly

[@Dumb_Killjoy]

Windows Mii-lenium Edition? I'll see myself out.

[@tristanraine]

Hey, don't go! You could of made a worse joke like "Wiidows Mii"!

[@16Marguie]

OMG Funny 😆

[@TIMLPDE]

Take my angry like and go away ._.

[@constent5394]

Wiidows

[@unusedaccount9130]

69 likes nice

[@vostok1459]

13:06 what mom thinks steam is gonna do to the computer

[@solidsnakeandgrayfox]

Wii: illegal operation. Fbi: go go go

[@ahmadprogramming1197]

Every copy of windows me is personalized

[@TheGlitchyMario]

@babylard1 Because.

[@TheGlitchyMario]

@babylard1 Explorer was being illegal. So the FBI was called.

[@trashplayerclicksubscribe9860]

@@TheGlitchyMario but if there was fbi, whys there no fbi, i watched the entired video then i hear no fbi

[@TheGlitchyMario]

@@trashplayerclicksubscribe9860 He edited it out.

[@tahaxd7777]

Next video : Installing PS5 emulator on the Nintendo Wii

[@Creeper_ofDoom]

That would not be possible.

[@bemxio]

@@Creeper_ofDoom We know. We're joking and you missed the joke.

[@WindowsXP_YT]

There is no such thing as a PS5 emulator on Wii

[@SAMISHUKRI]

@@hakerananasek Even a 200 dollar pc can emulate woo, the ps5 and Xbox sex definitely would be able to

[@bemxio]

@@hakerananasek well, i didn't say it was a good joke

[@alexanrsousa]

If you modify the config file to restrict it to VGA only you could probably resolve the graphical glitches at the expense of being stuck in 16-color mode. That first ME boot uses VGA and didn't have any glitches, they only appeared once the hardware detection was performed and the video driver was changed.

[@SummonerArthur]

Exactly! I was hoping that someone would point that out!

[@zoszane]

@@SummonerArthur Wow

[@SummonerArthur]

@@zoszane wow what?

[@QuantumScratcher]

VGA is weird to me because although there are 256 usable colours (yes, I am a Briton), only 16 can be used at a time.

[@alexanrsousa]

@@QuantumScratcher You can use 256 colors simultaneously, but the resolution is low (320x200 standard, 320x240 with tricks and square pixels, 360x480 giving up on that and 400x600 with reduced refresh rate). Using Windows, even 3.11, below 640x480 is bad, and 16-colors even allow you to go up to 800x600 if you are willing to drop the refresh rate to 50Hz. It comes to no surprise that Windows favored higher resolutions over higher color gamut, since it wasn't exactly used much for multimedia those days. Also, VGA has 262,144 colors from which those 16 or 256 are picked from. All these limitations are probably due to limitations in both memory size and RAMDAC capabilities.

[@Nostalgia_Realm]

20:08 Windows Me: Error message Michael: That's a good sign!

[@SOTP.]

If this is a joke, ignore this comment, if not, heres why: He does not know weither he logged in or not. This error would show that he actually logged in by pressing enter.

[@DavidWonn]

Given how glitchy "Wiindows" 95 was for you, I’d be amazed if ME would work at all. Now that I think about it, I’ve had strange mouse cursor issues similar to yours, but it happened when I attempted to install Windows 98 on a throwaway Compaq Proliant server. It would even produce Mainboard failure messages on bootup. But when I reverted it back to a dual boot of Windows 95 / NT4, the problems went away.

[@aidancommenting]

Maybe that system wasn't compatible with Win95? I mean it makes a bit of sense to me, newer PCs won't run a DOS-based OS at all, and a quick Google search tells me Win95 was dropped in 2001. Dual-booting with a newer OS may have fixed a compatibility error or something. I don't know too much about this stuff though, I'm just a teen with a hobby in retro gaming lol

[@DavidWonn]

The server I acquired originally had Windows 2000 on it, which was a bad choice on a Pentium Pro. I suspect it had NT4 before that, which was usually the optimal choice on such hardware (aside from perhaps OS/2 or Linux.) Neither 95 nor NT gave me any issues, and I never did figure out exactly why 98 gave it so much trouble.

[@SubtotalAnt8185]

he can just compile bochs for the wii and it will run better right...? that emulator has been compiled for android of course it will work with wii

[@damarioYT]

That crash dsi thing is a homebrew application crash.

[@mclosson1975]

I Have A DSi!

[@mclosson1975]

The App Said DSI Because I Think The DSi Was Released 2007-2008.

[@minbcraft]

i bet the new 3ds can run windows me

[@Qwert2763]

@@mclosson1975 no there has been different things

[@RereAndRerun]

@@mclosson1975 no wii DSI is not related to the handheld DSi hahaha

[@iClone101]

"This program has performed an illegal operation" You don't say.

[@Andrew982_]

What I’m curious about is if something like Mac OS 9 can run on the Wii, considering MacOS 9 runs on PowerPC, and the Wii runs on the PPC architecture as well.

[@Andrew982_]

Dr ROLFCOPTER! What I’m really curious about is if you can make it boot natively, and somehow find a way to flash a Mac OS ROM to the Wii, and turn your Wii into a retro Mac.

[@SzymonPmc]

try qemu

[@brundle_fly_3895]

@@Andrew982_ you can flash the storage chip

[@deadair32101]

No you can't. Changing a system into a completely different system isn't as easy as just plopping a copy of os8 on it...

[@ethancedrik]

Would not be easily possible natively due to vast differences in the bootloader and system firmware as well as the way it addresses hardware amongst other things

[@acheers]

*i dont need sleep, i need awnsers*

[@RezoA]

Here's your awnsers: awnsers

[@acheers]

@@RezoA fr i need awnsers

[@Techtype_]

12:47 Michael: Do you guys hear that? Me: *YES. WE. DO.*

[@CaelThunderwing]

Windows 9X is generally unstable and dependant on the driver you use, in DosBox its not the Wii itself, and 9X support is kinda "in beta" in Dosbox-X

[@acumenium8157]

@@camthesaxman3387 Sounds like the mess called PCSX2.

[@ZX3000GT1]

@@camthesaxman3387 PCem/86Box is the way to go for Win9x/2k. Having said that, I did install Win 98 JP on DosBox-X (mostly to play older classic VNs) and it works just fine.

[@ZX3000GT1]

@@camthesaxman3387 Unless my throttle happy 4710HQ + 840M can be considered a monster PC, I couldn't see why most people with at least a half-decent PC couldn't use it.

[@ZX3000GT1]

@@camthesaxman3387 By the time you're going for those games, you might as well try to run it on your modern PC. SW Episode 1 Racer is on GOG, as is a lot of other 98-2k Windows Games, while the entire classic NFS games (except 1) have 3rash driver to make it run on modern systems, allowing modern resolutions and widescreen, as well as controller support.

[@lukassteinbrink322]

Not all 9x were unstable. 98SE was super stable for example.

[@Uzedrname]

Wait, did he manage to corrupt his DosBox install? Good job Michael.

[@macecail]

*DosBox Corruptions #2*

[@isoceptic]

*DosBox Corruptions*

[@ExperiencersInternational]

Nice thing you did there with Windows *Mii* . I love my Wii U and it would be cool to show some Wii U only stuff as well. I'm glad I didn't start my virtual machine adventures with DOSBox and instead Virtualbox (still haven't installed Windows 8.1/10 due to virtualization not working well for me due to virtual machines not working when virtualization is on, tried again to install Windows 8.1 with virtualization, still getting issues).

[@ExperiencersInternational]

@Nicolas yeah exactly.

[@scottcurrall]

The graphical glitches are definitely caused by the video settings. If you change colour depth to 16 colors it looks fine

[@ramdomstuff1923]

Keep up the great work these videos are awesome thank you Mr.MJD

[@MichaelMJD]

Glad you like them!

[@-i_rainny6605]

Windows Me: Wii Edition

[@axylorionfredrick]

Windows Millenium Edition: Wii Edition

[@-i_rainny6605]

holy shit this got lots of likes

[@ims2129]

windows Mii

[@subbe124]

Windows Wiilenium Edition

[@goldysoficial2447]

Wiindows Miilenium Ediition: Wii ediition

[@thatcriticvideo]

"Why is my Windows ME not working?" Better pull up a chair, this is going to take a while. 😝

[@superepicjuce]

12:49 I think that's the mouse data somehow going into the audio line

[@nameless.402]

aaAAaAoaAaAaaaaaaAAAA

[@SOTP.]

Nah, its a common error, i dont know what causes it, usually when windows freezes like when a critical error happenes.

[@KOSMOS1701A]

12:50 those are the noises of satan that comes with every Windows Me installation.

[@someonesomewhere9321]

I demand you install Bonzi Buddy on the Wii! It has to be done!

[@centho8354]

If the Wii has a PPC cpu why not installing Mac OS ?

[@AlvaroR04]

Because MacOS is from Apple and is not compatible

[@centho8354]

@@AlvaroR04 The CPU is

[@TheDemocrab]

@@AlvaroR04 They likely mean the older Mac OS' such as OS 9 that did run on PowerPC.

[@centho8354]

@@TheDemocrab Until Mac OS 10.5 PPC was supported so why not give it a try

[@OG_MrRubberDucky]

That would be interesting to see.

[@sugaryhull9688]

I believe the artefacts are due to inaccuracies in the display emulation for Windows on DOSBox. DOSBox was actually forked into DOSBox-X specifically because of the Windows incompatibilities

[@retrogamer33]

Windows ME on the Wii. We're all a poet and didn't know it.

[@dani.munoz.a23]

Henry Stickmin damn ya beat me to it

[@justsomerandompersononthei2595]

You've heard of elf on the shelf, now get ready for: Windows ME on a Wii (Dead meme I know but I couldn't resist).

[@joveaaron-real]

"Interface Manager". Thank you. And you.

[@fionnmcgovern545]

Yay! A new homebrew video!

[@noah_will]

Please keep making these longer videos

[@AlvaroR04]

Bro nice reference in the video thumbnail xd

[@TheFakeVIP]

I think the reason you got that error about MSDOS8 is because that's the version Windows ME ships with (it's not a stand-alone version of DOS). I think DOSBox tried to execute Windows using it's built-in version of DOS, which isn't compatible with DOS8, or at least Windows thinks it isn't.

[@gabrielv.4358]

Amazing! Install W7 next?

[@jacktarantino6799]

U had my curiosity, but now u have my attention

[@Pannadela]

"Can be a windows mouse pointer an instrument?" *"YES."*

[@brianb6653]

I was screaming at my computer Well watching this video. LOL, I installed windows millennium on a 25 MHz Tandy sensation (486sx). All you have to do is launch setup from a command prompt instead of just double clicking the executable. setup.exe /NM The above command will let it ignore the 150 MHz barrier.

[@blainepalmerza]

Awesome Video,Michael!

[@MichaelMJD]

Thanks so much! : )

[@P00PYMAY0NA1SE]

ur almost at 100k subscribers, just wanna congrats you

[@MichaelMJD]

I appreciate it! Thank you!

[@P00PYMAY0NA1SE]

@@MichaelMJD yw

[@P00PYMAY0NA1SE]

@Henry Stickmin yea

[@fmwhitney7]

This exact same thing happened to me when I first tried installing windows 95 in dosbox. I fixed it by changing the cpu type in the config file to 386.

[@NeoClip]

Here before Micheal inevitably hits 100k

[@KingSteven77]

Same about 1 week and he will hit it

[@lancerdeltarune]

same

[@PainweedingPills]

You gotta admit, at 17:16 that is a pretty rare BSOD right here, because most Blue Screens you see are all the same with the difference being the error codes.

[@yeatstan]

Your so close to 100k !!!

[@branhicks]

There's a switch for disabling the processor check when running winme setup. I remember installing it on a 386/25mhz with this back in the day

[@SOTP.]

You mean the hidden nm flag?

[@branhicks]

@@SOTP. Something like that. It's been 20 years

[@SOTP.]

@@branhicks oh ok lol

[@steventechno]

I wonder if QEMU has been ported to the Wii, it might give better results!

[@GrounderSez]

This is actually amazing

[@jatanyt1382]

In the intro you should have said something cool like "Hey guys, Today we will install windows me on wii on our channel michael mjd". Anyways I liked this video and you earned a new sub:)

[@ZebraManiac204]

Next vid: Installing Windows Me on the Nintendo Wii on Windows 10

[@winksplorer]

Windows 10 > Dolphin Emulator > Windows Me

[@SECONDQUEST]

I love my Wii, my niece loves the channel system the main menu uses so I filled it with games.

[@markusTegelane]

This video is so MJD

[@spygaming711]

8:03 this is the first time I heard someone be excited about their screen turning black

[@Tetrahcodom]

Hearing Windows ME being installed on anything gives me PTSD.

[@Amber_123]

if there's some way to get windows 2000 running on the wii, i'd love to see that next

[@FireFoxDestroyer]

Osu fallback

[@Littlefighter1911]

20:15 That's a Wii crash screen. DosBox itself has crashed, not Windows.

[@teh_supar_hackr]

How I ran Windows 95 on my Wii was from booting a disk image of Windows 98 which was pre installed on the disk image. It was slow, but on my experience on Wii it did'int have any weird visual glitches, and I tried using it as a personal PC. That was'int a good idea. XD

[@oswith971]

The wii has to be one of my favorite consoles to mess with, I'm so happy I managed to get two of them from eBay for like 15€ + about the same in shipping about a year ago, one of them was even the gamecube backwards compatible model so I can play my totally legit gamecube backups on that thing through an SD card, they just play a lot better with a real GC controller instead of using an emulator

[@RandomTRandomReal]

uh huh, "totally legit", sure

[@TheJinxCast]

I hate it when people break into my house and only steal my video games.

[@CheapBastard1988]

Oh wow Windows Me runs on the Wii just as well as an AMD Athlon back then. Amazing🤣!

[@OfficialNightic]

12:41 my main PC does this alot when I try to install certain Windows Longhorn builds on a small partition

[@L._Vireo]

MJD video title guide: ? = Attempt failed ! = Success

[@sussymonke8084]

Ah yes the days of my PC pain. I think I downgraded a week after upgrading to ME.

[@klashicola3532]

When are you going. To do a face reveal?

[@Jay-uu5lu]

Seeing how common wiis are on flee markets im tempted to see if its possible to repurpose wiis into school/work budget pcs

[@jari2018]

You could have upgraded windows 95 to IE 5.5 or 98 to 6.0 latest direcX and then procced installing windows ME -You could also update windows media player to the latest since it installs media stuff

[@prankest7440]

You sound like a text to speech voice

[@Superlalo_1]

Next video: installing windows XP on the Wii

[@winksplorer]

Windows XP Is NT Based And Will Not Run ON Dos, But I Think It Can Run In Qemu Or Dosbox By Booting Into The ISO.

[@acumenium8157]

Wiindows. You missed an opportunity here man. Great video.

[@javier.rodriguezdz]

Well, another MJD unique thing

[@grumpywolfgaming]

Imagine calling installing windows ME a upgrade.

[@riceexe]

lol windows mii

[@riceexe]

wow I was second

[@m.t.lanimations9206]

I might consider doing this

[@SupaCLUCK]

Good video but how did you record the Wii in widescreen?

[@Nico93]

Seeing these installations made me wonder if you have heard of 86box? its technically an emulator where you can pick from the first ibm pc over to virtual pc 2007.

[@hakdergaming]

Those display issues are due to the limited cpu cycles dosbox has allocated and you can increase this amount with a shortcut although I forgot what it was

[@SOTP.]

It could also be the drivers that are allowing higher colors and higher resolutions even tho the drivers dont work so it defaults to vga. I believe that since we have seen that it wont go higher than 480p but it is set to 256 colors. Going higher than 480p just shows a black screen. And so the fix would be to set the colors to 16.

[@enderbo]

Everybody gansta until the Wii displays "Windows Millenium Edition"

[@Georgiaball_Mapping]

I love your videos Mike

[@MichaelMJD]

Thanks!

[@PadCircle]

0:00 Smooth intro my guy.

[@dumb5308]

by the way, to fix the display errors you need to turn down the colour depth in the display settings from what I have read (don't know if you have done this already :p)

[@rayzen_undogen]

if you want to fix problem with everything messed up, set color to 16, or have a modified s3 trio64 driver intended for dosbox, as i remember dosbox svn daum had it

[@gergoschwarcz1746]

i was answer Visual Basic 1.0 went under the codename Project Thunder until its release for Windows at the Comdex/Windows World trade show in 1991. A version for DOS would follow in 1992.

[@adamtheman17]

did you install dosbox drivers? like VGA Drivers? there are DosBox Drviers for Video to make this look better and run better

[@donovanelliott9060]

I love that "cd winboot" lol

[@joemolinelli08]

mjd: my goals are beyond your understandings

[@WhereThe40z]

Reminds me of back in the day, when I installed Ubuntu on my Jtag'd Xbox 360

[@Hex_x_Shirok0]

That great mjd

[@rockstar52486]

MS-DOS 8.00 was command and setup prompt in Windows ME

[@mariarala5452]

1900: in the future we will have flying car. 2020: upgrading to Windows Me on Wii

[@pawer_official1245]

0:52 it was "Interface Manager"

[@prajwalnayak.P]

Try changing the display adopter in dosbox config to fix display issues if not fixed try to change cpu type it will definitely fix at some point

[@FreightTrain-dg6ro]

How do you get mouse drivers for the Wii? I have been trying. I have been trying to install windows 3.0 and I got it running, but unfortunately, the mouse doesn’t work unless i use the wiimote

[@adamtheman17]

**Letting you know, if you search google search you can find video, sound drivers for dosbox for windows 95, windows 98 and me. They will improve the performance and fix all those black boxes ! also to make windows 95 windows 98 and me to run right, you will need to install MS-DOS and booting into MS-DOS before you install windows 95 or 98 or me

[@roracle]

Thanks for bringing up such painful memories. While you're at it, why not give me a paper cut and pour lemon juice on it?

[@wqatch]

You should boot into safe mode and change the color depth to 16 colors. That should help...

[@SomewhatSinny]

Can't seem to enter the giveaway. Connection keeps timing out when I submit my details?

[@MrSeba835]

Have you tried changing the type of the emulated gpu in the dosbox config?

[@gabrielv.4358]

Illegal Operation crarcks me up every time, lolol!

[@OperatingTired]

Thats totally not a confusing title at all! xD

[@NotDJGtech]

0:04YES!!!

[@alphastudios0906]

hey maybe you could try a vintage version of macOS on the wii

[@realmamitler]

I don’t hint dosbox is intended for like os like windows me. I think some clever home brew wii users can make the os in the wii to work so windows me or 95 or 98 98se etc works

[@mikepersechino9873]

What if you create an image with ms-dos 7.1(china dos union has it free), so that you can boot from dosbox into ms-dos? After that, you can install ME or 95 on top of that from within actual ms-dos and see if it fixes some of the issues. have had some luck on baremetal using 7.1 as a base for installing 95/98