They said newer Wii models don’t support it. My Wii is a mid 2009 model. But I just want to know. What year was when they stopped supporting backwards compatibility? My guess is 2010 - 2011.
The vertical Wii is GC compatible, while the horizontal Wii doesn´t have backward compatibility. Just see the logo in the front to see if is an horizontal or vertical Wii (because not always is posible to check the controller ports in the console).
Me gusta jugar videojuegos. Soy de México. Sorry my english grammar. I love the Virtual Console, party and fighting games too.
I'd say it was 2011. I finally bought a Wii (it was black and came with NSMB and a Mario Orchestra Soundtrack) that year to play Skyward Sword, which came out in late 2011. It was not backwards compatible with the Gamecube, much to my disappointment at the time.
The Nintendo Wii is still relatively young and many mainstream gaming sites were in existence and have archives that go back long enough to cover this period.
'Wii redesign launching' for instance brought up lots of hits with news articles from the time that it happened. Here's one such example.
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