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Third-Party Notices
WiiCompiled itself is licensed under the GNU General Public License v3.0
(see LICENSE). It incorporates, links against, or redistributes the third-party
components listed below. Each remains under its own license and copyright.
Nothing listed here is Nintendo intellectual property. This project ships no game code, assets, or data of any kind - see the README.
Bundled in this repository
aurora - MIT
Copyright (c) 2022 Luke Street.
Source: https://github.com/encounter/aurora - vendored in aurora-main/, license text at
aurora-main/LICENSE.
Aurora itself vendors:
- magic_enum 0.7.2 - MIT, Copyright (c) 2019-2021 Daniil Goncharov.
aurora-main/include/magic_enum.hpp. Source: https://github.com/Neargye/magic_enum - libogc-derived SRAM structures - zlib-style license, Copyright (c) Michael Wiedenbauer
(shagkur) and Dave Murphy (WinterMute).
aurora-main/lib/card/SRAM.hpp. Source: https://github.com/devkitPro/libogc
Note
Upstream aurora ships
assets/screenshot.png, a rendered frame from a different Nintendo title. It is intentionally omitted from this repository.
Dolphin Emulator data files - GPL-2.0-or-later
Copyright (c) 2003+ Dolphin Emulator Project. Source: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin - license at https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin/blob/master/COPYING
Two data sets from Dolphin's Data/Sys tree are redistributed here under GPL-2.0-or-later:
| File(s) | Upstream path | Notes |
|---|---|---|
runtime/assets/dsp/dsp_coef.bin |
Data/Sys/GC/dsp_coef.bin |
Free DSP polyphase-resampling coefficient ROM written by the Dolphin team. 4096 bytes, SHA-256 D7741279C2E8EC5C5FB318F8FBDD6DE6BF583520D288E836A5383233A4238179. The runtime verifies this hash at build time. |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/** |
Data/Sys/Wii/shared2/wc24 |
Dolphin's unmodified default WiiConnect24 bootstrap tree, used to seed a newly created per-user NAND on first run. It is byte-identical to the upstream directory. nwc24dl.bin contains Dolphin's default task list, which references Nintendo endpoints shut down in 2014; nwc24msg.cfg contains Dolphin's placeholder account fields, not a real user's account data. |
Neither contains Nintendo executable code or game assets; both are redistributed under
GPL-2.0-or-later from Dolphin's Data/Sys tree.
SHA-256 hashes for the WiiConnect24 bootstrap tree:
| File | SHA-256 |
|---|---|
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/misc.bin |
13DD5B6B2682DEFD3B23AFD8E2983D00EDC25BD4DC28A8389380DEE0EC45A4A5 |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/nwc24dl.bin |
057B6F840C19B41CE080318BC7E717E2B910965CE72AB781A7E319017636C38E |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/nwc24fl.bin |
ED94AF416C47ED3BC2C944EBCD1D734B8935D9697FEB0F7039D8FEA3EC514C18 |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/nwc24fls.bin |
C3A4A5649D6ED2322A0DE98D2258B96A6A1D3C0179854FD21E9835D529736822 |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/nwc24msg.cbk |
7AFEBF33EEB0035397CC74E15E892E700CD2903641D26562F5D46CFBB6171109 |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/nwc24msg.cfg |
7AFEBF33EEB0035397CC74E15E892E700CD2903641D26562F5D46CFBB6171109 |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/mbox/Readme.txt |
E5A888912968050C6C1D46D1C364C324684E1D15AAA62CFE36CF7FCE2C687B21 |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/mbox/wc24recv.ctl |
EFA39268E7071941E4FE429D49C86D73BEE952DF95D91D7909C478DD1BC9050A |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/mbox/wc24recv.mbx |
DD2AD8C9FB38884523459963BFAEC5D5AEAA5FD20EFCDC209764D461E690E435 |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/mbox/wc24send.ctl |
430C3795F1A0AEB198BF626A4A2FF6D123321D453807DD7B904DC3B74DB35D13 |
runtime/assets/wii/shared2/wc24/mbox/wc24send.mbx |
C248DC031CE09F7BE1E55956B6F173E79D6A47D913C22A16593C4687325692B7 |
Dolphin was also used extensively as a behavioural reference during development of this project's hardware and IOS high-level implementations.
Dolphin Emulator Riivolution code - GPL-2.0-or-later
Copyright (c) 2021 Dolphin Emulator Project.
The runtime's Riivolution patch handling is a port of Dolphin's
Source/Core/DiscIO/RiivolutionParser.{h,cpp} and the external-path resolution rules of
Source/Core/DiscIO/RiivolutionPatcher.cpp, adapted in
runtime/include/hle/riivolution_contract.h and runtime/src/hle/storage/riivolution.cpp
(both marked SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-or-later).
Source: https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin
pugixml - MIT
Copyright (c) 2006-2025 Arseny Kapoulkine.
The Riivolution XML reader uses pugixml 1.15, vendored in
runtime/third_party/pugixml from commit ee86beb30e4973f5feffe3ce63bfa4fbadf72f38.
Source and license: https://github.com/zeux/pugixml
Crypto++ 8.9.0 - Boost Software License 1.0 / public domain
Copyright (c) 1995-2019 Wei Dai and contributors.
The runtime uses Crypto++ for SHA-1 and sect233r1 ECDSA key derivation and signing. Its portable
sources are vendored in runtime/third_party/cryptopp; assembly implementations are disabled.
Source: https://github.com/weidai11/cryptopp/tree/CRYPTOPP_8_9_0. Full license text:
runtime/third_party/cryptopp/License.txt.
toml11 4.4.0 - MIT
Copyright (c) 2017 Toru Niina.
The runtime configuration reader and scalar string writer use the single-header distribution,
vendored in runtime/third_party/toml11.
Source: https://github.com/ToruNiina/toml11/tree/v4.4.0. Full license text:
runtime/third_party/toml11/LICENSE.
YamlDotNet - MIT
Copyright (c) Antoine Aubry and contributors.
Referenced by translator/src/Translator.Core. Source: https://github.com/aaubry/YamlDotNet
libco - ISC (valgrind.h: BSD-style)
Copyright byuu and the higan team.
Non-Windows builds use libco's symmetric stackful coroutines in place of Win32 Fibers for guest
OSThread scheduling (runtime/src/fiber_manager.cpp). Vendored in full (all non-Windows
CPU-architecture backends - amd64, x86, arm, aarch64, ppc, ppc64v2, plus the portable sjlj
fallback - though this project's x86_64-only target only ever compiles amd64.c) in
runtime/third_party/libco from commit e18e09d634d612a01781168ad4d76be10a7e3bad.
Source: https://github.com/higan-emu/libco. Full license text:
runtime/third_party/libco/LICENSE.
Fetched at build time and redistributed in release builds
These are pinned in aurora-main/extern/CMakeLists.txt and
aurora-main/cmake/AuroraDawnProvider.cmake. They are not stored in this repository; the build
downloads them, and release installers carry the resulting binaries. Their license texts are
included in the installer's licenses/ folder.
| Component | Version | License | Upstream |
|---|---|---|---|
| Dawn (WebGPU) | v20260603.191052 prebuilt |
BSD-3-Clause | https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn |
| Tint (part of Dawn) | with Dawn | BSD-3-Clause | https://dawn.googlesource.com/dawn |
DirectXShaderCompiler (dxcompiler.dll) |
with Dawn | NCSA / University of Illinois Open Source | https://github.com/microsoft/DirectXShaderCompiler |
| SDL | 3.4.4 | zlib | https://github.com/libsdl-org/SDL |
| Abseil | LTS 20240722.0 | Apache-2.0 | https://github.com/abseil/abseil-cpp |
| Dear ImGui | 1.91.9b-docking | MIT | https://github.com/ocornut/imgui |
| {fmt} | 11.1.4 | MIT | https://github.com/fmtlib/fmt |
| xxHash | 0.8.3 | BSD-2-Clause | https://github.com/Cyan4973/xxHash |
| zlib | 1.3.2 | zlib | https://github.com/madler/zlib |
| libpng | 1.6.58 | PNG Reference Library License v2 | https://github.com/pnggroup/libpng |
| FreeType | 2.14.3 | FreeType License (FTL) - see below | https://freetype.org/ |
| Zstandard | 1.5.7 | BSD-3-Clause - see below | https://github.com/facebook/zstd |
| SQLite | 3.51.3 amalgamation | Public domain | https://sqlite.org/ |
| Tracy Profiler | pinned commit | BSD-3-Clause | https://github.com/wolfpld/tracy |
| C++/WinRT | - | MIT (Microsoft) | https://github.com/microsoft/cppwinrt |
Dual-licensed components - elections made by this project
-
FreeType is offered under the FreeType License (FTL) or GPL-2.0. This project elects the FreeType License. The FTL requires the following credit, which is given here and reproduced in distributed builds:
Portions of this software are copyright © 2026 The FreeType Project (www.freetype.org). All rights reserved.
-
Zstandard is offered under BSD-3-Clause or GPL-2.0. This project elects BSD-3-Clause. Copyright (c) Meta Platforms, Inc. and affiliates.
Bundled in the setup executable's toolkit payload
The distributed WiiCompiled-Setup.exe carries a build toolkit so that translation and
compilation can run on a machine with nothing preinstalled. These tools are redistributed
unmodified, with their license texts, in the installer's licenses/ folder.
| Component | License | Upstream |
|---|---|---|
| llvm-mingw (Clang, LLD, libc++, libunwind, MinGW-w64 runtime) | Apache-2.0 with LLVM Exception; MinGW-w64 runtime under its own permissive terms; bundled GNU utilities under GPL-2.0-or-later or GPL-3.0-or-later | https://github.com/mstorsjo/llvm-mingw |
| CMake | BSD-3-Clause | https://cmake.org/ |
| Ninja | Apache-2.0 | https://ninja-build.org/ |
| DolphinTool (disc image extraction) | GPL-2.0-or-later | https://github.com/dolphin-emu/dolphin |
Microsoft Visual C++ Runtime (vcruntime140.dll, vcruntime140_1.dll, msvcp140.dll) |
Microsoft redistributable terms | Microsoft Visual Studio |
dxil.dll |
Microsoft redistributable (proprietary signing library) | Microsoft |
Important
Several toolkit components are GPL-licensed (DolphinTool, and the GNU utilities inside llvm-mingw). Their complete corresponding source is available from the upstream projects linked above at their pinned versions, and this project will supply it on request for the exact versions shipped in any given release. Pins live in
Launcher/Prepare-PortableTools.ps1andLauncher/NativeBuildFlags.ps1.
Development-only dependencies
Not redistributed in any release artifact.
| Component | License |
|---|---|
| xUnit.net 2.4.2, xunit.runner.visualstudio 2.4.5 | Apache-2.0 |
| Microsoft.NET.Test.Sdk 17.6.0 | MIT |
| coverlet.collector 6.0.0 | MIT |
| .NET 8 SDK | MIT |
Reference material
Not code, but the documentation this project depends on:
- WiiBrew - Wii hardware and IOS documentation.
- Custom Mario Kart Wiiki (Tockdom) - Mario Kart Wii file formats and modding documentation.
- Retro Rewind by ZPL - the mod distribution this project can build as a static profile. No Retro Rewind content is redistributed here; users supply their own copy.
If you believe a component is missing or misattributed here, please open an issue.