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The Wii Mini - I believe only available up here in Canada; but actually fairly common up here - I think dropped GCN support.

Otherwise, all Wii models had GCN game, controller; and memory card support.

Fun fact: the Wii was a modified GameCube for a bit of its development cycle. Prototypes of the Wiimote with a GCN have been found.

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There was a model before the Wii Mini that also dropped GameCube support. It looks similar to the original model but lacks the GameCube ports and the "Wii" logo is placed for horizontal orientation instead of vertical. It's sometimes called the "family edition".

The Wii Mini originally released in Canada but came to other regions later. Japan never got the GameCube-less models for some reason.

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