Despite the Wii being a global hit, some of its cooler features never made it out of Japan. One of them was the Demae Channel, which let you order food from the comfort of your Wii. It was a joint collaboration between Nintendo and the Japanese food delivery service, Demae-can, and the close partnership is likely the reason we never got an equivalent app in the West.

However, some people refuse to ignore an alternate reality where we could order food from US fast food joints from Nintendo's consoles. As a result, a YouTuber managed to order a pizza from a homebrewed version of the Demae Channel, and the best bit is, it actually worked.

Ordering a Domino's pizza from your Wii is surprisingly easy

Time to dig out that console

As spotted by Hackaday, Retro Game Attic over on YouTube posted a video about their newest, most delicious feat. They busted out a Wii with homebrew apps on it, and loaded up a custom version of the Demae Channel called the Food Channel. It seems to keep the same UI as the Demae Channel, albeit with all the elements translated to English, and, of course, no actual reliance on the Demae-can service.

Unfortunately, the video shows that the third-party Food Channel only supports one type of food. In fact, it only supports one restaurant: Domino's. As such, when Retro Game Attic booted up the custom Demae Channel, originally designed to handle tens of hundreds of chains across Japan, it was a little depressing to see all the empty spaces surrounding a single "Pizza" button. Pressing it led to an equally depressing barren space, with "Domino's" being the only option. Hey, it's better than nothing.

Once Retro Game Attic got into the Domino's menu, they found that everything was present. They could pick from a selection of classic pizzas, but they instead took the custom route and selected their own toppings. They then added the pizza to the cart, saw how much it'd cost them, accepted the order, and waited for their meal to arrive. It didn't seem like there was a system in place to handle paying over the app, and the only option was to pay the delivery driver on arrival.

After a little bit of waiting, sure enough, the pizza arrived. While Retro Game Attic does point out that you could probably get the pizza for cheaper using deals and coupons on the website or app, no amount of money can give you the same feeling of chowing down on a pizza you ordered through a homebrew food delivery app on a console that's rapidly approaching its 20th birthday. And that's worth it, in my book. Maybe it's time to bust out those Wii games and party like it's 2006?