Buddy got this free at a used game shop. The guy said "It's broken Wii U, take it"

Guy couldn't figure out why the discs wouldn't go into it. That's because there is no disc drive, but a hard drive. Plus it had "weird connectors" he couldn't figure out.

http://imgur.com/a/DfhYo

 

Wii U version of RVT-H? I'm jealous of anyone who can walk in and find this stuff. My area has zero interest in games. All I find in thrift shops are books and clothing.

 

very interesting find. like MSX, this would never happen in my area either.

 

I'm thinking it's a kiosk unit

 

I think the kiosk units have disc drives. Someone posted 2 demo discs here before.

 

hmmmmm weird.

 

hah neat

 

So what happens when you turn it on?

 

Yeah, I think the most important is "what happens when you turn it on?"

Such a peculiar Wii-U Unit.....

 

No idea, the unit is all he has I believe

 

the last picture shows some kind of usb cable leading into the "drive bay" if its plain usb did you already tryed to connect the hdd to a pc?

 

Honestly if it is part of a wii u development kit might not be too surprising considering how fast developers have abandon wii u.

 

dev units have colored faceplates. This is kiosk unit I think.

 

http://www.assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?53247-Wii-U-%BFKiosk-or-dev

I think this thread created 2 weeks ago was the same thing.

 

cool find, i got a PS3 test kit once as a "faulty" ps3, similar story really, but i paid £25....basically they where saying they couldn't update it and it wouldn't play any new games XD

i wonder how many dev kits and stuff get binned as shops think they are broken/faulty retail units

 

Well it looks like it has relatively standard power (not sure), sensor bar (looks like the same one as the Wii), and AV/HDMI (AV is the same as the Wii, HDMI is HDMI) ports. Not going to guess what the top ones are though.