Wii startup disc system FOUND!

yes XD and yup please keep us updated

 

I like this mystery....it was once on the box...

http://www.joystiq.com/2006/10/18/back-of-the-wii-box-sparks-speculation/

 

Any news so far?

 

Nope. Sent it on friday. It still has not left the post office in my town.

(no longer need that pic)

 

Wooooooo!
Bushing got the mail slip. He just has to go to the post office tomorrow to pick it up.
However, this looks like a big task. I have no idea how long it will take him.

EDIT:
Also got an avatar. What do you think?

 

Good choice sir.

 

nice avatar and thanks for the updates

 

this is super neat. keep us updated mate.

 

According to tracking, IT WAS DELIVERED! He has the wii!

 

Not sure how much I can share. I don't want to steal bushings thunder. All I can say is:
This was a triumph!

 

Sounds great! Cant wait to read more about it on hackmii.com. Thanks to paul.strickler1 and bushing :nod:

 

Nice, good to hear

 

ooh i cant wait to read about this! XD thanks for the update

 

Wow~!

Well, I have to say I am relieved~! When I thought for a sec it was not being sent to bushing.... Great Job both of you, the OP and bushing~!!!

This sounds like this could be what will make me seek out a Wii! : )

Regards,

npt

:dance:

 

Huh I read in the earlier thread that this was on launch boxes. I went to go check my box which I camped out for on launch and found it has a sticker over it that says it has a wii sports disc and no startup disc. I found that interesting, I never noticed, now I know why!

 

bump any updates?

 

Nope. Haven't heard from bushing in about a week. He said he was going out of town last weekend and he would mail the wii back this week.

Not to worry, yet. Our semi-agreement was that he would email me every friday and he has not yet missed one.

 

Yes, yes, I'm still around. Getting ready to package up the Wii and send it back to Paul. (Hi Paul!)

I'm going to save the full report for a HackMii post, but in short -- it looks like Paul got a Wii that was assembled from spare parts (the serial number on the case doesn't match up with the serial number in NAND, and neither serial number matches up with the age of the drive). I suspect that someone got a stack of Wii main boards from "somewhere", and this somehow made it into one of them from the factory -- it might have originally been intended as a "spare part" for a Nintendo service center?

The normal Wii system menu checks for a disc with the ID 'RAAE' and refuses to boot it -- Crediar pointed out that this might have been this original Wii "startup disc", and his guess was correct. The system will boot install any updates present on a disc with the ID RAAE, and then will launch the main program -- I used this to dump the NAND and keys, and with that done, to update the Wii to working order. The startup disc, then, might have only had an update partition with IOS9, the original system menu (v33), and any other channels that came on launch-date Wiis (shopping channel?).

More to come, when I have a chance to write it up -- hopefully within the next week or so.

 

Maybe I am mixing up things but I think the System Menu 1.0 uses systemmenu.rvl.2.9.wad would be v29 then?

Bushing, check your PM

 

Well, Wii accessories are way over priced. I only paid $30 for the console! Now nintendo expects me to pay $100 just to get a power adapter, remote, nunchuck, senor bar and av cables!

It's even expensive on dealextreme!
I'm probably going to have to leave this wii unhooked up until I can bring myself to pay that.