Hacking Wii Hard drive iso loader in action

[Slowking]

Well those informations are pre-release. I don't think that they are to reliable...
But if they are really using USB-Harddrives in these stations, these informations are probably right. ^^

 

[noobwarrior7]

the USB mass storage device homebrew project determined that 1.1 instead of 2.0 was very likely limited by IOS (yay!?), but has yet to offer a solution....that information was obtained by me looking at that project homepage and seeing that being said...about 1 month ago.

 

[Vater Unser]

Well I've seen it in action. When you turn it on it goes straight to a custom ipod style menu with pics of the full games. It has 20 of them from mario galaxy to mario kart all full games. All I could tell hardware wise was a white hard drive attached to wii usb drive.
here's the info:

$4,250 which includes the cost of the unit, all taxes, shipping and administration, and repair and maintenance for the life of the Fun Center

Four fucking thousand dollars?

Wii: $250
20 Games:

 

[Mr-Kory]

and the currency you are using is?

 

[Vater Unser]

and the currency you are using is?

Zimbabwe-Dollars, of course.

 

[Sstew]

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3154939

They said the Wii also has USB 2.0

 

[Slowking]

Yeah that's the source of the Wikipedia article and it was pre-release, so it's not really that relyable. They even say that the ethernet adapter is 2.0, which it's not, it's 1.1.

 

[mysticwaterfall]

Modderman over at Wiihacks posted a video of this in action from his local hospital:




Edit: Original wiihacks article: http://www.wiihacks.com/news-annoucements/...-selection.html

 

[Linuks]

That's... strange^^

 

[Slowking]

Well according to him the HDD was probably in there instead of the DVD drive. It makes sense. Nintendo could easily manufacture a HDD-board instead of the normal DVD-one.
So it's still unsure if the USB-Ports would be fast enough for games...

 

[Arakon]

considering the dev units have an internal HDD, it would cost nintendo very little more to make a bunch more of those with a custom IPL.

 

[elfsander]

Yeah that's the source of the Wikipedia article and it was pre-release, so it's not really that relyable. They even say that the ethernet adapter is 2.0, which it's not, it's 1.1.

The Wii USB ports ARE 2.0. It's the simple fact that the Wii software doesn't know how to handle USB 2.0 devices yet, which disables us from using USB 2.0 transfer speed. USB 2.0 only devices are working on the Wii, and test the speed of the LAN adapter (on local servers) shows that infact it's using LAN speed. Which is more than USB 1.1.

 

[toastert2003]

I like where this is going.... I'm thinking a nice, well made trust-fund kid will buy one and donate it to the scene, so they can pick it apart and find out how it works

-- a boy can dream... can't he?

 

[ciper]

I just saw one of these in action. The load times are essentially the same as a DVD from what I could tell.

Even though I had my leatherman in my pocket there was no way to get it away from the kids playing it so I had no chance to take it apart

 

[MeowMix]

Well apart from the Hardrive, it could very well be a 20 DVD Changer plugged into the USB port enabled to 2.0.. not that it makes a diff then a harddrive but yeah.

 

[MeowMix]

ok im gunna break my leg, get in the hospital and get the wii, call my friend over to my room to make sure the coast is clear, get the wii and open the bi** up and Borrow the hard-drive. then quickly on my laptop Dump all contents, check specs on the harddrive and put the HDD back, if i can I'll Moddify a game to launch the HBC Channel and Ill run NAND dumper from there onto a sd card.

Once done, I'll restore the drive and put it back in. job done..

the tricky part is to find out if my local hospital has one of these, and how am gunna get stunned into hospitlization.. also getting into the box of it.. Has it been soldered from anywhere? I can use a soldering iron to remove the solder.

 

[Trolly]

Well apart from the Hardrive, it could very well be a 20 DVD Changer plugged into the USB port enabled to 2.0.. not that it makes a diff then a harddrive but yeah.

But that would be the dumbest and least cost effective way of doing it. Even Nintendo aren't that stupid!

 

[datahoarder]

I don't know about anyone else, but that interface for selecting games was uber sexy.

 

[MeowMix]

Well apart from the Hardrive, it could very well be a 20 DVD Changer plugged into the USB port enabled to 2.0.. not that it makes a diff then a harddrive but yeah.

But that would be the dumbest and least cost effective way of doing it. Even Nintendo aren't that stupid!

But to think about updating these "Machines" Would take like ages to transfer over 4gb x 20gb.. Or infact they could have made a USB Disk drive that would work through a special DVD 40GB disk they made or something..

 

[ciper]

Or infact they could have made a USB Disk drive that would work through a special DVD 40GB disk they made or something..

Like an HD DVD? Lol no thats not how it works. I didn't hear any seeking sounds a DVD would normally make.