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    Extend Y cable for HDD? Or powered hub? Or something else entirely?

    It just needs to sit under the shelf - 1 meter to 1.5 meters, max. I know the woes of extending USB beyond its capabilities, as I do IT for K12 institutes and those people love changing around classroom orientations every year with a complete disregard to cabling. You'll be surprised how weird...
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    Extend Y cable for HDD? Or powered hub? Or something else entirely?

    So I recently put Tiramisu on my Wii U, and I'm now getting back into using the little black marvel. I found that I've only got about 1GB left on my internal memory, and with the homebrew that I want to try, that seems... a little lacking. So I've been looking for ways to hook up external memory...
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    Nintendo expects the Switch to continue strong for the next few years, has "strong lineup" of upcoming games

    Bigger GPU than CPU, smaller die size and about 1/3 of the heat emission - GCN was much more optimised, ran on completely different architecture and had a newer GPU design. Xbox had some pretty amazing games, but it wasn't capable of running RE4 - and they had to seriously scale that game down...
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    Hardware How I fixed 160-0103 system memory error

    Pretty sure the eMMC spec for what's in the Wii U tops out around 100MB/s, so anything is fine, really.
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    Hardware How I fixed 160-0103 system memory error

    If you've already homebrewed your system, run NANDdumper from the homebrew channel. If you haven't, you can do it as part of the Tiramisu loader. Most guides explicity state the dump as an essential part, and you can still load the exploit to run the NAND dumper from there after you put any...
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    Hardware How I fixed 160-0103 system memory error

    Thanks, that worked like a charm. Seems my Wii U has had 71 critical failures in its life, and came to life on 1 October 2013, more than a year after its eMMC was produced. @SDIO - still interested in the logs, even though it's not a Hynix Wii U?
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    Hardware How I fixed 160-0103 system memory error

    When I try to extract the SLC.bin with wfs-extract, I get an "unexpected WFS version (bad key?)" error. Is there anything specific I'm doing wrong? I figured extracting the SLC was the same as the MLC, and I've only got the 1 dump. Should I be calling the seeprom here as well? Just trying to...
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    Hardware How I fixed 160-0103 system memory error

    Just dumped my NAND and ran mdinfo. Even though I bought my 32GB PAL Wii U late 2013 (got it for Wind Waker HD) my eMMC seems to have been produced late August 2012. Nintendo really had issues selling these units, didn't they? Had no errors dumping, as is to be expected by now without Hynix...
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    Hardware How I fixed 160-0103 system memory error

    You may want to use the Wii U a bit, so the cache gets filled with new data. Like, play a few games for an hour or 2. My SD card just arrived, once I get home from work I plan on modding my late 2013 Wii U. I'd hate for my unit to die, as it's also my Wii (my launch Wii needs reballing, and I...
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    Nintendo expects the Switch to continue strong for the next few years, has "strong lineup" of upcoming games

    See, I don't get that whole point about Nintendo. The NES was less powerful than its main competitor, the Master System, but way more powerful than anything else on the market at the time - maybe that started the myth of Nintendo consistently underpowering their hardware. The SNES was the most...
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    Nintendo expects the Switch to continue strong for the next few years, has "strong lineup" of upcoming games

    I'm on the fence here - we're going into year 7 with a console, which was fine in the PS3 and Xbox 360 days. I mean, those things lasted 12 years, IIRC. But those consoles were state of the art consoles when they released, whereas the Switch is based on something that was already long in the...
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    Hi there - lurker turned member

    Hi everyone - long time lurker decided to sign up, in the wake of the whole "your Wii U might be dying" scare. I've been avidly collecting systems for quite some time now. Grew up a Nintendo player, got my first console in 1998 - an N64 that I still own to this day, and I'm glad to say it still...
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