We'd get pallets of systems in their boxes fresh off the trucks from the docks in Seattle, and we'd have to depalletize them, pull out the system, and run it down the belt. My main job for the first few weeks before launch was programming the launch systems with the final firmware. I was one of the folks that worked on a Nintendo assembly line in the fall of 2006 for the Wii Launch. The disc would not have been seen or required in the wild, at least not in North America. "That startup disc may very well have been seen in the earliest of the demo kiosks, but not in retail boxes. Ī user "ProfFurryPaws" on Reddit has commented claiming that he worked on the Nintendo assembly line just before the Wii launch, with some intriguing comments related to the disc. If he did own the disc, it would be a case of the disc being shipped to customers, possibly in a mixup of some sort. The claim has not been backed up either, so it is assumed that he never owned the disc. However, neither he nor his family worked in retail and he does not remember seeing the error screen. However, there are other possible explanations for the disc (such as the ability to boot discs being used internally by Nintendo for testing) and as such it is not enough proof to confirm that it was the case.Īnother user, "Excalibur0123" on Reddit, claims to remember owning the disc.
#DOLPHIN EMULATOR MEMORY CARD .RAE INSTALL#
This would explain how the Startup Disc menu can both install content directly from the menu and boot into discs to run the content on the disc.
#DOLPHIN EMULATOR MEMORY CARD .RAE SOFTWARE#
As such, it is theoretically possible that there are different variants to the disc, one of them booting into software code and offering a selection. However, there are some discrepancies in his report, namely that there were reportedly options to install the retail or demo firmware, which does not match up with what is known about the disc's behavior. The discs were properly pressed with silkscreened labels, and came with usage instructions.
He reports that those in the media who got pre-release units had to use the discs as well, and that it was a big topic within the industry at the time. Upon posting the article on Reddit again for the Wii's 10th anniversary, a Reddit user by the name of Djarum has confirmed that he worked at retail during that time and saw/used the disc.
The NAND binary can be run on Dolphin, however, as of writing, it will not work on revisions released after (and including) 5.0-2127. The NAND binary was also dumped online by Blushing, before his passing. The NAND dump of the console needing the Startup Disc was dumped by user Bushing in 2010, and was since uploaded by another user Larsenv. No concrete info, physical copy, or digital rip of the disc has surfaced, although it is likely that Nintendo is still in possession of copies of the disc. While it is known that the disc was just a software system update, the specific content of the disc is unknown as the disc did not ship with any systems that were purchased by consumers (as far as is known), and it is unknown if any retailers are still in possession of the disc. While the Wii Startup Disc error message is not lost and has been thoroughly documented, the disc itself is lost. It is known that this is the ID of the startup disc as a Wii with the error message will boot discs modified to have their ID as RAAE.īlurry photo of the startup disc prompt on kiosk unit. This was most likely implemented to prevent people from using the disc twice to downgrade. If it does, the firmware will refuse to boot the disc. Īlso according to the HackMii post, the final version of the Wii firmware (Wii Menu) has a check built in that checks any disc inserted to ensure its internal disc ID does not match the one of the Startup Disc. As most of the very few purchased by customers were sent back, there exist very few Wii units that require it. Apparently, said units that required the disc were accidentally shipped to customers, and had to be sent back to Nintendo to be fixed.
Īccording to an old blog post on a now-abandoned Wii hacking blog called HackMii, a developer discovered that a very few early Nintendo Wii units shipped to customers required the disc, even though no such disc was provided. While the Wii Startup Disc was stated to be required for the console's initial startup in pre-release rumors, and the disc was shown on the initial versions of the Wii box, it was never shipped to the vast majority of customers.
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