Wii

Wii
Developer: Nintendo Publisher: Nintendo Released in JP: December 2, 2006 Released in US: November 19, 2006 Released in EU: December 6, 2006 This game has unused graphics. This game has unused text. This game has a prototype article This game has a prerelease article

The Wii is Nintendo's second disc-based home console, and the first to have fairly in-depth online capabilities, plus a sophisticated updatable operating system. The Wii shares much of its base hardware with the GameCube, and thus most models are backward-compatible with GameCube discs and memory cards.

To do: The console allegedly had some early plans for the Virtual Console. Maybe there's more hidden things in the Virtual Console files?

Unused Banner

The system menu contains a "DVD" banner for the Disc Channel, which would presumably be displayed when a DVD was inserted. This, along with spotted functions in the code (specifically syscalls 50 and 51, which control DVD video-related functions), suggests Nintendo planned to include DVD playback for the Wii.

The Wii's hardware is capable of DVD playback, which can be "unlocked" through Wii homebrew software, but this does not work on some newer Wii consoles.

Unused Text

Wii Menu 1.0 has some unused text, shown below.

Watch DVD

This would probably be shown if you were going to watch a DVD on your Wii (before the idea was scrapped).

Dear Tommy,

I have gone out to buy groceries.
Your ice cream is in the fridge.

Mom

This letter is from Grandma.

This is my neighbor's cat.
Isn't it cute?

Love, Grandma

Grandma

See you at Christmas!

These are some of the messages that were used to demonstrate the uses of the Wii Message Board.

Grandma

Dad's Cell

These contacts were used to demonstrate the uses of the Wii Address Book.

Animal Crossing

-Notice-

The Flea Market is open for business tomorrow!
Visit other folks' houses and pick up gently used items for dirt cheap!

It seems that Animal Crossing: City Folk would have sent messages regarding events happening in the game to your Wii Message Board. However, it uses an in-game Bulletin Board instead for whatever reason.

Remote Control Functionality

Within exBtn.ash are multiple files indicating that, at some point, the Wii Remote had functionality to act as a TV Remote.

This feature would later be implemented in the Japanese-only TV Friend Channel, and later on the Wii U's GamePad.

In Wii Menu 1.0-3.0, you can find a file called tvrc_DB.arc which has .bin files which probably were used to control the TV. The TV Friend Channel also has this file.

	Volume Control
	Power On/Off Change Input

rimocon_sousa.tpl shows the controls of said functionality.

rimocon_btn.tpl shows a sphere-like picture.

rimocon_btn_min.tpl shows a "TV" button.

Unused Icons

In board.ash, there is an image called Nigaoe.tpl ("nigaoe" translates to "portrait") that contains a small picture of Mario. This icon was also used in early screenshots and video of Mario Kart: Double Dash!!

Wii Menu 1.0 has a file called tanuki.arc, which inside it has a picture called okane.tpl ("okane" translates to "money") which has a picture of Tom Nook from Animal Crossing.

Early	Final

myLetterS.tpl contains an unused picture of a memo for the Wii Message Board, while myLetterS_a.tpl contains the final picture of a memo.

myLetterS_Game_a.tpl contains an unused Animal Crossing graphic used for memos regarding the game which was apparently shown at E3 2006.

Early	Final

In letter.ash there are 2 Mii icon pictures: myNigaoePos.tpl, an early Mii icon used to select Miis on the Wii Message Board, and th_mii_icon_a.tpl, the final Mii icon with the same use above.

Unused Font

In Wii Menu v1.0, matDbg24.brf seems to contain an unused font.

Error Messages

Found in some DOLs in the Wii code lie an early error message used in the "Startup Disc" (with a few words differing at the end).

Early	Final Version 1	Final Version 2
An error has occurred. Turn the power off and refer to the Instruction Booklet for further instructions.	An error has occurred. Press the Eject Button, remove the Game Disc, and turn the power off. Please read the Wii Operations Manual for more information.	An error has occurred. Press the Eject Button and remove the disc, then turn the Wii console off and refer to the Wii Operations Manual for help troubleshooting.

Startup Disc

Wrong Disc	Insert Startup Disc	Checking Disc	Error
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The Wii "startup disc" was shipped with the first 300,000 Wii units, since it was quicker to do this by putting 1.4 MB of data (used in Wiis like this) in the Wii System Memory to make a full one. Most of these were found in kiosks used to demonstrate the Wii.

It was put as one of the included items in some of the early boxes of the shipped Wiis, however Nintendo rapidly changed that to include the pack-in Wii Sports game.

Since the console isn't usable for the Wiis which have this built-into it without the disc, Nintendo wanted to replace the Wiis for users who unfortunately got into this situation.

(Source: HackMii)