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 regional differences. 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, but it was scrapped likely because they had to pay a small fee with every console shipped for legal issues.

The ability to play DVDs on the Wii can be "unlocked" through Wii homebrew software, but this does not work on some newer Wii consoles due to the drive chip being changed

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 first roughly 300,000 Wii units to be manufactured included an incomplete System Menu. Rather than re-flash all of these units before shipping, Nintendo included a "startup disc" that was required to be inserted to update the system's firmware on first-run. Most of these units were shipped to retailers for use in demo kiosks. These units would display the above screen instructing the user to insert the setup disc.

Early Wii retail boxes included a reference to the "setup disc" in the package contents, however, only a few actually incomplete units shipped to end consumers. Nintendo asked that users affected ship their units back to Nintendo for replacement.

(Source: https://hackmii.com/2010/09/insert-startup-disc/)

Usage Period for Channel Ended

In limitover.ash, there are some unused graphics indicating that you can't use a Channel after a certain period of time. This was never used by Nintendo.

Regional Differences

US	Europe

The warning symbol was yellow in Europe and the warning symbol was white in US.