Tanner’s Space

This wii is pretty damn sweet right here.  It comes with a “preloader-like” application that allows you to set your video type and region on bootup. It also allows you to install any system menu strictly to ram and test the game this way.

It’s not so helpful for the homebrew guys because it would be twice as hard to get it set up to run the normal homebrew packages, but I find it funny that in an odd way it does some of what the homebrew guys have written apps to do.

I know it comes preinstalled with two special channels on its “special menu”, the disc check channel, and the system menu installer/uninstaller channel.  Since no system menu packages are actually installed to the NAND the whole menu interface must run from the paging file. There is probably a protected and encrypted partition of the nand that allows a menu to be installed. And, from that I am guessing that if it detects files there it stops loading from the paging cache.  These are all just my conclusions based on the evidence i’ve found on this thing.

Still don’t know how much it costs, where/how to order it, or how long it has been out.

I suppose it’s entirely possible that some of our Wii Hacking Forefathers reverse engineered some of this system if it existed way back at system launch date.  If I remember right, it wasn’t around, and because no “Developer’s package” existed the D2Pro and WiiKey were born.
Here’s some pics:

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Hopefully this will be coming soon to America, but this week in Japan the black wii console was launched.

From everything I can gather nothing is different except for the color.

There is also a new series of black controllers, nunchucks, classic controllers, etc that will be coming out soon (source says 08/01/09)

black wii console from Japan

Also, if you didn’t already know about it there is a special “Developer’s Edition” Wii that’s pretty cool looking too. Although, in my opinion not as awesome as the black one.

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