You absolutely need PPC code running, and if you have that running, you might as well have the whole system menu running. IOS can talk to the DVD drive, but only at a very low level, and only in response to IPC from the PPC - there’s no way for the system to bootstrap itself with a blank flash, or with boot1 and boot2. Stepping back a moment, the reason that this is strange is that the very lowest levels of the system - boot1, boot2 - can’t even talk to the DVD drive or the video output. (Thanks Paul!) He bought it and sent it to me to look at, and here are my findings. A few private conversations have alluded to the fact that the few thousand Wiis that were sent to game stores with this disc, but nobody has been able to cough up a disc for me to examine (or at least an image of one!).įortunately, an alert member of assemblergames caught an auction on eBay for a broken Wii displaying our mysterious error message. Occasional articles from late 2006 show in-store kiosks displaying a blurry “Insert startup disk” message. Searching online for information about this has been rather frustrating. This can give a rare glimpse into factory steps normally concealed from us. As with things like the iOS “diagnostic mode”, this generally means that a unit escaped from the factory without having completed all testing and programming steps. Nintendo has gone out of their way to call out a specific message - Insert Startup Disc - and has declared that there is a problem with the “operating system” and let it be known that they very badly want to replace it. Well, we never found that, but occasionally some hint poke up. The driving reason is that if we can figure out how Wiis with blank flash chip are programmed at the factory, we could possibly wipe bricked Wiis and fix them. Those of you who have been reading this blog for a year or two know that I’ve been fascinated with figuring out how Wiis are made at the factory.
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