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I’m working on another post about the history of hardware revisions on the Wii, but am having trouble collecting the data that I need. I’ll give more info about all of this in my next post, but in brief — I have only ever seen three PCB revisions on the Wii: C/RVL-CPU-01 vs C/RVL-CPU-30: C/RVL-CPU-20: […]

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Back at 25C3, pytey handed me a rather intimidating piece of hardware. “It’s a flash programmer, but it doesn’t work; I think I broke it with a custom adapter I was working on for it. I don’t have any tools to try to fix it, you want to have a go?” Here’s the device: The […]

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ChipD has done a lot of work lately with the actual, physical NAND Flash chip on the Wii, and he just told me about his latest feat — two chips installed in one Wii, with a switch to toggle between them.  More pictures and info after the break.

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