Post #3886558

So uh, a few months ago I made a post on my Mastodon about being psyched about getting a very early Wii-U devkit (a white one "V4"), the first one that had been sold/dumped publicly. Well uh today I can say we successfully secured 4 (Factory/Nintendo Only) Wii-U devkits that are just as old. These units (lovingly referred to as "Ketchup" & "Mustard"), were never documented anywhere in any SDKs, contain internal only JTAG boards (it is not currently known if the JTAG goes to the Starbuck ARM CPU, or the Espresso PowerPC CPU), and have some extra goodies. I've documented a bit about them on the RGD Wiki: wiki.raregamingdump.ca/index.php/CA... (I think I've written all of this page at this point heh). We'll be working on dumping them, and bringing support to them to Sprig (https://codeberg.org/rem-verse/sprig -- our open source tooling for units like these). And before you ask "Do these units have hard-drives/Any Data?" Wii-U Devkits were commonly used in "PCFS" mode meaning they got all their files from a PC (these units are all PCFS), and switching between PCFS & not triggered a secure wipe. So the hard drives are empty (we checked). The internal nand is also likely empty of any games. There is a small chance we may get some factory firmware/system files, but it is being the most charitable we can be ~20% chance. I've been working on a remote dumper to be able to dump the NAND of PCFS mode CAT-DEVs, that we will use on these.