Nintendo Factory Hardware

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Nintendo has used a wide variety of bespoke hardware as part of their manufacturing processes, many pieces of which have surfaced into the community via Xianyu.

This page will catalog items of factory hardware which don't yet have their own articles.

Many of these are copied (with revisions) from the Odd Taobao Neocities site, with permission from the author.

A "showoff listing" is one which was created by the seller primarily to show off what they have without any real intention of selling it.

GameCube

"Engineering Test Controller"

• Listing Price: 90¥
• Listing Description: "Nintendo ultra-rare collectible NGC original engineering test controller"
• Listing Description (Original): "任天堂 超稀有收藏品 NGC原装工程测试手柄"

This is a white, final model GameCube Controller with a second wire with an unknown plug type attached to it in addition to the regular one. It's unknown what this was used for, possibly for controlling some kind of test equipment (not necessarily for the GameCube itself).

Rough translation of the label:

External objects management Management Number: S-B8520-465 Angular Velocity (CFS8280 Handle)

DS/DSi

Internal Top Halves

• Listing Price: 9999¥ (Showoff Listing)
• Listing Description: "This is my first time seeing this. Does anyone know the origin of this machine? Nintendo World New York"
• Listing Description (Original): "第一次见，有了解本机出处的吗，纽约任天堂世界"

These are several DS/DSi console top halves with various internal-use labels. Of note is a DS that appears to be from NST, a DSi branded with the Nintendo World Store (now Nintendo NY) logo, a highly defective 3DS which failed numerous factory tests and has the error codes printed on it along with "NG", and three DSi XLs codenamed