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The '''Waikiki''' is believed to be a debugging device made by Nintendo. This is the official version of what became a USB Gecko, which later was picked up by someone to make what they called a Shuriken USB. Waikiki is named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikiki a neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii].
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The '''Waikiki''' is believed to be a debugging device made by Nintendo. This is the official version of what became a USB Gecko, which later was picked up by someone to make what they called a Shuriken USB. Waikiki is named after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waikiki a neighborhood in Honolulu, Hawaii], possibly due to the high presence of ''Dolphins'' there.
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The Waikiki dongle was used during internal "lab testing", as well as factory initialization, of the Wii and possibly the GameCube. [[RVL_AGING]] contains a program used to test the Waikiki's operations.