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We are a community dedicated to the research and documentation of game console hardware and firmware from a historical perspective, primarily focused on Nintendo.
This wiki is a place for documentation of oddities and obscure historical information of all kinds which falls between the cracks in other communities.
This wiki is a place for documentation of oddities and obscure historical information of all kinds which falls between the cracks in other communities.
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The Wii Startup Discs are a series of discs which were used to set up various special-purpose Wii systems for initial use. The Startup Disc was originally created to set up first-run Wii systems which were manufactured before Wii System Menu 1.0 was ready, then repurposed for Starlight Fun Center systems, iQue and Nintendo of Korea localization use, and possibly other use cases.
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