It seems that the beta version of Dragon Quest X, a mmorpg available only in Japan, was distribuited on a disk and a 16gb USB pendrive, but the retail version was on 2 disks and needed at least a 16 gb usb mass storage device. Now, questions are: do someone has a photo of the beta usb drive? The drive was empty or there was content inside? The beta version is one or two disks?
I did a little bit more of research using yahoo auction as user code1038 suggested. Dragon Quest X is really an oddball on the wii because it has many unique features, both software and marketing related. From the software point of view a very interesting article is this one, about support for the game on Dolphin emulator: https://it.dolphin-emu.org/blog/2017/08/23/emulating-dqx-online/ Dragon Quest X is the only wii game released on two disk, inside a two disk wii case; the only wii game with support for the official RVL-035 usb pendrive the only wii games (AFAIK) that had 5 different retail releases: 1) single disk beta version (one of the few betas actually released to end users) 2) two disk normal version, followed by two single disk expansion, all retails 3) usb memory edition, bundled with the RVL-035 16gb usb pendrive 4) wii bundle edition, with a black rvl-001 wii, the game, a pro controller and the usb RVL-035. In 2012 the RVL 001 should have been discontinued in favor of the non backward compatible rvl-101 family edition. Despite that Nintendo released the bundle with the older wii version. The same happened with the release of Inazuma Eleven wii bundle in Europe in 2012: the white wii included in the package was a rvl-001 model. Probably they had some NOS units (or refurbished?) to sell and decided not to sold them in regular package but only in bundles. 5) last edition was the second anniversary all in one package, with the game and the two expansions. I wasn't able to find any image of an opened box so I don't know how many disks are inside. My last question was: what there is inside the bundled usb pendrive? Well, the first 16k are all zeroed but then there are 16 gb of data, probably encrypted. If someone knows how to read the wiiu filesystem (yes, wiiu, they backported it on wii, according to the dolphin blog article i linked before) please tell something
