Hi I got my hands on a Wii Debug Unit (Model RVT-002, RVT-R Reader Wireless). The Console was given out by NOE for reviewing RVT-004 Discs, and the menu looks like on the videos on the Internet - but every unit sold on ebay or shown in this Videos has a green front, while mine has the standard white front like every normal Wii Unit. It's definitely not a fake unit, it boots the discs like a charm and I definitely can say that it came from NOE Has NOE just reflashed a normal unit with Debug software? Is that even possible Hardware wise? And has anyone else ever seen a white Debug Wii? (Oh, and before anyone asks - I have not the slightest intention of selling)
They are around, mostly for trade shows and the like but they arent terribly common. I dont know if there was a date where they stopped making the green fronted ones. And there is a hardware difference in the DVD drive, so it isn't a quick reflash away (Hardware in the sense that you cant simply reflash the drive, or at least no one has said how. Compatibility can be gained by swapping drives on the GC, and likely the Wii, I think)
The main thing to consider is that the Wii dev hardware (and Gamecube dev hardware) came in various ways. Red - dev. Green - debug (brown was gamecube alone, NDEV was Wii devbox, not finalized) The software differences are trivial for what its worth. For your Wii it SHOULD boot RVT-R discs but not retail discs (or maybe it does? not sure). The drives used are just flashed with a different firmware and corresponding scramble code to read the discs. NR disc cant be read on a Gamecube, but can on an NR Reader/TDev. Same applies to this one. It should read RVT-R discs while a normal Wii shouldn't. An easy test is to try loading a Wii disc, RVT-R disc, Gamecube disc and NR disc (for fun but not required).
I have an NDEV. They are the earliest versions of the Wii dev kit, right? That's what I always thought since they look so different.
NDEVs are just actual devkits, the rvt units are basically test units. There is a bunch of other hardware that predates the NDEVs, none of it really documented.
this console use in showcase only. On the Wii Kiosk, you can seen the console. Nintendo don't want people see green console, because it don't look like retail model. they do same thing for DSi panda, 3DS panda, etc... inside, it's a normal RVT-R EDIT: (NOE storage number spotted on your picture ^^)
