Wii RVT-H

We talked about the RVT-H just over 3 years ago on the forum (this thread: http://assemblergames.com/forums/showthread.php?t=11669 ). zidapi posted pics from when Nintendo had some demo thing in a mall.

After that things have been really quiet on the forum. 2-3 members seem to have got their hands on the green RVT-R (GameCube NR-Reader equivalent for the Wii), but I haven't seen anyone boasting about getting an RVT-H (Gamecube NPDP-Console equivalent). Well, until now ;P

I can't believe it's taken 3 years to get one. Not that I have been looking for one until recently...but still. Finally, it's sitting on my desk looking lovely



If anyone else has one, please let the rest of us know. If you don't want "everyone" to know, send me a PM!

Shiggsy

 

Beautiful

 

Anything interesting on the HDD?

 

Looks like a few different builds of some unreleased Zelda and Mario games.

Shiggsy

 

Open it up! Open it up!

 

Haven't opened mine up (yet...), but here's someone elses pic:



Shiggsy

 

h:h:h:
Where do you guys get things like that?
Would you mind to take more pictures of it? :redface:

 

Wait.... why are they using IDE of all things!?!

*curses IDE for being expensive for such a "old" ( or rather not well carried ) format*

 

congrats on finding one, shiggsy! :thumbsup:

Those RVT-Hs are really rare and I've never seen one for sale.
I hope you got the PC software to write/read games to/from it!

 

It all comes down to offering enough $$$$

Shiggsy

 

very nice, congrats

 

That's awesome Shiggsy! I'm looking forward to see more pics. Might even be a nice moment to revive your site. :nod:

 

Which is the HDD format? NTFS, WBFS...
and the games?

 

Considering WBFS was made for Wii Backups (hence the name), I highly doubt that its that haha

 

WBFS is linux format

 

WBFS iirc stands for "Wii Backup File System"

Just as Borman said I highly doubt that ninty would be using Waninkoko's warezy file system

 

I thought it stands for "Warez Bum File System". I could be wrong, though. But at least it describes its technical implementation.

 

h:

 

The format is probably just a header with offsets where the disc images are located.
A real FS would just make it unnecessary complicated to implement this type of dev hardware.

 

That's pretty much it.

The thing holds 4 disc images. It doesn't matter if they're all really small "Hello World" programs. It still only holds 4. That's what the LEDs on the front denote. Which image is active.

-hl718