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Amateur archivist and reverse-engineer. Assorted posts about weird small findings, documentation, archival, reverse-engineering, and other ramblings. Mental illness haver. Feel free to ask questions but I will probably be slow to respond.

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Feel free to use and/or reupload any of the stuff I've posted here. Credit is appreciated but is not required. Note that I don't own the copyright to most of what I've posted anyway, unless explicitly stated otherwise. The content posted on this blog is intended for informational purposes.

I've mirrored all of the images posted to this blog on Google Drive, so you can see or use the highest quality version.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1JS0jiPbNl7HmwpQ72BzC2YxIi6g10Exb?usp=sharing

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note: the links are to the blog's Archive. to see multiple tags at once, use the search feature. yes i know tumblr search sucks.

systems and accessories

Wii U

Wii U Gamepad

3DS

Nintendo Switch

Joy-Con

general categories

kiosk hardware

prototype hardware

factory test firmware

odd retail hardware

specific models

WUP-901

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Isolating or Removing the Center Channel In Audacity

In a stereo track, the center channel doesn’t exist as a literal channel; there’s only a left and right channel. But there is most likely shared information between those left and right channels! The information that is the same on the left as it is on the right is called the center channel, or phantom center channel.

So, for example, if you have a sine wave on the left channel and the same sine wave with the same volume, same pitch, same timbre on the right, that sine wave is in the center channel. A common example of this is in a DAW when you pan a mono signal in a stereo soundfield. This idea applies to even when there is shared information as well as non-shared information. You can isolate or remove this center channel in a program like Audacity!

Create three stereo tracks to work with (Tracks>Add New…>Stereo Track)

Import the stereo file you want to isolate or remove the center channel

ISOLATION — Highlight the section you want to isolate and select the Vocal Reduction and Isolate effect. Choose the Isolate Center option from the drop down menu. (You can opt to mess with the sliders, and you can return to default in the Presets & Settings menu.) Select Apply. (Effect>Vocal Reduction and Isolate…>Action: Isolate Center>Apply)

REMOVAL — Highlight the section you want to remove and select the Vocal Reduction and Isolate effect. Choose the Remove Center option from the drop down menu. (You can opt to mess with the sliders, and you can return to default in the Presets & Settings menu.) Select Apply. (Effect>Vocal Reduction and Isolate…>Action: Remove Center>Apply)

To check that it has indeed done its job, you can reconstruct the full stereo image by aligning the isolated center track and the removed center track onto an empty track. Assuming you chose the same slider settings for both isolating and removing the center channel, the reconstructed version and the original stereo version should be identical. You can listen for yourself, or you can be more thorough by inverting the reconstructed version (or the original, it doesn’t matter) (Effects>Invert) and align them onto separate tracks. Due to phase cancellation, you will hear silence, meaning the removal + isolation reconstruction is a perfect copy of the original.

This process is useful for manually encoding Dolby Pro Logic II matrixed surround sound. Check the Table of Contents for that post.

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in case nobody's done this yet, i took a few of the things Toby Fox said during the Undertale 10th Anniversary livestream where he was speaking/writing in japanese, and translated them.

i used mainly Google Translate, but i corroborated using DeepL and LibreTranslate, as well as Google Translate's OCR feature (for translating photos/images), but i've manually corrected any obvious OCR mistakes as necessary. please note: this was translated via machine translation (MTL), so don't take it as gospel!!

additional note: some messages were re-sent multiple times consecutively. i've taken the liberty of omitting duplicate messages.

screenshot 1:

from Day 1, at timestamp 4:10:34 of the twitch vod.

Here's the page for Keiko Fukuichi on mobygames: https://www.mobygames.com/person/426042/keiko-fukuichi/

screenshot 2:

from Day 1, at timestamp 4:11:16 of the twitch vod.

this is an intentionally kinda nonsense statement and a joke.

for more context, "kazzoie" had become a bit of a running gag during the stream because of the unusual speech-to-text(?) and text-to-speech system Toby was using; it would sometimes misinterpret the words he said, especially names like "Kazooie" or "Metatton" for example.

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Wii U WUP-901 kiosk image dump (2024 update edition)

I looked into it again, for the first time in a couple years, and found some info I hadn't seen before (and some actually recent info from 2024)

console #1 (and gamepad)

source 1: https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/698-official-wii-u-demo-kiosk-thread/page/2/#comment-172471 source 2: https://www.amibay.com/threads/wii-u-kiosk-console-and-pad.120329/

info

info posted by user "itdoesntmatterwhatthissays" (aka "itdoesntmatter")

Obtained from a guy who used to work in a game shop, in the UK. Probably was in a kiosk at one point.

"It doesnt have any demos on it ... but it does play, look, act like the retail version ..."

"in order to switch the pad on, you need to press a button on a cable which switches on the gamepad."

"... this one comes with a 32gb HDD ..." (note: I believe that's actually just a standard 32GB NAND.)

I suspect the model number is WUP-901(03), but that's just speculation, filling in the blanks as best I can, and corroborating with info on the following unit...

console #2 (and gamepad)

source: https://www.videogamesage.com/forums/topic/698-official-wii-u-demo-kiosk-thread/page/2/#comment-395341

info

info posted by user TypForte

Console appears to behave the same as retail, and reads retail PAL games via the disc drive. Which is to say, it doesn't have an HDD.

This is my first time seeing a WUP-901 as a set, complete with its original full kiosk. So if nothing else, now I have an idea of what to maybe look for to try and spot more WUP-901 consoles in photos online.

console #3 - WUP-901(02)

source: https://www.nintendolife.com/forums/wii-u/rare_wup-90102_model_-_need_information

photos posted by user gbbeil. this doesn't really give us much of any further insight, but I figured I should document it anyway.

additional notes

TypForte also mentioned they saw an auction online, with the following text:

"Standard wii u console and kiosk edition wis-003 gamepad Rare!  Main console is WUP-901 (03) it has the kiosk switch behind (with the led blue light) used to power on off the console. Has some marks and a dent in back of game pad from me removing the lock as lost the key. I’ve tried to upload as many pictures as possible. Happy bidding! Note!!!....The main console is not a kiosk edition the gamepad is, still very unique and a rare piece to own. As far as I’m aware the wis-003 gamepad is compatible with the wis-001 console but can be used with any wii u."

That suggests the WUP-901 (03) consoles were paired with WIS-003 gamepads. This info is a bit dubious though, so take it with a grain of salt.

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adding on to this post...

gamepad #9

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlZ4_oA1pHI posted by user Nites

these are screenshots taken from the video. the video itself will also be archived on google drive, and probably archive.org at some point

i also took the best screenshots i could get of the "FLASH VIEWER" menu, and did a small restoration using GIMP (GNU Image Manipulation Program). not sure if this is a significant discovery.

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wii u gamepad factory test (proto?) firmware image dump

gamepad #1

source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/405204224990

mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20240920204350/https://www.ebay.com/itm/405204224990

info

listed by ebay user gaminggoodies_6

"Prototype (X11) WiiU Gamepad with factory test software"

gamepad #2

source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/166848537298

mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20240920205744/https://www.ebay.com/itm/166848537298

info:

listed by ebay user whitecar12345

X11 gamepad

untested

gamepad #3

source: https://www.ebay.ca/itm/166566361641

mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20240920215246/https://www.ebay.ca/itm/166566361641

most of the images are dead now, but using Highly Advanced Hackerman Techniques, i saw a few that i was able to archive... only two out of four images, images #1 and #3 respectively, but thankfully image #3 shows the relevant test menu. also, yes these are the highest resolution versions i could get, trust me i checked.

"Image 1 of 4" source: http://web.archive.org/web/20240920215055/https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QiAAAOSwWm9lsePB/s-l400.jpg

"Image 3 of 4" source: http://web.archive.org/web/20240920211535/https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/QiEAAOSwWm9lsePC/s-l960.webp

info:

sold by ebay user re-toro_sushi_one-piece

described as follows: "This is a factory test gamepad ..." "This is a prototype of the X11 that was actually used for performance evaluation at the Foxconn factory. A pre-finalize [sic] test menu is installed ..."

gamepad #4

source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/166777233237 mirror: http://web.archive.org/web/20240920223516/https://www.ebay.com/itm/166777233237

info:

sold by ebay user re-toro_sushi_one-piece

described as follows: "This is a factory test gamepad ..." "This is an X11 prototype that was actually used for performance evaluation in the Foxconn factory. The pre-finalize [sic] test menu is installed ..." "The packaging is from the factory, and the sheet used for the evaluation check is included. ..."

gamepad #5

source: https://x.com/PaulFelixKelly/status/1745260773897818353

info:

post by user PaulFelixKelly on Twitter / X

"Nintendo Wii U Tablet still in factory mode / Test Mode from the factory as these boards might have had defects and were binned before the normal software could be loaded onto them."

gamepad #6

source: https://www.reddit.com/r/wiiu/comments/14vsx0y/wii_u_gamepad_factory_mode/

posted by user FunkyGamer26

gamepad #7

source: https://consolevariations.com/collectibles/nintendo-wii-u-prototype-testpad alt source: https://consolevariations.com/profile/LinusDevTips/submissions

info:

images posted by user LinusDevTips

title: "Nintendo Wii U Prototype Testpad"; description: "Prototype testpad used for validation testing."

gamepad #8

source: https://www.neogaf.com/threads/wii-u-release-day-thread.499806/page-123#post-44484322

posted by user Tom_Cody

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switch joycon prototype image dump

JPT-EP1-2-A

image source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156371508763

JPT-EP2-1

image source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156371507426

image source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156360005009

related: Joysticks

image source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/326152146945

The listing above was only selling the two joysticks, and the last three images were included to show how the joysticks were used.

JPT-EP2-2

image source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156359740069

image source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/156381252898

image source: https://www.ebay.com/itm/326133095142