WEBVTT 00:00:00.000 --> 00:00:06.600 hey Nintendo we have exposed your Dev 00:00:03.720 --> 00:00:13.559 kits before and we are about to do it again this is the Nintendo ndev an early 00:00:11.460 --> 00:00:18.420 development kit for the Nintendo Revolution excuse me we when it was 00:00:16.440 --> 00:00:24.539 first announced Nintendo's Revolution console was purely theoretical in fact 00:00:21.180 --> 00:00:27.240 the physical demo unit at E3 2005 was a 00:00:24.539 --> 00:00:31.500 fugazi fairy dust didn't exist it was simply an empty plastic shell with 00:00:29.160 --> 00:00:35.880 nothing in it but promises to make good on those promises then by the start of 00:00:33.360 --> 00:00:40.500 the 2006 Christmas season Nintendo needed a way for developers to work on 00:00:38.219 --> 00:00:45.660 Wii software without having a ready for Market console available their solution 00:00:42.719 --> 00:00:50.640 was a GameCube dev kit with some modifications now that might have been 00:00:47.820 --> 00:00:54.120 fine for internal developers but you don't want third-party developers 00:00:52.079 --> 00:00:58.440 working with what is clearly last gen Hardware that's embarrassing even if it 00:00:56.579 --> 00:01:03.120 was basically what the Wii would end up being so over the next 12 of months 00:01:00.719 --> 00:01:08.220 Nintendo went from a barely modded GameCube t-death to a mysterious blurry 00:01:05.880 --> 00:01:13.979 Black Box to a more polished black box with no wireless controllers to this the 00:01:11.520 --> 00:01:18.900 final pre-release dev kit with all the bells and whistles of the retail console 00:01:16.439 --> 00:01:23.159 well sort of how do you play games without a disk drive and what sets this 00:01:21.060 --> 00:01:27.840 apart from the final retail unit and who's going to tell you about our 00:01:25.140 --> 00:01:31.560 sponsor eugreen I know you want to increase your productivity while using 00:01:29.460 --> 00:01:35.340 your laptop I know that so you 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00:02:09.300 --> 00:02:15.540 GameCube memory card slots as well as four ports for GameCube controllers 00:02:13.200 --> 00:02:19.680 because early versions of the Wii were fully backwards compatible including 00:02:17.520 --> 00:02:23.700 four player multiplayer later ones removed the ports even though the 00:02:22.080 --> 00:02:27.840 hardware technically still existed inside so you can actually actually hack 00:02:25.560 --> 00:02:31.980 the support back in and then later ones cut the feature out entirely but hey 00:02:30.120 --> 00:02:36.360 we're Nintendo you're gonna buy it anyway we've also got the SD card slot 00:02:33.959 --> 00:02:40.260 that was ostensibly for expanding the storage so you could buy things in the 00:02:37.800 --> 00:02:44.400 Nintendo eShop but more realistically was just used for hacking the console 00:02:42.360 --> 00:02:48.599 though I actually used mine to transfer all my data to a Wii U so that's a legit 00:02:46.560 --> 00:02:52.800 use for it sync button for pairing controllers moving around to this side a 00:02:50.580 --> 00:02:57.300 Bluetooth module and this is fun you might think oh well that's an external 00:02:54.360 --> 00:03:02.099 antenna for Bluetooth no this is for a wired remote neat huh during development 00:03:00.420 --> 00:03:06.300 they were not wireless yet over here we've got a Wi-Fi module apparently why 00:03:04.200 --> 00:03:08.220 your Wi-Fi was not needed I mean why wouldn't they just put an Ethernet port 00:03:07.260 --> 00:03:12.120 on it you know what it doesn't matter the point is at the back the sensor bar 00:03:10.260 --> 00:03:17.640 AV multi out for compositor component the regular USB ports you'd find on the 00:03:14.340 --> 00:03:19.620 Wii and these three USB type B's that 00:03:17.640 --> 00:03:24.000 apparently all need to be plugged in in order for this thing to operate now 00:03:21.300 --> 00:03:27.440 that's interesting eject button eject what 00:03:27.440 --> 00:03:33.000 it does not have a lot of cooling hey I 00:03:31.080 --> 00:03:38.760 mean I guess neither did the retail unit you've just got a single what appears to 00:03:35.280 --> 00:03:41.879 be a 60 millimeter fan back here slim 00:03:38.760 --> 00:03:43.980 too and then a passive heatsink that I 00:03:41.879 --> 00:03:49.019 guess by Merit of this being the only other hole in the chassis is gonna get 00:03:47.040 --> 00:03:54.180 some kind of airflow over it but like that's it hey that's wild right here 00:03:52.319 --> 00:04:00.599 next to what I assume is the GPU we've got 64 megabytes of gddr3 and then over 00:03:57.540 --> 00:04:02.700 here is what looks like 512 Megs of 00:04:00.599 --> 00:04:06.180 storage that's double what shipped on the finished console now there's 00:04:04.319 --> 00:04:09.780 supposed to be twice as much RAM as the finished console as well but I only see 00:04:07.799 --> 00:04:13.200 the one chip it's so cool the way that this engineering level Hardware will 00:04:11.400 --> 00:04:16.380 have flexibility built into it that not only will never make its way into the 00:04:14.580 --> 00:04:21.479 finished product but might not even be needed for the development product like 00:04:18.900 --> 00:04:27.000 look at this wi-fi attenuator so there's an antenna module here but while it's 00:04:24.300 --> 00:04:32.160 got these two little connectors so that you could add additional antennas to it 00:04:28.860 --> 00:04:35.100 they never even do that they just take a 00:04:32.160 --> 00:04:39.600 wire and like coil it up in here as far as I can tell it's wild this doesn't do 00:04:37.380 --> 00:04:44.340 anything but it could well that was easy that's some crusty 00:04:42.600 --> 00:04:48.240 thermal did you take this off is that why this looks like poop I am not the 00:04:46.139 --> 00:04:52.259 first person to take that apart and if you want proof of that check the 00:04:49.860 --> 00:04:57.720 underside of the top that you took off oh 00:04:54.060 --> 00:05:00.000 okay deadly foes was here I'm guessing 00:04:57.720 --> 00:05:03.000 that's who sent us this unit nope it came from the person who lent it to 00:05:01.680 --> 00:05:07.919 deadly foes really I mean do I need to take it now 00:05:05.880 --> 00:05:11.880 too I think that's appropriate maybe I'll just put a dent in it that would be 00:05:09.660 --> 00:05:16.320 pretty classic just just drop the screwdriver no I I can't I can't I can't 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:21.600 a laser engraver on the other side of this wall I can't no I can't do it 00:05:18.240 --> 00:05:24.360 there's our ATI Graphics chip and our 00:05:21.600 --> 00:05:28.259 IBM today is an IP ad power wasn't it 00:05:25.560 --> 00:05:34.860 the Broadway was IBM and the Hollywood was AMD super cool goes to show you 00:05:31.380 --> 00:05:36.960 Nintendo knows gaming little CPU big GPU 00:05:34.860 --> 00:05:43.280 neither of them are powerful but boy were they ever little and big 00:05:38.880 --> 00:05:43.280 now we need to pry it up 00:05:43.979 --> 00:05:49.620 we can glean a lot just from the way the traces are run on the board here's our 00:05:47.580 --> 00:05:55.500 CPU so the CPU bones connected predominantly to the GPU bone which is 00:05:51.539 --> 00:05:57.000 connected to the video memory bone ah so 00:05:55.500 --> 00:06:01.139 I said there was supposed to be twice as much vram on this thing that's because 00:05:58.979 --> 00:06:06.300 half of it is on the underside of this top board this appears to be pretty much 00:06:04.020 --> 00:06:10.259 the entire Wii component of this development kit so what is everything 00:06:08.100 --> 00:06:14.520 else then on this board on your right we find a couple of xilinx Spartan fpgas 00:06:12.720 --> 00:06:18.840 because these are field programmable they could be doing quite literally 00:06:16.560 --> 00:06:22.919 anything but based on the fact that there are the three USB ports and a 00:06:20.820 --> 00:06:26.940 Serial port on here I'd say this is probably running whatever operating 00:06:25.020 --> 00:06:30.900 system that Nintendo is using to interface with the development kit as 00:06:28.979 --> 00:06:38.100 for this boy right here oh it's conveniently labeled this is ndav dash 00:06:33.840 --> 00:06:39.300 power Dash X2 so power that's power 00:06:38.100 --> 00:06:43.199 supply oh hilarious a lot of these big 00:06:41.880 --> 00:06:47.340 connectors that I was trying to figure out what the heck they do is just 00:06:45.000 --> 00:06:51.360 carrying power through this board and into this board nothing really that 00:06:48.960 --> 00:06:55.860 interesting down here just the AC to DC converter for our power supply oh I lied 00:06:54.060 --> 00:07:00.479 this does give us a better look at how all of those diagnostic LEDs and buttons 00:06:58.560 --> 00:07:05.160 and dip switches on the front are in fact wired up to what I said I suspected 00:07:02.340 --> 00:07:09.479 was the development OS board this one right here so hypothesis confirmed 00:07:07.440 --> 00:07:14.940 should we fire it up yeah all right let's do it hooked up 00:07:11.699 --> 00:07:17.759 our LED is working is that a zero is 00:07:14.940 --> 00:07:23.400 that it I don't know it's working anyway we have to run Windows XP we have to run 00:07:20.479 --> 00:07:28.139 Windows of some version I felt XP was the best to go with because 2006 what's 00:07:26.099 --> 00:07:33.180 your choice it's XP or Vista I'm gonna I'm gonna take XP I'm a Vista boy okay 00:07:30.599 --> 00:07:37.680 so we open a dilf yep unfortunately we weren't able to get our 00:07:35.220 --> 00:07:41.699 hands on any first party Nintendo games because they control their leaks a lot 00:07:39.900 --> 00:07:46.440 better than third-party developers but we do have what are our early builds yes 00:07:44.340 --> 00:07:52.560 of a handful of games well let's go Simpsons right yeah oh that's a GameCube 00:07:48.419 --> 00:07:54.240 game is it nope oh okay GCM a lot of the 00:07:52.560 --> 00:07:58.740 architecture for the Wii is backwards compatible with the GameCube so as a 00:07:56.580 --> 00:08:03.240 result a lot of the file names are similar hey there we go now it should 00:08:01.919 --> 00:08:08.940 tell you that you've got the wrong firmware because we don't have the right 00:08:05.699 --> 00:08:10.680 firmware on here that is hey wrong 00:08:08.940 --> 00:08:15.660 firmware version if you want to continue if you like to take these 00:08:12.780 --> 00:08:23.780 there we go so enter proper menu flow okay then no way that's how you know 00:08:18.539 --> 00:08:23.780 it's internal shut up I love it 00:08:24.080 --> 00:08:29.340 legal text here and placeholder one hey 00:08:27.360 --> 00:08:33.300 that's my favorite placeholder right up there with placeholder a oh 00:08:31.800 --> 00:08:37.020 yeah you want to try going to the Wii menu uh sure 00:08:35.159 --> 00:08:42.120 oh that doesn't do anything it does not do anything it's just a picture it's not 00:08:38.640 --> 00:08:44.940 even a button oh oh hey and now you've 00:08:42.120 --> 00:08:49.320 got the developer menu well this is wild I mean yeah I got all the cheats then 00:08:47.640 --> 00:08:54.420 it's okay well let's have unlimited calories in Homer ball and helium this 00:08:52.200 --> 00:08:59.459 is normally not how the game goes I do have kind of a way of breaking things 00:08:56.700 --> 00:09:02.760 dancing crusty is always a good sign uh did it just restart 00:09:01.260 --> 00:09:08.880 oh oh we got sound so hey there we go oh my 00:09:07.200 --> 00:09:13.440 God these loading times though well at least you're getting some sort of idea 00:09:11.220 --> 00:09:18.000 as to what's happening your memory there is getting used up it was getting used 00:09:15.839 --> 00:09:23.160 up did I break it oh nope hey here we go so you have to 00:09:20.100 --> 00:09:24.959 take the less nutritious thing yeah 00:09:23.160 --> 00:09:30.480 got him oh shoot oh what that took off that many 00:09:28.680 --> 00:09:35.459 points this might be a good time to cheat no I got this i got this no I'm 00:09:32.399 --> 00:09:38.160 gonna beat him oh what no I didn't shake 00:09:35.459 --> 00:09:44.459 this one I have negative oh oh no can I just punch him and can I 00:09:42.720 --> 00:09:48.540 just fight him I could take him this is hard how is this in the first couple 00:09:46.320 --> 00:09:52.500 minutes of the game okay I think we could try another game all right oh it 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:57.360 occurs to me without the chassis cover on this heatsink is probably not getting 00:09:54.899 --> 00:10:02.399 a lot of airflow oh it seems okay it's barely even warm I mean how much did the 00:09:59.519 --> 00:10:09.120 Wii consume like 30 Watts or 45 Watts or something it was yeah so it was 12 volt 00:10:05.720 --> 00:10:12.720 4.8 amps but most of that energy was 00:10:09.120 --> 00:10:15.120 used for the disk drive right okay so 00:10:12.720 --> 00:10:21.000 people were building portable Wiis that were using I don't know maybe like two 00:10:17.580 --> 00:10:24.240 amps at 12 volts wow yeah those portable 00:10:21.000 --> 00:10:25.740 Wii projects are so cool oh yeah where 00:10:24.240 --> 00:10:30.600 are these where are these games installed to how is it connected to that 00:10:27.959 --> 00:10:38.040 laptop is it just via USB yeah there's three USB ports all go into it and do we 00:10:34.200 --> 00:10:41.700 know which USBS do what I think the one 00:10:38.040 --> 00:10:43.920 labeled di is for disk input com is for 00:10:41.700 --> 00:10:49.680 communication how that's used I'm not sure then there's debug which I want to 00:10:45.899 --> 00:10:52.140 say would normally go to the IDE so the 00:10:49.680 --> 00:10:56.640 like text editor for the code which in this case 00:10:53.220 --> 00:10:58.380 think it's called codemasters wait you 00:10:56.640 --> 00:11:02.820 said this was golden eye that's what it was labeled as I have not 00:11:00.720 --> 00:11:07.079 actually opened it up this would be 2009 Daniel Craig GoldenEye 00:11:04.860 --> 00:11:09.320 they did a remake without Pierce Brosnan well 00:11:09.600 --> 00:11:14.160 what just happened is any of this in the 00:11:12.600 --> 00:11:20.040 real game yeah I don't think we can actually play this at all uh 00:11:17.060 --> 00:11:25.800 look at like what was that hey look at our 3D models and how they look like 00:11:22.140 --> 00:11:28.640 Daniel Craig other playable deliverables 00:11:25.800 --> 00:11:28.640 someone seems like they're 00:11:29.040 --> 00:11:39.740 like yeah no I'm doing stuff oh whoa cause that's 00:11:34.920 --> 00:11:44.399 how that works uh oh okay oh hi okay 00:11:39.740 --> 00:11:45.779 oh boy that she's she's sensitive what's 00:11:44.399 --> 00:11:50.540 gonna happen when you get into the world I don't know foreign 00:11:52.820 --> 00:11:58.440 okay well that was cool yeah clearly 00:11:56.220 --> 00:12:02.339 some proof of concept level stuff okay now now that I see how interesting these 00:12:00.899 --> 00:12:07.260 games are I kind of want to try another one wait David you had said there was something you wanted to try what was it 00:12:04.800 --> 00:12:12.600 is this is this it am I looking at what this is 00:12:08.640 --> 00:12:13.920 what's a block out oh 00:12:12.600 --> 00:12:19.920 okay you know what I think we might be looking at here is just the the building 00:12:16.920 --> 00:12:21.779 blocks block out of what these 00:12:19.920 --> 00:12:28.680 experiences might look like and then maybe these are slightly better yeah 00:12:24.959 --> 00:12:30.180 first pass artwork in progress okay what 00:12:28.680 --> 00:12:33.420 level do we want to have a look at I want to see the non-deliverable they 00:12:31.800 --> 00:12:38.279 never wanted us to see this Tanner it was non-deliverable oh wow this is 00:12:36.240 --> 00:12:43.680 amazing I kind of want to play this game 00:12:41.420 --> 00:12:47.459 I gotta say it'll be a lot scarier seeing a tank coming at you if it is 00:12:45.540 --> 00:12:52.500 fluorescent White this is so cool I have no interest 00:12:49.800 --> 00:12:57.000 whatsoever in playing this game but boy do I ever want to play this early 00:12:54.180 --> 00:13:02.820 development thing I always want to see what I'm not supposed to see yeah this 00:13:00.000 --> 00:13:06.620 is a little bit reminiscent of oh hey here we go oh 00:13:07.079 --> 00:13:14.399 don't fall down the pit number one rule of GoldenEye okay I will try not to fall 00:13:11.639 --> 00:13:18.260 down a hole this time can I go this way oh nope no 00:13:19.040 --> 00:13:27.120 okay next game I think yep 00:13:23.339 --> 00:13:30.800 oh oh that's some frame rate wow no 00:13:27.120 --> 00:13:30.800 further optimization necessary 00:13:32.300 --> 00:13:37.500 well this one is not done are we are we 00:13:36.120 --> 00:13:41.820 overheating at all is that what's happening I don't think so because this 00:13:39.779 --> 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