Wii Startup Menu

Wii Startup Menu
Developer(s)	Nintendo
Publisher(s)	Nintendo
Platform(s)	Wii Channels
Release date(s)	NA October-November 2006
Genre(s)	Utility
Mode(s)	Single-player
Input methods	Wii Remote
Compatibility	4 Playable
GameIDs	RAAE01
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The Wii Startup Menu was a semi-stub System Menu title used to install updates on early kiosk demo Wiis, using a disc known as the "Wii Startup Disc". This disc contained a system update for the console, seemingly originally intended to be shipped with retail launch Wii units. While there exist large amounts of evidence for its existence, the physical disc remains lost. However, as some early Wiis shipped with the Startup Menu but no Startup Disc, a NAND dump of the menu has been recovered.

Problems

Doesn't Boot

The Startup Menu uses IOS4v3, which Dolphin currently does not implement, causing it to hang at a black screen. Some revisions of Dolphin, starting with an unknown revision before 5.0-2712, seem to be able to boot the menu, but lack support for detecting update partitions, rendering preservation of the unknown parts of the menu impossible.

Configuration

No configuration changes are known to affect compatibility for this channel.

Version Compatibility

The graph below charts the compatibility with Wii Startup Menu since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.

r1.0

5.0-2712

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5.0-21453 (current)

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2.0 (r5384)

Compatibility can be assumed to align with the indicated revisions. However, compatibility may extend to prior revisions or compatibility gaps may exist within ranges indicated as compatible due to limited testing. Please update as appropriate.

Testing

This channel has been tested on the environments listed below:

Test Entries
Revision	OS	CPU	GPU	Result	Tester