ZED | 14 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Hey, I'm new to the forum and just thought I would share the largest item in my collection. I think it is pretty rare as I can hardly find any info on it online. It is an old Kiosk originally made to be sold to Children's hospitals around the country. Has anyone seen these in Canada? The one I have has a few cosmetic blemishes but it still works. It has a Wii locked inside with a hard drive that has some games pre-loaded. There is no standard menu screen like you've seen on a home Wii console. These were also made with a single DIN DVD player on the right side. You would normally have a few discs that can be reached through the hole in the front. You can insert movies into the player but can not get the DVD out of the unit. Controllers are attached to the kiosk similar to how game store demo units were done. It looks like this one was released in 2007 as a couple of the sports games are titled for 2008. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
croagunk | 798 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Cool! Never seen one of these before! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeldaFreak | 3,766 Events Team · Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 I haven't seen them in person, but I know of them, these Starlight kiosks. I know there's an N64 Starlight kiosk, and... I want to say there's a Gamecube one as well, but I could be misremembering, and probably a few other consoles as well. I don't see them pop up for sale very often at all, but I know they exist. Very cool to see a Wii one! I actually have an N64 cartridge that was originally used in one of these Starlight kiosks, sort of a quasi Not For Resale. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drxandy | 3,308 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 Super cool to see it running that interface for loading games from the hard drive. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mega Tank | 1,118 Posted January 16, 2021 Share Posted January 16, 2021 37 minutes ago, ZeldaFreak said: I want to say there's a Gamecube one as well, There is. I was able to use one during a hospital stay. These Starlight Kiosks are amazing and do bring kids some joy in a time of uncertainty. They have also partnered up again to roll out the Nintendo Switch. I really wonder what hospitals do with these after several years. It would be nice to see some of these older systems rolling around hospitals. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZED | 14 Posted January 16, 2021 Author Share Posted January 16, 2021 4 hours ago, Mega Tank said: I really wonder what hospitals do with these after several years. It would be nice to see some of these older systems rolling around hospitals. Hospitals usually treat them like old computer equipment. They have a company that regularly picks up and recycles computers just take these kiosks to dispose of them. Because of this, it is likely that 95% of them just get pulled apart and the components recycled. I saw a Nintendo Wii U kiosk at a hospital a couple years ago. I did not take note of what brand it was. Like someone else said, there is also a new Switch kiosk announced but I don't think that unit has been delivered yet. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shawn | 31 Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 I'm pretty sure the CHEO in Eastern Ontario had one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jfreakofkorn | 329 Posted January 26, 2021 Share Posted January 26, 2021 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZED | 14 Posted February 23, 2021 Author Share Posted February 23, 2021 I plan to open it up and do some minor repairs and cleanup. I can post more pictures as I go along. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awoken | 275 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 3 hours ago, ZED said: I plan to open it up and do some minor repairs and cleanup. I can post more pictures as I go along. That would be awesome! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DarkTone | 1,020 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 Thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Code Monkey | 2,179 Posted February 23, 2021 Share Posted February 23, 2021 My fiance is a doctor, need to see if she can get me one. Anyone know if these were ever in Canada? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shabby Road | 2 Posted February 25, 2021 Share Posted February 25, 2021 I have seen one of these in Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. There was a Wii U one there too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZED | 14 Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 I started working on opening this up. I wanted to see if I could get into the main compartment where the console is. On one side there is a single DIN DVD player like what you might install in a RV that would have a separate LCD television. I could reach in there front the front with a long socket extension and removed the lock from the inside. Once the back security door was open, someone is able to change out the DVD discs that can be stashed on that round plastic peg. There isn't much else to see in the back once that door is open. On the bottom I noticed two external ports. One for network and the other is USB. I wonder if Starlight could update and install games using the USB port. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jfreakofkorn | 329 Posted April 11, 2021 Share Posted April 11, 2021 Oh cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZED | 14 Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 I dug in a little further. I unbolted the back panel and then removed the other lock. Inside you can see the back of the DVD player sending composite video to the TV. The Wii itself has a component cable going to the TV. The Wii has a green plastic panel that blocks where a CD drive would normally go. This console should have a hard drive inside which holds the games locally. It has a bluetooth wired connection and the colored cables go to the two controllers. A Wii lan adapter connects to the external RJ45 port on the kiosk. The main problem I saw with this was the protective glass in front of the TV was starting to fall down. I unbolted the metal frame around the TV, replaced the double-back tape for the glass, and also added some Gorilla tape around the outside for some extra hold. It should be better than new now. 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZED | 14 Posted April 11, 2021 Author Share Posted April 11, 2021 Glass panel off. And final repair done. I also found a PDF of instructions for using this system. Wii_Starlight_Gaming_station_Operations_Manual.pdf 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awoken | 275 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 That`s awesome! Thanks for sharing this, any chance you`re going to open the console itself? I would love to see the insides. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pikkon | 31 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Awesome you showed the console,don't think I have ever seen it before. The starlight Wii very much resembles the Wii RVT-H as its a debug kit with a hdd built in,no disc drive. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drxandy | 3,308 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Great pics!! Thanks for sharing, so coooooool!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jfreakofkorn | 329 Posted April 12, 2021 Share Posted April 12, 2021 Looks like something i posted a while back . . . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Awoken | 275 Posted April 13, 2021 Share Posted April 13, 2021 Being triggered by this thread and being a big lover of all weird variants of consoles I did some searching and I found some pictures of the inside of the console. Original link: https://gbatemp.net/threads/pictures-of-the-starlight-fun-center-hospital-wii.548469/ 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadlyFoez | 4 Posted May 9, 2021 Share Posted May 9, 2021 (edited) Please contact me! I have been trying to get my hands on a starlight system to continue dumping the images from the hard drive. I have done a few live stream videos on hacking a couple starlight wii's, but I only had just the wii itself and not the whole kiosk. Part of the problem is the controller select pcb authenticates to the squirrel board. --DeadlyFoez EDIT: LOL. I worked on that starlight wii already!!! See HERE Edited May 9, 2021 by DeadlyFoez 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadlyFoez | 4 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 (edited) In case anyone is interested, ZED has agreed to sell me his starlight unit. IDK if he wants the amount that he sold it to me for disclosed, but I will keep it private for now. I am going to be doing a live stream hacking event on this kiosk and hopefully getting the game loader ISO from it. It should be rather straight forward to do using a WODE. I could not do it in my previous attempts as I did not have the Controller Select PCB, which is essential to unlocking the internal hard drive. I am hoping ZED can get this out to me within the next week or so. Either way, there are too many people looking forward to me working on this and figuring out it's last few little secrets. I will post a link in here to my live stream once I schedule it, but if you are interested then make sure to keep an eye on my website ConsoleBytes for more information. A complete write up will eventually be done on what I discover and everything that I extract will be shared from my private file server for everyone to check out. I thank you all, and an extra special thanx to ZED for still having this unit once I contacted him and for being willing to sell it to me for these research purposes. Take care, and until the live stream, happy gaming and happy hacking. --DeadlyFoez EDIT: This has been canceled. After searching for a starlight kiosk for a decade and finally finding a way to get my hands on one, someone else just fully hacked one a few days back completely negating any reason for me to get this anymore. Edited June 14, 2021 by DeadlyFoez 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bowser | 600 Posted June 6, 2021 Share Posted June 6, 2021 But how would such a large item be shipped safely? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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