CavemanKrogg

I can say with confidence they were not produced at home. These are commercially produced discs. You cannot produce silver bottom with CPPM protection except at a commercial plant. These are official discs, especially since they were pulled from the dumpster at Nintendo of America headquarters in WA. If employees or random people were messing around with this stuff at home, they wouldn't get thrown out at corporate. Not to mention you can see the file write date of June 2, 1999 and that was WAY before software and hardware to do this were prevalent at home. They're authentic, I just have no idea what for.

Nah, I've got a Dolphin unit, it uses really long NDPD? Carts. They're the weirdest thing. Maybe the first proto they made used discs, I really don't know. I don't think I'm going to get an answer until I can actually speak with someone who was there or had inside knowledge of the program.

So for the test cart idea, I had initially thought something like this, maybe even Nintendo Repair Center related. There's an issue with that however and that's the discs don't do anything on retail consoles. It says they can't be read. I've tried on 3 different Wiis (including a modded one), a Wii U kiosk unit and retail unit, dev unit for Wii and Wii U, etc. If it was meant to provide a video test signal I would think it should work on retail consoles with no other equipment needed but they don't. As for the second part, I think it's very likely it has something to do with the Gamecube. I'm not sure it would be Gamecube Firmware for the Wii, however. Like I mentioned, the disc was written back in 1999. That's a long time to hold onto a disc of testing files that were made VERY early in the Gamecube development. I would think if they wanted to test Gamecube firmware in the Wii, it would be on a disc from that time frame especially because the console would have gone through radical changes since initial development and the files on a 1999 disc would've been outdated/incompatible. I mean the Dolphin units themselves used carts for development at first, then they switched it over to discs about halfway through development life. This is why I'm so lost on these discs. They don't seem to have a straightforward answer.

Hey everyone, I'm hoping someone here might finally be able to give me an answer. A lot of people said check Nintendoage, only to find it was gone and this is it's spiritual successor, so hopefully someone in here has the knowledge I need. I'll link my Reddit post but I'll also give a quick rundown here. I got these discs from a former Nintendo employee who said he saved them and a bunch of other stuff from the dumpster. I sent them to a fellow collector and he was able to bypass all the security encryptions to get at the disc files. They were written June 2nd, 1999 but I have 0 idea what they're for. Given the date, it seems like it's Gamecube development related, almost like they had toyed with the idea of having the Gamecube use full size discs or be able to play DVDs. What I really need is to talk to someone from Nintendo that worked there at the time and might have some recollection. I can't even find a picture of these online that aren't my own, let alone any info on the discs so these are seemingly one of a kind. Or 2 of a kind, since I have 2 If you have ANY idea what they are, please feel free to message me directly on Reddit or reply here, I'll try to look at it often. Thanks fellow collectors! https://www.reddit.com/r/gamecollecting/comments/iwr8pj/internet_i_need_your_help_solving_this_enduring/?utm_medium=android_app&utm_source=share