ZED 13 Member · Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 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 It is an old Kiosk originally made to be sold to Children's hospitals around the country.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. 5 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
croagunk 443 Member · Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Cool! Never seen one of these before! 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZeldaFreak 1,447 Member · Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 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. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
drxandy 1,500 Member · Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 Super cool to see it running that interface for loading games from the hard drive. 2 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Mega Tank 308 Member · Posted January 16 Share Posted January 16 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZED 13 Member · Posted January 16 Author Share Posted January 16 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shawn 24 Member · Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 I'm pretty sure the CHEO in Eastern Ontario had one. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jfreakofkorn 172 Member · Posted January 26 Share Posted January 26 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZED 13 Member · Posted February 23 Author Share Posted February 23 I plan to open it up and do some minor repairs and cleanup. I can post more pictures as I go along. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Awoken 39 Member · Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 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! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DarkTone 440 Member · Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 Thanks for sharing. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Code Monkey 749 Member · Posted February 23 Share Posted February 23 My fiance is a doctor, need to see if she can get me one. Anyone know if these were ever in Canada? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Shabby Road 2 Member · Posted February 25 Share Posted February 25 I have seen one of these in Victoria Hospital in London, Ontario. There was a Wii U one there too. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZED 13 Member · Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jfreakofkorn 172 Member · Posted April 11 Share Posted April 11 Oh cool Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZED 13 Member · Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
ZED 13 Member · Posted April 11 Author Share Posted April 11 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 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Awoken 39 Member · Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 That`s awesome! Thanks for sharing this, any chance you`re going to open the console itself? I would love to see the insides. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Pikkon 14 Member · Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 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. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
drxandy 1,500 Member · Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Great pics!! Thanks for sharing, so coooooool!! Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Jfreakofkorn 172 Member · Posted April 12 Share Posted April 12 Looks like something i posted a while back . . . Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Awoken 39 Member · Posted April 13 Share Posted April 13 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/ 1 1 Quote Link to post Share on other sites
DeadlyFoez 0 Member · Posted 11 hours ago Share Posted 11 hours ago (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 11 hours ago by DeadlyFoez Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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