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Team Twiizers' Marcan: Wii Recovery Dongle is not Pandora Battery

Posted Sep 4, 2008 at 6:06AM EST by QJ Staff

Listed in: Wii Tags: GameCube, Team Twiizers
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Team Twiizers has once again found something potentially phenomenal for the world of Wiibrew. A new video shows off a Recovery Dongle from the team, which helps with certain types of bricks.

According to the description from TehSkeen, the dongle is a device that plugs into the GameCube memory card port. It identifies itself with a unique ID that will turn the Wii into recovery mode, allowing it to run a recovery disc, or a disc with their own code.

Marcan further explains that this is not the Wii equivalent of the PSP's Pandora Battery. According to Marcan:

ItÂ’s not a pandora battery. It wonÂ’t help custom firmwares. It has nothing to do with upgrading or downgrading IOS. It has limitations. It only helps with certain very specific cases. IÂ’ll post details about it when the time comes, since itÂ’s certainly useful to fix certain types of bricks.


Further details will be released in the future, and we'll keep you updated. Here's the video showing the Recovery Dongle in action:





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# strangeemcp 2008-09-04 08:20
it only fixes specific problems



youd expect nintendo to have a 1 way fix for this sort of thing



maybe the other ways arnt fixable, or the others ways can only cause a brick due to hacking for example

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# hummmmgreatone690 2008-09-04 10:03
this could come in usefull with all the homebrew that is around and more and more pep's starting to use homewbrew on there wii's

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# .neomew 2008-09-04 10:59
ehhhhhh?????????

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# .....Stinky_1 2008-09-04 11:57
so, I fail to see how this is "NOT" pandora??



Yes, right now it will NOT boot into a cIOS, or allow downgrading. But it WILL allow you to boot into a custom disk. So, who is to say that my custom disc is not loading a custom IOS, or into some sort of magic unbricker??



This is really cool. But what makes it the LEAST like pandora is that it appears to require that device. With pandora you could use any legit battery and convert it over. So there was no extra cost to the user. I bet that little card thingy will NOT be cheap. So it will limit who has one, and who does not.

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# Did you even read what marcan wrote?BIH 2008-09-05 01:53
It has limitations and even the discs that you boot through it have limitations. It also only fixes some bricks not all.

Its nothing like pandora.

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# ......Stinky_1 2008-09-05 17:25
The first pandora for psp was also limited. The difference was that they did NOT release it as a teaser. they kept working on it until it did something really usefull.



This is still a WIP. Right now, its got limitiations, that does not mean they wont find a way around them. For now, its cool to see what they have. But I doubt this is the final product, and the final feature list.

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# got this of hackmii wedsitegreatone690 2008-09-06 10:16
Apparently tehskeen took a month-old video, coupled it with a paragraph of reality and a paragraph of rampant speculation and nonsense, and made it into a news story. This is undoubtedly going to spread around as these things do, so I’m going to stop it dead in its tracks.



It’s not a pandora battery. It won’t help custom firmwares. It has nothing to do with upgrading or downgrading IOS. It has limitations. It only helps with certain very specific cases.



I’ll post details about it when the time comes, since it’s certainly useful to fix certain types of bricks, but for now don’t believe any random nonsense that you hear about it.



ED: tehskeen now replaced the second paragraph.

ED2: great, now it hit Engadget. Good job brakken.



Addendum:

Some specifics on what kinds of bricks this might fix (we have not tested all of these yet):

- If you can autoboot ANY disc and your problem is not a bad system menu (that is, reinstalling the system menu won’t fix it) then this probably won’t help. If your problem can be fixed (which it probably can), you won’t need this at all.

- This SHOULD let you fix the worst banner bricks (where you screw up the main arc and get a freeze on the warning screen, not after it), but ONLY if you have 3.2 or earlier, or 3.3 and the Twilight Hack (beta1) already installed, and in both cases you’ll need a modchip.

- This SHOULD let you fix any semibricks-turned-bricks (Opera 404 error on boot) but you’ll have to wait until a retail game comes out with a newer version if you don’t have a modchip or if you have 3.3 or newer.

- In general, IF you can see anything on the screen, AND you have a system menu earlier than 3.3, AND your system menu main binary (dol) and IOS are (mostly) fine (system menu data corruption is okay), AND you have a modchip, AND your hardware is fine, THEN you can probably fix it with this.



We haven’t tested these specifically, so please don’t take them as final.



ED3: To clarify, this won’t actually fix anything. It just lets you fix it, using homebrew tools and/or newer retail games, depending on what exactly you need to fix.

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