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• Booting 101E on Dolphin

  Jul 2nd, 2025
  
  101E is the title ID of a disc Nintendo used to test GameCube consoles in the factory, also known as "Uji Diag Station" or "Main Unit Inspection Disc".
  
  I decided to obtain a dump of the disk¹  out of curiosity; I first tried to run it on my Wii, where nothing interesting happened.
  
  I then tried to run in Dolphin, where I ended up having to patch out some infinite loops. Here are all the things I had to fix to have the software run.

• The death of the content creator (hopefully)

  Jun 11th, 2025
  
  For the past 20 years or so, any digital media, be it games, video or music, has been called "content", and its creator called a "content creator".
  
  I find that this term - "content creator" - deeply belittling for the person (or people) that create what would be normally called art.
  
  

• The NetBSD OpenSSL PowerPC oopsie

  Jun 7th, 2025
  
  Last year, the NetBSD team has started to maintain an official port of the operating system to the Nintendo Wii, powered by a custom PowerPC processor by IBM.
  
  Out of curiosity, I tried to run it on my console.
  
  

• The impossible Wii

  May 31st, 2025
  
  

  As you can see from here, I own a first motherboard revision Wii console.
  
  I have had this console since 2009 - and I almost bricked it several times. Originally it had an Argon II modchip, which is an absolute trainwreck on its own, but I have since removed it and gave it to a friend of mine.
  
  

• First post

  May 22nd, 2025
  
  This is the first post to inaugurate the site's creation!