27w ago - Following up on the Wii U Specifications with the US launch being today, NeoGAF user Trike has already uncovered what appears to be a Wii U Miiverse Debug Menu with details below.

Also of note, a Nintendo Wii U Teardown Guide is now available followed by a second Nintendo Wii U Teardown Tutorial and Geoff Keighley of GameTrailers TV has Tweeted that: The Wii U Firmware update is apparently about 5 gigs. No wonder it takes about an hour+ to download.

Additionally, the Wii U is able to run Nintendo Wii homebrew at launch (WiiXplorer ELF) and run Wii U games Off an SD Card, as demonstrated in the videos below!








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72w ago - Today Ragioustroll has announced the discovery of a hidden System Menu which is present on Sony's PS3, PSP and PS Vita consoles.

Below are the details via the PlayStation 3 Dev Wiki with some additional pictures HERE, as follows:

More System Information

How to get this

• Go to Settings > System > System Information
  
• Press simultaneously R1 + L1 + DPad Left + Square for a few seconds
  
• Release those buttons then immediately press the start button (and keep it hold)
  

First Section

First part is about sections on other chips:

110w ago - You can now update to version 01.17.00 with [R3] in multiMAN which now features a PS3 game-specific sub-menu, or download the BASE or FULL version from below. Enjoy it.

Download: multiMAN ver 1.17.00 BASE (20110418_220000) (24.55 MB) / multiMAN 01.17.00 (FULL) (2210 covers) (helpMME showTIME) (128.65 MB)

If you wish to get the latest Showtime, delete SHOWTIME.SELF from multiMAN's folder and play a video - you'll be prompted to download the latest.

multiMAN v1.17.00 Changelog:

• Added: New sub-menu to set game specific options (press R1)
  
• Added: Latest version of Showtime by andoma and helpMME by condorstrike
  
• Added: Support for 5 user fonts (change with SELECT+R3)
  
• Added: Custom font for Showtime in fonts/system/showtime.ttf
  
• Numerous fixes, improvements and additions
  

XMM theme by condorstrike used for screenshots:

137w ago - Today SKFU has updated his blog (linked above) with a follow-up to his previous work and shared some new information and progress regarding PS3 custom firmware.

He was able to add several more working debug options to JailBroken retail PS3 consoles, such as Title Store preview in the network section.

To quote: "While the USB Loader by JaicraB has some trouble rebooting all correctly it seems for a final CFW we need to overwrite dev_flash instead just loading live from USB mass storage.

Some things you can already do for a nice working CFW:

1. Replace all in "/vsh/module + /sys/external + /sys/internal" with the content of a 3.41 debug dev_flash.

2. In "/vsh/resource/explore/xmb/category_game.xml" add this in the "view id=root" Items section

CLICK TO VIEW CODE

This will bring the "/app_home/GAME" and "Install PKG" options back.

3. In "/vsh/resource/explore/xmb/category_psn.xml" switch "root" and "tool_root".

This will add Title Store previews in the network section.

4. In "/sys/external" you grab liblv2dbg_for_dex from a debug unit and rename it liblv2dbg_for_cex....

146w ago - It's been quite some time since the last Nintendo Wii leak we reported on, and recently some more Wii RVT Dev Tools have leaked to the Internet from release group OneUp including the System Menu Changer Disk and more!

To quote from MLRX at GBATemp.net (linked above) on the leaked file details:

DEV TOOLS

RVT.System.Menu.Changer.Disk.v1.13.RVT.Wii-OneUp_iNT
RVT.Development.Key.RVT.Wii-OneUp_iNT
WII RVT.Menu.Uninstaller.Tool.Channel.v1.01.RVT.Wii-OneUp_iNT
WII RVT.DiskCheck.Tool.Channel.v1.01.RVT.Wii-OneUp_iNT

SYSTEM MENU 1.0 WADS

IOS4-64-NAND-v3.wad
IOS9-64-NAND-v516.wad
RVL-WiiSystemmenu-NAND-v33.wad

For those curious, the files have apparently surfaced on the alt.binaries.games.wii newsgroup, and below is the related .nzb file link and a download mirror for those who have trouble with newsgroups.

Download: Nintendo Wii Dev File Leak .NZB / Nintendo Wii Dev File Leak Pack [Mirror]