I think it's because nintendo now considers everything, every single possible thing, to be an attack surface for an exploit to allow piracy. That's why for example there's no web browser easily available on switch (ignoring for a moment landing page support etc.). I guess next console will also be an 'empty shell' that'll do nothing more but play games and have a store to buy more games.
@@Deosgaeno 100% true, it’s sad. Nintendo as a company sucks. We can’t even have the Mii Maker on the Home Screen? No matter what, people are gonna pirate. It’s best to just let it happen
I would imagine the Wii Fit Fitness Check channel was likely intended to be used in conjunction with physical therapy treatment so that your Doctor could keep track of your post-trauma recovery progress and make sure you were keeping up with your exercises. It probably wouldn't have been something your doctor would just randomly check every once in a while whenever you had the impulse to play Wii Fit.
I worked on a project for Children's National Medical Center in the United States, and it involved children playing Wii-Fit-like games to incentivize them to stretch and strain, and used inverse kinematics to track changes in range of motion. While it never received the grant funding we were expecting, an anticipated next step was a (restricted) release of an Xbox 360 Kinect game for patients to use at home, or collaborating with developers with published Kinect games to add a special build incorporating our data collection and distribution system. It looks like Japan actually got that functionality.
@@stevenvgs omg I completely forgot about the mario galaxy e3 demo. that one was also so cool because it had its own unique first level made just for it.
I used a Starlight Wii, definitely were used past 2011, at least in my Canadian hospital, don't think they replaced them until the Switch came out. Oh also Wii fit taught me some valuable exercises I still do and I used it to make my runs more interesting, lost at least 20 pounds it's not a bad tool especially if you like older tech.
I have a theory about Wii fit taikenban; I have a feeling that regarding the game having a case, I think that may have been given in a case for display with the kiosk demo perhaps as a “temporary boxart preview” sorta deal, and was likely shipped to retailers in it to protect the disc itself too. Ofc that’s just my speculation, but as a child I could’ve *sworn* there was a game store in my area did actually display a Wii fit trial version in the store with the disc case displayed (likely used as a label; I can’t remember if it mentioned a trial or demo tho) and the demo running (ofc, I was like 5 or 6 years old at the time so I could very well be misremembering things, but that title screen felt vaguely familiar to me) Also, would love to see a part 2! The Wii was my childhood and being able to see more lost media and such for it is always really exciting for me
I never used Wii Fit to get fit, but I use it at a doctor's office. I think it was to work on my fine motor skills (I'm autistic), and I guess the Wii Fit body channel could have been used for managing someone's weight, but I would think there are more practical ways of doing that. That said, I would be interested in a part 2, if you ever want to make that.
@@paulhudalla9527 ah yes, I believe Wii fit was also used for similar purposes in like retirement homes for motor skills and what not. thanks for reminding me of that, a part 2 may be coming soon.
I don’t know anyone that used it to workout. I feel like most use it for fun and to get some movement in the day if it’s rainy outside, kinda like the new switch fit game
I'm a bit late to this, but at 10:12 I can actually confirm there was medical use of the Wii, but in the USA. my mother at the time worked in Nursing, and she routinely took me by her work where they had a facility they had physical therapy taking place in, and sure enough, they had multiple wii's there with wii fit on it, and she said they used it often and it was popular with the patients. I've even got to play with it, but to the best of my knowledge (and to be fair I was like 9 at the time) they were just standard retail wii's with a standard retail copy of the game, so this really doesn't help anything regarding lost media, but I can say witth 100% certainty that there were actual medical uses for the wii fit. I've heard that some Physical Therapy offices still hold onto wii's to this day due to their effectiveness in it.
Fun fact! All of the Miis' ears were removed in the Revolution's development after a giant anthropomorphic rat named Crazy Jonathan stole them and put them on a necklace like a war criminal trophying his victims. We are still not sure whether or not he is also a war criminal, but we know for sure that those Miis were traumatized after that
man, those starlight machines I forgot all about em. Had to get surgery back in 2013 and they had these. I quite despised it as it didn't have many games on it, and the games I did have I couldn't play due to it's lack of having a disc drive... I just played Sonic Generations on the Xbox 360 that was connected to a CRT way up on the wall lol
In part 2 you could also talk about the Wii Menu Uninstaller (it deletes the Wii Menu and replaces it with the NDEV Menu) and the Wii Auto Erase Disc (used by Nintendo repair centres to wipe all the data from the Wii). And there's also the Wii Lens Cleaning Kit (as the name says, it cleans the Wii's lens), which was never lost media, but it's very rare to find one nowadays and most people don't know about it, so I'm writing about it in here just as a fun fact.
@@CharmanderGamer I will certainly be researching this later because I genuinely have no idea what a “Wii lens cleaning kit” could be referring to. Thanks for letting me know!
The kiosk approach makes the most sense for Wii fit since atleast where I live when we had kiosks for the ds and Xbox it typically had a game case in the kiosk that showcased the game followed by (demo ver. Not for resale.) under the title
the startup disk was for the first manufactured wiis, so if anybody in the distribution of the wii got their hands on it before the release day, they wouldn't be able to leak the contents of the console to the internet
This is such calming and well edited content. You earned yourself a new sub. Wii is very interesting and although some people may not think so, it is very complex, with homebrew and all the wacky and wild games.
8:19 Fun Fact: The Wii Fit Body Check Channel has actually been revived/found by Wii Link! They haven't released the WAD quite yet, although I can confirm that yes! It does send the info to your docter, lol! You can find the video on it. On WiiLink's YT Channel.
It's really cool to see those beta versions of some of those channels. Their visual design feels very Japanese, which makes sense, but it's still charming (I believe the final Weather Channel also looks a bit different between Japan and the rest of the world). That old Wii Shop Channel is probably my favorite though. I love the screenshot at 11:58: That's apparently A Link to the Past for the NES, released on New Year's Eve 1999, containing many mature themes including violence and horror while still being suitable for all ages...and it plays like Sonic the Hedgehog. What a game!
for the wii sports 2005 beta build, the part with the jet pack seems like what ended up being the jet pack game in pilotwings resort for the nintendo 3ds :)
Great video. 1:54 Wii Fit actually had a title screen at the E3 2007 demo. There’s very little footage online of it and I’m not sure if it had music on the title screen. The thing weird with this title screen is that it says 2007-2008 which means they probably decided after releasing the game to add a title screen for the demo.
@@RRBB717 It’s on the cutting room floor pre release article for Wii Fit the title of the video is “Wii Fit (e3)” The title screen is only shown for a couple of seconds.
I swear wii is the reason im so fit today. I played the wii all the time growing up. Crazy thing is i still have my original wii technically, my grandparents took it cause i was eventually just done with it but i still have it and its original data. I know for a fact i 100% completed mario kart, mario bros, RE4, dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 2, super smash bros, a couple sonic games, i played so much wii sports and wii fit it was crazy, and its sad that we dont get things like this today. The wii was such a powerful device back then (not talking in terms of power) but in terms of meeting friends or playing with people, even if it was people you wouldnt normally get along with. I had a friend that we would get the whole block all together just to play super smash bros. Nowadays it seems hard to find anyone that plays games or the same games as you do, i wish that nuance and power of gaming still existed. As much as the switch is supppose to be portable, i really never have seen one in the wild. I remember when 3DS dropped those were in almost everybody's hands. Its insane how much progress®ression at the same time we have made for gaming. Even online games arent like they use to, everybody use to talk on the mic literally everyone had a mic nowadays nobody has a mic or anybody that does just doesnt like to speak. But, in all honesty, i understand why with how the world is turning into, almost every week we hear about how someone k*lled someone over a video game.
Now that I notice it.. 4:52 the screenshot there is basically a demo/taikenban that was later reused for Pilotwings Resort(?) for 3DS, as you can fly around with a jetpack iirc in that game on Wuhu Island!
I remember the wii startup disc fondly. Well, there's two of them i remember. The one i for sure remember was the black screen with white text, but it still made those sounds from the 'lost media' disc. From what i remember from both, you had to insert a disc no matter what, and we owned a Wii in 2013 and that was around the time the disc that's in this video had already been released, and soon lost. All i remember was getting mad when i accidentally took a game out without shutting it down completely, and i'd get an error screen exactly like that one in the vid telling me i needed a disc to play the game i wanted. Mind you, the disc looks EXACTLY the same as it does in the vid, everything was grey with a shiny border, and shiny text that says "Wii" at the top and "Startup Disc" with more text in the middle. Im 17 now, so i'm pretty sure i'm old enough to remember something like this. Hope this helps at all! (I can try my hardest looking everywhere for this disc and post it somewhere useful, but i've moved so many places over the years that this thing is probably trashed by now. Back then, it was an asset, but not really an important disc to my family or me. So i don't blame us for wanting it gone, as i mostly played like the original 3d Super Smash Bro's and some newly released spongebob games that are still purchasable to this day).
So the one thing I’ll note, the Wii fit body check channel doesn’t make too much sense in the US, but in Japan you’ve got a yearly annual health check where you’re given a full physical and receive a scored rating on your health. If you’re under a threshold (Eg high BMI) you have a certain amount of time to “fix” it before it’ll affect your healthcare and potentially job status. So it’s likely this is a part of the tracking by a doctor to make sure you’re making SOME progress etc
5:32 I Remember one time at this kids hospital [which i wont be saying publicly for privacy reasons] they had one of those wiis with the built in games and game menus, it was so long ago though
11:51 That image is kinda wild for something actually made by Nintendo, even as a mockup. Sometimes being able to read a little Japanese is fun, and this is one of those times. We have the Japanese title for Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at the top, but with the Japanese name for the NES rather than SNES in the corner above, the Japanese for "enter comment enter comment enter comment" repeating in the middle of the screen, and placeholder Green Hill Zone?! Just wow.
4:37 this looks just like birds eye bullseye that came on wii fit plus, except obviously the mii isn’t in a bird costume. the area in that image is almost exactly the setting of that mini game so my guess would be this was a test/concept for the game that would eventually be in wii fit plus.
0:45: Wii Fit was NEVER $80. With the Balance Board, it was as low as $99. And no, we can't see it in HD because the Wii was SD.🤡 And the lost Wii media that we ACTUALLY want is: ✅The beta build of Donkey Kong Barrell Blast (aka DK Bongo Blast) that still had support for the DK Bongos. MUCH better than shitty version that shipped. ☑The finished LucasArts Star Wars game that used Motion Plus but got cancelled after LA was sold to Disney. Yes, it exists. Yes, it was as cool as it sounds.🌠
The wii startup disks were common during early development of wii games. Nintendo dev kits have always been weird, they used to use command prompt on the connected PC without an OS most of the time. but I know we used the start up discs.. They were used to put the game into a retail environment towards the end of the dev cycle of early games before they were released. Wii u was probably the weirdest, I was one of the first people working at my studio that got one, just a weird gold box with zero external buttons and no drive that didn't have an OS for testing until after the game went gold. I'm also probably not supposed to say this but for the first 3 months there wasn't even a Wii U controller, we just used USB 360 controllers.
I was working on guitar hero during wii times, and blops2 during wii u times, for anyone interested. Konami for glee and def jam rapstar we always used discs to flash the system, as Konami only had test kits.. Including these start up disks for compatibility testing with non upgraded day 1 OS which nintendo required , games to be mostly compatible with. I can only assume none of these made it out because if it had, it would have ended the career of whoever did, the developer would be fined heavily by nintendo, and the developer would in turn sue the employee, as well as the employee being industry blacklisted.
Real nice video you have here. I like to think that there isn't a lot of lost media in gaming that I don't know about, but you surprised me with the plane and jetpack modes for Wii Sports. Keep up the good work man, you earned a sub from me 🎉
That jetpack image is pretty much guaranteed to be a screenshot of someone doing a mockup, as it apparently uses wiimote models for the 'thrusters'. However, it's with Wii Sports, which included Wuhu island (right from the start, before Fit), which later popped up in Pilotwings Resort, as well. Pilotwings 64 before this had a handful of games, notably a jetpack, a gyrocopter flight game, and a birdman bonus, as well as hang glider. We've seen Sports was going to have a flight game from the start and got a different one, and Sports Plus got a sort of bird-suit game plus Pilotwings Resort got everything else... so the obvious conclusion is they were planning to throw everything from Pilotwings in as early as alpha stage, using that new island. That image would have been a mockup to show how the gamemode would play, but it likely never made it into full development. I mean, it's not a big leap to assume they planned at one point to make a Pilotwings Wii as a launch title (akin to Pilotwings for SNES and 64 for N64), shuffled concepts about to instead go with Sports when time crunch meant they wouldn't have it as a launch title, and parts got cut for not working or not being fun, to be used later. The wing-suit and airplane mode sort of made it (with the birdsuit coming in Sports Plus later being cut from original Sports), but later on wanting more games they finally went back to make Pilotwings Resort which used the original things. I mean, it *does* answer the question of why after being a launch title 2 in a row, Pilotwings wasn't for the wii: It was going to be, but got shuffled into another game and cut up so we never noticed!
5:27 That looks like Wii flow, which was an unofficial channel for a modded Wii! I didn’t know there was an official menu that looks like a modded Wii!
@@myang12003 yes it does resemble wiiflow a lot, I would know because I use wiiflow! However, this menu is entirely official, maybe the developers of wiiflow used the same animations for their software.
The real Startup Disc was eventually found. That's the footage you showed. The story about a disc burned with RAAE was someone who got the Wii that was asking for it, remembered that the proper Wii Menu is hardcoded to always reject a valid disc with the "RAAE" ID, and wondered if that might be because it was the ID of what was obviously a disc to install the Wii Menu itself. So, they fakesigned a regular game with that ID, put it in (presumably after chipping the system), and the game launched.
I remember my grandparents getting a Wii that said to insert the startup disc when I was a young child, I remember them getting the disc but that was probably just me seeing it on the tv screen since I was very very young
The StartUp Disc is interesting. My family got a Wii in the mid-2000s and we abused the hell out of the Mario Kart game. Cut to mid 2010's and the Mario Kart game no longer wanted to function every time we tried to start a race, giving us a black screen with text saying there was an operation error and that we needed to insert the start-up disc. We never had a start-up disc. Now, I wonder how the hell my dad was able to get the system to work in the first place considering he bought the Wii brand new in the box, not second-hand.
3:12 my guess is that Nintendo planned to sell the balance board seperetly, if yours broke, and they wanted to ship this alongside (idk why) but that's my guess
9:26 Preeeetty sure phones back then didn't have the pedometer and step tracking for you to "use an app" instead lmao But you know what did? The 3DS. And combined with the units used in the hospital then you can see why this makes sense for the doctor to be assigning this function for you. It was definitely for people in active recovery since the wii fit board was good at measuring a lot about the way you move and your balance.
I think the reason for the title screen for Wii Fit Taikenban could be for if it was on a kiosk in stores to try out, then you could go up & click to play. It wouldn’t help much if it was already playing when you wanted to try it out :) the different disk & boxart is probably to help the workers differentiate what is the demo Wii fit & the actual Wii fit :)
ah the starlight childrens foundation wiis. i completed super paper mario during a long stay on one of those. and actually i've seen them used as recently as 2019. after that i stopped going to a childrens hospital so i can't say anything about if they're still used now.
Theres I think a secret channel on Wii, I remember it was called "Wii Club" or something like this that replace the game slot in Wii Menu, I never got a chance to see it but i cant stop thinking bout it
@@Whispear is there any other trace of this being mentioned on the internet, or do you think this is just something you’ve tricked yourself into remembering.
@@RRBB717 I never saw this on the internet, maybe its a problem with the console cuz I always left the game and already started pressing the turn off button even tho i shouldn't do it. It can also be my Wii mistaking the Wii CD with the Gamecube for the reason above but i couldn't find anything bout it
@@Whispear interesting. I would say you’re maybe mis-remembering the Nintendo channel, however that didn’t replace the disc slot. it could’ve just been the banner preview of some club game for Wii. I’ll look into it more
There's a fair bit of Gamecube Taikenban discs. The 1st party Nintendo one were used in game stores as demo discs and were not available to the public to purchase. Not 100% sure for the third party ones but should be the same. This is subjective but based on my research there's likely ~500 produced for each. Some are much rarer than others though.
Mentioning the jetpack, it's a option you can choose in Pilotwings Resort on the 3DS. Wuhu Island is the map in the game, so it makes me wonder if that photo could've been a demo for the game.
@@electroid4 probably not considering pilotwings resort (probably) wouldn’t even be in the picture considering it was 2005. but hey anything’s possible
i think nintendo would give the first one to gameshops in japan and they could give the board ( idk the name sry ) and the demo disc and u could rent it and stuff
10:42 Just to be clear, this footage is not real. This was a concept. The Forecast Channel banner was actually made by me, and the News and Internet Channel banners were modded by me. I was a part of the group that made this conceptual beta Wii menu.
Speaking of Wii demos from 2006 theres also Remote Pointer Demo Obstacle Course which never made it to Wii Play (unlike some of the other Remote Pointer Demos) or any other Wii games to my knowledge
well, it kind of made it to Wii play, as a lot of its animations and what not were re-used for the pose mii minigame, however maybe I’ll cover it in a future video.
Liked the video. Little advice going forward: you might want to consult sites like The Cutting Room Floor (or just compare footage) so you can talk about what the actual differences are between the released game and the lost media bits. It's always more interesting to see what changed or was left out! Second, it's... it's better to just rerecord a line if you make a mistake like the ear thing.
9:18 I just wanna add that pedometers were still pretty niche, expensive and not very accurate in 2008. And phones didn't really have them tell 2013. The first iPhone and android with step counting technology came out in 2013 and smart phones were really just taking off then.
Also I really enjoyed this video :)) I subscribed to catch the next one. I'm so nostalgic for wii. I still remember camping out infront of the toysRus in the middle of winter (in Canada!) to buy one! It was pretty much the only way to get one even a couple months after launch! It's probably the console I've played the most, maybe the switch comes close.
At 4:00 you're talking about the console still being under the Revolution name, but the footage shows "Wii" on the screens in the background. I assume this was later footage because it's hard to find footage of the earlier events?
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yes, I know this is a reupload. had to fix some things and stuff. anyways subscribe for more wii
Not to be rude, but you forgot to re-link to the f4mi video.
@@Salamandeenie hah not rude at all I’m just stupid and forgot. I’ll do that now !
Wii fit litteraly tricked the player into exercising because it was a fun game in general (table tilt is my fav)
The original upload is now some realbubble. lost media
Song in the intro?
man they used to develop so many extra things during the Wii/Wiiu/3DS era and now the switch is just an empty shell that plays games
that’s what I hate about the switch, I miss the CONSOLE being fun as well. We don’t even have color themes
"If it doesn't make dollars, it doesn't make sense"
I think it's because nintendo now considers everything, every single possible thing, to be an attack surface for an exploit to allow piracy. That's why for example there's no web browser easily available on switch (ignoring for a moment landing page support etc.). I guess next console will also be an 'empty shell' that'll do nothing more but play games and have a store to buy more games.
@@Deosgaeno 100% true, it’s sad. Nintendo as a company sucks. We can’t even have the Mii Maker on the Home Screen? No matter what, people are gonna pirate. It’s best to just let it happen
sorry wii lost it
S T A R S C H I C
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1:51 I love the Wii Fit title screen better. I wish they kept that for the other Wii Fit titles
I liked the homey void of the title screen we got.
I would imagine the Wii Fit Fitness Check channel was likely intended to be used in conjunction with physical therapy treatment so that your Doctor could keep track of your post-trauma recovery progress and make sure you were keeping up with your exercises.
It probably wouldn't have been something your doctor would just randomly check every once in a while whenever you had the impulse to play Wii Fit.
I would have loved to play wii fit after shoulder surgery lmao
I worked on a project for Children's National Medical Center in the United States, and it involved children playing Wii-Fit-like games to incentivize them to stretch and strain, and used inverse kinematics to track changes in range of motion. While it never received the grant funding we were expecting, an anticipated next step was a (restricted) release of an Xbox 360 Kinect game for patients to use at home, or collaborating with developers with published Kinect games to add a special build incorporating our data collection and distribution system. It looks like Japan actually got that functionality.
Would you believe me if I said WiiLink got the Wii Fit Fitness Check channel working again?
Mario Galaxy's E3 2006 demo and Mario Kart Wii's E3 2007 demo are 2 lost builds that are sought after
@@stevenvgs omg I completely forgot about the mario galaxy e3 demo. that one was also so cool because it had its own unique first level made just for it.
@@RRBB717 Yes it did. A lot of differences in that version as well.
I used a Starlight Wii, definitely were used past 2011, at least in my Canadian hospital, don't think they replaced them until the Switch came out.
Oh also Wii fit taught me some valuable exercises I still do and I used it to make my runs more interesting, lost at least 20 pounds it's not a bad tool especially if you like older tech.
I remember SEEING one (didn’t get to use it unfortunately) at a hospital in 2013. Peterborough General I think?
You mean lost Wiidia
Edit : thanks for 500 likes
or Lost Miidia
@@noelleaxolotl that works.
or weedia
@@Mizai Sounds too much like drugs.
lost in weedia
Yeah I wouldn't mind seeing a 2nd part dude. I'm always interested in seeing cut content as you can then imagine a future where it wasn't.
I have a theory about Wii fit taikenban; I have a feeling that regarding the game having a case, I think that may have been given in a case for display with the kiosk demo perhaps as a “temporary boxart preview” sorta deal, and was likely shipped to retailers in it to protect the disc itself too. Ofc that’s just my speculation, but as a child I could’ve *sworn* there was a game store in my area did actually display a Wii fit trial version in the store with the disc case displayed (likely used as a label; I can’t remember if it mentioned a trial or demo tho) and the demo running (ofc, I was like 5 or 6 years old at the time so I could very well be misremembering things, but that title screen felt vaguely familiar to me)
Also, would love to see a part 2! The Wii was my childhood and being able to see more lost media and such for it is always really exciting for me
I honestly thought it was a special demo for the press or smth like that, but this makes sense too.
I never used Wii Fit to get fit, but I use it at a doctor's office. I think it was to work on my fine motor skills (I'm autistic), and I guess the Wii Fit body channel could have been used for managing someone's weight, but I would think there are more practical ways of doing that. That said, I would be interested in a part 2, if you ever want to make that.
@@paulhudalla9527 ah yes, I believe Wii fit was also used for similar purposes in like retirement homes for motor skills and what not. thanks for reminding me of that, a part 2 may be coming soon.
That sounds so neat
I don’t know anyone that used it to workout. I feel like most use it for fun and to get some movement in the day if it’s rainy outside, kinda like the new switch fit game
@@RRBB717Here in Canada it was very common to see wii fit platforms in retirement homes for this exact reason.
U lost the perfect opportunity of putting "wii lost it" at the thumb
he can still edit the thumbnail
I'm a bit late to this, but at 10:12 I can actually confirm there was medical use of the Wii, but in the USA. my mother at the time worked in Nursing, and she routinely took me by her work where they had a facility they had physical therapy taking place in, and sure enough, they had multiple wii's there with wii fit on it, and she said they used it often and it was popular with the patients. I've even got to play with it, but to the best of my knowledge (and to be fair I was like 9 at the time) they were just standard retail wii's with a standard retail copy of the game, so this really doesn't help anything regarding lost media, but I can say witth 100% certainty that there were actual medical uses for the wii fit. I've heard that some Physical Therapy offices still hold onto wii's to this day due to their effectiveness in it.
Fun fact! All of the Miis' ears were removed in the Revolution's development after a giant anthropomorphic rat named Crazy Jonathan stole them and put them on a necklace like a war criminal trophying his victims. We are still not sure whether or not he is also a war criminal, but we know for sure that those Miis were traumatized after that
@@BinglesP that sounds about right
What the hell
man, those starlight machines I forgot all about em. Had to get surgery back in 2013 and they had these. I quite despised it as it didn't have many games on it, and the games I did have I couldn't play due to it's lack of having a disc drive...
I just played Sonic Generations on the Xbox 360 that was connected to a CRT way up on the wall lol
In part 2 you could also talk about the Wii Menu Uninstaller (it deletes the Wii Menu and replaces it with the NDEV Menu) and the Wii Auto Erase Disc (used by Nintendo repair centres to wipe all the data from the Wii).
And there's also the Wii Lens Cleaning Kit (as the name says, it cleans the Wii's lens), which was never lost media, but it's very rare to find one nowadays and most people don't know about it, so I'm writing about it in here just as a fun fact.
@@CharmanderGamer I will certainly be researching this later because I genuinely have no idea what a “Wii lens cleaning kit” could be referring to. Thanks for letting me know!
I have always had one of those, I had no idea it was rare lol
The abundance of Wii Fit lost media you mention reminds me of the time I went to a used video game store and they had like 30 copies of Wii Fit.
The kiosk approach makes the most sense for Wii fit since atleast where I live when we had kiosks for the ds and Xbox it typically had a game case in the kiosk that showcased the game followed by (demo ver. Not for resale.) under the title
“We lost media?”
No.
WII lost media ):
I hope we find it
@@Teunail Wii Lost Miidia :(
@@kingcoveryepic YOOOOO TRUEEE
@@BackSoon... I hope *Wii* find it.
But why'd U lose it?
Only 2 videos? You gained a sub. I wanna watch this grow. Super chill vibes here.
@@bladerdj3503 tyyy
the startup disk was for the first manufactured wiis, so if anybody in the distribution of the wii got their hands on it before the release day, they wouldn't be able to leak the contents of the console to the internet
startup disk was leaked from gigaleak, not from first manufactured wii's. nintendo really gatekeeped it, and i think it was antipiracy measure
@@nikoseasy_ yeah obviously the disk never got sent to anyone that's what i meant
Totally awesome video. You gained a sub.
You can definitely tell the wii fit demo was used for a demo in stores probably in Japan.
Man I love videos like these :) This is awesome, it’s so interesting seeing how much Wii lost media there is out there
Great video! I hope you make more lost media content because I find the Wii really nostalgic and lost media in general is so fascinating.👍
This is such calming and well edited content. You earned yourself a new sub. Wii is very interesting and although some people may not think so, it is very complex, with homebrew and all the wacky and wild games.
8:19 Fun Fact: The Wii Fit Body Check Channel has actually been revived/found by Wii Link! They haven't released the WAD quite yet, although I can confirm that yes! It does send the info to your docter, lol! You can find the video on it. On WiiLink's YT Channel.
I saw it last night. It’s awesome they found most of the content!
Didn’t even realize this channel was made my a small channel, this is high quality stuff
It's really cool to see those beta versions of some of those channels. Their visual design feels very Japanese, which makes sense, but it's still charming (I believe the final Weather Channel also looks a bit different between Japan and the rest of the world).
That old Wii Shop Channel is probably my favorite though. I love the screenshot at 11:58: That's apparently A Link to the Past for the NES, released on New Year's Eve 1999, containing many mature themes including violence and horror while still being suitable for all ages...and it plays like Sonic the Hedgehog. What a game!
Yeah, I was curious about that... it seems like it was some sort of joke placeholder.
for the wii sports 2005 beta build, the part with the jet pack seems like what ended up being the jet pack game in pilotwings resort for the nintendo 3ds :)
Great video. 1:54 Wii Fit actually had a title screen at the E3 2007 demo. There’s very little footage online of it and I’m not sure if it had music on the title screen. The thing weird with this title screen is that it says 2007-2008 which means they probably decided after releasing the game to add a title screen for the demo.
@@Bjohn74 do you know where to find this footage?? I’d love to see it!!
@@RRBB717 It’s on the cutting room floor pre release article for Wii Fit the title of the video is “Wii Fit (e3)” The title screen is only shown for a couple of seconds.
@@Bjohn74 👍👍thank yiu
@@RRBB717 No problem. :)
It’s crazy, I never even tuned into Wii Fit not having a title screen…
I swear wii is the reason im so fit today. I played the wii all the time growing up. Crazy thing is i still have my original wii technically, my grandparents took it cause i was eventually just done with it but i still have it and its original data. I know for a fact i 100% completed mario kart, mario bros, RE4, dragon ball z budokai tenkaichi 2, super smash bros, a couple sonic games, i played so much wii sports and wii fit it was crazy, and its sad that we dont get things like this today.
The wii was such a powerful device back then (not talking in terms of power) but in terms of meeting friends or playing with people, even if it was people you wouldnt normally get along with. I had a friend that we would get the whole block all together just to play super smash bros. Nowadays it seems hard to find anyone that plays games or the same games as you do, i wish that nuance and power of gaming still existed.
As much as the switch is supppose to be portable, i really never have seen one in the wild. I remember when 3DS dropped those were in almost everybody's hands.
Its insane how much progress®ression at the same time we have made for gaming. Even online games arent like they use to, everybody use to talk on the mic literally everyone had a mic nowadays nobody has a mic or anybody that does just doesnt like to speak.
But, in all honesty, i understand why with how the world is turning into, almost every week we hear about how someone k*lled someone over a video game.
Now that I notice it.. 4:52 the screenshot there is basically a demo/taikenban that was later reused for Pilotwings Resort(?) for 3DS, as you can fly around with a jetpack iirc in that game on Wuhu Island!
Great first vid! I’d love to see more Wii Lost media videos. The whole idea of a Wii focused channel is really cool, keep it up!
i’d love if you made an hour + long video on lost media from the wii era
I remember the wii startup disc fondly. Well, there's two of them i remember. The one i for sure remember was the black screen with white text, but it still made those sounds from the 'lost media' disc. From what i remember from both, you had to insert a disc no matter what, and we owned a Wii in 2013 and that was around the time the disc that's in this video had already been released, and soon lost. All i remember was getting mad when i accidentally took a game out without shutting it down completely, and i'd get an error screen exactly like that one in the vid telling me i needed a disc to play the game i wanted. Mind you, the disc looks EXACTLY the same as it does in the vid, everything was grey with a shiny border, and shiny text that says "Wii" at the top and "Startup Disc" with more text in the middle. Im 17 now, so i'm pretty sure i'm old enough to remember something like this. Hope this helps at all! (I can try my hardest looking everywhere for this disc and post it somewhere useful, but i've moved so many places over the years that this thing is probably trashed by now. Back then, it was an asset, but not really an important disc to my family or me. So i don't blame us for wanting it gone, as i mostly played like the original 3d Super Smash Bro's and some newly released spongebob games that are still purchasable to this day).
So the one thing I’ll note, the Wii fit body check channel doesn’t make too much sense in the US, but in Japan you’ve got a yearly annual health check where you’re given a full physical and receive a scored rating on your health.
If you’re under a threshold (Eg high BMI) you have a certain amount of time to “fix” it before it’ll affect your healthcare and potentially job status.
So it’s likely this is a part of the tracking by a doctor to make sure you’re making SOME progress etc
5:32 I Remember one time at this kids hospital [which i wont be saying publicly for privacy reasons] they had one of those wiis with the built in games and game menus, it was so long ago though
YT just recommended this channel to me - interesting video, I subscribed :)
11:51 That image is kinda wild for something actually made by Nintendo, even as a mockup. Sometimes being able to read a little Japanese is fun, and this is one of those times. We have the Japanese title for Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past at the top, but with the Japanese name for the NES rather than SNES in the corner above, the Japanese for "enter comment enter comment enter comment" repeating in the middle of the screen, and placeholder Green Hill Zone?! Just wow.
4:37 this looks just like birds eye bullseye that came on wii fit plus, except obviously the mii isn’t in a bird costume. the area in that image is almost exactly the setting of that mini game so my guess would be this was a test/concept for the game that would eventually be in wii fit plus.
0:45: Wii Fit was NEVER $80. With the Balance Board, it was as low as $99. And no, we can't see it in HD because the Wii was SD.🤡
And the lost Wii media that we ACTUALLY want is: ✅The beta build of Donkey Kong Barrell Blast (aka DK Bongo Blast) that still had support for the DK Bongos. MUCH better than shitty version that shipped. ☑The finished LucasArts Star Wars game that used Motion Plus but got cancelled after LA was sold to Disney. Yes, it exists. Yes, it was as cool as it sounds.🌠
The wii startup disks were common during early development of wii games.
Nintendo dev kits have always been weird, they used to use command prompt on the connected PC without an OS most of the time. but I know we used the start up discs.. They were used to put the game into a retail environment towards the end of the dev cycle of early games before they were released.
Wii u was probably the weirdest, I was one of the first people working at my studio that got one, just a weird gold box with zero external buttons and no drive that didn't have an OS for testing until after the game went gold.
I'm also probably not supposed to say this but for the first 3 months there wasn't even a Wii U controller, we just used USB 360 controllers.
I was working on guitar hero during wii times, and blops2 during wii u times, for anyone interested.
Konami for glee and def jam rapstar we always used discs to flash the system, as Konami only had test kits.. Including these start up disks for compatibility testing with non upgraded day 1 OS which nintendo required , games to be mostly compatible with.
I can only assume none of these made it out because if it had, it would have ended the career of whoever did, the developer would be fined heavily by nintendo, and the developer would in turn sue the employee, as well as the employee being industry blacklisted.
Real nice video you have here. I like to think that there isn't a lot of lost media in gaming that I don't know about, but you surprised me with the plane and jetpack modes for Wii Sports. Keep up the good work man, you earned a sub from me 🎉
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That jetpack image is pretty much guaranteed to be a screenshot of someone doing a mockup, as it apparently uses wiimote models for the 'thrusters'. However, it's with Wii Sports, which included Wuhu island (right from the start, before Fit), which later popped up in Pilotwings Resort, as well. Pilotwings 64 before this had a handful of games, notably a jetpack, a gyrocopter flight game, and a birdman bonus, as well as hang glider.
We've seen Sports was going to have a flight game from the start and got a different one, and Sports Plus got a sort of bird-suit game plus Pilotwings Resort got everything else... so the obvious conclusion is they were planning to throw everything from Pilotwings in as early as alpha stage, using that new island. That image would have been a mockup to show how the gamemode would play, but it likely never made it into full development.
I mean, it's not a big leap to assume they planned at one point to make a Pilotwings Wii as a launch title (akin to Pilotwings for SNES and 64 for N64), shuffled concepts about to instead go with Sports when time crunch meant they wouldn't have it as a launch title, and parts got cut for not working or not being fun, to be used later. The wing-suit and airplane mode sort of made it (with the birdsuit coming in Sports Plus later being cut from original Sports), but later on wanting more games they finally went back to make Pilotwings Resort which used the original things.
I mean, it *does* answer the question of why after being a launch title 2 in a row, Pilotwings wasn't for the wii: It was going to be, but got shuffled into another game and cut up so we never noticed!
underrated asf but im excited for u to get a new mic someday
@@fryguyy haha yeah i use my phone mic so it may sound a bit off
wii startup disk is creepy
weatherscan in the background goes tuff
Great video! The Wii is truly a special system, glad you made this.
they found the wii fit body check channel
@@SAMSOMAR1 I saw lol I’m making a video soon
Rest in Peace, Satoru Iwata 🪽
5:27 That looks like Wii flow, which was an unofficial channel for a modded Wii! I didn’t know there was an official menu that looks like a modded Wii!
@@myang12003 yes it does resemble wiiflow a lot, I would know because I use wiiflow! However, this menu is entirely official, maybe the developers of wiiflow used the same animations for their software.
Great video! Love this style of content.
The real Startup Disc was eventually found. That's the footage you showed. The story about a disc burned with RAAE was someone who got the Wii that was asking for it, remembered that the proper Wii Menu is hardcoded to always reject a valid disc with the "RAAE" ID, and wondered if that might be because it was the ID of what was obviously a disc to install the Wii Menu itself. So, they fakesigned a regular game with that ID, put it in (presumably after chipping the system), and the game launched.
kids in hospitals really been playing peak, if i could play super paper mario while i was hospitalized i'd break another leg to complete it
I remember my grandparents getting a Wii that said to insert the startup disc when I was a young child, I remember them getting the disc but that was probably just me seeing it on the tv screen since I was very very young
yeah it brought back a memory for me! I really wonder if it actually happened
The StartUp Disc is interesting. My family got a Wii in the mid-2000s and we abused the hell out of the Mario Kart game. Cut to mid 2010's and the Mario Kart game no longer wanted to function every time we tried to start a race, giving us a black screen with text saying there was an operation error and that we needed to insert the start-up disc.
We never had a start-up disc. Now, I wonder how the hell my dad was able to get the system to work in the first place considering he bought the Wii brand new in the box, not second-hand.
For only a couple of videos your editing is pretty good man
3:12 my guess is that Nintendo planned to sell the balance board seperetly, if yours broke, and they wanted to ship this alongside (idk why) but that's my guess
MY FAV GAME EVER AS A KID WAS IN THE THUMBNAIL SO U KNOW I HAD TO TURN UP
You know when the video uses Mario Kart Channel - Mario Kart 7 it'll be a great video
9:26 Preeeetty sure phones back then didn't have the pedometer and step tracking for you to "use an app" instead lmao But you know what did? The 3DS. And combined with the units used in the hospital then you can see why this makes sense for the doctor to be assigning this function for you. It was definitely for people in active recovery since the wii fit board was good at measuring a lot about the way you move and your balance.
I think the reason for the title screen for Wii Fit Taikenban could be for if it was on a kiosk in stores to try out, then you could go up & click to play. It wouldn’t help much if it was already playing when you wanted to try it out :) the different disk & boxart is probably to help the workers differentiate what is the demo Wii fit & the actual Wii fit :)
damn, you have a really unique voice
i was sick as shit while recording the voiceover for this video so I was a little stuffy in my nose. but thanks
This channel is underrated
ah the starlight childrens foundation wiis. i completed super paper mario during a long stay on one of those. and actually i've seen them used as recently as 2019. after that i stopped going to a childrens hospital so i can't say anything about if they're still used now.
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@@ImNotaCasualty yes sir. underrated creator fs
I remember seeing MKWii being played in a hopstital a few years ago.. and the TV had a Wii logo so it may have been a starlight Wii
@@sooperpog that was for sure a starlight Wii
Theres I think a secret channel on Wii, I remember it was called "Wii Club" or something like this that replace the game slot in Wii Menu, I never got a chance to see it but i cant stop thinking bout it
@@Whispear whaaat hold on I’m gonna research this rq
@@Whispear is there any other trace of this being mentioned on the internet, or do you think this is just something you’ve tricked yourself into remembering.
@@RRBB717 I never saw this on the internet, maybe its a problem with the console cuz I always left the game and already started pressing the turn off button even tho i shouldn't do it.
It can also be my Wii mistaking the Wii CD with the Gamecube for the reason above but i couldn't find anything bout it
@@Whispear interesting. I would say you’re maybe mis-remembering the Nintendo channel, however that didn’t replace the disc slot. it could’ve just been the banner preview of some club game for Wii. I’ll look into it more
@@RRBB717 Thanks a lot, I couldnt find anything for more than 10 years about this topic
There's a fair bit of Gamecube Taikenban discs. The 1st party Nintendo one were used in game stores as demo discs and were not available to the public to purchase. Not 100% sure for the third party ones but should be the same. This is subjective but based on my research there's likely ~500 produced for each. Some are much rarer than others though.
Mentioning the jetpack, it's a option you can choose in Pilotwings Resort on the 3DS. Wuhu Island is the map in the game, so it makes me wonder if that photo could've been a demo for the game.
@@electroid4 probably not considering pilotwings resort (probably) wouldn’t even be in the picture considering it was 2005. but hey anything’s possible
I thought of birds eye bullseye from wii fit plus, maybe that the concept was recycled and modified for a mini game on there
@@frontbottomsfan this could also be a possibility
I loved the Wii. There were also good games on the Wii U, too bad that console flopped
I love the focus on Wii content on your channel. Definitely earned a sub from me
i think nintendo would give the first one to gameshops in japan and they could give the board ( idk the name sry ) and the demo disc and u could rent it and stuff
10:42
Just to be clear, this footage is not real. This was a concept. The Forecast Channel banner was actually made by me, and the News and Internet Channel banners were modded by me. I was a part of the group that made this conceptual beta Wii menu.
Wii lost media? Yeah, I know we did.
Speaking of Wii demos from 2006 theres also Remote Pointer Demo Obstacle Course which never made it to Wii Play (unlike some of the other Remote Pointer Demos) or any other Wii games to my knowledge
well, it kind of made it to Wii play, as a lot of its animations and what not were re-used for the pose mii minigame, however maybe I’ll cover it in a future video.
Subbed! Love Nintendo lost media stuffs❤
I forgot about the wii fit demo. Thanks for the great video!
Great video man ! You deserve a lot more subscribers hahaha
9:24 uhhh not sure if you're aware but the vast majority of people did not have a smartphone compatible with those kinds of apps in 2007 lol
Damn this was a great vid and I even learned a couple new things! Great work Hope to see more!
i can’t die before the wii sports beta gets found
Bros voice is majestic
Hey nice video yo
When its the 2nd part droppin?
If someone ever uploads the beta version of Wii sports with the mii ears, please let me know.🙏😅
Liked the video. Little advice going forward: you might want to consult sites like The Cutting Room Floor (or just compare footage) so you can talk about what the actual differences are between the released game and the lost media bits. It's always more interesting to see what changed or was left out!
Second, it's... it's better to just rerecord a line if you make a mistake like the ear thing.
I do have communications and contacts with Larsenv, nice fella
mario ddr mix music hits hard
Wii Fitness check was probably used in Nursing homes and or children's hospitals
Hula hoops was the best Wii fit minigame to be sure. I put in the motherfuckin hours on that one.
your doctor must have been proud!
A hospital I took my brother too still has a starlight wii.
I swear when I got my wii, it had the wii startup disc error and we were sent wii sports and the startup disc but everything else feels foggy
rlly enjoed the video bro :D
4 uploads and theyre all about wii....We have Wii U Guy (Scott) and now we have Wii Guy (You)
@@metaculos6068 im honored to hold the title
9:18 I just wanna add that pedometers were still pretty niche, expensive and not very accurate in 2008. And phones didn't really have them tell 2013. The first iPhone and android with step counting technology came out in 2013 and smart phones were really just taking off then.
Also I really enjoyed this video :)) I subscribed to catch the next one. I'm so nostalgic for wii. I still remember camping out infront of the toysRus in the middle of winter (in Canada!) to buy one! It was pretty much the only way to get one even a couple months after launch! It's probably the console I've played the most, maybe the switch comes close.
@@Chewi_thank you :)
i love the wii and i love this video! keep it up!
Thanks!
it would be really cool if the beta E3 '06 build of Mario Galaxy were to leak..
At 4:00 you're talking about the console still being under the Revolution name, but the footage shows "Wii" on the screens in the background. I assume this was later footage because it's hard to find footage of the earlier events?