Nintendo Wii U Release Date And Price Revealed

[Arudo]

Damn, so much for that idea.

[biolizard89]

Four USB *host* ports, probably.  Very little hardware supports "USB On-The-Go" or USBOTG, which allows the port to be either a host or device.  USB is not really designed to share data between two hosts.  It wouldn't be impossible, just really awkward.

How awkward is it to have a cable like this:

USB Host <-> FTDI <-> FIFO <-> FTDI <-> USB Host

Surely someone must manufacture a cable like this, right?  It seems so simple that I can't believe no one's tried it.  And the new Hi-Speed FTDI chips are really fast... not as good as native USB, but on the order of 30 times faster than the USB Gecko's FTDI chip if I recall correctly.

[Bully@Wiiplaza]

Four USB *host* ports, probably.  Very little hardware supports "USB On-The-Go" or USBOTG, which allows the port to be either a host or device.  USB is not really designed to share data between two hosts.  It wouldn't be impossible, just really awkward.

How awkward is it to have a cable like this:

USB Host <-> FTDI <-> FIFO <-> FTDI <-> USB Host

Surely someone must manufacture a cable like this, right?  It seems so simple that I can't believe no one's tried it.  And the new Hi-Speed FTDI chips are really fast... not as good as native USB, but on the order of 30 times faster than the USB Gecko's FTDI chip if I recall correctly.

Lol, mem90 dump in 3 seconds. That would be awesome. ;D

[111]

Well, it looks like installing the Homebrew Channel on a Wii U in Wii mode has been achieved...

Wii U Teaser

We finally have a YouTube channel and we thought we’d kick things off with a little teaser:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=96k0YgOqHTA

Keep in mind that this is purely a demonstration at this stage. Depending on how things progress and what direction development takes, we may or may not release something like this in this form. Please don’t ask for release dates. We’d rather spend time investigating the new system than putting together a release that may or may not end up being the Right Way to do things in the future ;).

Please ignore the blue blinks. The monitor kind of sucks at syncing to component video sometimes. I would’ve used HDMI, but the Wii U cannot output analog audio simultaneously with HDMI (at least not for the Wii U menu part), and I cannot capture HDMI audio.

Source:  http://fail0verflow.com/blog/2012/wiiu-teaser.html