The Coolest Nintendo Console You Didn't Know About... | Joysound Festa Wii U System 

Hey guys I just wanted to leave a comment here with a couple quick things: First of all, I would like to thank you all so much for all the support! I didn't expect this video to get anywhere near this many views, comments, etc. so quickly so I really appreciate it all! Another thing that a few of you have mentioned is that you wish I went more in depth showing off the software / hardware of the unit. I'm sorry I kinda dropped the ball with this one. I really wish I went in and really explored more of the karaoke software, tried out a song or two, and checked out some more of the titles on the Wii u menu but the main thing I wanted to do from the start was just to get it playing a retail Wii u game so I kinda had tunnel vision going through everything else. I am planning on making a follow-up video really doing a deep dive on this thing, atleast to the best of my ability. I would like to show off a bit more of the hardware, check out the rest of the service menu, and potentially even try some sort of non invasive softmod. I'm sorry if this video seemed a bit rushed, I was just really excited to finally have it in my possession and just wanted to show it off as there aren't many of these out there. I'll start working on the follow-up video as soon as possible so hopefully I can get it all recorded and uploaded in a timely manner. Thanks for all the constructive criticism you guys have left, I'm really trying to improve my videos and make the best content I possibly can and I wouldn't be able to do that without all of your feedback. I hope to see you all in the next part and hopefully I'll be able to answer all of your questions :)

This software could probably be run in a modified Wii U, it would be amazing to see this software dumped and running. Considering this is just a Wii U, you could probably use standard Wii U modding guides to try and dump all the data. I love this, its such a cool device and it needs to be preserved.

I still say that the Wii U was ahead of its time. It was such a cool concept!

Nah, the coolest Nintendo system was the Gamecube put into a freezer while playing Metroid Prime, I'm gonna go now.

Nice to get even a limited view on such a rare unit but it would have been nice to see and understand more about the why and how. Don't care if it can play Wi U discs. Because that seems pretty much to be a given. Since it is just an unmodified Wii U in a larger case with extensions. A deeper dive would be a nice follow up, please.

Well what i dubbed "the holy grail of Wii u's" doesn't fail to disapoint thank you for sharing this to the world (and it's cheaper than a 64DD) if i'm correct the system runs a special offline capable version of Karaoke Joysound for Wii U that would explain the harddrive

What a cool find! I hadn't ever heard of the Joysound Festa until now. You really should make a follow up video showcasing all of it's unique features and software! 😃

6:33 160-2203 means there is a problem with the onboard NAND (essentially the system memory chip) which from i know sadly is a pretty common issue recently with wii u consoles, especially the ones with Hynix nands. Since it has already happened to you it will only get worse with time, until it corrupts a critical parts of the os completely bricking it. I would advise backing up the NAND in case that would happen just to preserve its contents, something like NAND-AID lets you replace the nand with an SD card and restore the nand backup onto it

This is cool and all. But what I would have liked to see is the rest of its hardware. What happens when you boot into the Joysound Festa software, what the knobs on the front are for and the UI menu on the front. The video felt more like a Wii U demonstration than anything. The unique software that isn't shown off. You would be the only one to show it off in HD. You could demonstrate some of the software/games it may have and menus without setting off a copyright claim. You are the only person on RU-vid showing off the hardware. Possibly the only English speaking RU-vidr with this hardware. I hope you go more in-depth in a next video.

the IR LEDS only lit up when you are already in the wii mode, they are disabled in wii u mode. The crash was because you have disconnected the USB HDD

Super cool! Love obscure pieces of hardware like this.

This was actually one of the most intriguing piece of hardware ive seen! I would love to see it connected to the internet, and see what would happen and if it would update. Also consider dumping the software, as the homebrew community would be really happy! Thanks for this video!

There is more than a few geeking out about this. Great Video, Joysound festa is grail pick up of Wii U collecting!

Funny to see the video. Saw your post on reddit the other day and the comment telling you about the missing songs

Awesome pickup! Had never heard of this model before now. Thanks for showing it off!

Ay i saw your post on reddit about this. Its a cool find and im glad youre preserving it in a vid like his for everyone to see. Really interesting console.

I've never seen this before, but it's super cool! If possible, you should try and homebrew it to get the files off it for preservation sake. Also, if it's just an unmodified Wii U, taking off the back should allow for the Wii Menu to be accessible (since the sensor bar port is in the back).

Very interesting video! I'm glad people like you are out there working on documenting hardware like this

The Wii U gamepad 100% has IR emitters on it. It's just not enabled unless you're in vWii mode. You can also press minus on the Wiimote to enter vWii, the only drawback is you won't get an output on anything other than the gamepad.

This is absolutely insane and i love it! xD

this is so so so cool. thank you so much for showing this off

What an interesting specimen. Good find!

I’ve never heard of this before and the fact it exists at all is very funny to me. Thanks for the video!

This is so neat dude. I would imagine the Wii U works by booting the Joysound game title, and then maybe songs are each title..? I’m not sure.. but it’s interesting for sure. Most of the rpls seem to work, but I would imagine console titles were prolly deleted to save space… you could prolly restore them if the thing could run on cfw which I imagine it could, but yeah.. sick dude! Also congrats on your channel doing so well! I wasn’t here for that last video, since RU-vid only recommended this one lol.

Cool Wii U. I was an early adopter of the Wii U, so this was cool to see.

As someone who owns a full worldwide Physical WiIU Collection this item as allude me for awhile. Ive been waiting for one to come up for sale thats not the full kart version. Tough to find but all so awesome to see. Cant wait to add this to my collection one day.

Subbed. I can't even see one of these online, I'm scared of how much this set you back. I love Nintendo history and my best friend likes karaoke

Holy crap! Something i haven't seen! Instant follow!

Lol i am officially that one guy geeking out with you, funny enough I have a friend who actually worked on the hardware for this :)

Ever since I saw the Austin Evans video on the Panasonic Q that has been my favorite Nintendo console. I might have a new runner-up. This thing is amazing!

Great work and keep it up man.

Wow, cool you finally got this in and very interesting to see. 6:17 sounds just like my Prologue 21, maybe worse seeing how you have to disassemble it to insert a disc. 11:00 I've figured out getting the Prologue set up at a few conventions I'm at after fixing it this last time and it's always a hit.

14:53 So... the Wii U has this thing that if you connect/disconnect a USB device while the console is on, the Wii U will crash. The reason why this happens it's because the USB ports are supposed to be used for archiving some storage like downloaded games or save files, and if you disconnect the usb that it's being used at that moment it will cause this to happen.

The Wii Remote that came with the console reminds me of the that one Club Nintendo TV remote that looked like a Wii Remote. Unrelated but I am your 1000 subscriber

2:53 it says: Gamepad 2. Initial settings are required before use

I didn't expect the WiiU to be able to be this cool

heya zero! kinda forgot to watch the vid despite saying i would whoops never heard of this before lmao really nice video, keep it up!

Retro gaming keeps growing, makes sense because as time goes by there will be more and more older gamers wich i think is the majority of retro gaming fans,

im geeking IM GEEKING AHHHHHHHH but fr that really is beyond amazing

The Wii U had a Joysound-based karaoke app actually ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rzhbAoLtQRk.html I can only imagine that it was a lot better and better supported back then in Japan. It's interesting to see two gamepads included as well because the premise of multiple gamepads for the Wii U was toyed around with but never materialized. It's probably just a spare in this case though.

To get into Wii mode with out a sensor bar on the Wiiu just press + it will choose the Wii U gamepad to display the Wii menu then to control it you need a Wii Classic controller to plug into the bottom of the Wii mote

It's so hilarious to me that they just shoved a whole Wii U in a clunky box with knobs on it.

That wiiu looks like its about to take my vitals😂😂

keep up the good work and dont give up

6:48 Translated: There is an error in the device's storage memory. Please refer to the Wii U instruction manual (booklet) and report the error code to the Nintendo Service Center. Error code:160-2203

To play wii games, try inserting a wii disc and that should move you to wii menu from the disc icon

yo, that's pretty neat

They should've added a paper tray and then make it so that it prints music sheets because it looks more like a printer then a karaoke machine

As soon as i saw the Joysound logo i knew what it was lmao

Cool video! Would be nice to see translating the errors instead of guessing next time tho

Subbed off this video great content.

I would be leery updating the software on the Wii U. It appears to be running something custom and updating the Wii U could either brick it or overwrite the custom software turning it into a standard Wii U. I'm excited to see the follow up video showing off the custom software and hardware. If you do get it modded I would love to see the firmware/software dumped for preservation.

13:40 those cables are usb 2.0 so its possible for it to be audio or controlling something else in the system but definitely not HDMI. The USB 2.0 bandwidth cant transmit an hdmi signal so it has to be something else

This really is the ultimate Wii u

You don't neet a sensor bar for the wii motes to track, if you put 2 candles lighted at each corner on top of your tv your wii motes will work, or any light that emits infrared spectrum of light would do, your sensor bar is basicly 2 infrared led's powered by usb.

Gamepad sensor bar doesn't work before entering the wii menu, maybe with a classic controller you can

you need to press (+) plus on the wii remote to turn it to the joypad when you hit the wii menu.

ok now i need to find one

It seems like those errors on the black screen shows signs of NAND corruption. I’ve seen it on Wii U’s before

You probably wanna dump the contents of that HDD. It's bound to fail at some point so having a backup is pretty important.

13:48 Translated again: The hard disk could not be recognized and communication could not be established. Please contact the installer, *Press power to exit. Communication date ----/--/-- (blank)

a multi channel audio recorder and video player, some musicians would enjoy the multiple audio channel i/o, I could imagine this thing recording a band easily.

This is a really nice rare item.

I do have one system from back in the day. Called sega cdx. Where it's a sega system and sega cd in the sise of a portable cd player with the cd player can be run on 2 double A batties

would be nice to image that hdd i believe thats where the songs are stored

4:35 the mii on screen is actually one of the default miis that originated on the wii, that one specifically was "Guest A." there are 6 guest miis, and you can find them in any game that has Miis as characters. i'm guessing you can select the other guest miis if you can find a character select in the menus somewhere. 8:50 the IR camera on the wii u gamepad only turns on after entering wii mode, the gamepad screen says "Press the plus button to use show the screen on JUST the wii u gamepad" for if you don't have a sensor bar or TV. the notes i wrote are taking from when using my own wii u and general known things about the wii and wii u. the guest miis are in nintendo land though if you need a direct game i've seen them in.

Looking at pictures of other joysound festa it looks like it has two gamepads as standard. And when looking on a whole setup it looks like it is made for hospitals.

15:57 right next to the stage builder option, you could have gone into the settings wheel right next to it and probaly changed language there.

hey sorry if this has been asked already, just curious how come you use a step down converter for Japanese consoles. is it just an added safety thing for unique and rare systems like this or do you use one any time you're using a Japanese console?

if it's as rare as you're saying PLEASE dear God do a full NAND backup on that thing, not sure if there's one already archived and preserved in the wild but that would be awesome to have incase something were to ever happen to your unit (it has been an arising issue that Wii U's are prone to eMMC failure if you didn't know)

This thing might have some limit of the karaoke software. Like song play count or date count limit, or the karaoke player will be locked. I'm interested with if it has this limit or not. Also the HDD is copyable or not (might bind the HDD serial, means it will be bricked if HDD broken)

Super weird hardware setup internally, wonder if there's any hardware modifications within the WiiU itself.

The only thing I'm wondering is if it's possible to jailbreak this Wii U to archiv and preserve the software for years to come

How did you not show how the karaoke worked , even muted ? Who cares if you can play a Wii U disc, show what’s special about it

That's so awesome! Does the karaoke part work without internet or a subscription?

I have had one of these for about a year. I hadn't opened it up yet. Wonder if it can be hacked so you can play games without opening it up.

The gamepad's sensor bar is disabled on the Wii U menu. It only comes on in Wii Mode to my knowledge.

it reminds me of the gamecube that can play videos (i forgot its name)

i made a jp eshop account jut to see what games their eshop had, and their news channel stuff started to appear, i always wondered what joysound was cuz it appear quite often. I think even the gym chains publish games in japan

Do the reveal Kingdom Hearts style: tap it with your keyblade

yooo Joysound Festa Wii U system dump when?

Cool

Ye Didn't explore anything really in depth in it's software, played a game on it, and just felt unprepared.. gotta research the products your buying to right a filled review in cause it didn't stand out as much as it'd like to see.

Y did u cut from the inputs/outputs

13:57 because of the --/-/- i think its a time error

Hackers shall get this and exploit it and release a softmod to make the wii U a karaoke machine

9:24 You didn’t show us the external’s hard drive contents. You access them through the system settings.

I think that's a DSi XL stylus.

Okay, it’s a karaoke machine. But how do you load the music if the disc drive is hidden inside the Joysound? It’s a Nintendo Wii U without the actual function of a Wii U, that is ridiculous!

There is a Panasonic game cube I’d love to have.

Wii sensor bar has no sensors in it. The wiimote does the sensoring. All the sensor bar does is act as a point in space the wiimote can use to get orientation and location in 3d space. Two candles work just fine. F

excellent vid my friend!

A karaoke machine without mic

How much did you pay for it?

well I just ordered one, the things I do for the wiiu

I am not sure why you didn't enter settings and change the language.

try to homebrew it

dude, the editing style of your videos are insanely good! this channel deserves way more attention than it currently has, you're doing great!!!

17:13 it must have been you of not translating the error codes through google lens in google translate. Unless you don’t have a smartphone with a camera. “I dOn’T kNoW WhAt tHiS sAyS” Don’t worry bud, i did the homework for you.

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