Lastly, all these boards had boot1 patched to be incompatible with BootMii as boot2. These new chips are not capable of running Wii software older than System Menu 3.2. The boards were now 4 layer boards, meaning they did not overheat and consumed less power, and these boards all used the revised Hollywood-1 (aka Bollywood) GPU chip. ![]() Later on, Nintendo redesigned the board and the Hollywood GPU chip. These boards were all shipped with Hollywood GPU chips and are capable of running all versions of Wii software. ![]() Only a very small amount of these boards have the patched version of boot1 that doesn’t allow the installation of BootMii as boot2. They were plagued by overheating issues in WiiConnect24 standby mode, and they also consumed more power compared to the later revisions. The first few revisions of the Wii motherboard (RVL-CPU-01, RVL-CPU-10, RVL-CPU-20, and RVL-CPU-30) were 6 layer boards. However, there were some under the hood changes made between 20. The original Wii launched in 2006, and wouldn’t have a true external facelift until 2011. RVL stand for Revolution, which was the internal name for the Wii during development, while the X is a number in order of release, either 0, 1, or 2. All Wii models follow the model name convention of RVL-X01. The Wii was a very successful console for Nintendo, and following their usual pattern, it had a few redesigns and models over the years.
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