Of course you could temporarily put a working dvd drive in it to mod it (ie, the one from your wii...).
Other alternatives would be things like the wode/sundisk/sundrive/wiikey fusion...
Maybe get them to buy you lunch or something.... It's a bit rude making money off other people's work.
The only time I have been paid for this stuff is when I was soldering in chips.
Well.. it's certainly not falling over to 11mbit 802.11B. I suppose they just have a shitty network stack.. it was only ever designed for online play / updates.
SMG2 runs fine from the disc channel on my PAL wii running 4.0E with IOS56 manually installed.
The reason I have stayed away from 4.2 is it breaks mod chips region override function.
I don't see why you would ever want to delete IOSs... unless you mean removing the stubs from the cIOS slots...
I've been playing fallout4 all day, I went into a elevator and it kept going, never stopped, waited 5 minutes, must of been a bug. How bout you, whatcha do today?