Hacking Load backups on 2008 Wii with Spare Parts?

[Coolperez8]

Hi, basically, I have this laptop with a fried motherboard, and a Wii from 2008, is it possible to take out the disk drive from the laptop and use it on the Wii to play backup games? And, for playing backup games, am I supposed to download a ROM or something? And, could I play ROM hacks? The Wii cannot read CD/DVD's, just Wii games, I got it in December of 2008 for Christmas...

 

[RodrigoDavy]

Yes, it is possible. As a matter of fact, my Wii uses a hard disk from an old laptop. What you need is a kind of Sata to USB adapter. I use this one in my Wii and it works like a charm: http://www.dx.com/p/usb-3-0-hard-disk-drive-enclosure-for-2-5-sata-hdd-black-127167#.VELaM3W9_Qo

You need to download Wii ROMs and you can play ROM hacks. This is not a total trivial matter, but there is plenty of documentation in the internet

 

[Coolperez8]

Yes, it is possible. As a matter of fact, my Wii uses a hard disk from an old laptop. What you need is a kind of Sata to USB adapter. I use this one in my Wii and it works like a charm: http://www.dx.com/p/usb-3-0-hard-disk-drive-enclosure-for-2-5-sata-hdd-black-127167#.VELaM3W9_Qo

You need to download Wii ROMs and you can play ROM hacks. This is not a total trivial matter, but there is plenty of documentation in the internet

Oh, how can I get the disk drive from the laptop?

 

[Coolperez8]

Yes, it is possible. As a matter of fact, my Wii uses a hard disk from an old laptop. What you need is a kind of Sata to USB adapter. I use this one in my Wii and it works like a charm: http://www.dx.com/p/usb-3-0-hard-disk-drive-enclosure-for-2-5-sata-hdd-black-127167#.VELaM3W9_Qo

You need to download Wii ROMs and you can play ROM hacks. This is not a total trivial matter, but there is plenty of documentation in the internet

Oh, and I've heard some Wii's can read DVD's, probably the ones 2007 and before, can my Wii from December 2008 do this? (I don't really know if all Wii's do this, I've heard it's just the ones 2007 and before, while some others say "Yes, the Wii has the hardware to do it", which I interpret as all Wii's can do this.)

 

[Coolperez8]

Yes, it is possible. As a matter of fact, my Wii uses a hard disk from an old laptop. What you need is a kind of Sata to USB adapter. I use this one in my Wii and it works like a charm: http://www.dx.com/p/usb-3-0-hard-disk-drive-enclosure-for-2-5-sata-hdd-black-127167#.VELaM3W9_Qo

You need to download Wii ROMs and you can play ROM hacks. This is not a total trivial matter, but there is plenty of documentation in the internet

Oh, I also forgot to mention, does the GameCube and Wii have the same graphics capabilities?

 

[angelboy777]

Yes, it is possible. As a matter of fact, my Wii uses a hard disk from an old laptop. What you need is a kind of Sata to USB adapter. I use this one in my Wii and it works like a charm: http://www.dx.com/p/usb-3-0-hard-disk-drive-enclosure-for-2-5-sata-hdd-black-127167#.VELaM3W9_Qo

You need to download Wii ROMs and you can play ROM hacks. This is not a total trivial matter, but there is plenty of documentation in the internet

This is kind of off topic, but isn't it ISO's not ROMS?

 

[RodrigoDavy]

Oh, how can I get the disk drive from the laptop?

Ow, I think I got confused. I thought you meant the hard disk, but did you mean the disk drive = the thing that read CDs and DVDs? You can't use your laptop disk drive in your Wii. You can use your hard disk plugged through an USB cable, that's what I do in my Wii.

Oh, and I've heard some Wii's can read DVD's, probably the ones 2007 and before, can my Wii from December 2008 do this? (I don't really know if all Wii's do this, I've heard it's just the ones 2007 and before, while some others say "Yes, the Wii has the hardware to do it", which I interpret as all Wii's can do this.)

I am not sure, I heard that the Black Wii and the Wii that have no Gamecube controller ports are the ones that can't read DVD.

Oh, I also forgot to mention, does the GameCube and Wii have the same graphics capabilities?

Wii is a little better than Gamecube graphically speaking. The Wii can display games in widescreen and the Wii GPU is better than the Gamecube GPU.

This is kind of off topic, but isn't it ISO's not ROMS?

ROM stands for read-only memory. ISO is a file format for a disc rom. I guess your confusion comes from the fact that rom is usually more associated with cartridge media, but CD/DVD/BD are also ROM. ISO is only one of the formats in which Wii ROMs are stored. You have iso, wbfs, bin/cue, img... They are all ROMs.