Are you talking about legally bought discs or games you have burned to disc yourself?
thank you...how do I go about this exactly? Edit: Nevermind another person told me, Thank you!
Ok not sure what is going on then. The only reason I asked was the Wii can only read burnt discs at half the speed of bought games and that can cause some issue's.
Did you make the backup with BootMii? If that's the case, then just open BootMii and use that to restore the backup.
This makes no sense. A typical Wii softmod doesn't touch the system menu, any of the standard IOSes, the games themselves, or anything really other than installing HBC, the cIOS which only gets used by homebrew, and placing homebrew on the SD card. None of that should be able to affect the running of legitimate games, it's resident in the system but otherwise leaves the system completely unmodified and does not do anything unless launched, that is unless you install something like cIOSCORP or DarkCorp, which does overwrite the standard IOSes with a cIOS, which might lock the drive speed to 3x instead of the standard 6x if it forces the drive into DVD read mode, although I have never seen complaints about slowdowns across the board from doing so, it would only be in specific circumstances or specific games. Or install Priiloader which does patch things that could potentially cause issues, but nothing like this.
yeah I could be completely wrong, but the guide I followed was the one on Wiiguide. I only installed Nintendont/WiiFlow/SNES/GBA emulators. I noticed a slow down in games such as Mario Galaxy and Other M after modding my wii, however I hope you're right about the optical drive needing cleaning.
Random question. Do you own Metroid Prime Trilogy or Smash Bros Brawl by any chance? Two of the only dual layer games that come to mind. A dirty or aging optical drive would typically fail to detect/load dual layer games, or they would frequently crash/freeze, so that's an easy way to check. My old Wii only reads Smash intermittently, and freezes frequently ingame. I was using a burned disc of Smash though, so it might work just fine with a legit one. If your Wii is an earlier one that can be softmodded to read burned discs (which based on the drive date from the sysCheck seems likely) you could try a burned disc of either and just load it through your USB loader, it doesn't require anything else besides the cIOS you already have.
I think other M is a dual layer game and it works but the frame rate just drops never freezes or crashes..I have Xenoblade which i think should be dual layer coming in tomorrow so I can update you on that as well.
Metroid Other M and Xenoblade Chronicles are the others.
Worn or dirty laser should affect loading times (and loading success if the drive is about to fail). Cutscenes might stutter.
the fan still works, I'd say that its not alarmingly hot, right now its warm its been on for about a hour and a half
You likely don't have any patches enabled. They aren't even included with Priiloader by default (comes as a hacks_hash.ini file or sometimes hacks.ini and goes on the root of the SD) and even when installed need to be manually enabled in the Priiloader menu.
USB loaders run at 8x speed (not that much faster than the 6x of the disc drive but I suppose cutting down load times by a third is noticeable) and that seems to be the hard limit, ODEs that load from SD/USB are also limited to 8x. Not sure what the limiting factor there is - you would think having a cIOS we could make it go as fast as the system is able to read the hard drive since the IOS is what handles all the hardware access anyway.
That certainly makes my theory seem more unlikely. Another thought I had is that maybe the Wii is just clogged with dust, so the fan and heatsink can't do their job. But that would have been a gradual decline, it wouldn't suddenly overnight start slowing down, though it is possible it was just so gradual that you never noticed it before. It's also possible for the fan to fail outright, which should be pretty obvious if you don't hear any sound when you put your ear to it.
beat me to it.
