But "DVD" only exists as a licensed technology, otherwise it is just an optical disc.Slowking said:Just because I'm not licensed as one doesn't mean that I'm not a human (though some people will argue that).
Things are what they are even, without a license.
A dongle could easily look like a USB stick these days.Slowking said:Yeah most of those sites copy from each other. As far as I remember nintendo spokes persons only talked about some kind of addon that would enable the playback, which some site took as meaning a dongle, like with the XBOX. I mean where would you put such a dongle in the front of the Wii. There is no slot. Do you think they redisgned the Wii this much and had plans for a big dongle hanging out? and what is with the IOS that takes only calls from the "DVD channel" and not some dongle?
Btw. even a dongle wouldn't unlock 6x, so I don't see how it is relevant in discussion topics about 3x drive speed. o.O
No, it's an optical disc. How hard is that to understand.Slowking said:1. If something is made like a DVD, in amchines that normally make DVDs, stores the exact amount of data like a DVD, is read by DVD-lasers and lookes like a DVD, it is a DVD.
samagon said:Would it be possible to write some code to make the Wii eject a legitimate disc without the drive realizing it ejected the disc and then inserting a DVD-R and doing a TOC refresh while still having that DVD-R flagged as a Wii disc? Or is all the ejection related code handled in the drive firmware?
My guess is that it's probably handled by firmware.
I hate to interrupt the constant flame fest, but have you guys even tried 0.3 of the loader? While it's still 3x, the delay isn't even noticable anymore. As I suspeceted, the slowdowns in loading were NOT caused by the 3x limitation, but by the loader itself.Only thing is, you can't set the booktype to 0xFF. When setting the booktype on a DVD+R, it changes the last 4 bits, not the first four. So unless the first four bits are already 1111 on DVD+Rs and if there's a way to set a custom book type, you're not going to be able to set it to 0xFF
Okay, thanks for the info. I thought we could set all eight bits, but I guess I was wrong.
QUOTE(HowardC @ Oct 27 2008, 12:12 AM)
The fact of the matter is, unless a game is loading HUGE chunks off the dvd at a time (which btw is completely impractical due to the wii's memory limitations) 3x vs 6x shouldn't make that much of a difference and the new beta proves this.
Unless you have a stop watch with a second-hand, I dare you to see a difference between loading times at this point.
Yeah but you'll still call it Aspirin, even though it says ASS on the package.Haruhi said:It's like generic medicine. Anyone can make a reasonably similar formula using the right ingredients/equipment/etc, but they'd be legally unable to call it by an existing brand name without permission.
To my knowledge Nintendo has not obtained the right to label their consoles or discs as DVD products.
A GD-Rom is a optical disc very similar to a Yellowbook disc (CD-Rom) but with shortened pit length (and possibly finer track pitch, I can't remember that long ago =] ). No oduble layers involved. ;pSlowking said:And btw: GD-Roms are just double layered CDs