Hacking Chiip - Need help please

[crkhobbit]

I've been searching for this problem here and elsewhere, for over a day before posting, can't find it.

After alot of troubleshooting along the way, I think I have everything working, except that it doesn't. When I boot up, the LED stays on solid like it should and I can play normal nintendo discs fine. However, I still cannot play my backups. I usually get an error saying that the disc cannot be read I need to read the operations manual, and sometimes I get a black screen of death.

I've quadruple checked all my connections, resoldered my wires to the wii, tried different burning techniques and burned two different games (cause that's all I have) at 4x and 2.4x speeds. My chiip is in the socket correctly. I do not receive any errors from avrdude. I ran BrickBlocker on my backups as well, could this have caused a problem?

I also tried the OpenWii firmware and cannot tell that I have a chip at all using that, no LED activity. I am using TDK DVD+R 1-16x discs.

Could the problem be the DVDs I'm using? They're listed on the chiip site as working. The two games I have backed up are Call of Duty and Tiger Woods if it matters. I have the GC2-DMS chipset.

In other words, I cannot find a problem other than it does not work. Any advice is appreciated! I don't have a camera available at the moment for solder connections, but like I said the LED is solid.

 

[Pikachu025]

Try a DVD-R, not a +R one. I doubt this actually is the problem, but I've heard that a bunch of Wiis have problems reading +. My PS2 is like that too, +s don't get recognized (Verbatim ones!), yet -s of the same brand work perfectly.

 

[linuxares]

Yeah, the wii has problems with DVD+R, infact Wiikey themselfs recommend DVD-R.

Ironicly tho it reads DVD+RWs better than DVD-RW what I have heard, I use DVD+RW (Verbatim) to try games, then burn them on normal DVD-R when I know they are nice enought.

 

[crkhobbit]

Ok, will try, thanks for the input.

 

[Smack]

Chiip should work with almost any media by version v0.9.1 but regardless here is a list of compatible media.

http://chiip.descrambler.de/index.php/Compatible_DVD_Media

I have BenQ DVD+R's and they work just fine. By all means if you have access to another brand of media try it out.

 

[crkhobbit]

Got some DVD-Rs and they didn't work either with the 0.91 firmware on my GC2-DMS wii. I loaded the beta5 firmware and the DVD-Rs are working but DVD+Rs are not, as expected.

So apparently the 0.91 firmware is broken. Thanks for all the input guys!

 

[Pikachu025]

0.91 firmware works perfectly for DVD-Rs and DVD+RWs here, dunno what's your problem. Bad flash?

 

[crkhobbit]

I believe I reflashed v0.9.1 once and it still wasn't working before trying the beta5. It works so I'm hesitant to mess with it too much right now. I may build another chip for further testing at some point, if I can find out if my friend's wii has the drive pins cut or not.