Creating discs that work on unmodded Wiis

Datel discs are pressed, your disc is burnt.

You won't get a working disc with a burner with an unmodded Wii.

 

about this, my friends grandpa works for GE or something, and I think he owns an industrail disc press. Is there any way I could use that to burn working Wii backups on an unmodded Wii?

 

What I'm curious about is how Datel can get their freeloader to run on un-modded wii's. So the drive recognizes it as a real disc instead of a burned disc, but that's only the first step. Freeloader isn't an official product. How can Datel get their code to run and get it signed? I don't think they have a wii developer kit, since only official developers get those.
Are they perhaps using a secret exploit they discovered?

 

I may be wrong, but it would be the same way as pressing PS1, PS2, GC etc.... action replay or such unofficial discs.

If I remember reading about Swap Magic disc and how they're made. Basically, they used previously burnt game discs and press in their own data. Therefore, the sector that verifies whether the disc is authentic or not is still there but with the new data pressed in.

That's how it should work for Wii as well, it isn't any secret exploit, just a known trick used for a long time.

 

Truacha signer

And they press the disc.
The drivechip checks if the disc is burned if yes disallow the disc.


And pressing discs requires a very very expensive machine.

 

Before this gets massively off track it is pressed versus normal. Writers are made so as not to be able to pass as official disks for precisely these reasons (although some of the more industrious among us can abuse some things in this area).

There was a thread a few months back on the subject but it got lost (read I am hungry so I am not going to dig for it) with the release of the trucha signer and all the other stuff from the last few weeks.

 

Burnable discs aren't "made" to identify as burnable.
Well, not all of them, anyway. DVD-Rs have a pre-written header that declares them as DVD-R discs, but bitsetting allows you to make DVD+Rs identify as DVD-ROMs, because they have no pre-written header.

What makes Wii Pressed discs work and burned discs is the securty information written on the inner ring on a physical section that can't be written to on burnable discs, but can be read from if your drive is set up to do so, like the Wii disc drive.

There's more information on this stuff on wikipedia and other places. It's pretty similar to the Security Sector for the Xbox/360 discs. You can read about that, too, to learn about the concept.

 

The reason burnt media doesn't work in an un-modded wii is because of the BCA (Burst cutting area, or bar code area). It is a barcode that is pressed onto the disc when made that is not present on blank media.

Here's a little more info on it from this page:
http://www.patentstorm.us/patents/6921336-description.html

 

We went over this in another thread.

It is all about structure! I will find my post and report back.

EDIT:
Found it!

DVD-ROM:

4bytes 2bytes 6bytes 2048bytes 4bytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| ID | IED | CPR_MAI | User Data Frame | EDC |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
^ | 2048bytes cipher stream |
^ - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
scrambling
seed index

Gamecube/WII Optical Disc:

4bytes 2bytes 2048bytes 6bytes 4bytes
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| ID | IED | User Data Frame | unknown | EDC |
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
| 2048bytes cipher stream |

You would need special discs that have this modified file system.

Edit2:
http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=71462&hl=

 

That's nothing to do with it. Filesystem structure is irrelavant. You don't even know what that means. (I'm sure I said this in the last thread)