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We can take bets on what time of day it will be released, though.It takes as long as it takes. I know this is a "speculation" thread, but still, kind of silly to try to predict a release date.
I assume the point is hoping tueidj dropping in with perhaps a new estimate.
It might keep everybody quiet till that date?
You can rip all your games (if they haven't been done already), Devolution uses original untouched ISO format (and nothing else).Even if tueidj came into this thread and announced a hard release date, what would that accomplish exactly? Are you going to start ripping GC games to prepare for its release? Oh wait, you can't because you would need devolution (or at least a helluvalot more info) to rip them in a devolution friendly format.
As I recall, when I ripped my GC games via USB using Viper GC Extreme, they ended up as *.gcm. Think that's pretty much the same as an ISO, except with a different file extension. Could just change the extension if that's a problem....You can rip all your games (if they haven't been done already), Devolution uses original untouched ISO format (and nothing else).
So does that also mean not even any shrunken ISO images?You can rip all your games (if they haven't been done already), Devolution uses original untouched ISO format (and nothing else).
IIRC devolution is supposed to work on the new horizontal wii's that can't read GC disks... I can't even begin to speculate how tueidj's gonna have this work in the end, but I got no doubt that he'll be able to pull it offI will now proceed to speculate that the original disk must be present the first time to "validate" or "install" the ISO image for use with Devolution into a list of sorts that is signed for use exclusively with that console.
Just aMost PC drives are capable of doing the necessary steps to check the authenticity of a GC game, but because the OS normally tries to read the disc's actual data as soon as it is inserted the drive ends up stuck in a read-error-retry loop before any program has a chance to do anything.What does a pc dvd drive do with a GC disc?
AFAIK you can not read the actual data.
But what exactly is the reaction?
Because if that reaction is (mostly) bijective to the game that would be sufficient to let an pc app do the authentication
eg for ppl whose wii cant read gc discs (they would of course might need to dl the actual data from the inet)
Okay, so we will still be left speculating . . . even after it's initial release.The newer wiis won't be supported until I add wiimote support (for obvious reasons) and as previously stated that won't be included in the initial release.