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**Ok... So this is mainly pointed at people that SoftModding Wii's with Homebrew and Gamma for friendship/profit/service/multiple consoles.
I am finally coming to a conclusion about why people are having so many issues with compatibility issues and they are not getting the majority result.
(My Specs are NTSC USA Wii Consoles)
This is from my experience from roughly Soft Modding Homebrew and installing Gamma with cios rev7.
A little personal history...
I found out about the famous first leak of the backup launcher through one of my private torrent sites. I thought to myself, this is interesting. Now I may not have to buy my 6 year old stepson Wii games anymore. So... I read the entire Waninoko Leaked fiasco and raised an eye brow... Went and purchased the TPLOZ game that was exploited by Team Twiizers. I did the hack and tried Wan's beta. Slow loading times for my first game Star Wars Forced Unleashed and Lego Batman...but they worked! So I continued to get involved and learn everything I could about Wii Homebrewing and the backup launcher project...which was abandoned by Waninoko for personal reasons and was picked up by WiiGator which formed quite an interesting result. And here we are now.
Between the .3 and Gamma release until now I have been softmodding Wii's for extra cash. I know some people's opinions on this and I really don't care what they
think. Moving on... to what I have experienced from doing numerous softmods on Wii consoles is this...
I have a collection of roughly 200 .iso's ranging from mostly NTSC 1:1, PAL 1:1, and various scrubbed and patched/decrypted copies. Out of the 200 only about 5 do not load my games on my 2 softmodded Wii consoles.
Now on others I have softmodded for service/friendship/profit/services I have ran into situations where not all of my copies would work as they did on my 2 personal Wii consoles. So if you are having issues with games not working and you know that you are using good media/burn methods. Then chances are that your Wii is just not going to play that backup game that the majority of the Wii consoles out there can play. Some of these games still may only need a simple reburn.. Yes, I have tried this and it has worked on rare occasion. It was a different brand of disc and burn at 2.4x speed with Imgburn which is what I have used for every single disc I have burned for the Wii console. I also noticed that the .3 version of WiiGators loader seemed more reliable to running the same discs, don't ask me why. This may have just been a coincidence.
**My own conclusion/theory of this is that not all Wii consoles are manufactured with the same parts. (Duh!) Resulting in scanning/reading discs a little differently than each other. (They have their own personalities, so to speak.) Some can scan/read discs better than others... Some just won't take anything but good quality media because they are more sensitive to the discs. Which will result in an original or reburning with a very top quality disc.
Reason for writing this: I have seen numbers after numbers of threads with the same kind of messages about same games that work for a majority of us soft modders and not for a few or just one person.
So I hope this helps shed some light on the subject. Because in my world, experience is always the best knowledge to have under your belt.
Good luck and hope your Wii can read brail like my 2 personal Wii's can.
**I also wanted to add that most of my disc are DVD-R and some are DVD+Rs. It's up to you which is better... I personally haven't seen much of a difference.
I am finally coming to a conclusion about why people are having so many issues with compatibility issues and they are not getting the majority result.
(My Specs are NTSC USA Wii Consoles)
This is from my experience from roughly Soft Modding Homebrew and installing Gamma with cios rev7.
A little personal history...
I found out about the famous first leak of the backup launcher through one of my private torrent sites. I thought to myself, this is interesting. Now I may not have to buy my 6 year old stepson Wii games anymore. So... I read the entire Waninoko Leaked fiasco and raised an eye brow... Went and purchased the TPLOZ game that was exploited by Team Twiizers. I did the hack and tried Wan's beta. Slow loading times for my first game Star Wars Forced Unleashed and Lego Batman...but they worked! So I continued to get involved and learn everything I could about Wii Homebrewing and the backup launcher project...which was abandoned by Waninoko for personal reasons and was picked up by WiiGator which formed quite an interesting result. And here we are now.
Between the .3 and Gamma release until now I have been softmodding Wii's for extra cash. I know some people's opinions on this and I really don't care what they
think. Moving on... to what I have experienced from doing numerous softmods on Wii consoles is this...
I have a collection of roughly 200 .iso's ranging from mostly NTSC 1:1, PAL 1:1, and various scrubbed and patched/decrypted copies. Out of the 200 only about 5 do not load my games on my 2 softmodded Wii consoles.
Now on others I have softmodded for service/friendship/profit/services I have ran into situations where not all of my copies would work as they did on my 2 personal Wii consoles. So if you are having issues with games not working and you know that you are using good media/burn methods. Then chances are that your Wii is just not going to play that backup game that the majority of the Wii consoles out there can play. Some of these games still may only need a simple reburn.. Yes, I have tried this and it has worked on rare occasion. It was a different brand of disc and burn at 2.4x speed with Imgburn which is what I have used for every single disc I have burned for the Wii console. I also noticed that the .3 version of WiiGators loader seemed more reliable to running the same discs, don't ask me why. This may have just been a coincidence.
**My own conclusion/theory of this is that not all Wii consoles are manufactured with the same parts. (Duh!) Resulting in scanning/reading discs a little differently than each other. (They have their own personalities, so to speak.) Some can scan/read discs better than others... Some just won't take anything but good quality media because they are more sensitive to the discs. Which will result in an original or reburning with a very top quality disc.
Reason for writing this: I have seen numbers after numbers of threads with the same kind of messages about same games that work for a majority of us soft modders and not for a few or just one person.
So I hope this helps shed some light on the subject. Because in my world, experience is always the best knowledge to have under your belt.
Good luck and hope your Wii can read brail like my 2 personal Wii's can.
**I also wanted to add that most of my disc are DVD-R and some are DVD+Rs. It's up to you which is better... I personally haven't seen much of a difference.
