Hacking gamecube functionality dead

[The Rube]

I'm thinking I've got a defective drive, but I'm hoping against hope that there's some fix out there---

I've got a hard-modded wii (Wiikey 2) that was additionally softmodded; running a modified system 4.2

everything was running swimmingly until I put in a gamcube disc and got a "this disc cannot be read" error. this happens with all original copies and the one backup I made of a game that was otherwise too scratched to be used.

wii games, both originals and backups remain wholly unaffected.

I suspected I'd somehow mussed the MIOS/BC up accidentally and reinstalled the latest versions w/ DOP-Mii to no effect. I took the drastic step of reformatting my wii and re-installing an unmodified 4.2, also to no effect.

so I'm all softmodded up again, and the GC in my Wii remains dead.

anyone have any ideas? I expect to hear that my drive needs replacing, and unless someone has a save, that's what I'll be doing.

thanks much-

-a.

 

[Krestent]

Do Wii games still run?

 

[Delta517]

wii games, both originals and backups remain wholly unaffected.

-a.


QUOTE(Gordinio @ May 23 2010, 08:58 PM) Do Wii games still run?

There

 

[Krestent]

Then there's nothing wrong with your drive. In that case, I have no more ideas.

 

[Fudge]

Reinstall MIOS and BC using WADS. Get them from NUSD.

 

[Everlasting Nigh]

That happened to me too. I reinstalled Waninoko's 4.2 update firmware and that got it to run again.

EDIT: I forgot to mention, my Wii is softmodded, so I don't really know if that might help.

 

[FenrirWolf]

Some Priiloader/StartPatch hacks tend to mess up GCN launching. Try uninstalling anything related to region free disc channel and the like.

 

[The Rube]

thanks for the help guys--

here's what I've tried: I reinstalled 4.2 with the safe updater;

I removed all startpatch hacks;

and I tried downloading and installing all available versions of BC and MIOS via Dop-Mii---

all to no effect.

My wii isn't that heavily modded- after removing the StartPatch hacks and uninstalling/reinstalling my CIOSes there's really nothing else to try on the software side (I think)

I'm left to think that maybe my WiiKey 2 has gone haywire.... perhaps Ill remove it and see if that helps....

thanks again for your input- I feel more like I've done what I can now.

-a.

 

[The Rube]

as a courtesy for those what offered some advice- the resolution.

I had a back-up nand from when I had just started softmodding (before any major modifications were made) and I copied it to the wii- like an instant time machine it was... but GC was still no-go. That pretty definitively eliminated the possibility that it was a software issue.

So I opened the Wii up, and with the help of a friend we determined that the disc drive was breaking, though not entirely broken. I was in error when I said Wii games were "wholly unaffected", really in retrospect, I should have said "mostly unaffected", but the few times they didn't work, I attributed it to being b/c they were backups... in reality sometimes discs just weren't catching correctly, and GC discs were never spinning properly at all.

the solution- bye bye $50, hello new drive.

thanks again guys-

-a.