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Hello, anyone have a simple guide for playing burned Gamecube games on a softmodded Wii?
I downloaded a .GCM Gamecube game image and burned it to DVD using ImgBurn but the Wii just tells me that the Disc is unsupported. Thx
 

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Ok, my drive is;
The Wii has a RVL-001(USA) model number and is produced for Mexico/Canada/USA.

Will my drive support back-ups? Is MIOS Patcher the easiest to install?
Thanks
 

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I don't know, you still haven't given me your drive model. It will be above a piechart that will give you the percentage of which drive you may have. Some don't play backups, some do. I won't know until I get that model number.

Also, is your Wii modded? What guides did you use? What loaders are you using? Install MIOS and then try it in Neogamma.


EDIT: Also, which game are you trying to play? Some are incompatible. See here for a list.
 

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Oh, sorry, I thought RVL-001 was the model, I'll check agian. It is a Softmodded 4.3U done a couple years ago. I use Configurable USB loader to play all my Wii games of an external USB HardDrive. The game I'm trying to play is Super Monkey Ball 2 for GameCube.
 

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Oh, sorry, I thought RVL-001 was the model, I'll check agian. It is a Softmodded 4.3U done a couple years ago. I use Configurable USB loader to play all my Wii games of an external USB HardDrive. The game I'm trying to play is Super Monkey Ball 2 for GameCube.
If it CAME WITH 4.3U it's new enough that the drive won't be compatible with DVD-R.
If you updated it from a previous version it's older and there's a chance.

TYPICALLY, Wii's that were packed with MotionPlus have the newer drive and those that weren't don't but there are some exceptions.

Edit : also, if you're Wii's not white, there's no way it can read DVD-R disks.
 

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Ok, is this the info you need?
DVD drive and chipset features
Your drive most likely has the following chipset:
  • There is a 75% chance the chipset is GC2-D3-2 (v2) with no drive chip.
  • And there is also a 25% chance the chipset is Combined GC2-D3 with no drive chip.
 

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Ok, is this the info you need?
DVD drive and chipset features
Your drive most likely has the following chipset:
  • There is a 75% chance the chipset is GC2-D3-2 (v2) with no drive chip.
  • And there is also a 25% chance the chipset is Combined GC2-D3 with no drive chip.
D3-2 is the drive that can't read DVD-R disks so there's a 75% chance it CAN'T.
 

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Ok, is this the info you need?
DVD drive and chipset features
Your drive most likely has the following chipset:
  • There is a 75% chance the chipset is GC2-D3-2 (v2) with no drive chip.
  • And there is also a 25% chance the chipset is Combined GC2-D3 with no drive chip.

This means you most likely can't play DVD backups, which means you'll have to DML as linked to on the first page.
 

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As far as I know any wii can have the drive replaced. If an older drive is installed then you should be able to read backup disks. Replacement drives sell for about $40 on amazon.
 

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As far as I know any wii can have the drive replaced. If an older drive is installed then you should be able to read backup disks. Replacement drives sell for about 40 on amazon.
Or you could, y'know, use Dios Mios Lite for free? It's in active development, as well as Devolution (Rumoured?) and Dios Mios (Rumoured USB Edition?). ;)
 
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