Hacking Is there planned DVD support for emulators?

[zosh]

P.S. Drivechips allow this.

Only in GameCube (aka MIOS) mode.

 

[arctic_flame]

P.S. Drivechips allow this.

Only in GameCube (aka MIOS) mode.

No, drivechips allow you to read the drive in Wii mode too.

Edit: don't they? I'm not even sure actually.

 

[zosh]

No, drivechips allow you to read the drive in Wii mode too.
Edit: don't they? I'm not even sure actually.

Well, I'd suggest you get informed on the topic and ONLY THEN write a post making a definitive statement. That's how rumors start, and get picked up, and get presented as facts. As friend porchemasi so vividly demonstrates above.

And, no, they don't.

 

[Trolly]

To be honest, I'm not bothered. I prefer having mine as proper VC titles anyway, as there's less faffing about with emulators and working ROMs and such. What I would like to see is a program that sees the SD card as part of the core memory, so you could play VC titles and WiiWare titles constantly without installing and uninstalling channels and worrying about tickets. And the same for USB when that comes out. If the Wii sees the data as in the core memory it just makes it a lot easier.
However, I don't know how feasible this is. The possibilities are endless right now, I swear. What I know would be particularly awesome would be (though this would take a long time to implement, and may not be totally feasible) once USB support has been implemented, to be able to backup discs and have a kind of virtual disc boot menu. So you could just browse the titles on your hard drive, click the title, and have it auto-load into your drive (virtually).

 

[Xknight2000]

To be honest, I'm not bothered. I prefer having mine as proper VC titles anyway, as there's less faffing about with emulators and working ROMs and such. What I would like to see is a program that sees the SD card as part of the core memory, so you could play VC titles and WiiWare titles constantly without installing and uninstalling channels and worrying about tickets. And the same for USB when that comes out. If the Wii sees the data as in the core memory it just makes it a lot easier.
However, I don't know how feasible this is. The possibilities are endless right now, I swear. What I know would be particularly awesome would be (though this would take a long time to implement, and may not be totally feasible) once USB support has been implemented, to be able to backup discs and have a kind of virtual disc boot menu. So you could just browse the titles on your hard drive, click the title, and have it auto-load into your drive (virtually).

It would be a sweet way to have the wii setup, but i cant see the wii having channels that are on an external media on the main dashboard, maybe the wii homebrew channel when it comes out but not the main dashboard, though it would be class if we could.

 

[neonix]

DVD support is cool, but a much better idea to consider is USB mass storage support.

 

[fischju]

DVD support is cool, but a much better idea to consider is USB mass storage support.

Only FAT is supported, which means only 2GB or less thumb drives. It isn't very useful.

 

[neonix]

DVD support is cool, but a much better idea to consider is USB mass storage support.

Only FAT is supported, which means only 2GB or less thumb drives. It isn't very useful.

You're right, I forgot about that limitation. Still, for what these guys are talking about (roms), 2GB of flash is great, considering the Wii has two USB ports and an SD slot, you could get up to 6GB of roms this way

 

[Supertag]

Certainly if you turcha signed the disk, a modded wii could read it without a problem. That isn't too helpful for non-modded wiis.

 

[ssj4android]

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=/dev/di
According to this, the limit for unencrypted reading is 0x0050000. I'm not sure what the unit is for that (anyone wan to enlighten me?). I believe that would be up to 640 MB if that's sectors.

 

[zosh]

http://wiibrew.org/index.php?title=/dev/di
According to this, the limit for unencrypted reading is 0x0050000. I'm not sure what the unit is for that (anyone wan to enlighten me?). I believe that would be up to 640 MB if that's sectors.

It's actually bytes, which makes unencrypted disks readable up to about 327 kB. It's really just sufficient to get the disk's header.

 

[Trolly]

Only FAT is supported, which means only 2GB or less thumb drives. It isn't very useful.

Wha? What are you on about? FAT16 and FAT32 allow external USB devices of ANY size (okay, 8 tebibytes, but that's so big I don't even know how much that is), the format just determines how big the size of one file can be (4GB max), which will be a problem for ISOs bigger than 4GB (though it's unlikely they'll be that big). Perhaps that's where you got that from.