Hacking Movie DVDs?

[davidw89]

I have a chipped Wii and can't read DVD.. :/

 

[drfsupercenter]

I also believe they've updated the protection to cover things like Action Replay too.

This is true. I have a GameCube Action Replay, and on the Wii it just says there was an error and won't start.
However, it worked when I first bought my Wii (around lauch date), so maybe it was an update that made it not work with AR?

No, but it'll prove that the disc can be read by any drive.

But that means I can read Wii discs with my Samsung drive? If I burn the ISOs again will they work? Or do they need to be decrypted?

QUOTE

Drivechips and modchips are entirely different things.

Drivechips only circumvent the drive, while modchips are attached to the mainboard and have a lot more functionality.

An example of a modchip would be the Infectus.

I have a WiiKey (not soldered on yet). That's a "modchip", right? So I can do all the stuff you need a drivechip for, and then some?

In theory could a DVD Player channel be made that would only work if you had a modchip?

 

[nanika]

1. Yes, it was an update that disabled the Action Replay.

2. Not sure.

3. Be careful with 'drivechip's and 'modchip's, people seem to have a tendency to call them all 'modchip's. I'm not sure which the WiiKey actually is though.

 

[SoCalSRH]

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[pokemongalaxy]

seriously, just buy a dvd player, how much are they?$20? Running dvds on wii can kill the laser more quicklier than normal games.

 

[drfsupercenter]

2. NO! you can only CURRENTLY dump games with specific lg pc dvd rom drive models or through gc homebrew using a usb gecko, sd gecko, etc.

That's what I thought... so why did teq say any drive can read it? I'm not quite sure I get it...

And hm, OK. So in theory I could play DVD movies with it if someone makes a channel?

That hacked IOS for the disc dumper obviously works somewhat as it gets the title part right, for Sonic it shows as this in a hex editor:
RSRE8P..................].......SONIC AND THE SECRET RINGS

That matches what it should, AFAIK.

 

[SoCalSRH]

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[JPdensetsu]

I have a chipped Wii and can't read DVD.. :/

mine also :[

 

[drfsupercenter]

I have a DVD player... as I said it's more out of curiosity.

The reason I'd prefer ripping my own discs is that it takes forever to download some (Bomberman Land took me an entire 7 days) and it would be way faster to just borrow them from friends and rip.

 

[manias]

I have a DVD player... as I said it's more out of curiosity.

The reason I'd prefer ripping my own discs is that it takes forever to download some (Bomberman Land took me an entire 7 days) and it would be way faster to just borrow them from friends and rip.

it's even faster to.. buy em

 

[drfsupercenter]

Why the heck would I buy a modchip if I intended to pay for games?

I did buy some Virtual Console but that has nothing to do with modchips.

 

[Lumstar]

A modchip allows you to play actual imports without disc swapping, etc.

 

[teq]

But that means I can read Wii discs with my Samsung drive? If I burn the ISOs again will they work? Or do they need to be decrypted?

I have a WiiKey (not soldered on yet). That's a "modchip", right? So I can do all the stuff you need a drivechip for, and then some?

In theory could a DVD Player channel be made that would only work if you had a modchip?

Like I said, the drive will read the discs, if put into I/O Debug Mode. You, however, can't... unless you somehow speak hex.

The LG drives that are used for making backups essentially have a permanent I/O Debug Mode that can be turned on and off at firmware level. My point, though, was that all DVDROM drives have this capability... it just hasn't been written for them.

DVD Decrypter will scan through all of the sectors of the drive and spit out the data in the log, but there's nothing available to assemble that into an ISO.


Your WiiKey is a drivechip, not a modchip. It is mounted to the drive and only serves the purpose of circumventing the drive.


As far as a DVD player is concerned, yes, one is possible... with a drivechip. However, like I mentioned before and will mention time and time again, DVD is an impractical medium. You're much better off going with AVIs and MFE or another media player.

 

[drfsupercenter]

Your WiiKey is a drivechip, not a modchip. It is mounted to the drive and only serves the purpose of circumventing the drive.

Thanks, though someone already said that already.

What would be the point of an actual modchip? To do hacking from the channel level?

QUOTEAs far as a DVD player is concerned, yes, one is possible... with a drivechip.

What happens if you use mplayer and try a "play disc" command? Or is it not command line in the Wii's version?

I would try making my own DVD player software... if there's a way to compile source into a Wii program. Using VLC (it's open source AFAIK), I could disable everything but "Play disc (with menus)", and then make it into a channel. Would that work, or is there more to it? I'd probably need to take a look at the save extractor to see how it uses the DVD-ROM drive...

 

[nitrodude150]

Hi,

I have a WiiKey (I didn't install it yet since I'm honestly scared about ruining it...) and I just thought... if the Wii has a DVD-ROM drive, and the modchip makes it function like a PC's DVD-ROM drive... is there a channel made that can play my movie DVDs?

Someone was telling me you can burn certain types of files to a DVD and then play it using mplayer or something... but surely the capability is there to make something like PowerDVD Channel so you can play movies? Or is there one? Sorry if the answer's already been posted... I'm new to the whole modding thing. (And just figured out how to use HBC)

Hey if you haven't allready tried to install it, DON'T!!

Get a pro fr

om craigslist or something to do it FOR YOU!! I ruined a launch wii cuz i tried myself.... luckily it sill functioned so i sold it.....

 

[drfsupercenter]

That's why I've had the WiiKey sitting around and haven't installed it yet

Don't worry, some of my friends are expert solderers, and I know a kid who modded his Wii. I may just ask one of them to help me.

 

[Lumstar]

I've got a Drive Doctor somewhere around here, but it's not installed due to cut pins.