Hacking Second official announcement Cyclowiz

[Nipi]

02/16/2007 (Read yesterday's post for an important announcement) http://teamcyclops.com/news.html

It has been reported that some current generation mods suffer from the old "Idle Disc Read Error (DRE)" bug that was frequent in early badly designed GC modchips. Some people wrongly concluded that it could be the case with CycloWiz, but fortunately it just can't be, and here is why.

The Wii drive, unlike GC drive, is aware of standard DVD format. Standard DVDs can be read by any Wii (yes, an official DVD player is in theory possible) but as a protection mean some commands used by games are disabled when a standard DVD is inserted.

CycloWiz job is to re-enable those commands. Unlike some other mods, CycloWiz lets the original Wii firmware handle every aspects of DVD reading. In fact, CycloWiz is probably the only chip on market that doesn't use bitsetting at all. That way, no continuous patching is needed and no desynchronisation can occur. As soon as the disc starts spinning, CycloWiz becomes transparent (you could even remove it!), it's all in the drive's hands.

We won't say that it's impossible to get a DRE with CycloWiz due to media. Simply use a good burner with good media and and you'll never have to worry about DRE. We are also aware of an unrelated deterministic DRE problem with three PAL games. We will provide an upgrade correcting this issue in a couple of days, along with some surprise features

So I guess I just have to wait for an update in order to make the three PAL games work...

 

[elomaniak]

yes i hope i can install it

now the pal versions cant read 3 games
but in future this number coul have gone up

 

[Warm Woolly Shee]

I'm glad they acknowledge that 3 games don't work. But still, 3 games don't work! They're behind Wiinja in terms of compatibility, user friendliness, and reliability, just as they have been from the start.

Here's hoping the update fixes all the problems, so the Wiinja has some real competition, and the surprise update adds region-free NTSC, maybe even PAL, so the wiikey will get some competition too. Until that update, Cyclowiz will be the worst modchip on the market.

 

[shtonkalot]

I gotta say that the Cyclowiz team seems very ready to both acknowledge and fix mistakes.
I'm quite impressed so far.

 

[Warm Woolly Shee]

I'm only impressed at their honesty because of their promoter's lies

Team Cyclops needs to drop MC, their reputation is being tarnished.

 

[jaxxster]

this is good news. I hope excite truck pal works.

 

[niklasnyfiken]

I get the impression that they will support their chip for a long time, unlike other mod chip makers who are quiet after releasing their chips. But until they can beat Wiikey I wouldn't buy CycloWiz.

 

[pelago]

Interesting to read that Cyclowiz works differently to all other modchips (so they say), as I previously thought that they all used the same methods. We don't know which method is 'best' yet, of course.