Hacking USB DVD loader?

[hackwii]

Ok, a month back my wii's disc drive died. The USB loader came out then, so I wasn't too worried by it.

But I just had a thought. If someone would make a loader to load discs from a usb dvd drive, it would rock for those in my position. I realize originals would still not work, but I have a stack of backups that would. Also they wouldn't be limited to 3x, only USB speeds or the speed of the drive in question. Faster than originals! Less wear on those who have working wii disc drives too.

Anyway what do you think?

 

[FenrirWolf]

That sounds....impractical.

You know that you can make ISOs from your backup discs and add them to your Wii's HDD with a WBFS Manager, right?

 

[Gamemaster1379]

While it is an interesting idea, I seriously doubt that much effort would go into actually creating the program. You'll probably just be told to replace your DVD drive with another system's, get a new system, use the USB SD/USB device loader, or something of the sort.

 

[Dinoguy]

I actually thought he was pitchingout the idea of making backups of your dvd movies on your wii and use something like theMPlayer to play them of the hd. Or has that already been invented?

If you have the usb loader then you don't need a drive.Exept for thos few games that need a dvd inserted to play correctly. How did your drive die anyway overuse, water, overheating?

 

[Sportsmaniac1322]

You should get a replacement DVD drive if you want to play games off discs. Since you live in Canada, here's a great link to get one: http://www.modchipcentral.com/store/replac...-d2c-drive.html. It's super easy to install -- just open your Wii, disconnect the cables from your old DVD drive and connect them to the new one.

 

[vettacossx]

also i have a version of geexbox that can read a video_ts folder NP

from the usb drive

Formats Supported:

MPEG/VOB, AVI, Ogg/OGM, VIVO, ASF/WMA/WMV, QT/MOV/MP4, RealMedia, Matroska (mkv) popular for blu-ray rips, NUT, NuppelVideo, FLI, YUV4MPEG, FILM, RoQ, PVA files, supported by many native, XAnim, and Win32 DLL codecs. You can watch VideoCD, SVCD, DVD, 3ivx, DivX 3/4/5, WMV and even H.264 movies.

Install Info:

Simply place the apps,wad and geexbox folders included in the Zip archive on your SD cards root directory and then load wad manager intall GeeXbox.wad and launch the channel
Note:
(it may freeze up on the very first run of any given format its a common bug, but after its run that type of file at least one time it will remember and work perfectly as you can see )

Download:
http://www.mediafire.com/?iynnmmo5j5n

Requirements

* SD card (non-SDHC, formatted in FAT/FAT32)

Optional

* USB keyboard
* Bluetooth mobile phone (MIDP 2.0-compatible with AT+CMER implementation)
* USB ethernet adapter/PC-to-PC link cable (theoretically any model supported by linux 2.6.24.4 should work)

* USB Mass Storage Device AKA USB EXTERNAL HDD SUPPORTED

(flash disks, card readers, external enclosures, etc. Supports reading of nearly all major *nix/Win/Mac partition types and writing the majority of them except NTFS/UFS)


Installation


Homebrew Channel users just need to copy everything into the root directory of your SD card and select GeeXboX in the channel.

TP hack users have to copy or move apps/geexbox/boot.elf to the root directory of your SD card and start the hack.

Other homebrew loaders that support front SD might also work. Consult their documentation for how.

Regardless of the loader, the GEEXBOX file tree MUST reside in the root directory of SD card.

 

[Dinoguy]

So it has been invented thanks.
Now all I need now is how to make a partition.lol.