I have a black Wii so i want to replace my DVD-drive with something capable of playing burned discs. Could someone please advice which type of drive will be the best to buy? I may suppose that from the group of D2A-D2E the last is the newest revision but I don't realize what is DMS and which of them all will be the best to suits my console.

 

Depending what drive is in your black wii just get a new D2E board from ebay and switch the one on your drive..

 

for playing backup copies of your games, i wouldent even bother cracking the wii open... a softmod solution is by far the better option. I would only consider replacing the drive if its broken...

 

For gamecube backup, wode is far more practical. have you considered it?

 

WODE and disk loading is the same exactly.
You should be aware that in both those cases some Gamecube games have issues with audio streaming.
If you want perfect gamecube you'll have to physically put a modchip in, one that does support audio streaming on top of your new drive.
Another (cheaper) alternative is to buy a real gamecube(20$? with a controller) with a modchip (20$) but you will be restrained to burning the small camcorder DVD.

 

WiiKey v2 chip

But you must have D3-1 or lower drive..

 

Yes you can install both of them but you made me wonder if a modchip would make the wode stream audio correctly so i went to check wode forums.
And the answer is no and never. Because wode does not have enough pins or something like that.
http://www.wodejukebox.org/viewtopic.php?f...53&start=20
but running from disks with modchip with wode is confirmed by wiisel
http://www.wodejukebox.org/viewtopic.php?f...53&start=70