2 years ago, our family Wii's disc drive broke after some soft-resetting on SSBB, so recently we decided to replace it with a new one we ordered. It ran Brawl and newer/better condition Gamecube discs alright, but some of our older and most played games (some which are not even worn out at all) would give errors, so we decided to send it back and now we're unsure of which one to get instead. I have a theory that because the ribbon cable connecting to the lens/laser on the new one we ordered is smaller than the one that was in the original drive our Wii was using, it is operating with less data or power running through the cable making it less able to scan through the scratches on our older/most used discs. However, the thing that confuses me is that some of the disc drives listed on Amazon have Lenses/PCBs that look just like our old one use to, but specifically say they are "unable to play older Gamecube games", which makes me wonder if my theory is accurate.
I did some research on this site called wiidrives as to which type we were we using originally because before it could read some of our Gamecube discs with absolutely no errors and even read those with errors better than this new one we got - and I discovered that after a time we sent our Wii for repair, they replaced the disc drive with a newer D3-2 type. The kind we ordered was a D4, which is overall newer and smaller. Which kind do you all think will work best with these few old discs? They did bring some errors on the original drive we had in the Wii by the way, like for instance, on Mario Party 5 getting on a Bowser space would bring about an error so we'd have to try our best to avoid him, but I know they generally worked better, because some of them had no issue at all. Do you think my theory about the laser is right and we just need to get that same type again? Or is there some other reason these Gamecube games didn't work (Wii games worked fine on D4 drive by the way) and don't work on drives that look the same as our old one?
I did some research on this site called wiidrives as to which type we were we using originally because before it could read some of our Gamecube discs with absolutely no errors and even read those with errors better than this new one we got - and I discovered that after a time we sent our Wii for repair, they replaced the disc drive with a newer D3-2 type. The kind we ordered was a D4, which is overall newer and smaller. Which kind do you all think will work best with these few old discs? They did bring some errors on the original drive we had in the Wii by the way, like for instance, on Mario Party 5 getting on a Bowser space would bring about an error so we'd have to try our best to avoid him, but I know they generally worked better, because some of them had no issue at all. Do you think my theory about the laser is right and we just need to get that same type again? Or is there some other reason these Gamecube games didn't work (Wii games worked fine on D4 drive by the way) and don't work on drives that look the same as our old one?
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