Hacking Wii can now play DVD-R's? Is this normal?

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So, last night I went to go prepare a backup of my Wii's NAND because I was going to install a custom theme. The BootMii never ended up working, but something else weird happened. I had my 1 burned dvd in the drive (Super Mario Galaxy) and out of the blue after all the bootmii and wad installing, the Disc Channel was showing Super Mario Galaxy. Is this normal? or did I mess my wii up or something?
 
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Good. Priiloader working is fine. And after using ModMii it is normal for an older Wii to show backups on the System Menu (although you might need to start them through some USB-loader, which also can load DVD-R)

As for the "no signal" in BootMii. Maybe it's using the wrong video mode.

There should be a file SD:/bootmii/bootmii.ini
Replace the line VIDEO=????? with some of the other option(s). NTSC,PAL50,PAL60,PROGRESSIVE

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I do not have a modchip currently installed. I don't even know how this happened and I know it has to be the CD by nintendo. with the "Wii" logo on it.
Do you think the wads or bootmii installation might have messed with the CD drive?
 

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Did you follow a specific guide? Or did you use ModMii (recommended)?

Older Wii drives can be convinced to read backups (and even DVD-Video – not a good idea to wear down the laser by watching movies) with software modification only. Newer (D3-2 and D4) drives check the copy protection in their own firmware and need a modchip for convincing them in reading DVD+-R.

What disturbs me a bit is the "BootMii never ended up working"-part. You should really have/create a NAND-backup. Try a different SD. At the very least make sure Priiloader is installed and can be started by holding (RESET) while turning on the Wii before you mess around with themes.
 

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I used a tutorial that included ModMii, and I also set priiloader up and it can accessed by holding RESET + POWER. Whenever I try to access the BootMii section my screen stays black with my Wii light still on. It just says "No AV connected" If I press Reset when at the black screen, it takes me back to the System Menu (screen with all the channels installed). I don't think this is normal. My SD card is new, and I have no other SD I can use.
 

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Good. Priiloader working is fine. And after using ModMii it is normal for an older Wii to show backups on the System Menu (although you might need to start them through some USB-loader, which also can load DVD-R)

As for the "no signal" in BootMii. Maybe it's using the wrong video mode.

There should be a file SD:/bootmii/bootmii.ini
Replace the line VIDEO=????? with some of the other option(s). NTSC,PAL50,PAL60,PROGRESSIVE
 
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If you're running your Wii Menu on a CIOS that can read backup discs*, for example because you installed darkcorp, an individual CIOS as IOS60 or whatever your Wii Menu uses, or because you set Priiloader to use another IOS for Wii Menu... it will read backup discs

* and, of course, have an optical drive that doesn't reject non-original discs in hardware

Also, a nand backup won't be useful for theme-related bricks unless you have a hardmod or Bootmii as boot2 - if you only have Bootmii as IOS, you need Priiloader to run it, at which point you can solve the issue in a more efficient way
 

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@KleinesSinchen It worked! The BootMii Menu has appeared and now I'm able to backup my NAND to my SD. I'm going to mark your solution as best answer. Thank you for the continued support. It has come to my attention that it is normal to be able to run backup discs through the disc channel after installing certain things. Like you said you can "Convince" the drive to load backups. Anywho, your advice worked. Thanks again!
 

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