You first have to understand how Wii/GOD discs are encoded.
Both standard DVD-ROM's and Wii/GOD discs use sectors of 2064 bytes, but they are encoded differently.
A standard DVD-ROM's sector looks like this:
| ID | IED | CPR_MAI | User Data Frame | EDC |
and a Wii/GOD disc looks like this:
| ID | IED | User Data Frame | wii/goddata | EDC |
When you burn a Wii ISO, you're burning it with standard DVD-ROM encoding; Which the Wii does not understand.
What a modchip does is "translate" a sector from DVD-ROM to Wii/GOD encoding.
Now, if you could modify your burner's firmware to write the encoding exactly like a Wii understands it, then you might not need a modchip.
But as far as I know, nobody has ever tried this, because DVD burner firmware hacking is really hard.
nitrotux said:
And ofcourse I know about the wealth of information and tools available on the wiibrew site and #wiidev channel.
It would be a very silly to re-invent the wheel and do everything myself, when all of this is publicly available.
That really isn't a problem on my part or anyone elses, just yours.
There is a distinct difference between utilizing resources that are freely and widely available and stealing private information to take credit for it. Your idea of "re-inventing the wheel" is to take someone else's work and call it your own. It's my impression that from the way that you act, you would've removed the GPL license in the WiiDVD API, except that it would've required more work on your part.
You don't seem to realize that the WAD you released is copyright infringement, is illegal, and is against the user agreement of this forum. I, for one, do not have a problem with it being accessible, as long as it's a learning tool and not a means to an end.
If it is your work, I don't see why you're so opposed to supporting it(especially after a single release) or at the very least, providing documentation, so that someone better suited can take over.
QUOTE(nitrotux @ Jul 13 2008, 04:06 PM)