Hacking Wii doesn't read ANY discs

[urherenow]

Umm... if his drive won't read, how is he supposed to get the originals onto the USB drive? (in a legal way)

 

[bnm81002]

Umm... if his drive won't read, how is he supposed to get the originals onto the USB drive? (in a legal way)

I can use my Wii to install all of his games onto the drive, so that's no problem at all

 

[bula]

Umm... if his drive won't read, how is he supposed to get the originals onto the USB drive? (in a legal way)

You can use a windows manager that can do that?

 

[Jdbye]

http://www.dealextreme.com sells replacement drives, you could buy one from there and replace it yourself if the drive really is broken, it's relatively easy to install. They're not that expensive, but you might have to get a replacement because it's hit and miss whether they work or not since they haven't been tested. However it's a lot cheaper than getting it repaired.

 

[bnm81002]

yes it's the DVD drive that is defective, so I'm gonna talk him into the USB Loader route, are there any parental/lock controls for any of the USB Loaders menu settings? don't want his kids to mess around things in those settings, thanks for the help

 

[Krestent]

yes it's the DVD drive that is defective, so I'm gonna talk him into the USB Loader route, are there any parental/lock controls for any of the USB Loaders menu settings? don't want his kids to mess around things in those settings, thanks for the help

Someone already said that GX has that feature

 

[TroyTheZombie]

so does cfg usb loader.

 

[rolandpibb]

no it's been like 2 years I think, no problems till just yesterday, maybe it is a bad laser or DVD drive, hope it's easily repairable
the Wii is for his 2 kids so he's not interested in modding the Wii any further with Homebrew apps or USB Loader, he wants it as simple as possible for his 2 kids to just play the Wii

USBLoaderGX is by far the easiest for kids. Just have preloader boot to USBLoaderGx. Kids pick their game from the cover picture. My 4 year old uses it well. Plus less chance of them loading a PB & J disk.

 

[urherenow]

Umm... if his drive won't read, how is he supposed to get the originals onto the USB drive? (in a legal way)

You can use a windows manager that can do that?

No. Your PC can't read a Wii Game. The only (semi-)legal way to get an ISO file onto your computer is to rip it yourself using a Wii, then transferring it over. This can't be done if your Wii can't read discs anymore. In this case he is talking about someone else's Wii and can use his own to do the backups which is a good thing.

Heh... broken drives... yet another reason to backup all of your Wii games to HDD

 

[TroyTheZombie]

edit

 

[djtaz]

Umm... if his drive won't read, how is he supposed to get the originals onto the USB drive? (in a legal way)

You can use a windows manager that can do that?

No. Your PC can't read a Wii Game. The only (semi-)legal way to get an ISO file onto your computer is to rip it yourself using a Wii, then transferring it over. This can't be done if your Wii can't read discs anymore. In this case he is talking about someone else's Wii and can use his own to do the backups which is a good thing.

Heh... broken drives... yet another reason to backup all of your Wii games to HDD

he could install the usb loader onto a second (friends) wii and use that to rip the games and then use the usb drive on this own for reading.

 

[bnm81002]

ok my brother is going for a USB Loader, so the GX or the Configurable Loader would be easier for a 9 and a 11 year old to use? also which partition format as well to use, FAT32? WBFS? NTFS?

 

[George Dawes]

No. Your PC can't read a Wii Game.
I better tell my PC to stop reading wii discs then...

The only (semi-)legal way to get an ISO file onto your computer is to rip it yourself using a Wii, then transferring it over.
Or use a cheap LG drive in a PC, or in most countries simply downloading the iso if you already own the game.

As bnm81002 has already said he can rip the games in his working wii, so it's not really an issue.



QUOTE(bnm81002 @ Jan 7 2010, 01:04 AM)

ok my brother is going for a USB Loader, so the GX or the Configurable Loader would be easier for a 9 and a 11 year old to use? also which partition format as well to use, FAT32? WBFS? NTFS?

Neither is really any easier than the other. Personally I'd use FAT32 with Configurable USB Loader, but whichever you choose will work fine.

I'd stay away from NTFS though, it's still experimental and writing is disabled with it.