Hacking Wii U optical drive

[mike333]

Nintendo will use existing technology.
It must be cheap so no or very limited royalty payment.
Please note that new Wii won't play any DVD, HDDVD, Blu-Ray, video cd media.
You won't see any dvd/hd movie logo on Wii U.

This topic is for fun only.

Some random thoughts:
- hd dvd is abandoned which means is very cheap technology
- blu ray is common so optical mechanism (lens etc.) might be cheap
- someone from N at E3 said that disc will hold 25GB of data (looks like blu ray)
- does anyone knows licensing costs for Blu-ray (hd dvd) divided into categories: media itself, copy protection, mpeg4, bluray java, logo on device
- no, and once again no, Wii U won't play any movies off existing media with proprietary logo on it

 

[Taleweaver]

Existing technology? Cheap? No movie logo?

Say no more... I know EXACTLY what technology the wiiu will use for their games:

Spoiler

Indeed. You heard it here first: nintendo will write their games on slices of bread. The patent of making bread is centuries old, so there are no legal fees, copyright claims or logo to take into account. It's much more environmental friendly, helps fight the hunger in the world and even the worst game ever created can still serve as a nice, delicious sandwich.

The cheap manifacturing cost is a plus. In fact, it will allow you to buy your games not only in your local gameshop anymore but also in your local bakery. In fact, I've already seen a line-up for a collector's edition of discs featuring all Mario games for the wiiu:

Of course, nobody likes to have their consoles crash. Red rings of death or that other crash for the PS3 (can't remember the name right now) fill gamers with rage...but on the wiiu, this frustration is lessened quite a bit because at least the wiiu will offer you a nice slice of toast.


But wait...there is more. This new technology of writing on bread will provide an extraordinary challenge to hackers, who will be forced to learn new programming languages, starting with "cooking 101". Nintendo is confident that it will at least take a year before the first custom disk will be able to produced, as their secret ingredients to their bread are much harder to crack.

And lets not forget the expansions. Of course nintendo won't tell anyone about this NOW, but in order to really beef up your gaming experience, they will come up with a special white mixture which can be applied on top of the discs for an even smoother gaming experience than before. Just check out this photograph, taken from the top secret testing facilities of Nintendo:

And lemme tell you: the launch games will be MUCH better than that of the 3DS. No half-assed stuff. No...all real gems, guaranteed that everyone will want to take a bite out of.

So tell me...is this the best thing since sliced bread or what?

 

[JoostinOnline]

Shouldn't this be on the EoF?

 

[mike333]

Found it on Nintendo servers.
Looks legit.

Spoiler

 

[Deleted_171835]

Probably a proprietary optical disc format like with the Wii and Gamecube.

 

[DeadlyFoez]

Probably a proprietary optical disc format like with the Wii and Gamecube.

...that still used the dvd technology. So most likely, this will be blu-ray with the disc written in reverse.

 

[OncleJulien]

this topic is neither about the wii, nor hacking...discuss.

 

[Porobu]

Optical drives are sh*t

Spoiler

This is better:

 

[mike333]

this topic is neither about the wii, nor hacking...discuss.

We are preparing for 0day hack after Wii U release.
Here is required tool chain:

Spoiler

 

[Wiimm]

technical: A Blue Ray Drive, because Nintendo will use well tested and cheap hardware and will not develop an own system.

logical: Other disc format: I will not read standard blue ray discs to avoid backup loaders.

 

[crwys]

Its already been confirmed its not blu-ray

 

[UranusKiller]

who cares? oh c'mon, BlueRay players are dirt cheap now anyway, and DVD players, well every household has atleast 3 lol.

They have created their OWN large storage Disks which only compare to BR due to their size, but i bet the drive has a fantastic reader, quiet, strong, a extremely powerful lens that hopefully never suffers from any kind of problems.

 

[crwys]

who cares? oh c'mon, BlueRay players are dirt cheap now anyway, and DVD players, well every household has atleast 3 lol.

They have created their OWN large storage Disks which only compare to BR due to their size, but i bet the drive has a fantastic reader, quiet, strong, a extremely powerful lens that hopefully never suffers from any kind of problems.

Well said. I am going to miss my GC controller though

 

[naved.islam14]

Existing technology? Cheap? No movie logo?

Say no more... I know EXACTLY what technology the wiiu will use for their games:

Spoiler

Indeed. You heard it here first: nintendo will write their games on slices of bread. The patent of making bread is centuries old, so there are no legal fees, copyright claims or logo to take into account. It's much more environmental friendly, helps fight the hunger in the world and even the worst game ever created can still serve as a nice, delicious sandwich.

The cheap manifacturing cost is a plus. In fact, it will allow you to buy your games not only in your local gameshop anymore but also in your local bakery. In fact, I've already seen a line-up for a collector's edition of discs featuring all Mario games for the wiiu:

Of course, nobody likes to have their consoles crash. Red rings of death or that other crash for the PS3 (can't remember the name right now) fill gamers with rage...but on the wiiu, this frustration is lessened quite a bit because at least the wiiu will offer you a nice slice of toast.


But wait...there is more. This new technology of writing on bread will provide an extraordinary challenge to hackers, who will be forced to learn new programming languages, starting with "cooking 101". Nintendo is confident that it will at least take a year before the first custom disk will be able to produced, as their secret ingredients to their bread are much harder to crack.

And lets not forget the expansions. Of course nintendo won't tell anyone about this NOW, but in order to really beef up your gaming experience, they will come up with a special white mixture which can be applied on top of the discs for an even smoother gaming experience than before. Just check out this photograph, taken from the top secret testing facilities of Nintendo:

And lemme tell you: the launch games will be MUCH better than that of the 3DS. No half-assed stuff. No...all real gems, guaranteed that everyone will want to take a bite out of.

So tell me...is this the best thing since sliced bread or what?

OT: That's so funny. OT: It'll most likely be DVD.

 

[Bladexdsl]

it won't be brd it will never be brd sony will be the ONLY one who ever puts brd in their consoles. what will be in the Wu is their own brand of an optical disc and it holds 25gb.