Hardware WII with D3-2 DRIVE

[Thang_Bom]

I think you just HAVE TO WAIT IT OUT and if one has solution, he will tell you. I think you are wasting a lot of people time to read the thread.

If you say you have patience, just hold on to your chair and STOP BUGGING.

 

[Dragonaqua]

Hi all,

I got a new wii from repair, and placed back my old drive.
This would make it run backup's without a problem atleast for me.

Hope this helps for others

cheers

 

[lenselijer]

just switch the driveboard to a d2b/d2c/d2e board and use a wiikey2

 

[DOC81]

any little bit of news yet regarding de D3-2 drive or is just a swap needed?

 

[KiiWii]

NEWS JUST IN!













just give up.

USB ftw.

 

[DOC81]

never give up, thats the motto.
i stay till the bitter end

 

[razorback78]

never give up, thats the motto.
i stay till the bitter end

that's the spirit. in the meantime buy an HDD. like the others had said usb loading is way much faster and hassle free.

 

[morcar]

With these new drives and such are they only in the black Wii's or have they used them in the normal white Wii's ?

 

[jackdanielchan]

DOC81 even though you say you are being patient and all, and your talking for the people with these new Wii drives, you seem a little TOO desperate, I mean come on, you said you could wait, the next minute we just seem to have you to reply to saying has anyone finished hacking it yet? You've got an old Wii? USE THAT ONE!!!

 

[cearp]

you can get replacement drives (supposedly 'new', whether they are or not

) off of ebay for like 30 pounds.
i have a d3-2 aswell, usb is fine for backups, i just wish i could load my gc backups

but, i think it will be hacked, somehow, wiis are just going to 'evolve' to be less hackable, but it doesn't mean the hackers will give up. like, people NEVER thought that you could run backups on a gc, but people eventually did it

 

[Crasa]

got a d3-2 too ... and damn it


I already have a wii with 150+ games burnt on dvd, and I can't play any on the newly bought black wii

 

[chiln1208]

Hi All,

newb here. I'm about to buy a Wii but I just wanted to check. If I get one with a D3-2 drive is there a special procedure to get it to use a hard drive via usb loader, or do I just follow all the other softmod guides (and everything should work minus non-retail disks)? Thanks!

 

[Crasa]

nope nothing changes if you use a usb-stick or hard drive.

 

[IceFlux]

Here's a thought....buy your games?

Naw, that's crazy talk.


Seriously. USB HDD is the way forward.

The problem with USB Loaders is that you still can't play GameCube backups that way, as the Wii shuts down all extra hardware like the USB and SD slots because the Cube didn't have those. As of right now there is no way to play Cube backups other than through the DVD drive.

 

[resincake]

If you have one of those drives, and you want to play backups via disc, or want to ply Gamecube backups, you could always go to somewhere like ebay and buy a replacement Wii drive (Of the older type), or even a Wii that is being sold for spares, but as a working drive in it. The are very easy to replace, and you will notice not very expensive either.

I got a replacement Wii drive (Wii sold as spares), on ebay, for £15. The drive works great in my Wii and was very easy to fit, and I'm not really an expert techie or anything.

Something to consider.

:>

 

[raulpica]

@IceFlux
Please don't bump a thread THAT old without reason.

Locking. Feel free to open a new one if you need to know something on the subject.