Misc wiidrives website is gone! What Happened?

[ChickenPotPie392]

The wiidrives website just shutdown because it said the domain has expired?

What happened? Is it ever gonna come back? Is there an alternative for now? I used that website to identify the type of drive chip my wii has by inputing it's serial number.

 

[M7L7NK7]

Probably wasn't worth keeping open

 

[SaulFabre]

*clear cough* Wayback Machine is your friend for that...

https://web.archive.org/web/20240715210007/https://www.wiidrives.com/list

 

[CoolMe]

Never heard of it

 

[Dust2dust]

Never heard of it

Me neither. I wonder what was the purpose of knowing what kind of chip was in the drive? For modchip installations, maybe? I guess with the arrival of cIOS and softmodding in general, that information became kind of useless.

 

[XFlak]

It's also reported in syscheck logs iirc, and it helps determine if the drive is capable of playing backup disks /DVDs, but yeah I agree most ppl wouldn't really care. I have such a wii, and I only use the DVD laser expressly for the purpose of backing up games to try and prolong its lifespan as much as possible (so pretty much I never use it, lol, for all I know it's already busted)

 

[Larsenv]

wiidrives was updated by the owner a couple times in the past couple year and it says the domain had been renew

Post automatically merged: Aug 13, 2024

Hi,

Thanks.

Yea it expired the 10th August. Renews now!

Should be up soon.

Torsten

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FYI, WiiDrives is down, I see it was renewed yet namecheap is showing its parked

Post automatically merged: Aug 13, 2024

wiidrive is back

 

[ChickenPotPie392]

woohoo! it's back!

 

[SaulFabre]

not working for me...