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You are ignorant if you believe this will be a wiikey-only feature for very long.
Hey guess what? the modchip (or drivechip) development community is a cut-throat business, especially now with clones popping up with nearly zero R&D costs. Of course a chip is going to try adding different features in order to get more sales.
If emu_kidd didn't support this DVD9 update for the sole reason that it was not a universal drivechip feature I think that would be pathetic to limit yourself like that.
If the wiikey people can get a wii to address a DVD9 disc than obviously the base hardware can do it, therefor any chip that is upgradeable can be updated to support this new feature--provided the devs figure out how to do it. Considering that all interaction is done through a serial port we know that it is not a very complicated process.
I'm all for open-source ideals and sharing of code but that's not going to fly with most chip makers, it's a completely different market.
disclaimer: I own an official wiikey
Hey guess what? the modchip (or drivechip) development community is a cut-throat business, especially now with clones popping up with nearly zero R&D costs. Of course a chip is going to try adding different features in order to get more sales.
If emu_kidd didn't support this DVD9 update for the sole reason that it was not a universal drivechip feature I think that would be pathetic to limit yourself like that.
If the wiikey people can get a wii to address a DVD9 disc than obviously the base hardware can do it, therefor any chip that is upgradeable can be updated to support this new feature--provided the devs figure out how to do it. Considering that all interaction is done through a serial port we know that it is not a very complicated process.
I'm all for open-source ideals and sharing of code but that's not going to fly with most chip makers, it's a completely different market.
disclaimer: I own an official wiikey