1st question - When i download the setup disk 1.2 from the wiikey website the bootable disc is in an MS Dos batch file and when i click it nothing happens and i have no idea how to burn it. The previous two set up disks came as iso's and burned fine
2nd Question - When i finally did my install (D2B 3 legs missing) i completed all soldering to the wii and checked the connections were not shorting. However when i soldered to the wiikey i soldered the 2 points with the holes round the wrong way and when i switched on and pushed the power button the light went off and would only come back on when pulling the power lead. I changed the wires round and originals boot up but doesn't see back ups. Could i have damaged the wiikey and?or my wii dvd drive.
Any help would be greatly welcomed
I did try and search these things but i had no joy
1) On my computer when I execute the MS-DOS batch file (BootableDisc_US) it creates an .ISO file, which I then burn and it works fine.
2) As for you're 2nd question it's possible you damaged you're wiikey, but most of the time when people are having trouble booting backups it's because they didn't burn the game at a slow enough speed or used poor quality media.
The v1.2 setup disk doesn't have a wiikey firmware update so it's not significantly different from v1.1 or v1.0 so if you can get those working just use them. If you really want the v1.2 disk pm me you're e-mail and I can send you a compressed version of the .ISO file.
If I just bought my WiiKey should I use V1.0, v1.1 then v1.2 setup disc? I have burn v1.1 and it is 1.4GB on the disc, but V1.2 seems only have 7MB on the ISO. Is this right? After installing wiikey, should it be able to play dvd-r, or i have to config it first? I donno what went wrong, but none of the setup disc or dvd-r are reading.
You only need to use one of the setup disks, v1.2 has everything v1.1 has and v1.1 has everything v1.0 has.
The v1.1 setup disk is 1.35 GB and v1.2 is 4.37 GB. I'm not sure what you've done wrong for the v1.2 disk but you're meant to just execute the BootableDisk batch file and it creates an .ISO that is 4.37 GB.
After installing the wiikey you should be able to play dvd-r's from your region without any configuration. You do however need to use the setup disks if you want to enable region free mode so that you can play games from different regions.
The most common reason for disks not working is because they've been burned using poor quality media. Try burning at 4X speed and using better disks. There are many threads on what disks to use in this forum, I use Verbatim DVD-R's. Also if you have updated you're wii firmware to 3.0 then the setup disk will no longer read. You have to burn a GCOS swap disk and then swap in the setup disk. If none of that works then it could be a faulty chip, or faulty install. Can you're wii still play originals?
