Originally posted by ragit:

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thought it only right to post this to help others who think they have done something wrong

if you have managed to install the 1.9g and heard Homers voice at the end and also updated the Wii to its latest 3.X firmware but found that the SMG disc isnt recognised when inserted , dont worry , it may not show in the top left window to start with , just click the window with the Wii finger as normal and the Wii will do a small update automaticaly , what that is i have no idea but after it has done this the SMG disc is now recognisable and works perfect

we had done all updates and burnt 3 dif SMG backups with varying differences only to find that the discs wernt recognised each time in the top left Wii window , making us believe that there was something wrong , when in reality all we had to do was click the window ..... as Homer would say .....DOH !!!!!!

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Originally posted by Colten:

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Ok here is my problem:
I have the wiikey installed and I am just trying to get the disks to read. I have downloaded and burnt the Wiikey 1.9b Update Disc and Setup disc v1.3 (PAL/USA/JAP) and used the US ones as Im from Canada.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k200/c...20Moding/10.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k200/c...20Moding/11.jpg

After it is burnt the disk will not read. What am I doing wrong?

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Originally posted by nihoniiru:

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oh, i forgot to mention that the game i'm trying to load is the japanese version.

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Originally posted by anthoj:

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Originally posted by Colten:

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Ok here is my problem:
I have the wiikey installed and I am just trying to get the disks to read. I have downloaded and burnt the Wiikey 1.9b Update Disc and Setup disc v1.3 (PAL/USA/JAP) and used the US ones as Im from Canada.

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k200/c...20Moding/10.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k200/c...20Moding/11.jpg

After it is burnt the disk will not read. What am I doing wrong?

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Hey,

There are a couple of things that you might want to do. First, try using the filechop to resize the file to it's proper size. Notice that the iso image is only 6 MB large. What you want to do is just run cmd and go to that same folder where u put your iso in, and just type in "fixsize.cmd bootdisc.us.iso" and it will resize that iso file into 1.4 GB mini DVD size. Then you can burn that image using Nero. Normally Nero does the filechopping automatically, but it may have caused an issue.

The second thing you might want to try is finding another dvd-media to burn it on. It could very well be the medias you use.

Btw, you ARE able to read backups right?

Anyways, let me know how it works out. I am not a professional at this field by any means, but I spent an entire weekend trying to configure my wii and finally got it to work...so, hopefully that will help.

Tony

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Originally posted by anthoj:

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Well, if you want to do that, then you need to turn region free on. You can to this by dowloading the Config iso and burn it onto a DVD-R, boot it up in your wii and select the option (read the readme on how to use it). The latest version is 1.3 Here's the link for convenience.

http://www.wiikey.cn/resources.html


There is however a chance that you may not be able to run the config on your Wii. This is a known problem, and the alternative is to create a GCOS boot disc and insert programs (1.3 config) into to disc and run it from there. Read the posts for this thread from the beginning and you will understand how to go about doing this. Or you could Google it.

Hope that helps.

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Originally posted by nihoniiru:

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Originally posted by anthoj:

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Well, if you want to do that, then you need to turn region free on. You can to this by dowloading the Config iso and burn it onto a DVD-R, boot it up in your wii and select the option (read the readme on how to use it). The latest version is 1.3 Here's the link for convenience.

http://www.wiikey.cn/resources.html


There is however a chance that you may not be able to run the config on your Wii. This is a known problem, and the alternative is to create a GCOS boot disc and insert programs (1.3 config) into to disc and run it from there. Read the posts for this thread from the beginning and you will understand how to go about doing this. Or you could Google it.

Hope that helps.

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i have just one question, can i burn this bootdisc using toast?

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Originally posted by ragit:

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me again :)


screen went black and machine hung , reset . removed and put in 1.3 setup but of course its now blocked by 3.X non boot routine , no prbs for me i can get over that after reading this thread with GCOS

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Originally posted by lennaerts:

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I did do the recovery, but still, the disk give me the same error.
Some times, i can get in the game, and then the error screen is coming back again. I always use the Nashua dvd's, and always worked. But not anymore.

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Originally posted by ktheking:

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Creating DVD's for wii :

Which DVD is the best to use ? :
-buy some different BRANDS (TDK,SONY,VERBATIM,etc.).
burn the same game in single speed on it.

Load the game ,and measure the starting speed.
The fastest loading brand ,is the good one to use.

Since different brands of readers ,might be used for multiple series of wii's ,this result might be very different for each and every wii (depending on serial number).
Once you figured this one out. Stick to this brand.

For the writing of your DVD's ,try to use single speed writing.
Many will claim that writing speed won't make a difference ,but IT DOES (especially if you're not sure about the media quality)!

DVD/CD recording are using the same chemical principles as when the first single speed cd recorder saw daylight.Overtime multiple error correction systems on readers and writer rendered higher possible speeds. But still the best result is gotten at the lowest burning speed.
Check slide 17 over here : http://www.itl.nist.gov/iad/894.05/gipwo...rbatimMar05.ppt


K.
Electronics engineer
Linux,Unix,Windoze Admin

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