deerlick
06-26-2007, 03:18 AM
I've never had a console witha chip before, so i dont know if im asking stupid questions, but it seems as if other people may be having similar problems from the look around here and other forums. Anyway ordered a wiid a while ago, and installed it using the wire install (30awg red radioshack wire) and it was unsuccessfull. i think that i was being overly cautious and may have undersoldered somewhere, or my wires were to long, so i disconnected it, reinstalled it, it still didn't work, but at least this time it played originals. ALSO - COULD BE IMPORTANT - before i ever took my wii apart, way before the chips ever came out, my wii was VERY loud. it was so loud that i would have to blast the volume on my television to hear what was going on in the game. I was about to take my wii apart for the last time, and give it one more shot - i quicksoldered out of desperation, and popped in a backup of Mario Party 8. IT WORKED....for about 5 minutes, and then it got the DRE eject disk turn off wii check the manual error. ALSO the wierd thing is that my wii would read the backups very quietly, and it would read the originals loudly, but not quite as loudly as before.
i burned a few more games, and it would play them all for a minute. i used a
PHILLIPS dvd burner that for some reason will not burn anything at more that 2x.
tdk dvd-r 16x (semi working)
sony dvd-r 16x (semi working)
maxell dvd-r 16x (semi working)
mystery dvd+r ?x (not working at all)
ntsc wii
wiid
imgburn, or nero - same results.
now i noticed that occasionally a few of my originals will not load at first, and i may have to repower the wii to get them to work and the backups will load probably 1 out of 4 times.
also, i think that at the moment, there are several groups trying to be the number one wii iso scene release team and so there are many different rips of the same game floating around the internet.
i get my wii iso's from 2 different sources. Source A iso's work the 1 out of 4 times, and Source B iso's never work. they are the same size, same everything i'd assume, but for some reason will not load at all. i have one backup of tiger woods that kicks ass, works 80 percent of the time.
now im wondering if certain chipsets in the wii dvd drive react differently to the chip. i know that they are advertised to be compatible with all of the chipsets, but ???
could my problem be my soldering, i would think that if i can get a backup running at all than the soldering would be okay.
so could my problem be a result of wii chipset and wiid compatibility (would seem to explain the seemingly randomness of working games), my source for iso's, my media, my burner, my soldering? And why would my wii be very loud before the mod chip, but now a little queiter?
And a question to people that have owned modded consoles before, is this as good as it gets? do games only work sometimes?
i burned a few more games, and it would play them all for a minute. i used a
PHILLIPS dvd burner that for some reason will not burn anything at more that 2x.
tdk dvd-r 16x (semi working)
sony dvd-r 16x (semi working)
maxell dvd-r 16x (semi working)
mystery dvd+r ?x (not working at all)
ntsc wii
wiid
imgburn, or nero - same results.
now i noticed that occasionally a few of my originals will not load at first, and i may have to repower the wii to get them to work and the backups will load probably 1 out of 4 times.
also, i think that at the moment, there are several groups trying to be the number one wii iso scene release team and so there are many different rips of the same game floating around the internet.
i get my wii iso's from 2 different sources. Source A iso's work the 1 out of 4 times, and Source B iso's never work. they are the same size, same everything i'd assume, but for some reason will not load at all. i have one backup of tiger woods that kicks ass, works 80 percent of the time.
now im wondering if certain chipsets in the wii dvd drive react differently to the chip. i know that they are advertised to be compatible with all of the chipsets, but ???
could my problem be my soldering, i would think that if i can get a backup running at all than the soldering would be okay.
so could my problem be a result of wii chipset and wiid compatibility (would seem to explain the seemingly randomness of working games), my source for iso's, my media, my burner, my soldering? And why would my wii be very loud before the mod chip, but now a little queiter?
And a question to people that have owned modded consoles before, is this as good as it gets? do games only work sometimes?