RVT Wii Media

[Dot50Cal]

Just curious if RVT-R media can be played on a modded Wii or anything or is it like the Gamecube which requires a special laser drive to read it? I may be getting ahold of a disc soon so it would be good to know.

[Borman]

its special, just like NR disks I think. In fact, someone mentioned that RVT players play NR-disks as well so

[s1xty]

its special, just like NR disks I think. In fact, someone mentioned that RVT players play NR-disks as well so

Borman is right, I think in the old topic about it said that the RVT player is the equivalent to the NR reader (and will also NR discs!), therefore it will only play RVT and NR discs, and no retail discs. Therefore RVT discs probably do not work on a retail Wii either, even if it was modded.

[Pikkon]

Good thing about the RVT is that it wil play NR disc of any region.

[Dot50Cal]

Good thing about the RVT is that it wil play NR disc of any region.

Ah, well at least theres that. That was a total pain in the ass on Gamecube.

Thanks for the responses guys! Does anyone know someone here with one who I'd be able to bug with some questions? :)

[wombat]

Major scene breakthrough. Trucha Signer lets you remove, add or alter the information on the Wii disk and then re-sign it with a valid electronic signature that the Wii will accept. The author is now working on support for VC-game and Wii channel. This should be a easy way to get Linux on a DVD that the Wii will accept. However the bug that allow this is easy to spot, so do not update your Wii at the moment. (Should not be hard to avoid if you remove it from the Wii disks before inserting them into the Wii.)
Resigning the discs... does that mean you can also resign a RVT disc?

[Dot50Cal]

Any links to that yet? Has it been released?

[babu]

Any links to that yet? Has it been released?

yes, a couple of days ago
http://www.ingenieria-inversa.cl/

[Dot50Cal]

yes, a couple of days ago
http://www.ingenieria-inversa.cl/

Awesome, thanks!

[Dot50Cal]

You'd still need a way to rip the RVT disc. Does anyone know if those DVD-ROM's that read the Wii disc's also read RVT discs? If so, you'd be set. Though modding the discs would change the TOC, not sure if this app fixes that, but if the GCN is any indication, it wont and you'd have to do that manually.

[wombat]

If someone has a way to rip the content of a RVT disc with the use of a RVT-reader, then please let me know :)

[Dot50Cal]

I ordered the fastest drive, I'll confirm if it works or not when it arrives. If it doesnt, a friend pointed out that since RVT-R Readers can read NR discs, I might want to try the PSO exploit with it, and see if the Wii will read the RVT in place of an NR. Does anyone know of any app's that are tuned for the Wii with this exploit? ( I hear they changed the passcode to the drive to be upper or lowercase, I'm not sure which).

[wombat]

Problem with the PSO exploit, the wii doesnt simulate the BBA/wifi as a CUBE BBA... so you can't connect?

[Dot50Cal]

I'd be interested to see if any of those ethernet dongles can work with the GCN software that uses the BBA. We'd need an app tuned to Wii's specifications, but I think its possible still.

[Dot50Cal]

Bah, You're right. It wont work with the standard wireless:

http://pici.se/pictures/anWoEBNGl.jpg

So, does anyone out there know of a way to simulate the BBA of the GCN on the Wii? One of those Ethernet Adapters perhaps?

[babu]

I'm guessing that the BBA is as much supported on the Wii as the AGB link cable is supported on the NDS >_<

[Dot50Cal]

One thing I'm trying to find is , if when the Wii runs in GCN mode, are the USB ports disabled? Because IIRC the expansion bays in the bottom of the Cube were just USB lines. Its probably wishful thinking though. Wifi is killed when it runs in GCN mode.

[Dot50Cal]

Ok, I've confirmed that the Wii LAN Adapter won't work in Gamecube mode, so now Im going to try a stupid experiment where I try to rip what I can off a Retail Wii disc using my GCN via the PSO exploit.
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[Dot50Cal]

Ripping a Retail and RVT disc both fail on a retail cube via the PSO exploit, I'm not even going to bother opening my NR Reader to try and test it, I don't see how it would work if these both failed in the retail cube.

Now I guess all thats left to do is wait until that DVD ROM shows up at my door.

[ASSEMbler]

Can't you use pso exploit and rip the data to a gecko?

[mathieulh]

There are apps to rip wii games from the gamecube mode using sd gecko or usb gecko what you'd need is such app burned onto a NR disc and you are good to go.

[Dot50Cal]

I got a DVDROM drive in that rips Wii games, unfortunately the app tells me the drive might be broken when I try to rip the RVT disc. Any suggestions? Its ripping retails fine so I think its probably a situation like the Gamecube, where we need a specific laser to read them :\

mathieulh, has anyone confirmed that would work with an RVT disc in place of an NR though?

[mathieulh]

well RVT discs are basically 4.7GB NR discs so basically burning a gamecube application on it should work (as long as you run it on a wii) of course I may be wrong but I doubt it.

Of course this method implies that you have a RVT-R reader, a burner for RVT-R or NR discs and blank NR or RVT-R media in the first place, not everyone has that kind of stuffs xD

[Polak]

I would try this method to backup rvt-r discs:
install wiikey or other chip in rvt reader, use gecko adaptor with big sd card, pop in the rvt-r game and backup it as you would with retail. It should work like a charm.
I have some rvt-r discs, which I really want to play, but I don't have any working rvt-readers at home :(

[mathieulh]

I would try this method to backup rvt-r discs:
install wiikey or other chip in rvt reader, use gecko adaptor with big sd card, pop in the rvt-r game and backup it as you would with retail. It should work like a charm.
I have some rvt-r discs, which I really want to play, but I don't have any working rvt-readers at home :(

I pretty much doubt any wiikey is meant for a RVT-R drive, especially as those use other chipsets. Beside why would you try to mod a RVT-R Reader when you can already get code running on it by burning a RVT-R disc ?

[Polak]

Maybe to give it to friend, as a backup or...to leak it.

[smf]

Maybe to give it to friend, as a backup or...to leak it.

The point I think he was trying to make was that to dump an original game to sdcard you only need a mod chip to be able to run the dumping program. You just need to burn it on the correct media....

PSO exploit is so five years ago. Get the latest SD Media Launcher and use that to boot a program that lets you dump to SD Card.

[ma777]

I have a the LG drive you need to dump wii games. Its a gdr-8164b i think.

[Dot50Cal]

I have a the LG drive you need to dump wii games. Its a gdr-8164b i think.

Retail Wii games work, but RVT discs do not.

[WIIMODDER]

Hi, i have a rvt reader but i dont have any rvt-r disk to try it, the first menu is like the ndev but i cant do anything. Im thinking about opening it and changue the drive for a wii retail one. I can try to dump rvt disks but i need the disks and some help with that. in other way, my unit has the front as a retail one, not green!

Please pm for anything, thanks

[crediar]

you got zelda or a drivechip, WIIMODDER ?

[WIIMODDER]

I have zeldas, lots of modchips, lots of drives, but when you turn on the wii, that appears seemd anything unless a wii.

[crediar]

pic ?