Thanks for the update on the new hardware. I soft-modded one for a friend a few weeks ago. Apparently the drive board for the new GC-minus Wii lacks the square chip in the upper right of this picture, which is necessary for loading GC discs: http://www.laserlens.cn/uploadfiles/Wii%20D4%20Drive%28big...

I was wondering if it could be a case of the laser getting less power due to the DVD drive being connected in series via the WODE for some reason, hence why the pot would need to be so low to compensate. I could try testing the current at the pot on this drive and a stock drive to see if there is a...

UPDATE: Finally got around to re wiring that FFC cable and the audio streaming problems are completely gone now. Audio streaming works fine via flat-mode + XenoGC for originals and backups so now I can play all games without audio streaming from HDD/SD and the rest that have audio streaming from di...

Thanks for the great utility! Been having some trouble with CleanRip v1.0.4 using IOS58. The first Wii disc ripped to my NTFS drive with no problems. However, ever since then CleanRip either reports that it cannot find the NTFS partition or hangs. It will recognize the partition as soon as I disconn...

Why modchips have trouble with Gamecube audio streaming is something I do not fully understand. Specifically, I don't know why it is that some chips will play retail audio streaming games perfectly, but fail with backup discs. From what I understand, chips like YAOSM patch audio streaming at the dri...

Here's a thread discussing audio streaming support: http://www.wodejukebox.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=4&t=753&sid=8cda11401ab33b0f0f55280e70635280&start=80 Reading through the thread, it appears that WODE does support audio streaming on retail discs, but not backups. One user reported tha...

I still can't get backups to boot via Flat-Wode or Flat-Wode + XenoGC. I turned the pot down as low as I could, about 40 ohms. @noobcube Thanks for the tip I will try to find a copy of Eternal Darkness next time I go into town or failing that I will grab one off ebay. Not too familiar with WODE. Is...

I don't own any audio streaming games so I'm not sure what the results would be. I'll have to pick one up sometime soon and give it a try. Not sure about adding a Qoob/Viper into the mix. Correct me if I'm wrong but I don't think they are compatible with the WODE or WKF. Eternal Darkness is a great...

DVD playback will only work if the drive is not D3-2 or D4 (Wiis sold after mid-2009).

Check your serial number here: http://www.wiidrives.com/identify

Quick update: Tried Wiikey 2 with another Wii - this time D2E. GC audio fix does not work at all with D2E, just like D2C2. On/Off with setup disc made no difference. Immediate DRE when audio starts. The Wiikey 2's audio fix only sort of worked with D2B, but with intermittent DREs, so I'd say that it...

Instead of finishing my term papers, I did a little more forensic work finding the original source of YAOSM's Gamecube audio fix. By the time Wayback Machine archived the relevant page on the old Wiinewz YAOSM forum, Bell (YAOSM developer) had removed the credit information for the reused audio fix ...

YAOSM was based on reversed Wiikey v1 code, I'm pretty sure you'd find that works too, but it's awesome that yaosm works ;) I've had my YAOSM for many years now and no problems apart from my launch date drive struggling with Smash Bros. Brawl :\ What the heck? I wrote a detailed reply and it disapp...

Even used the Wiikey 2 1.2 recovery disc to downgrade the firmware. Both 1.2 and 1.3 behaved the same - endlessly repeating audio and random DREs on streaming audio games.

Never did try the original Wiikey, and probably won't as YAOSM works perfectly.

When you were trying Wiikey/etc, were you running their config discs etc to toggle audio fix? Yes. The Wiizard had no config disc - audio fix always on. With the Wiikey 2 audio fix disabled, audio playback was distorted, much like a Gamecube if you disable the Xeno GC audio fix. With Wiikey 2 audio...

Good news! Just installed a new modchip on my D2B drive logic board which has a perfectly functional GC audio fix. It's a PIC 16F630 which a friend of mine programmed with YAOSM v3.2. Where two other mochips have failed, YAOSM has come through. Funny how the open source community got it right while ...

original Wiikey might have it, I recall various people testing that specific feature quite thoroughly. Thanks emu_kidid. Was thinking about trying Wiikey (1) now that I have a D2B board to work with. Coincidentally, just a few days before finding the sickly Wii on Kijiji I had ordered a D2B logic b...

If the streamed audio is something like a song, it will play normally. However, if the audio is a small piece of dialogue (like when Eternal Darkness boots or when you talk to the characters in Star Fox Adventures), then the audio repeats over and over unless you hit start or stop it some other way...

Not sure how the code for backup reading differs between Viper GC Extreme and Xeno GC. I have tried custom drive settings in the Viper as well as GCOS. In practice, I have found that the Xeno GC is effectively transparent to use and noticeably more reliable reading a larger variety of discs. So, wit...

Perhaps I spoke too soon.... While the Wiizard does allow audio streaming games to play, it isn't without quirks. If the streamed audio is something like a song, it will play normally. However, if the audio is a small piece of dialogue (like when Eternal Darkness boots or when you talk to the charac...

Good news! Removing the Wiikey 2 and replacing it with a Wiizard has fixed the problem with Gamecube audio streaming. No more disc errors. Backups like Ikaruga, Eternal Darkness, etc... all work perfectly just like they do on a Gamecube (discs are read at 6x on the Wii, so load times might actually ...

amber (aka Orange) is normal for XenoGC 2.0 boards. If it goes red->orange, then it's fine, your cube must have issues with reading media. Xeno GC 2.0's status OK indicator LED is sort of a yellow-orange (amber) instead of green on the older version. Mine goes red to amber and stays amber. Mine rea...

My Xeno GC 2.0 goes from red to amber. Red never stays lit. Sounds like there might be a bad solder joint or other hardware issue. http://ldktechnik.files.wordpress.com/2010/07/xeno21.jpg Power and ground can likely be ruled out, as the LEDs are working, so that leaves the other connections as a pos...

Out of curiosity, I connected points D, E, and F to the Wiikey 2 to see if it would enable the audio fix. The 9-wire connection did not make any difference - the Wiikey 2's GC audio fix remains non-functional. With Wiikey 2's audio fix enabled (ON) in the menu : When a backup game like Wave Race: Bl...

It's not a hardware limitation of the Wiikey 2, it just uploads "patches" to the drives memory so that it will accept backups. It's possible no one bothered to make the necessary patches for audio streaming on every drive version. The early drive versions definitely have it (up to D2B I c...

ah, totally scratch what I said. The Wiikey 2 should support audio streaming games, you might need to run the config disc to enable it! LOL... Wiikey 2 claims to.... but there's no working audio fix if enabled or disabled in the menu. I spent a good while testing. Games like Eternal Darkness and Wa...