Wii DVD/Wiikey Fusion/WODE + GC Portable Discussion

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Re: Building a portable GC: Need options other than DVD

Post by Ashen » Tue Mar 08, 2011 4:50 pm

justNer wrote:Ashen do you think that it would work to have the wiikey fusion working on the GC as it does on the Wii?.. having it in-between motherboard and DVD?
I mean having the fusion + DVD.
Zenloc said he tried with the Wii DVD drive and it wouldn't pick up the discs, it only ever loaded the linux bootloader. Maybe once mine get here and I have some spare time i can try with a regular GC drive. Somehow i doubt its going to work though and even if it did it will probably only work with original copys. But hey, you never know.
Hells Guardian wrote:I meant the portable part.
Still waiting on some stuff to get here... Wiikeys/adapters. Tried some vac forming today and it didnt go so well. I think the plastic I used was too thick though. I'll try again tomorrow with some thinner stuff :)
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Post by Hells Guardian » Wed Mar 09, 2011 1:09 am

Cool hope it turns out well ha. this is an interesting project.
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Post by Ashen » Wed Mar 09, 2011 5:00 am

uggg... looks like foundmy biffed my order for the wiikeys..... gonna have to wait more.... sigh :/
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Post by Hells Guardian » Wed Mar 09, 2011 12:18 pm

Bummer I hope my SD Gecko adapter arrives soon. I can't wait to play a gamecube game again all my originals are in storage + Wii won't load disc backups without a chip and I really don't want chip it..... Oh and of course my chipped cube is currently destroyed.
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Post by emu_kidid » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:05 pm

A little off topic, but does anyone know how much Amps the 3.3v and 12v lines are off that DOL-001 internal power board?
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Post by Ashen » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:41 pm

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Post by emu_kidid » Wed Mar 09, 2011 11:46 pm

good to be back, lots of backlog to catch up on but I am going to wire up the fusion tonight and start investigating/integrating it into swiss :)
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Post by emu_kidid » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:16 am

bearteam, could you help me (us) out to get some bulk (perhaps 100 for now) adapters from that guy on taobao? A simple guide on how to get in communication would be nice, but if they're non-english speaking, are you willing to be the go between (assuming you did it direct)?

It'd be nice to sell them at $2.80 each on the store so everyone can get modding ;)
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Post by liquitt » Thu Mar 10, 2011 6:50 am

there's also this website: http://buyfromtaobao.com/

they act as a middleman too
please search before you ask - a lot has been discussed already!
(or use google with "site:gc-forever.com *term*")
http://is.gd/MDmZcr

we also have a wiki filled with knowledge
http://is.gd/dX58Rm
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Post by bearteam » Thu Mar 10, 2011 8:44 am

emu_kidid wrote:bearteam, could you help me (us) out to get some bulk (perhaps 100 for now) adapters from that guy on taobao? A simple guide on how to get in communication would be nice, but if they're non-english speaking, are you willing to be the go between (assuming you did it direct)?

It'd be nice to sell them at $2.80 each on the store so everyone can get modding ;)
I talked to the seller, and he said if you want order 100 pcs, each would cost you 2.3 us$. But this is the rough price, you could talk to him about the price. Cheaper by dozen :) But, the seller don't understand English:(
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Post by emu_kidid » Thu Mar 10, 2011 12:17 pm

Got the Wiikey fusion hooked up and working!!

Note, I had forgot to hook up GND so it took a bit of screwing around to get it stable :P
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Post by Ashen » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:27 pm

2.3$ is a steal especially compared to the protoadvantage connectors that cost me 40$.... that still aren't here...

Very nice emu! did you just bridge all the grounds together?

I think I may have an idea of how to get multidisc games workingwith the wiikey. I'll have to test it when they finally arrive... though it looks like foundmy is still screwing around.... ><
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Post by Ashen » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:36 pm

just saw this posted on another forum... http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... 9289380437 anyone know wtf that is?!
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Post by emu_kidid » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:39 pm

I only put GND to a single pin on the wiikey from the GC mainboard and the wiikey did the rest. multi disc games, how are they supposed to work on the wiikey fusion?


ahahaha that's the ide-exi with the program before swiss existed :)
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Post by Ashen » Thu Mar 10, 2011 1:45 pm

emu_kidid wrote:I only put GND to a single pin on the wiikey from the GC mainboard and the wiikey did the rest. multi disc games, how are they supposed to work on the wiikey fusion?
That's just it. I don't think multi disc games that DON'T allow you to save before switching discs are supported. But I think we may possibly find a way around this with 2 SD cards, possibly a bit of hex editing and a switch wired in to simulate lid open/closed.
emu_kidid wrote:ahahaha that's the ide-exi with the program before swiss existed :)
Ahhhh.. gotcha, lol :D
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Post by liquitt » Thu Mar 10, 2011 2:06 pm

Ashen wrote:just saw this posted on another forum... http://translate.google.com/translate?j ... 9289380437 anyone know wtf that is?!
nice so we finally got those chinese pirates attracted :D
i kinda like the idea with plugging a harddisk in though!

edit, found the second picture

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please search before you ask - a lot has been discussed already!
(or use google with "site:gc-forever.com *term*")
http://is.gd/MDmZcr

we also have a wiki filled with knowledge
http://is.gd/dX58Rm
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Re: Building a portable GC: Need options other than DVD

Post by Dragoon » Thu Mar 10, 2011 3:06 pm

That's the crazynation DI(N)Y GC HDD project :D

Edit: BTW is buyfromtaobao.com a ripoff? because 180 yen = €1,57 and they charge me €28,62...
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Re: Building a portable GC: Need options other than DVD

Post by yamaharacer » Thu Mar 10, 2011 4:25 pm

no its not crazynations ide adapter. cause you can see that the hdd is connected to the memory card slot b and not on the connector of the dvd drive.
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Re: Building a portable GC: Need options other than DVD

Post by Dragoon » Thu Mar 10, 2011 7:56 pm

hmmm... one is and one isn't? because on taobao it's not in the memorycard slot.
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Re: Building a portable GC: Need options other than DVD

Post by Abb_eliten » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:01 pm

Dragoon wrote:That's the crazynation DI(N)Y GC HDD project :D

Edit: BTW is buyfromtaobao.com a ripoff? because 180 yen = €1,57 and they charge me €28,62...
Could it be Chinese yuan instead of yen?

180 yuan is around €20.

Got my Fusion today. Works perfectly :D

Don't know if you already know this,
but I noticed you actually don't need to feed pin 29 with 1.9 volts to get the Fusion to load the bootloader.

Just a switch between pin 29 and ground is enough

Only with Fusion, that is
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Re: Building a portable GC: Need options other than DVD

Post by sumas » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:03 pm

In the shop its wired inside the cube to the mem card ports.
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Re: Building a portable GC: Need options other than DVD

Post by Ashen » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:42 pm

Abb_eliten wrote: Don't know if you already know this,
but I noticed you actually don't need to feed pin 29 with 1.9 volts to get the Fusion to load the bootloader.

Just a switch between pin 29 and ground is enough

Only with Fusion, that is
Interesting, you're not getting any errors when playing games?
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Post by Abb_eliten » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:50 pm

Nope, no errors yet.

I'm going through my game library right now to test it more thoroughly
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Post by emu_kidid » Thu Mar 10, 2011 9:56 pm

Yeah, I put a switch which will GND pin 29 and that was it, you can't start it up with that connected, you must do it after. The loading times are insanely fast!

Region free behaves like so:
Game will show up in the IPL, you can click on it too but it will black screen. We can pre-patch these games if required.
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Re: Building a portable GC: Need options other than DVD

Post by bearteam » Fri Mar 11, 2011 12:19 am

Ashen, the pin order of Wiikey 3 may be clearer as following pic.
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edit:Sorry for my mistake. I have alreay corrected it.
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