WiiKey and multi-disc games

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Xaranar
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WiiKey and multi-disc games

Post by Xaranar » Thu Oct 01, 2015 10:59 am

Apologies if this has been answered time and again, but what is the procedure for when a game has multiple discs, and it comes to a point where you need to change one over mid-gameplay? When I installed my WiiKey, I included a momentary lid switch that's normally closed to ground, can I press this to make the 'Cube think I've opened the drive and swapped discs?

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Re: WiiKey and multi-disc games

Post by novenary » Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:36 am

You can do it only with the official firmware and two WBFS cards and the discs are at the same location on both cards. Open the "lid", swap SD cards and close it back.
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Re: WiiKey and multi-disc games

Post by Xaranar » Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:46 am

Really? Why then, on the wiki page for Swiss, does it say that SDGecko supports multi-disc?
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Re: WiiKey and multi-disc games

Post by novenary » Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:55 pm

Wiikey is not SD gecko.
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Re: WiiKey and multi-disc games

Post by Xaranar » Thu Oct 01, 2015 12:59 pm

Yeah, but you can access an SD Gecko via Swiss, and I have an SD Gecko.
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Re: WiiKey and multi-disc games

Post by novenary » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:22 pm

For multi disc support you need to place the files next to each other with the exact same file name but right before the ".iso" part, have a 1 on disc 1 and a 2 on disc 2. That said, I couldn't figure out how to activate it in game. Supposedly you have to open the DVD lid then close it back when the game asks you to change discs and Swiss will switch the ISO but that doesn't seem to work. Emu_kidid probably knows why it's broken (or not but he's better suited than me for debugging it).
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Re: WiiKey and multi-disc games

Post by Xaranar » Thu Oct 01, 2015 1:25 pm

Gotcha. Thanks for that. I'll likely keep 2 SD cards around, one for games with audio streaming/multiple discs, and another for regular, single disc games. The reason being that Wasp is faster than SDGecko, but doesn't support audio streaming or multi disc games from Swiss, but SDGecko supports both of those things whilst being slower.
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