NeoCortex wrote:What do you guys think about PriiLoader, would you recommend installing it? To avoid at least some bricks.
The Wii is not that vulnerable of bricks as you might think. Nowadays everyone seems to install Priiloader, but you don't need it if you don't do stupid things with your Wii, really. Also Priiloader does not provide an absolute brick proof Wii (not even bootmii/boot2 provides it). You can still unrecoverably mess up your Wii if you do something real stupid.
But Priiloader is barely used as brick prevention software alone, because it can do other cool stuff. Just search infos about Priiloader with Google and you'll figure it out.
To sum things up, the basic "Wii hack" consists of installing the Homebrew Channel, BootMii, a few custom IOS (cIOS) for playing Wii backups, a custom MIOS (cMIOS) for playing gamecube backups and Priiloader for basic brick prevention and some fancy functionality. All those things can hardy harm your Wii if you follow well written guides.
NeoCortex wrote:edit:
So i'm reading and reading but there's one thing i cant figure out.
Why is everyone talking about the drives D3-2, D4, D2E, what#s the differenc between them?
The difference is that Nintendo removed DVD playback functionality from their drives since I believe the D3-2 series. With those drives you can't play DVDs and backups anymore (you can still play games from SD and USB, though.)