Any possible way to play DVDs on new Wiis?

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  • July 27, 2011 at 3:52 am #23688
    Rourryappesee
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    I understand that Nintendo made a hardware change which leaves those of us with newer wiis unable to play DVDs with WiiMC (every DVD shows up as “invalid DVD”). Is there any possible workaround for this, or is it completely 100% impossible to do anything at all with a standard DVD on a newer Wii?

    July 27, 2011 at 12:58 pm #29300
    cadbusca
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    no

    July 27, 2011 at 11:35 pm #29301
    Rourryappesee
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    What about replacing the DVD drive with one from an older Wii?

    July 28, 2011 at 12:47 am #29302
    cadbusca
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    It really blows my mind why so many people are trying to use a $300 WII in place of a $30 progressive scan DVD player, and then complain about the lack of function if they do get it to sort of work! Go by a DVD player on Amazon.

    July 28, 2011 at 3:07 pm #29303
    Rourryappesee
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    @jhb50 wrote:

    It really blows my mind why so many people are trying to use a $300 WII in place of a $30 progressive scan DVD player, and then complain about the lack of function if they do get it to sort of work! Go by a DVD player on Amazon.

    I’m not complaining, but I don’t think it should exactly blow your mind that people might want to try to use the Wii as a DVD player in addition to its other functions. Also, the Wii is currently $150, not $300, and it isn’t really unreasonable to think that a device with a DVD drive might possibly be able to play DVDs as well as DVD-based games, allowing for more convenience than having an additional dedicated device which plays only DVDs. If it really isn’t possible, then so be it, I can find a different solution easily enough, but I’m still going to try to do what seems to be the most elegant solution first.

    July 28, 2011 at 6:59 pm #29304
    cadbusca
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    OK, let us know how the installation of your new drive goes.

    July 29, 2011 at 1:05 am #29305
    Rourryappesee
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    @jhb50 wrote:

    OK, let us know how the installation of your new drive goes.

    I’ll only attempt that if I can be reasonably confident that it will work. It’s not a new drive, but rather I may be able to access an original Wii which I could potentially swap drives with.

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