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Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« on: June 18, 2011, 01:45:26 am »
The drive in my nephew's Wii failed.  I want to mod it so he can play games from a USB hard drive, but I don't remember if the system must be able to see a legitimate game in the drive to work.  My own modded Wii is in storage so I can't test.  If the thing needs to be able to read a disc there's no point in me modding it cos the drive would need replaced anyway, at which point he can just play all his games from the discs. 
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #1 on: June 18, 2011, 05:05:15 am »
Nope, no disc required.
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #2 on: June 18, 2011, 01:08:26 pm »
Never need a disc at all for any part. It's quite nice.
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #3 on: June 18, 2011, 01:18:27 pm »
If it's not modded and the dash (or whatever it's called) is 4.3 I think you need to be able to read a disc to mod it.  There's a few that you can do it with I believe.  I did it with Lego Indiana Jones...
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #4 on: June 18, 2011, 06:42:18 pm »
No, I modded my sisters and needed only an SD card.  No disc necessary.  It's 4.3U.
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #5 on: June 18, 2011, 09:18:15 pm »
Early on, some games did require a disc (any disc) to be in the drive, Metroid Prime 3 was one.  However, that was fixed with the later cIOSes.  So as others have said, you are good!
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2011, 02:44:36 pm »

There may be one or two configs where you do need a disc with an exploit save to do the initial mod... not sure if that's still the case but it used to be.
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #7 on: June 22, 2011, 01:48:42 pm »
Quote from: ChadTower on June 19, 2011, 02:44:36 pm

There may be one or two configs where you do need a disc with an exploit save to do the initial mod... not sure if that's still the case but it used to be.


What he said.... you'll need a disc drive to install the initial hack, but that's it.  If your disc drive is bad, you can borrow one from a working wii, perform the exploit and then you don't need it anymore. 

Be aware though that updating your wii via official methods can break the exploit and you'll need a drive to fix it.  This also included updates containted on the wii discs themselves.
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #8 on: June 22, 2011, 02:37:30 pm »
Install Priiloader to block unwanted updates.
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #10 on: July 08, 2011, 11:35:35 pm »
Cool.  Thanks for that.
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Re: Wii USB Loaders, must a disc be in the drive?
« Reply #11 on: July 09, 2011, 10:02:32 am »
No probs, makes it easy peasy!   ;D
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