The WODE (Wii Optical Drive Emulator) has arrived!

Mon, 18 Jan 2010 23:48:50 +0000

To get around both the problem posed by the D3-2 drive and to avoid swapping discs I’ve picked up one of the first of the new WODE devices.

The Wode replaces the stand on the bottom of the Wii and connects between the DVD drive and the Motherboard allowing a USB hard disk to be attached.

Features include

- Play Wii & GC game ISOs direct from USB Mass Storage devices @8X read speed (HDD and FLASH drive)

- Complete Solder free install solution

- Easy to use GUI – LCD & Joystick – NO homebrew software required (no any update of console SO can block this device)

- Region hack, Update blocker, Autoboot.

- Passthrough with FLAT-MOD mode built-in, play your DVD-R Wii & GC backups and Imports @3X read speed

- Powerful ARM9 MCU

- Totally Flexible Linux Kernel

- USB hub support for multiple USB devices connection

- Great File System support – use existing WBFS formatted media or ‘drag and drop’ ISOs to existing USB devices

* NTFS

* WBFS

* EXT3FS

* HPFS

Play Wii & GC game ISOs direct from USB Mass Storage devices @8X read speed (HDD and FLASH drive)
Complete Solder free install solution
Easy to use GUI – LCD & Joystick – NO homebrew software required (no any update of console SO can block this device)
Region hack (except with 4.2 firmware), Update blocker, Autoboot.
Passthrough with FLAT-MOD mode built-in, play your DVD-R Wii & GC backups and Imports @3X read speed
Powerful ARM9 MCU
Totally Flexible Linux Kernel
USB hub support for multiple USB devices connection
Great File System support – use existing WBFS formatted media or ‘drag and drop’ ISOs to existing USB devices
- NTFS
- WBFS
- EXT3FS
- HPFS

More info to follow once I install it.

The supplier was OzModChips.

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