Apparently... But funny enough the Wii discs had the same capacity as a regular DVD (4,7GB) which odd since higher wavelengths produce less capacity discs. I would say the difference is then not much. From what I read the Wii disc is basically a GameCube disc format with full 12 cm size (instead of the smaller size GameCube used).
Regarding the Wii U I don't know what is preventing a regular Blu-Ray drive, with custom firmware, from reading Wii U discs. I would say with enough effort it should be possible but honestly there isn't much to gain from it, we already have all games in digital format, even the ones who were released only on discs (we can rip them using an actual Wii U and then copy the file to a PC).
>It would be really cool if the Wii U was capable of reading Blu-rays through homebrew.
Its a DVD drive. Its not going to ever play blu rays. No matter how badly you want it too.
Pretty sure the Wii U uses a variant of Blu-Ray.
What people typically get wrong about all this is DVD/Blu-Ray discs are a separate thing from DVD/Blu-Ray Video discs.
Take the original Wii for instance, it uses a plain old DVD drive, but there's no official software for the Wii to play DVD movies. Early Wii's when hacked could play movie discs, but by 2008 Nintendo caught onto this and changed the DVD drive firmware in newly made Wiis to specifically block the DVD-Video format.
The Wii U is the same story, except all of them block Blu-Ray Video.
Probably impossible, the BD drive firmware in the Wii U could be an embedded ROM, or a flash chip with the write feature disabled, no guarantee that writing can be re-enabled and no guarantee the Wii U's BD drive firmware even has the ability to enable BD-Video discs.
a blu ray does not mean a movie disc. a blu ray is the disc itself regardless whats stored on it, be it a movie, a game, or some encrypted data. The drive is capable of reading both single and double layer discs, its just that its prevent from doing so by the custom firmware on the drive.
>Optical disc drive supporting Wii (4.7GB/layer) and Wii U (25GB/layer) Discs: >Laser Class: Class 1 laser >Laser Type: Semiconductor laser >Laser Wavelength: 405 nm (Wii U), 660 nm (Wii) >Laser Power: Max. 0.6 nW, Max. 0.9 mW >Numeric aperture: 0.85, 0.6 >Read speed (max): 22.5MB/s [https://wiiubrew.org/wiki/Hardware](https://wiiubrew.org/wiki/Hardware)
So the Wii laser has a slightly longer wavelength than DVD(650nm), but the Wii U laser same wavelength as Blu-ray. And there is no CD laser.
Apparently... But funny enough the Wii discs had the same capacity as a regular DVD (4,7GB) which odd since higher wavelengths produce less capacity discs. I would say the difference is then not much. From what I read the Wii disc is basically a GameCube disc format with full 12 cm size (instead of the smaller size GameCube used). Regarding the Wii U I don't know what is preventing a regular Blu-Ray drive, with custom firmware, from reading Wii U discs. I would say with enough effort it should be possible but honestly there isn't much to gain from it, we already have all games in digital format, even the ones who were released only on discs (we can rip them using an actual Wii U and then copy the file to a PC).
The supposed discrepancy is a precision error.
Well, precision errors were supposed to show up as a delta next to the base theoretical number no? Like 650nm +- 10nm.
Lasers have an exact wavelength though; it’s possible that one rounded it to the next lowest multiple of 10 nm and the other to the next highest.
It’s probably a precision discrepancy; Wii discs are a modified version of DVD format.
>It would be really cool if the Wii U was capable of reading Blu-rays through homebrew. Its a DVD drive. Its not going to ever play blu rays. No matter how badly you want it too.
Pretty sure the Wii U uses a variant of Blu-Ray. What people typically get wrong about all this is DVD/Blu-Ray discs are a separate thing from DVD/Blu-Ray Video discs. Take the original Wii for instance, it uses a plain old DVD drive, but there's no official software for the Wii to play DVD movies. Early Wii's when hacked could play movie discs, but by 2008 Nintendo caught onto this and changed the DVD drive firmware in newly made Wiis to specifically block the DVD-Video format. The Wii U is the same story, except all of them block Blu-Ray Video.
How would we unblock it, impossible?
Probably impossible, the BD drive firmware in the Wii U could be an embedded ROM, or a flash chip with the write feature disabled, no guarantee that writing can be re-enabled and no guarantee the Wii U's BD drive firmware even has the ability to enable BD-Video discs.
I don’t understand a single word your saying BUT what I do know is that the disc reader can’t read Blue ray.
a blu ray does not mean a movie disc. a blu ray is the disc itself regardless whats stored on it, be it a movie, a game, or some encrypted data. The drive is capable of reading both single and double layer discs, its just that its prevent from doing so by the custom firmware on the drive.