Wii Disc Drive

[winpod]

Oookay, so in an effort to save battery life/space I took the disc drive out of my Wii. Nothing new here. However, using Wii loader GX (and, I'm assuming, any other loader) to try and boot games off of a flash drive, I get an error message unless I reconnect the drive. Are there any known workarounds, fixes, anything for this? Information on even related subjects is very scant. Any help is appreciated, thanks!

[willtthorne]

have u tryed conecting it derectly?

[winpod]

Connecting what directly, exactly?

[Diminuendo]

I remember Palmer mentioning a device called a Sundriver, it connects you hard drive directly to the Wii Disk drive, and emulates the hardware of the DD so the wii thinks it's still pugged in. you open games through a custom menu which can be selected through the game disk channel.

[winpod]

Ah, I did read about that... although it kinda defeats the purpose of taking the drive out to save space ;P But that is probably what I'll end up doing.

[Diminuendo]

I'm pretty sure the sundriver connects by USB, a Flash stick might work

[winpod]

The Sundriver itself, from what I understand, replaces the Wii's DVD drive using the same two connections. I was just hoping for a way to "trick" the Wii into thinking it had a drive connected.

[Diminuendo]

whats wrong with that? it connects to the same places but is still small enough to fit inside the wii with the disk drive still in it (it works as a pass through port) but the drive can be removed

[winpod]

A flash drive is much more compact, and I'm assuming it would consume less battery power than a disc drive - no moving parts.