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Originally Posted by ccfman2004
Then why would a backup boot when there was no system menu in dudecherishurwii's test when a mod chip was not installed?
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It doesn't. Once there is no system menue the Wii won't boot anything.
And independently of this the drive doesn't talk to the rest of the Wii for disc-authentication. If it's a legit game-disc it will run it if it's not it will lock up and give an error to the system menue.
So you allways have to patch the drive if you want to run anything else than original games.
Now imo there is a change we could get a softmode afterall. As seen
tmbinc beliefed from looking at the drive-firmware, that the drive is patchable through software alone. And if you think about it it makes sense, since Nintendo would need it to enable DVD-video-playback later on.
If that's really the case then the only thing blocking us patching the drive is the Starlett and a custom IOS could cure this.
The only problem is, that most of the top-wii-hackers won't do it, since they are strictly against piracy.
(Disclaimer: I'm just guessing here, though I think they are good guesses.
The only thing that's really known is, that we can't patch the drive through software at the moment, so we can't play backup/homebrew/media-discs without a modchip.)