NES-Hacks: Your home for Wii and DS Hacking!

KinG_Td · 2008-07-11 21:13:12

Use recommended brands when burning your Wii Backups. Some Wii drives will be pickier than others, one media will work for 1 Wii and might not for the other. Speed, Burner, and Media is usually the culprits of coaster backups. So save yourself some time and some money by getting it right the first time. Bad media will eventually ruin the lens on your DVD drive due to the lens working hard to read it. There should barely be a difference in -R and +R. -R should work better for the Wii but if you cant find it, +R shouldnt be an issue

Recommended brands
Verbatim DVD-R/DVD+R (BEST MEDIA)

Recommended brands for Dual Layers (Mainly for Super Smash Bros Brawl)
Verbatim DVD-R-DL/DVD+R-DL 2.4x (Write at 2.4x)
Verbatim DVD-R-DL/DVD+R-DL 8x (Write at 2.4x or 4x)

Working brands
Memorex DVD-R/DVD+R
Sony DVD-R/DVD+R
HP DVD-R/DVD+R
Ritek DVD-R/DVD+R
Ritek G05 DVD-R/DVD+R
Taiyo Yuden DVD-R/DVD+R

Avoid these brands
GQ DVD-R/DVD+R (Fry's Electronics Brand)
Maxell DVD-R/DVD+R
Dynex DVD-R/DVD+R (Best Buy Brands)
Staples DVD-R/DVD+R
OfficeDepot DVD-R/DVD+R
Princo DVD-R

Mixed Reaction (Some claims to be good, some claims to be bad)
TDK DVD-R/DVD+R
Imation DVD-R/DVD+R

Unknown
Prodisc
Fujifilm

anyone else will recommendations, please feel free to post and let me know

krazywhiteguy310 · 2008-07-11 21:22:14

avoid TDK

KinG_Td · 2008-07-11 21:24:57

updated with TDK

The_Wii_Nes_Boy · 2008-07-11 21:44:43

KinG would you not be better making a pole for this?

KinG_Td · 2008-07-11 21:47:26

no because i do not know of all the brands, and making a poll will only have noobs come here and ask which brands they should use. This is only informative for people as these brands are verified to work

The_Wii_Nes_Boy · 2008-07-11 21:49:52

Thats true.

krazywhiteguy310 · 2008-07-12 00:04:52

a poll would kinda show what people prefer to use or not use.

Siptang · 2008-07-12 00:06:30

i have cyclowiz v2 and with it I had no issues with TDK discs both + and -. Actually almost all of my wife's back ups are tdk discs lol.

KinG_Td · 2008-07-12 00:11:50

moved it to mixed reaction

added Staples and Dynex to avoid list

Siptang · 2008-07-12 01:27:14

Imation - works and will try fuji later on this week.

KinG_Td · 2008-07-12 01:31:04

updated with Imation.... it works.. but is recommended? maybe i should create another grouping of Working... Recommended <> Working

DorSHTN · 2008-07-12 02:21:41

idk what the diffrence beetween good media that works to bad media that works so ill tell you the medias that works for me
afa
benq
verbatim

krazywhiteguy310 · 2008-07-12 02:39:33

nice, the list is growing. this will help those noobs out there.

thebib62 · 2008-07-12 18:27:24

How bad is it really to use the Maxell DVD-R/DVD+R's on your wii? Because i have been using them for awhile and they seem to run just fine. Will it ruin the DVD drive? I hope not, i don't feel like re-(*GETTING) my wii games and burning them to DVD again.

KinG_Td · 2008-07-12 20:55:50

from my experience, it takes a little harder for the Wii to read the games... which could cause the life of the lens to decrease

The_Wii_Nes_Boy · 2008-07-16 23:15:47

KinG may be a good idea to sticky this thread, Plus should this not be in help section? It's not really a tut. Cheers

Last edited by The_Wii_Nes_Boy (2008-07-16 23:25:34)

KinG_Td · 2008-07-16 23:29:17

added dual layer media.. and moved some recommended brands to working brand...

KinG_Td · 2008-07-16 23:30:13

The_Wii_Nes_Boy wrote:
KinG may be a good idea to sticky this thread, Plus should this not be in help section? It's not really a tut. Cheers

Its getting quite a good hit here in the tut.. ill move it over to help for now and see how it affects the Views

<<<Moved to Help and Sticky

IGottaWii · 2008-07-17 00:19:15

very helpful list. I was wondering about this today.

dougie1802 · 2008-07-28 06:35:56

I have beening using Taiyo Yuden with no issuses they are good and burn at x12.

Also i use Ritek G05 and not had a issuse with them yet.

Dual layer i find better to burn slow and use data write, Aone and Elite all the same dye.

Last edited by dougie1802 (2008-07-28 06:36:21)

KinG_Td · 2008-07-28 09:46:39

added to working brand.

Aone and Elite are brands?

krazywhiteguy310 · 2008-07-29 20:14:11

imation DVD+R discs give me some problems, i burned 3 different games at 1x 2x and 2.4x, its a 50/50 chance it works.

uron1000 · 2008-08-14 17:52:21

I use Tesco DVD+r cheap as chips and always burn at 8X and never had one problem

The_Wii_Nes_Boy · 2008-08-15 05:19:16

You can get 50 Verbatims around the sameprice as Tesco disc,s but I can confirm the british brand made by Tesco work but i've only ever burned one disk.

Sic-Suicide · 2008-10-04 12:07:35

I have been using the Maexel dvd+rw's no fail
but the memorex dvd+r are giving trouble
its about a 25% chance of one working
an thats at 2x burn rate

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