Hacked Wii Randomly Misbehaves

[paulr33]

ive got my wii chipped and hacked and it ive got a gamecube emulator disc with a trillion games on it

now the wii works ok, the original games work ok etc but when loading the emulator disc the screen wobbles left to right

i notice when the gamecube disc boots it comes up with its GCOS bios screen (blue) and its got at the bottom NTSC BIOS

the obvious assumption is my tv doesnt support NTSC

its an LG plasma 42PG20D got it about 1 year ago

so when you laod the gamecube disc and choose the emulator to boot (ie snes etc)

it loads that and then you select your game etc and its fine

all this while the screen wobbles left to right rapidly

then randomly the wobblying goes away and you can continue playing

other times you have to constantly reboot the wii, try again and you get lucky and the wobbly stops within a minute or so

ive tried to replicate it over and over, and cant make it consistent, its just random each time, but usually stops wobblying within a 1-2 minutes (but not always)

the guy who chipped it tested it and said its fine and that the disc is ok

and he said the tv is at fault

sure - so has anyone else seen this before? the wii is connected via normal composite into the tv

[R31Nismoid]

why don't you just call noof?

[paulr33]

ok so after some messing aorund ive tested the wii on my projector

and it works fine first shot

so the tv is being stupid

but i dont get why mid flight if i do nothing, it randomly supports NTSC

or the WII changes to PAL ?

any ideas why it randomly stops wobblying?

[paulr33]

noof was the one who chipped it, he said its fine, and the tv is at a fault

[R31Nismoid]

well you know its the TV - he told you its the TV

i reckon problem solved

[Mohsen]

anybody here wana buy a tv?

[paulr33]

its pretty bizzare

ill try and find an ntsc to pal converter box

[Wheezy]

Some games Jap NTSC, some US NTSC? IIRC they were \ are slightly different.

[paulr33]

yeah i get that and understand its different

any ideas why the TV would randomly switch between not supporting it (wobbly left to right) and then supporting it (no wobbly) without user input

[Wheezy]

Nintendo did a heap of security on their games in the past (not sure now) to do with locking the games code if the machines region did not match the console it was on. That might explain the GCN games, but SNES due to being completely emulated is beyond me.

[paulr33]

ok i figured it out, the wobble (side to side) is from the emulator giving a poor mode of 50/60hz (or my tv not supporting it correctly)

the game iso disc i have is a mega emulator one and they all the issue, even the bios does, so id say my tv doesnt like a mixed 50/60hz mode

so i messed around and started using the homebrew channel (ive never used it before)

turns out the homebrew browser lets you access all the hacked apps and emulators. i always thought the homebrew browser, was basically a ported mozilla to the WII so i never used (why would you?) - but it turns out it opens access to the hacked apps and emulators library

so from there i installed the snes, nes and sega ms emulators and they work fine, i had the side to side wobbly issue with the sega ms emulator and it had an option to change from 50hz to 50/60hz and 60hz. the sega ms emulator on the wii emulator disc must be an older version and doesnt let me choose. so all good

in sumamry

dont bother with discs if you want hacked emulators etc, use homebrew channel, then homebrew browser and install whever you like

another nice bonus if you do this is you dont have to use the game cube controller, the normal wiimote works in all of the emulators

[Ruffels]

you know its illegal, return it to stock! LOL

[UnCo]

I've been using Homebrew Channel for a while now with USB Loader and a dedicated hard drive plugged in to the Wii with my backed up games on it.

Have you got Neogammer installed on it too? That should load the discs..