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Will loading a game from a disc ever be supported?
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Will loading a game from a disc ever be supported?
12-20-2019, 04:44 PM
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I was just wondering, ever since Retroarch managed to pull it off successfully.
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12-20-2019, 07:52 PM
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If you mean loading an ISO file from a disc, you can already do that. It's not really recommended, but you can.

Loading original gc/wii discs will always be impossible because every conventional drive available doesn't support the special way the discs were burned. And we don't (and will likely never) support directly interfacing with the small number of ancient DVD drives that could. Theres no real point.

Retroarch appears to be doing it only with PS1, which makes sense, PS1 discs were already correctly readable by PC disc drives.

You're better off spending the money you would trying to find one of those ancient compatible drives on a cheap wii to dump your games with CleanRip
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12-20-2019, 08:56 PM
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(12-20-2019, 07:52 PM)Helios Wrote: Loading original gc/wii discs will always be impossible because every conventional drive available doesn't support the special way the discs were burned. And we don't (and will likely never) support directly interfacing with the small number of ancient DVD drives that could. Theres no real point.

This. The few PC DVD drives that are capable of dumping GC/Wii discs do it using a method that's so slow that it would be useless for playing games directly from a disc.
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12-20-2019, 09:22 PM
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And those PC DVD drives that are capable of dumping GC/Wii discs? You can't even buy them anymore, they were discontinued years ago!
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12-21-2019, 02:34 AM (This post was last modified: 12-21-2019, 02:35 AM by mbc07.)
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You can burn a GC or Wii ISO in plain format to a DVD-R disc (by plain I mean it must not be in GCZ, WBFS, CISO or NKIT formats) and boot it on Dolphin by using File => Boot from DVD Backup. It will work but it's very likely you have a lot of microstutters when data is loading because the code responsible for this feature hasn't been touched in ages and has a disc seek time of 15 ms hardcoded, which seems unattainable in regular PC DVD readers/burners and thus the game stutters. Booting directly from original GameCube and Wii discs isn't possible and probably never will...
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12-21-2019, 02:39 AM (This post was last modified: 12-21-2019, 02:39 AM by JosJuice.)
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(12-21-2019, 02:34 AM)mbc07 Wrote: You can burn a GC or Wii ISO in plain format to a DVD-R disc (by plain I mean it must not be in GCZ, WBFS, CISO or NKIT formats) and boot it on Dolphin by using File => Boot from DVD Backup. It will work but it's very likely you have a lot of microstutters when data is loading because the code responsible for this feature hasn't been touched in ages and has a disc seek time of 15 ms hardcoded, which seems unattainable in regular PC DVD readers/burners and thus the game stutters. Booting directly from original GameCube and Wii discs isn't possible and probably never will...

The seek time that Dolphin expects isn't 15 ms (it's always at least 35 ms but it depends on a lot of factors), but the rest is very much true.
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