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Drive Date 2008/07/14 has compatible drives, however libogc does not allow those. #219
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What's the issue you encountered?
D3 and D3-2 disc drives both use the same drive date (2008/07/14). The problem in question is that there are DVD compatible drives with the date libogc uses as its cutoff.
How can the issue be reproduced?
Get a Wii with a D3 (not D3-2) drive, and use something like WiiMC to try to play back a DVD. Due to this function checking for the drive date 2008/07/14 or newer, and D3 (not D3-2) drives using the same drive date, this basically eliminates those drives from being used by apps that use this function.
I don't know a better way to detect DVD support, but it could be potentially discussed.
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DacoTaco commentedon Jun 4, 2025
@Aeplexi : do you have access to a drive with that date that can and can't read dvd's?
Aeplet commentedon Jun 4, 2025
In one of my Wiis, or my drive bin probably.
Aeplet commentedon Sep 9, 2025
Update: Might have to handle D3 differently
DacoTaco commentedon Sep 9, 2025
and you have an idea how?
Aeplet commentedon Sep 9, 2025
An "idea" yes, albeit it's not a "great one".
DDDC marks D3/D3-2 as "Maybe" for the compatibility test.
Due to this issue, it does not use the DVD support function in libogc.
Best thing I can think of is to stub (and call another function that also returns "Maybe" in a way, although I don't know how apps would handle that) the DVD support function, and replace it with a new one that handles D3.