So I’ve been waiting for this little game on the Wii called Super Smash Bros. Brawl. You may have heard of it. And being an Australian, I’m left with the choice of waiting six months while everyone else tells me how awesome it is, or I could go the filthy, filthy pirate method. I opted for the latter.
Now this is the first dual layer game for the Wii. And as a result, many people are having trouble even reading the original disc. The Wii is even more particular about burnable discs, so I tried to find a decent brand to burn my copy. For some reason, I had this idea that Imation were a fairly reliable brand, so I picked up a pack of 10 for $30 from Officeworks. Not a great price, but I’ve seen worse.
After patching the game to run as well as possible on a PAL machine thanks to a few people over at GBAtemp, I burnt it and waited the forty-five minutes it takes for a dual layer disc. Popped it straight in the Wii, and, oh noes. “Unable to read disc”. For what it’s worth, this is the same error many people have been getting with the pressed retail discs, so it wasn’t necessarially my modchip or even the discs.
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