How to Enable Player to Playback DVD Movie on Nintendo Wii Without Modchip

Nintendo Wii is very popular gaming console that still sold out in many stores around the world, equipped with a DVD-ROM drive. However, the DVD drive does not equip with DVD player or playback function and feature. For some reason, Nintendo released Wii with DVD disabled, causing owner unable to use Wii to watch DVD movies or titles. However, with little hack, it’s possible to enable and turn on DVD player feature in the unmodified Wii.

For Nintendo Wii owner who want to skip buying a separate unit of DVD player, the hack is pretty simple, although user requires to add Homebrew Channel (some Wii, especially firmware version 3.3 or without a modchip may require Twilight Hack too) to the Wii to add ability for Wii to run home-brew software. And then, download and install the installer.dol found in the DVD installer package to install a DVD-capable version of mplayer on an unmodified system.

mplayer is a full feature media player that able to play back DVDVideo, and also supports reading video files off the SD card as an experimental feature. So to playback any DVD, just launch mplayer. Beside, for Wii console which has a mod chip, patchmii_core.dol is also required, and user has to click on patchmii install first before proceeding to normal install.

More information at hackmii.com.


3 Responses to “How to Enable Player to Playback DVD Movie on Nintendo Wii Without Modchip”

  1. Kahn
    September 6th, 2009 00:46
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    I tried installing it but when i click normal install and click install it goes halfway and then says that there are errors. Please help.

  2. My twilight hack/homebrew channel install guide - Page 2 - Wiihacks - Nintendo Wii Hacks Community
    September 23rd, 2008 05:57
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    [...] root folder on your sd card. If you go that method. Other links – libdi and the DVDX installer. How to Enable Player to Playback DVD Movie on Nintendo Wii Without Modchip

  3. TechLighten » Blog Archive » Playing DVD movies on your unModded Wii
    August 17th, 2008 22:06
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