I want to use a CD lens cleaner for my Wii. but I don't want to buy the 15$ disc that is near impossible to find that is made by Nintendo. I mean... is this kinda dumb for me to ask. I know a lot of people don't care about CD players anymore but MPlayer doesn't support CD audio cleaners.http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25083#msg-25083Sat, 15 Aug 2026 18:09:06 +0200 Phorum 5.2.23 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25674#msg-25674 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25674#msg-25674 HyperHacker Ideas, requestsMon, 20 Jul 2009 00:14:50 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25123#msg-25123 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25123#msg-25123
A cleaning kit works like this on a CD accepting drives

1. Device accept the disc because it's a proper video disc
2. It's special in that it has some video where the brush is located, lens is being directed to that part of the disc, and as video is being displayed, lens is cleaned...

In wii, you won't get to the step 2 which can be accomplished by video playing applications actually... Dvd drive's firmware will simply reject the disc and will simply return an error to the calling program...

A dvd cleaning kit (non nintendo) works because...
1. A video dvd reading/recognition function left in the dvd drive's firmware and it can be simply enabled changing only the title meta data for the calling title... hence dvdx
2. There are dvd playing apps for the wii...

I tested one such dvd cleaning kit, it worked indeed... but actually it didn't have any effect on the dreaded read errors...
Another thing to note for such errors is the weak lens power(don't know if this is the actual term) which is adjustable... But haven't seen someone permanently happy using one or both of these solutions...

ps: I don't mean it impossible, maybe nintendo left us a CD-ROM reading function there in the drive firmware still to exploit...]]> I.R.on Ideas, requestsWed, 15 Jul 2009 23:58:59 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25111#msg-25111 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25111#msg-25111 ReKon Ideas, requestsWed, 15 Jul 2009 21:39:32 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25106#msg-25106 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25106#msg-25106 Arikado Ideas, requestsWed, 15 Jul 2009 19:43:59 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25105#msg-25105 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25105#msg-25105 SifJar Ideas, requestsWed, 15 Jul 2009 19:42:05 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25100#msg-25100 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25100#msg-25100
So in theory, you would have to tell the program when to start and stop spinning the disc, and also tell it when to eject. That should be possible, but all of the necessary code needed to do so isn't currently part of devkitPRO. In other words, someone would need to do a bit of hacking on their own to figure out how to get it to all work.

However, I'm under the impression that there is some data on these CD lens cleaner discs? It wouldn't make sense to just stick a disc in and then magically have a clean disc drive (unless maybe there's something physically on the disc?). (You'd be better off cleaning it yourself with cotton balls and rubbing alcohol I think)]]> Arikado Ideas, requestsWed, 15 Jul 2009 19:31:44 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25087#msg-25087 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25087#msg-25087Is that possible?]]> daniel_c_w Ideas, requestsWed, 15 Jul 2009 18:23:56 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25085#msg-25085 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25085#msg-25085 Arikado Ideas, requestsWed, 15 Jul 2009 18:16:14 +0200 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25083#msg-25083 http://forum.wiibrew.org/read.php?26,25083,25083#msg-25083 ReKon Ideas, requestsWed, 15 Jul 2009 18:05:16 +0200