QuotetueidjIt's not a "design choice" that causes the console to malfunction when a vital component is damaged/missing. I fail to see how the DVD drive is a vital component to web browsing, or using any other thing on the system memory. I also have a PS3 and Xbox 360 with broken drives. They run the installed games without a problem, because they do not check to make sure the DVD is funcby Liboicl - Getting Started
QuoteSifJarTry to use a homebrew channel loader if you can. You said you have internet channel, so try bootOpera. If it loads the Opera channel, you should be able to load other channels using a similar method. If it doesn't work, you may be out of options sadly. Maybe someone else has some other advice, but please try this. If it works, we can work from there. I tried it, but no luck. Thankby Liboicl - Getting Started
The dvd drive in my wii is not functional at all. I never use discs, so I figured this would not be a problem. I am not referring to piracy here; I use homebrew games, the internet channel, etc. When I launch, any channel it seems, but the Homebrew Channel, I get a disc read error. I was on 4.2U, but updatedto 4.3U after much frustration trying to get it to work with the later. Homebrew will workby Liboicl - Getting Started