Disc Channel
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Type | Pre-installed |
Developer(s) | Nintendo |
Platform(s) | Wii Channels |
Release date(s) | NA November 19, 2006 JP December 2, 2006 AUS December 7, 2006 EU December 8, 2006 |
Genre(s) | Utility |
Input methods | Wii Remote |
Compatibility | 5![]() ![]() Perfect |
See also... |
Dolphin Forum thread |
This channel allows the user to launch Wii or GameCube games from the disc drive of the Wii.
Emulation Information
"Insert" a Disc with ISO
You can "insert" (or change) a disc with File > Change Disc or by right-clicking a game in the game list and change to it. For disc to be inserted on startup, right-click a game in the game list and select Set as default ISO (or set it in Config > Paths > Default ISO).
Problems
There are no reported problems with this channel.
Configuration
This channel does not need non-default settings to run properly.
Version Compatibility
The graph below charts the compatibility with Disc Channel since Dolphin's 2.0 release, listing revisions only where a compatibility change occurred.
Testing
This channel has been tested on the environments listed below:
Test Entries | |||||
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Revision | OS | CPU | GPU | Result | Tester |
r7598 | Windows 7 | Intel Quad Core Xeon @ 2.8 GHz | ATI Radeon HD 5770 | Launching any game results in the following error: IOCTL_ES_LAUNCH: Game tried to reload ios or a title that is not available in your nand dump TitleID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Dolphin will likely hang now. | SephirothFanatic |
3.0 | Windows 7 | Intel Quad Core Xeon @ 2.8 GHz | ATI Radeon HD 5770 | Launching any game results in the following error: IOCTL_ES_LAUNCH: Game tried to reload ios or a title that is not available in your nand dump TitleID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Dolphin will likely hang now. | SephirothFanatic |
3.0-376 | Windows 7 | Intel Quad Core Xeon @ 2.8 GHz | ATI Radeon HD 5770 | Launching any game results in the following error: IOCTL_ES_LAUNCH: Game tried to reload ios or a title that is not available in your nand dump TitleID xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx. Dolphin will likely hang now. | SephirothFanatic |
3.5-268 | Windows 7 | Intel Core i5-3570K @ 4.7 GHz | NVIDIA GeForce GTX 275 | ES_Launch merger. Thanks to the fixing of ES_Launch and other improvements, the disc channel no longer has any errors even with panic handlers. But it is still unable to load games. | MayImilae |
4.0.2 | Windows 7 | AMD A4-5300B @ 3.4 GHz | AMD Radeon HD 7480D | All games, even Wii games, refuse to load. It just freezes on a black screen | 71.229.35.236 |
4.0-1977 | Windows 7 | Intel Core i5-2400 @ 3.1 GHz | AMD Radeon HD 5450 | The Disc Channel can now launch Wii games without problems, but it cannot load GameCube games yet. | Lukeee123 |
5.0-14197 | Windows 10 | Intel Core i5-4200U @ 1.6 GHz | Intel HD Graphics 4400 | Perfect, now it can load both GameCube and Wii games. | Jack |
Gameplay Videos
- Nintendo (Developer)
- North America (Release region)
- Japan (Release region)
- Australia (Release region)
- Europe (Release region)
- 2006 (Initial release year)
- Utility (Genre)
- Wii Remote (Input supported)
- 5 stars (Rating)
- Pages calling VersionRevision template with SVN build numbers without a leading R
- Tested On (OS): Windows
- Tested On (CPU): Intel
- Tested On (GPU): ATI
- Tested
- Tested On (Release): 3.0
- Tested On (GPU): NVIDIA
- Tested On (Release): 4.0.2
- Tested On (CPU): AMD
- Tested On (GPU): AMD
- Tested On (Release): 4.0
- Tested On (Release): 5.0
- Tested On (GPU): Intel
- Wii Channels