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-This channel allows the user to launch [[Wii]] or [[Gamecube]] games from the disk drive of the Wii. Ideally, the functionality of this channel, inside Dolphin, would include: The launching of any Wii or Gamecube game without the "Unknown Pointer" or "Unable to read the disc" errors appearing. As of {{revision|3.0-376}}, functionality is reduced to viewing the currently "inserted" disc by setting the Default ISO path: Options => Configure... => Paths, and changing the currently "inserted" disc by using the "Change Disc..." option: File => Change Disc....
+This channel allows the user to launch [[Wii]] or [[Gamecube]] games from the disk drive of the Wii. Currently, Dolphin cannot launch games with it. All it can do in Dolphin is display the currently "inserted" disc, as set in the Default ISO path: Options => Configure... => Paths, or by using "Change Disc...": File => Change Disc...
 == Problems ==
-=== Unable To Read Disc ===
+=== Hang on Loading Disc ===
-Opening an ISO: File => Open..., pressing the Home button, selecting "Wii Menu" and selecting "Yes" to the "Return to Wii Menu?" dialog works correctly; provided a Wii System Menu is currently installed. Although some revisions, before release version {{revision|3.0}}, may give the following error if the "Use Panic Handlers" are on: "Unknown pointer 0xffffffff Continue?". However, Dolphin doesn't fully emulate the Device_ES functions, so the Disc Channel will show the message below if a GameCube ISO is set as the default ISO in Dolphin settings, or if you start the Wii Menu and use the "Change Disc" option under the File menu in Dolphin to select a Wii ISO whose region does not match the installed Wii System Menu.
+Previous versions of Dolphin gave an error when attempted to load a game with the disc channel. Now that it better emulates Wii Menu functions, the emulated Disc Channel is able to read the discs, and will even try to launch the game, but it will hang, stuck on a black screen unable to load the game.
-[[File:Disc_Channel_unknown.png|200px|thumb|left|In some situations ISO files are unknown on Disc Channel]]
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 == Configuration ==
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 {{testing/entry|revision=3.0|OS=Windows 7 x64|CPU=Intel Quad Core Xeon @ 2.8GHz|GPU=ATI Radeon HD 5770|result=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.|tester=SephirothFanatic}}
 {{testing/entry|revision=3.0-376|OS=Windows 7 x64|CPU=Intel Quad Core Xeon @ 2.8GHz|GPU=ATI Radeon HD 5770|result=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.|tester=SephirothFanatic}}
+{{testing/entry|revision=3.5-268|OS=Windows 7 x64|CPU=Intel Core i5 3570K @ 4.7ghz|GPU=Nvidia Geforce GTX275|result=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.|tester=MaJoR}}
 {{testing/end}}