I've recently purchased a *newer* Wii [January 2010] and I've noticed that BootMii will attempt to install DVDX and it claims SUCCESS, yet I still cannot get this system to play DVD's. I've successfully installed DVDX on two older Wii's with little or no effort.

Has Nintendo modified the newer Wii's in order to fight using DVDX?

I am not 100% sure but you may have a drive that will not play burnt DVDs. Its some kind of new protection the Wii has incorporated.

Hmmm, I'm beginning to believe that you are correct. I've read about that new protection elsewhere. As it stands, I could really care less about the warranty on this Wii, -So could anyone point me in the right direction (linky, linky) to open my console and remove any offending chip/mod? I'm not sure that I want to hard_mod/chip this console just yet.

Thanks for the quick reply, Josh.

I dont think it is possible, I think it is the drive itself. I dont see why it would be worth it to play a movie.

Yes, I have a DVD player (It rests silent and expectantly next to my Wii console). Sorry poor unused DVD player, I promise that I will donate you to a good home, like Goodwill or Salvation Army as soon as I find a replacement for you. Yes DVD players are cheapo these days (less than $30 American Dollars), but it is the challenge that I seek. If my console is capable of playing DVD's, then I would like to enable that feature (-the real reason is so that I can fill up a DVD full of retro games on my Super Nintendo and Genesis emulators).
Yep, I'm nothing less than a cheap retro pirate.
Nope, I don't want to purchase a larger SD card.

2 questions...sorta.
1) during the bootmii backup screen, what’s the difference between letting the green bars run on itself and pressing eject? cause i just made a backup of the nand.bin to my sd card being 528 MB and i didnt even hit the eject button, so…yeah. is there something i should worry about or am i ok to go?

2) also, for both bootmii as boot2 and bootmii as IOS, do both methods require having the ‘bootmii’ folder, installer.log, keys.bin and nand.bin on the root of the sd card?

@Rodney, have you tried MPlayer_CE? It does not use DVDX. It uses cIOS 202. http://wiibrew.org/wiki/MPlayer_CE

@blasphemous24, 1) run on itself? can you elaborate? 2) yes, both require those files, but you can back those files up to your computer and put them on your SD card only when needed

Yes, I've tried MPlayer_CE numerous times without any such luck. I really think that Nintendo may be modifying the newest Wii's in order to stop DVD playback altogether.
-Anyone else out there with a new Wii (2010 model) having this issue?

They did modify the wiis. As of sometime in mid-2009, new wiis come with a drive (with the "D3-2" chipset) that cannot read any form of movie DVD or burned disc.

If you really want to use the console for movies or burned DVDs, you'll have to replace the drive.

This may sound horrible (I'm not really worried about horrible as I've got Salacious Crumb as an avatar), but I am tempted to swap my console out with that of one of my relatives console's (relax, I bought it for them over a year and a half ago, and they never use the damned thing). My real fear is that by purchasing a replacement drive, I will end up with another D3-2 chipset drive.

I've been able to do a NAND back up since I've soft modded my v4.2 Wii but that was a back up after the Mod and would have liked to have a back up of the system before the Mod just incase I wanted to go back to factory. SO my question is if I ever wanted to go back to factory as if I have never modded it, is there a way? If so can someone let me know how or point this blind man in the right direction?

How come when i want to restore my nand there is a message that says: bootmii not found too dangerous to restore backup (something like that) even if i have the nand on the root of the sd card?

You're restoring it using Bootmii IOS. You should only restore if you have bootmii/boot2. Restoring via Bootmii/IOS can brick your wii.

can i restore a nand backup another way using Bootmii IOS?

I have bootMii installed as Boot2. After backing up NAND i copied the BootMii folder to my laptop and erased it from the SD card. My laptop's HDD broke and i'm not able to recover the BootMii folder. How can i use the Boot2 installed to perform again the NAND backup? Will i have to install BootMii again or is any other way to boot from Boot2 without the lost folder?

It won't hurt your Wii to do another BootMii install.
That way at least you will have the correct files

My advice, burn the folder to CD along with your NAND backup.
That way you have a hard copy just incase!

Thanks paulb. I didn't know if i could install again. I've aready done it and kept the back in two diferent places, just in case.

I wanted to write"already" and not "aready" and "backup" instead of "back"