WODE Jukebox
Contents
Official Featurelist
Play Wii & GC game ISOs direct from USB Mass Storage devices @8X read speed (HDD and FLASH drive)
- Complete Solder free install solution
Easy to use GUI - LCD & Joystick - NO homebrew software required (no any update of console SO can block this device)
Region hack, Update blocker, Autoboot. region hack only up to Wii firmware 4.1
Passthrough with FLAT-MOD mode built-in, play your DVD-R Wii & GC backups and Imports @3X read speed
- Powerful ARM9 MCU
- Totally Flexible Linux Kernel
- USB hub support for multiple USB devices connection
- Great File System support - use existing WBFS formatted media or 'drag and drop' ISOs to existing USB devices
- NTFS
- WBFS
- EXT3FS
- HPFS
- Future updates will bring more cool features:
- Disc ripping to WBFS
USB WiFi & SAMBA streaming
Technical Specification
ACTEL A3P125 FPGA (manage bridge to Wii drive data bus)
- MCU NXP LPC3143 - 270 MHz, 32-bit ARM926EJ-S - 128AES security
- 512 SDRAM DDR
- 4Mbyte SPI flash (the firmware of WODE)
- SD CARD SLOT (used like drive C: for linux and extra addons)
- USB 2.0 support
- LCD 128x64 pixels w/ backlight
Pictures
Let pictures do the talking
WODE Mainboard |
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LCD Board |
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LCD Comparison |
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Personal notes about the official feature List
Although admittedly the WODE does most of the things that it was designed to do, there are a few outstanding features that have not been implemented as of the time of writing this. The idea was to integrate a WebInterface into WODE so users would be able to select a game via the Wii's Opera Browser or even a secondary PC/Laptop/Netbook. As of now there was only a flash based (closed) beta of this which didn't work well with the integrated browser.
The state of SAMBA streaming is desolate to say the least. There have been numerous attempts to fix the issue that streaming is extremely slow, but so far none of those were successful. For more information check the changelog of firmware 2.2E.
Also notable is the lack of support for GameCube games that use streaming audio. So far no fix has been supplied, although the developers mentioned that it would probably be possible to fix it when disabling the WODE's ripping support in exchange for streaming support (which many affected users would gladly accept). -- rduke 2011-08-12 13:01:47