Nintendo Wii modchip installation...

No Carrier · Post by **No Carrier** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 7:12 am

Anyone here install chips, or know someone that does?!

Let me know!

gannon · Post by **gannon** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 8:27 am

I've only done the wiifree, which was fairly simple. IIRC, with newer wiis you can't mod them that way because they actually removed the pins off of the IC (you can still probably mod it...just need to eat some of the chip's casing away...)

No Carrier · Post by **No Carrier** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 9:23 am

gannon wrote:I've only done the wiifree, which was fairly simple. IIRC, with newer wiis you can't mod them that way because they actually removed the pins off of the IC (you can still probably mod it...just need to eat some of the chip's casing away...)

Yep, I have one of the new ones. I've seen pics of what it looks like to mod one of those, and I don't want any part of it. I'm hoping to find someone that will do it rather cheap. I found one dude in NYC, but he charges a total of $200 for the WiiKey and installation!

NC

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:37 pm

I got my Wii on day 1, about 8:30AM if I remember correctly. Got it modded w/ a Wiikey. I'm not the one who modded it, but looking at the diagrams you probably barely even need a short length of wire! (at least on an older Wii)

drk421 · Post by **drk421** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 1:58 pm

Yeah, looks hard,

http://www.modchipfitters.com/Uncoverin ... C_Legs.htm

No Carrier · Post by **No Carrier** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:17 pm

atari2600a wrote:I got my Wii on day 1, about 8:30AM if I remember correctly. Got it modded w/ a Wiikey. I'm not the one who modded it, but looking at the diagrams you probably barely even need a short length of wire! (at least on an older Wii)

Do you like the Wiikey so far? That is the one I was thinking of purchasing.

NC

atari2600a · Post by **atari2600a** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 3:27 pm

Well the dev team is a slow as a bus full of retards trying to comprehend quantum physics (AKA they *still* haven't released the firmware upgrade fixing the audio streaming bug), but other than that I think it's good for it's money.

No Carrier · Post by **No Carrier** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 5:21 pm

It seems hard to find any good forums with concrete information. How do firmware upgrades by Nintendo affect the usability of this chip? I mean, will it ever cease to work?

NC