Discussion thread for Wii Modchips

What will happen if you try to update a Wii with the Wiikey update if it's a clone? And btw, is there a way to tell if my Wii has a real Wiikey or a clone other than the sticker?

 

It will just not take the update.

Not sure if there is away to tell for sure, Ive heard cloners even made fake stickers now...

 

Hi Jimmy,
where is this information from? How reliable is it? I believe every wiikey owner is waiting for this update, so i hope you did not make it up...

 

Trust me the info is reliable and Ive got better things to then make up fake posts


You should see this within a weeks time or less.

 

So does anyone know when the Wiipv2 is coming out?

 

Well i'm still suspicious, because there's been many rumours concerning this.
But i'll wait and see

 

Thats fine, you will be pleasantly surprised then

 

i highly doubt that they won't accept the upgrade, and i also highly doubt that the update will be out this week or any time soon. they have been saying there going to release a new update for some time now. i beleive it's been a few months, anyway who cares if it doesn't all i want it to do is play cheap backups which is what most people want and it will always do that with the first update. just a thought

 

It will be out and as I said 95% of the clones will not take the update.

just wait, if its not out in the next week and a half heckle me all you want

Also some backups have issues playing, this update should resolve that...

 

Sorry if this question has already been asked but I recently got a chip installed by a third party and was just wondering is there anyway to find out what chip it is?
Also I tried searching for what this region override option is and how you can activate it. If anyone can shed some light on this issue for me, thanks.

 

Hi
I have just purchased a new wii and was going to install a wiikey. having just done a quick bit of research i now disciver that either it won't work on my wii or the installation is more difficult.If it doesn't work is there another chip avaliable? If it is a case of the latter, is there an installation guide of what needs to be done

 

it will work but you should have a professional install this for you. You need to sand away a part of a chip on the wii drive to get at the legs nintendo has hidden away in their supposed 'un moddable wii'

 

thanks. is there a tutorial for this as i'm confident i would be able to do the mod myself?

 

I have seen the pictures of what Nintendo did to hide the leads on the drive chip. It seems that the leads are still exposed on the bottom close to the board. Can we still solder on the exposed pads near the board and no need to grind down the drive chip to expose the chip?

 

How are the WiiFREE and yaosm chips?

 

obviously you have no idea what you are talking about since you have seen the pics, and yet you failed to see that soldering to the bottom of the leads will do nothing if you do not connect them back to the leads on the chip that needs filed away and exposed.
if everyone would just take the time to read the posts, follow the links, heck there's even pics. the info is right in front of you. it doesn't get any easier than that. yah it takes time, but you can't have everything handed to ya'.
not tryin to' make enemies but, come on the info is already posted
just a thought

 

Wow Jatruh..nice going with the insults there, newbie. Tone is everything, in case you didn't know.

If you can't say something nice...

 

What I meant was that the pictures that are posted show the drive chip pins still exposed on the board. There is something black covering the upper portion on the pins. Can we just solder onto the pins on the board?

 

does anybody know how the recovery mode works on the wii key?... would it work if say a wii got flashed by paper mario, then installed a wiikey, would we be able to re-flash it to the right firmware version? or does the wiikey have to be installed before the wrong firmware is flashed?

anybody got a walkthrough? screenshot? anything?... if I knew how this works, I might be a little less paranoid about playing off-region games... I'd sleep a whole lot better at night knowing I can recover even after having royally screwed my firmware.... any info on this recovery thing would be awesome.. thanks in advance guys!

 

I am not sure but i think you understood the 'recovery mode' wrong. IMHO it is for recovering the wiikey from a bad flash. So if you try to update your wiikey and the update fails it may somehow be possible to recover your wiikey. I dont think this has in any way to do with your wii firmware.
Just use WiiBrickBlocker on games with firmware updates from a different region and you should be fairly safe

@jimmy: Already a week is over and no update in sight... I am getting ready to heckle you