Discussion thread for Wii Modchips

I asked this question on another thread of this forum.
I did not realize there was allready a thread about the modchip itself.

My questions are:
1) What is the best modchip to buy right now?
I heard a lot of good buzz about the Wiikey, but I also heard a rumor that they were no longer going to support it.
Is this true? Is so, is there a better Modchip to buy?

2) I have a brand new Wii and I know it is missing 3 leads from the chip on the board, I am prepared to dremal away the chip to install the mod, but I heard a rumor that there might be other mods done to the DVD board that would prvent the mod chip from working. Is this true? Has anyone had any luck modding the most current version of Wii??

 

wii doesnt have any good games. i played zelda, resident evil 4, call of duty 3 and prince of persia. any other good games u guys can recommend me... wii needs to make more games. for real..

 

i am not using any modchip because there arent any good wii games out there and i dont want to spend 130 bucks on a wiikey and the installation. it's not worth it. nintendo really has to make more good games like resident evil and zelda. i mean what's up with using wii points to buy nintendo 64 games and sNES games. who wants to play those old games, maybe some folks.

anyway that's being said. do u guys know how i can add more features to my wii menu. i see alot of empty slots on my wii menu. my current wii menu comprises of wii weather forcast, news, voting, and wii store.. is there any way i can add more stuff to my wii menu. thanks to the people that reply..

 

oh great! now I have to live in fear again! I thought it was like the PSP OE firmware... how sad.... I guess there's still no way to really protect from region brick.... oh well.... thanks for the reply Deathcrow

 

can you put the links to where i can find all the info? I would like to file down the thing and expose it to install the wiikey myself.. but im not sure on how to do it or what to use... i am a newbie... thanks..

 

i don't know why you guy still going for the wiikey? the wiikey is only good when it first came out with the upgrade feature. Now every modchip can do the same and better yes including the disable feature safe for online. The wiikey lacks the disable feature. Second it have problem with some gamecube audio problem, but all other chip worked fine. So the wiikey is now the worst modchip to get.

 

when the update comes (news of it was posted on wiikey.cn) it should resolve these issues...

But just for fun ninja what chip do you recommend?

 

Yeah that also suprises me. My current place for modchips took the wiikey out of supplies.
I'm getting the latest Cyclowiz now, they said it was the best choice and they never let me down.

But as long as it works, that is still the most important/

 

can anyone tell me if they got their chip installed by www.consoleworkshop.co.uk ?? i have the chip but i dont know if i should send it to them...anyone help me out?

 

Hey. Had a wiikey but couldn't get it to work. Spent about a day and half trying to solder it and get it to work. ordered a wiikit chip. spent another day soldering that. still no luck. went back to the wiikey for a couple of hours still couldn't get the damned thing to work. tried the update disk too. thought one final try with the wiikit and thought it wasn't going to work as i inserted an original game and that wouldn,t load.was just about to take it all out and send it off when i thought i,d just see if the update disk worked and hey presto i now have a fully functioning wii and this was a new version of the wii brought about 2 weeks ago. Most of the problems i had were because i hadn't inserted the update disk. Just to let you all know

 

ya it seems this problem has been happening often... ill bug a few places to update their tutorials / instructions on this so ppl know they dont have a defective chip.

 

good idea, as none of the tutorials i have read say you need to insert the update disk to activate the chip. It was only after a bit of searching that i stumbled across it being mentioned. Most people are saying its the media that the games are written to that is causing the problem. Maybe this isn't the case?

 

I was just about to buy a WiiKey today when I read this.
So what is the best chip to get right now?

 

sorry jimmy, i usually don't go on afterdawn much. Well i think every modchip is fine from what i read, they all have disable feature. But i read good thing about wiinja deluxe for having good gamecube compatible, so i recommended that. It can do all the thing the wiikey can, even dvd updated as long as you got the wiinja deluxe and not the old model v2. And even with the wiikey newest update is nothing new, it only fix the gamecube audio problem that their should have been fixed months ago, other chips doesn't have that problem. But the updated still doesn't disable the chip so it still the worst modchip.

 

I ended up buying the cyclowiz V2.
It was only $34 and came with a free tring driver and a free switch.
I hope it's good!
Has any one had and bad experiences with this chip?

 

i know one game that didn't worked is bloody roar primal fury for the gamecube didn't worked after the characters selected screen. The wiikey wouldn't even boot that game. But the wiinja deluxe worked fine, which is why i recommended it.

 

In australia wiikey prices are really cheap.

I sell genuine wiikey and with competition its bloddy hard to get alot of sales.

 

What is the best modchip that is good, then the next best and so on? Can someone list in your opinion is good to bad?

 

you guys notice that most of the reseller are pulling modchip off there stock..

is this because of the Government targets modchips?

I'm trying to get a wiikey but having a hard time find someone that selling them... arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

 

hi everyone
i just bought my jap wii and i wanted to go online with it
the modchip is installed and i was afraid of going online and geting the wii bricked so i opend the wii up to make sure that modchip is original wiikey or fake
the thing is the chip in there wasnt wiikey or any other kind of chips that you can find on the net i spend at least 5 houres serching for the same type of chip but i couldnt find it any where looks like nobody ever saw this thing no pics no comment
on the chip there is nothing like name or anythig just on the man ic it says :
PIC 16f690
I/SS
07111pk
i found that there are six wires connected to chip 5 to dvd drive board and one is gone under the plate that is above of wii`s motherboard
is there anybody that know such chip
and is it safe to go online with the wii and upgrade it via shopchannel
by the way chip works fine and runs any back up dvd that i have and it also runs wiikey setup disk ver 1.2 just normal

here is the pic that i took from the chip:
http://www.4shared.com/file/21533808/b0b813bb/DSC08185.html

sorry for long reply