Which one do you do? Hardmod or softmod?

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  1. DTN107

    DTN107 Regular member

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    Would be nice if mods can put up a poll (if possible) on this thread.

    I want to get a show of hands on how many of us do either hardmod or softmod our Wiis. Lets try not to argue with "modchip is better because xxx" or "why hardmod when softmod is free etc etc" because we all have heard it already.

    I'll start it off with two listings since I own two Wiis.

    Wii Chipset: D2C
    Modding Method: Wiikey2

    Wii Chipset: D2E (Epoxy)
    Modding Method: Twilight Hack
     
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    DTN107, Jan 27, 2009
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  2. dailun

    dailun Active member

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    3 for Hardmod

    (2) Wiikey

    1 pins cut, 1 Wiiclip

    (1) D2Pro9
     
    dailun, Jan 27, 2009
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  3. KeyMan

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    1 D2E softmodded

    I would have hard modded because I couldn't be bothered going out finding a copy of Zelda but after realising my friend had a copy and due to my impatience of waiting for the shipping period of a chip, i chose to softmod it :p
     
    KeyMan, Jan 28, 2009
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  4. merandom

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    1 softmod here... no plans on changing.
     
    merandom, Jan 28, 2009
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  5. iceman29

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    I have modded 5 wii's with softmod. Softmod is awesome because:

    1.) Plays backups perfect (no difference except for a video glitch sometimes - this will be fixed in next release of wii gator.
    2.) It's free
    3.) Best of all, you don't have to open your wii to mod it with this method. Too many people are frying wii's because they used the soder method. No nintendo screw driver required.
    4.) Possible firmware update could cause it not to work, but so many people are doing the softmod, they will hopefully keep it up to date.

    5) Only downside is you have to either own, rent, borrow zelda one time. Works for me since the video store is down the road.
     
    iceman29, Jan 28, 2009
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  6. drakoniss

    drakoniss Regular member

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    lol hardmod is way better than softmod in that you can play gamecube games, put 3 game cube games to one disk via gcos. dont have to worry about patches and updates. Put 4 gigs of roms on dvd.

    but if you are too cheap like everyone else to get a mod chip go softmod its good for now until nintendo blocks all softmods.
     
    drakoniss, Jan 29, 2009
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    iceman29 drakoniss

    way to go LOL.
     
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  8. LOCOENG

    LOCOENG Moderator Staff Member

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    To avoid this turning into one big argument/pissing contest/debate, please just list whether your wii is softmodded or chipped. No discussion necessary as this intent of this thread is only to collect data as requested by the OP.

    Sorry, no poll system in place at afterdawn. Feel free to compile your own data.
     
    LOCOENG, Jan 30, 2009
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  9. MaestroT

    MaestroT Member

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    Two more softmod thanks to the folks here at Afterdawn!
     
    MaestroT, Jan 30, 2009
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  10. larrylje

    larrylje Active member

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    2 hardmod

    1 softmod

    and a partridge in a pear tree.
     
    larrylje, Jan 30, 2009
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  11. iceman29

    iceman29 Guest

    That made my day. About fell out of my chair
     
    iceman29, Jan 30, 2009
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  12. NDarkness

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    I've hard-modded dozens of Wiis with all kinds of chips.

    Me personally I have the good ol' Wiikey.
     
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  13. jaynecobb

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    softmod.

    wife wont let me spend the $ for a chip to be installed...won't do it myself, too old and hands are to shaky.
     
    jaynecobb, Jan 30, 2009
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  14. dcxbadass

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    Hard modded original wii with no legs cut, using an original wiikey

    Wii 3.2 PAL
    Wiikey 1.9s

    Then I also made a modded paper mario disk that when you put the disk in the drive, you click play game and it launches the wad installer, and just installs the ones from your SD card :D
    Makes my life much easier!
     
    dcxbadass, Feb 2, 2009
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  15. iceman29

    iceman29 Guest

    Just curious why you did this...
     
    iceman29, Feb 2, 2009
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    dcxbadass Member

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    Why I did what? The disk that auto launches the wad installer is so much quicker, no twilight saves or anything like that, i just boot this game and it does it.
     
    dcxbadass, Feb 2, 2009
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  17. iceman29

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    Still makes no sense to me since with the softmod all you do is put your game it and it just works. You don't need a special disc. Just read the walkthrough over at www.pothsprojects.com
     
    iceman29, Feb 2, 2009
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  18. 06NightHa

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    I have done softmods to mine and my buddies wii
     
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    I have soft and hard believe it or not. I bought the chip when i thought there was no way to do HBC on 3.4 then it turns out like the next day i could do it. it works because i can launch everything from the disc channel and i have wiigator to launch trouble titles like Bleach Versus Crusade.

    Wii 3.4 NTSC-U D2A
    HBC
    Wiikey2 w/ wiiclip

    I chose wiiclip because if Nintendo some how blocks it i have and easy removal option. Not that unsoldering is terribly hard its just inconvenient
     
    jpc1284, Feb 2, 2009
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  20. dcxbadass

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    My disk isn't for softmodding to run games, it's to install wads, and vc games.
     
    dcxbadass, Feb 3, 2009
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