Revver : How to fit Nintendo Wii modchip (cyclowiz)

I don't really rate his soldering skills and I wouldn't be using a gas iron but you'll get the idea.

How many screws? :eek: - why didn't they just use all of one kind, or the other? :confused:

Anyway - fairly decent mod, it must be said - how much is the chip, do you know?

Steve

I googled the chip name and found CycloWiz - The first and only upgradable wii modchip, shipping now!

Seems it's around

hmmmm that means i could play paper mario now

might be worth reading more about this lol

In case you dont have a wii yet.. you can buy them pre-chipped:

Wiikey Modified Nintendo Wii -

I wouldn't use sellotape to hold the board in place when soldering, nasty static damage could occur.

Nintendo must be kicking themselves for this as the Gamecube was pretty free of piracy.

But did the Gamecube have regional coding?

Seems to me that as soon as a manufacturer starts doing that, there's going to be some sort of 'back door', as they're not going to make consoles for the US and UK, for example, that radically different, it would be too costly. So they'll go for an electronic 'tweak', that someone's gonna spot eventually

Steve

The Cube had region coding but the Freeloader disc from Datel got round this with a simple disc swap

Ah right, don't know much about the Nintendo boxes.

Cheers,

Steve