For those who have a Wii

[trigun500]

Anybody have their Wiis modded? If so, worth it? And what chip did u use?

Will the Wii still go online?

Thanks!

 

[KillyKillall]

Not since Nintendo just changed their Mobo so it won't work on the new ones. I expect Nintendo to try to keep battling this one for a while.

Is this the first time they've been modded like this?

 

[waggy]

i see no reason for the wiikey now. sure if home brew gets going then yeah. otherwise no.

 

[RaiderJ]

I've installed a couple Wiikey's. Takes longer to open the case than it does to install the chip. So far everything works just as it's supposed to. Only GC homebrew currently runs. I imagine Wii homebrew to be quite a ways down the road.

The new Wii motherboard doesn't affect anything. You'll just have to run some wires - which is stupidly simple if you've ever used a soldering iron before. I've installed the current Wiikey chip with wires.

 

[eelw]

Using the open source ModCheap on my Wii. I now have all the parts to make the Chiip. Why pay 4x more for a premade one when you can do it for less than $10

As for the new board, as noted, all it does prevents the quick solder options.

 

[trigun500]

edited question

 

[effowe]

I got the WiiKey in mine and everything works properly, great chip.

 

[eelw]

Yeah, modded Wii currently works fine with the various online channels. But we still have to wait to see if there is a firmware update to break it.