I recieved my WiiKey today from Foundmy.com and I thought Id share my experience so far.
First of all I have no soldering experience so I have been practicing on an old network card. I have gotten pretty good at attaching wires, so I figured I was prepared. This was a bad assumption. This chip is very small. I had absolutely no problems attaching the wires to the Wii drive but the chip was another story. I ended up lifting one of the pads on the board and had to solder a wire directly to one of the tiny ass legs on the chip itself. It was a nightmare. I can truly recommend a professional install if there is any question that you do not possess the skill to do it yourself.
All that being said, I got lucky and everything works exactly as stated. Menu disk works no problems there, and several games I have tried have all performed flawlessly, including Wario ware. Next up is Gc game testing.
I feel that I made the correct choice in chips and am very happy with the product. Just take my soldering warning seriousely. Install was difficut compared to what I had been practicing on.
-Kissell13
First of all I have no soldering experience so I have been practicing on an old network card. I have gotten pretty good at attaching wires, so I figured I was prepared. This was a bad assumption. This chip is very small. I had absolutely no problems attaching the wires to the Wii drive but the chip was another story. I ended up lifting one of the pads on the board and had to solder a wire directly to one of the tiny ass legs on the chip itself. It was a nightmare. I can truly recommend a professional install if there is any question that you do not possess the skill to do it yourself.
All that being said, I got lucky and everything works exactly as stated. Menu disk works no problems there, and several games I have tried have all performed flawlessly, including Wario ware. Next up is Gc game testing.
I feel that I made the correct choice in chips and am very happy with the product. Just take my soldering warning seriousely. Install was difficut compared to what I had been practicing on.
-Kissell13