Let's see what's wrong with this...
1. It's on a subdomain. It's hosted on some Australian forum.
2. Offers homebrew, nothing announced like that before?
3. No chip picture.
4. Looks like someone spent 5 minutes on the layout.
5. A USB dongle? Seems unlikely
6. 128MB of memory? Seems unlikely.
7. Professional modchip, but not enough money for a domain name?
I hate all this negativity, sure it may be fake, but why don't you wait and see what happens first? If it's fake, then it will simply disappear, and nothing will come of it, and if it's real, you'll feel like a complete moron for doubting it. Just be patient and wait for them to give more info.
I hate all this negativity, sure it may be fake, but why don't you wait and see what happens first? If it's fake, then it will simply disappear, and nothing will come of it, and if it's real, you'll feel like a complete moron for doubting it. Just be patient and wait for them to give more info.
Yeah, let's keep quiet when we discover something suspicious. That's what we should do.
Reading your comment it's obvious that you don't understand how the Wii and any other console works.
^ What's so impossible about this is that it's an optical drive hack, and apparently it gives you a boatload of new features that are actually controlled by the BIOS. Fact is, you can not *possibly* crack virtual console encryption from the DVD drive. Also, from what I understand, the Wii doesn't have the *codecs* for DVD-video playback. You cannot just magically make a console that wasn't made to play DVD videos begin to play them with any sort of chip. It's like trying to play a VCD on a discman. Not going to happen.
The USB dongle may appear possible, sure, but with that chip layout there's no way the USB could interface with it. There are only two ways to make the chip read the USB: 1) Wire a USB port directly to the chip, 2) Hack the Wii firmware to route information to the chip from the USB ports. The former is impossible because there are not enough solder points on the chip, and the latter is impossible because the Wii firmware has not been hacked (and don't count on it for a long while, if ever.)
apparently the WiiXT also promises region-free DVD playback (wait, huh?),