Hacking How did you mod your Wii?

[mcjones92]

I might mod my Wii, but I am scared because I have no experience in soldering, and on top of that I would have to research A LOT on the subject to find out what to do. So, I want to know, how did you mod your Wii?

And if you could tell me what the safest way to do it is? (Without getting a pre-modded Wii)

 

[Fellow]

I don't know if this meets your standards, but I modded it myself using the Twilight Princess Hack. To install the Homebrew Channel and the WiiGator ISO Loader.

 

[Luriden]

Zelda Twilight Princess + SD card = love.

I don't like messing with mod chips either.

 

[Beatchu]

Do you mean softmod or hardmod? Softmodded myself, Attempted hardmod myself (then it didnt work so I got annoyed and threw my d2pro9 v3 + clip in the bin ^^)

 

[mcjones92]

I actually meant hardmod (modchip) I couldn't care less about the Twilight Hack.

 

[Anubis]

I actually meant hardmod (modchip) I couldn't care less about the Twilight Hack.

Yeah, you're hardcore dude.

 

[Luriden]

I actually meant hardmod (modchip) I couldn't care less about the Twilight Hack.

...why? I promise you in a month or so you'll be able to do everything with a softmod that you could with a hardmod. It's safer, and even reversible if need be.

 

[djtaz]

I have modded 2 wii's.
My first one was a complete pieball and though the chip sits happily on the board smothered in solder in various spots its not supposed to be in , the wii still plays normal games , but it refuses to recognise the chip thats now moulded incorrectly i might add into the board.
Luckily it plays the backup launcher and all is well.

The next one i decided since i failed misribly on the first attempt to let someone who knows what they are doing tackle the hard part so i got a pre soldered wii-clip mod chip , opened the wii and clipped it on ... no mountains of solder , no burnt fingers or ears , no crying and cursing , no little dance tantrums that could have won me awards if the disco scene was back in , and best of all , working games within 20 mins of getting the chip.


Save yourself the heartache and get a pre-modded wii-clipped chip and your sorted.

 

[DarkSzero]

Bought it "pre-modded". Bought the Wii from a store Un-Modded, but the store itself installed the chip for me, right after and such.
Dunno if the guy who did it was a pro, had some problems with my modchip after installation. But it was one of the first D2C chips: 30+ wires!

 

[mcjones92]

I have modded 2 wii's.
My first one was a complete pieball and though the chip sits happily on the board smothered in solder in various spots its not supposed to be in , the wii still plays normal games , but it refuses to recognise the chip thats now moulded incorrectly i might add into the board.
Luckily it plays the backup launcher and all is well.

The next one i decided since i failed misribly on the first attempt to let someone who knows what they are doing tackle the hard part so i got a pre soldered wii-clip mod chip , opened the wii and clipped it on ... no mountains of solder , no burnt fingers or ears , no crying and cursing , no little dance tantrums that could have won me awards if the disco scene was back in , and best of all , working games within 20 mins of getting the chip.


Save yourself the heartache and get a pre-modded wii-clipped chip and your sorted.

can you tell me how easy the wii clip thing is?

QUOTEno little dance tantrums that could have won me awards if the disco scene was back in

lol.

 

[Slowking]

I actually built the programmer, programmed the modchip and soldered it in, all myself. Wasn't that hard. ^^

 

[djtaz]

Its easy - just put it over the chip and clip it down - granted i had to re-seat it about 5 times to get it going , which is believe isnt normal , but if you knew me and my luck scalability then i got off lightly with this to be honest - Im the type of person who'd burn to death during a flood.


http://www.wii-clip.com/V1_install.htm

http://www.wii-clip.com/

 

[Tichinde925]

Only thing "hardmodded" I did was a custom case.

Vid:



http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qSU5fJnojFE&fmt=18

 

[djtaz]

I actually built the programmer, programmed the modchip and soldered it in, all myself. Wasn't that hard. ^^

Ahh to have skills. I bet i could get all the chicks if i had skills , or looks , or a personality , or money , or ...... well this list could go on for weeks.

 

[Slowking]

I actually built the programmer, programmed the modchip and soldered it in, all myself. Wasn't that hard. ^^

Ahh to have skills. I bet i could get all the chicks if i had skills , or looks , or a personality , or money , or ...... well this list could go on for weeks.

XD If all this is true you are one of a kind in this whole world, which makes you mega special awsome and you shouldn't have problems getting chicks.

But seriously it requires basically no skills at all. There are those nice noob-fiendly tutorials out there, like this one: http://chiip.descrambler.de/index.php/Programmer
They tell you exactly where to solder what. It's just like a puzzle with about 30 pieces.

 

[Tac 21]

guess its not as simple as the portables eh?

 

[kimikal27]

I actually built the programmer, programmed the modchip and soldered it in, all myself. Wasn't that hard. ^^

Ahh to have skills. I bet i could get all the chicks if i had skills , or looks , or a personality , or money , or ...... well this list could go on for weeks.

yes djtaz, you have a point...
but thank god not every one is a programmer, so many of us have to be happy whit what we have so Slowking : good for you and I'm sure the chip was not expensive.
myself, i wold not pay for one for many reasons.

 

[Slowking]

Öhm, I'm not a programmer. I just programmed the chip with a hex that I found on the interweb. (it's called programming when you flash those chips)
The only programming language I know is PHP... and I'm not even good in it.

 

[kimikal27]

so you did not programmed it...

 

[djtaz]

mmmmmmm chips ...
Ohh im good at php - im do some codes for VBulletin