I don't see what's wrong with your purchase...unless buying the Cyclowiz in the first place was the wrong step...

 

I think that's your problem then, not your puchase. Get your tools now and practice or you'll end up like this poor sucker. If you have never soldered a chip before, you must practice, those points on the Wii are about the the size of a tip of a ballpoint pen. Do you really think you can get those right the first time?

Dig through your drawer, find some electronic you no longer use, solder points together just for practice. This practice will save you $250...seriously.

 

Trust me, I plan on practicing. I saw that Wire video in one of the sticky topics and I've learned the basics.

 

Solderless installation is mad hard to remove. Wired installation is recommended if you planning on changing out the modchip later.

Edit: Sorry I meant to say Quick Solder

Edit2: Its also been known that the CycloWiz isn't of top quality manufacturing so the quick solder points on the chip are a little misaligned.

 

Yeah, do a wired install. A guy posted pics on MaxConsole with his placement of the chip and wires for a wired install of Cyclowiz. The site's erroring out for me right now, otherwise I'd post a link.

 

I don't see why not. It says it's for a Wii...

Here's the post with pics of a wired install:
http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=49084

 

Okay, now say I successfully solder the wires to my board, but I screw up on my Cyclowiz. Will my Wii be just fine if I snip the wires?

 

Now, as long as I have some desoldering braid, and I don't hold the iron on the joint too long, I should be fine, correct?

 

My iron is 30 watt. T_T

 

Actually, that method is not so bad. In another thread I started ("Rate my soldering skillz") someone posted this:

http://www.teamnovak.com/tech_info/how_to/solder/index.html

I have started to use the wire/solder/iron placement as suggest in this video and find it to be considerably easier and the joints come out cleaner. Pay careful attention to how they tin the wires:



That positioning made tinning the wires so much easier than touching a tinned iron to the wire like I had been doing. It does require three hands though. I suggest getting this:
RadioShack link

You'll see that in that site I linked to they actually recommend attaching the wire to the desired joint using the method you mention:


Of course, you will want to tin the point first to make a solid joint.

I have a 30w iron too. I'm not concerned about melting my Wii, as I have a very small point on my iron and I am getting very fast, usually the iron has less than 1/2 second contact with the board at a time.