So I purchased a new wii today from Target (great deal).

Come home to chip it with a Wiikey 2 and when I opened it I got a shock. No black epoxy on the drive chip at all. Nice and clean.

Have Nintendo realised how stupid it was to put eopxy in the Wii or have I just gotten lucky?

Anyone else had the same experience?

I've put up my results on Wiidrives so maybe we can pinpoint when Nintendo stopped glueing the damn things.

 

Just gonna bring it all downstairs to chip now.

You probably know this already.. but you don't need a chip to run homebrew.

 

Yeah sorta figured you knew that haha.

Im chipping this for a mate, so gunna install whatever the Wii's memory fits.

 

hahahaha that is funny , no he is not a pirate , we have no pirates here , but a bunch of angles doing math homework

 

What FW did it come with?
Just curious

 

Firmware 3.3e v1 as I used the old twilight hack to install HBC.

Nah brand new stock, straight from Nintendo Aus. I saw the mountains of boxes in a crate, it looked like the "Nintendo" truck had just come in.