Hacking Post here if you installed your chip correctly!

[BananaXX]

Product: Wiikey

Soldering experience: Some four or five years ago, in a course I did in high school. Since then, none, but I did practice a little.

The hardest part: Putting it back together. I didn't organize my screws well, and things didn't go great until I found a diagram online.

Tips nobody told you: How friggin small those points are. I wish I had a smaller soldering iron.

Did you break or forget anything?: Nope. Well... first time through, one of my wires came off, so when I got everything back together it didn't work. But then I opened it back up, soldered that in place, and it works great. I'm quite satisfied.

 

[JPH]

I'm getting my Wii modded with a Wiikey Clone very soon...I'll post back if it went right...

 

[DjoeN]

Product: Wiikey (Commercial) | Cyclowiz (Commercial) | WiiFree (PIC)(Opensource) | OpenWii/ChiiP (using the same atmel chip)(Opensource)

Soldering experience: To many, but i didn't learn it in school, all by myself.

The hardest part: drawing it all on paper so i could switch between those mods externally (each modchips sit in its own external 25 pin LPT case, it all had to connect right on each male lpt case with the external female lpt case adaptor).

Tips nobody told you:er, dunno, but i would say as a tip to everybody else, work as organized as you can to make it easier

Did you break or forget anything?: Nope. all works fine, i can switch between any modchip of the above by replacing the external male lpt case with the correct male lpt case with modchip in it to my choice.

 

[spystyle]

I installed a WiiKey

It was easy!

I put a "needle tip size" flux bead on each solder point and the solder just rolled where it was supoposed to. Flux is like a magnet to solder - everyone will say you don't need it, ignore them. I have modded about 10 systems in my life and soldered many small projects - flux is the ticket. You only need a tiny drop, or a paper thin coat.

Cheers,
Craig

 

[other]

Edit: This wasn't really the thread for my question. Sorry.