HI recently I got second wii and decided to play with it
got one of the wii2HDMI adapters, remove the shell of it, soldered ribbon cable to the AV connector pins no the wii MB, made opening on the case and hot glued it ( I know a lot of people don't like the hot glue for fixing but some other solution would require a lot of custom work ) so now it works with HDMI cable and not through component or composite video and then through scart to HDMI and them the AV receiver and finally the TV with this I removed the Scart switch or (wii2HDMI dongle)
next wanted to remove the USB HDD so I soldered usb cable, for some stupid reason ribbon cable was not working, could not initialize the USB drive I guess the ribbon cable has too big power loss and does not supply enough power, and maybe I'm wrong, but anyway it did not work so I took usb cable, removed the usb connectors, sodered one edn to the USB-0 port pins on the MB and the other end I stripped external 2.5" HDD usb device, took only the board removed the usb board and soldered the wires on the board, and it works it boots games
on order to hit the HDD inside removed the DVD drive but now the games do not run I got error that the game is damaged and need to eject the disk and restart
so I removed only the DVD drive board connected it and now it works
But I want to exclude the DVD pcb too, can this be done ?
with some version of IOS or neek2o or something, or do I have to have the board in it ?
Anyway now I have nice compact wii with HDMI output and 500GB hdd with almost all VC games around 50 Wii and 30 GC games and some emus ... without the dongle and USB HDD attached to it
got one of the wii2HDMI adapters, remove the shell of it, soldered ribbon cable to the AV connector pins no the wii MB, made opening on the case and hot glued it ( I know a lot of people don't like the hot glue for fixing but some other solution would require a lot of custom work ) so now it works with HDMI cable and not through component or composite video and then through scart to HDMI and them the AV receiver and finally the TV with this I removed the Scart switch or (wii2HDMI dongle)
next wanted to remove the USB HDD so I soldered usb cable, for some stupid reason ribbon cable was not working, could not initialize the USB drive I guess the ribbon cable has too big power loss and does not supply enough power, and maybe I'm wrong, but anyway it did not work so I took usb cable, removed the usb connectors, sodered one edn to the USB-0 port pins on the MB and the other end I stripped external 2.5" HDD usb device, took only the board removed the usb board and soldered the wires on the board, and it works it boots games
on order to hit the HDD inside removed the DVD drive but now the games do not run I got error that the game is damaged and need to eject the disk and restart
so I removed only the DVD drive board connected it and now it works
But I want to exclude the DVD pcb too, can this be done ?
with some version of IOS or neek2o or something, or do I have to have the board in it ?
Anyway now I have nice compact wii with HDMI output and 500GB hdd with almost all VC games around 50 Wii and 30 GC games and some emus ... without the dongle and USB HDD attached to it
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