Only the first chips were having problems. But the new chips are quite advanced products.
The latest ones don't require any soldering at all, not even clipping it onto a driveboard chip. You just connect a flatcable and that's it. That cannot possibly fail. And more cool stuff is possible that way. Streaming an iso from a computer, or even a portable hard drive
Basically you are right, but for now there are only 2 flatcable chips(if i don't missed any):
1. Flatmii (streams .isos with real high speed to the Wii, requires a pc connected to the Wii during gaming)
2. the "modchip" from the Flatmii team (which is limited to 3x reading)
The chip with the portable drive support is not yet released.
QUOTE(fst312 @ Feb 13 2009, 11:27 PM) [...]
forget using Waninkoko's cMIOS and just use wigators with mios v5 and v8 and cMIOS v1 .i think its possible to have all of them installed because i was able to play mulitiso from the begining or do they over write eachother.if they over write i think the last thing i installed was mios v8. i read alot of people have problems with Waninkoko's cMIOS so why bother using it if nothing works right with each update,there is always a problem.