Hardware Wii Mods will need an "on/off" switch?

[Farami9]

I think they will as Nintendo may be able to detect the mod like (Xbox), your thoughts. I mean could future wii updates brick wii systems that have a Mod.....

 

[outphase]

Anyone's speculation is as good as yours... as in not very useful.

 

[craig588]

The Xbox updates havn't bricked modded systems, they just make attempts to break mod chips.

 

[Farami9]

Wait craig588, do you mean that Xbox updates can disable mods?

Well, I mean don't you think Nintendo will prevent (modded wiis) from playing online.

Thats the only thing stopping me from getting a Wiikey/Mod.

 

[adgloride]

Xbox modchips ran an illegal bios that could be detected. The wii modchips are drive mod chips and don't run an illegal bios. They are hard if not impossible to detect.

 

[Opium]

Xbox modchips ran an illegal bios that could be detected. The wii modchips are drive mod chips and don't run an illegal bios. They are hard if not impossible to detect.

Yep, totally true.

However I believe if you enable region override (wiikey) there is a faint possibility Nintendo can detect the chip, but if you disable it they can't detect the chip at all. That's why you have the option to turn it on/off.

 

[Farami9]

sorry how would disabling region override (wiikey) make the chip undetectable?

 

[dirtycarrot]

Xbox's were detectable for two reasons - the bios was different, and the hard drive was usually different, hence the need for the switch.
The wii mod cannot be detected. Advanced region free will be nothing more than more handshake faking between the dvd drive and the main cpu.

 

[jaxxster]

Thats why i love my cyclowiz

I can disable it if i feel the need to

 

[Farami9]

Can't you do the same for wiikey?

 

[adgloride]

Xbox's were detectable for two reasons - the bios was different, and the hard drive was usually different, hence the need for the switch.
The wii mod cannot be detected. Advanced region free will be nothing more than more handshake faking between the dvd drive and the main cpu.

If you change the xbox harddrive once you have been on live, that gets you banned. If you have changed the drive and never been on live, when you use xbox live you won't get banned. When you log onto live for the first it takes your harddrive serial or something like that. When you go on live again with a different harddrive and the serial doesn't match you get banned. One way of getting round this and getting round a ban is to fit new eeproms.

 

[ps2.au]

i don;t play online anyway

 

[Renegade_R]

Any modchip can have an on/off switch...simply place a switch between the ground wires and you have a switch.

 

[pikachucrackpipe]

The Xbox updates havn't bricked modded systems, they just make attempts to break mod chips.

no they dont
if you play a unpatched game on a 1st gen mod chip and the updater was initialized, it would overwrite whatever dashboard you had installed with the ms one.

 

[throwingks]

These are different mods.
Mod-chips for the Xbox motherboard are what you are all talking about.

There is also a DVD firmware mod for Xbox you can play on Live with, undetected.
In theory the Wii mods out now, DriveChip mods, would be just as difficult to detect as the DVD firmware flash mod on Xbox.

 

[outphase]

Any modchip can have an on/off switch...simply place a switch between the ground wires and you have a switch.

It's a bit better if you place the switch along the Vcc line.