Hardware Wii Wifi Module died....

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So one of my launch day Wii's finally had a part die :(

I ordered a replacement Wifi module online for like $7!!!

My question is, how hard is it to replace?


The ironic part in this is that this is the soft modded Wii of the two I picked up when the Wii launched. The other had an original Wiikey in it that died, that chip I replaced with a cheap $4 knock off clone chip that is still clipping along.

I also ordered a Wiikey fusion and am wondering how good those are? any one use them? (I mostly got it because it's no soldering and I was sort of hoping it would make my multi GC disks work on that Wii too.)

At any rate wish me luck lol cracking a virgin launch Wii once more, but it's been a long time (soft mods kind of made all this unnecessary.)
 

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