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<blockquote data-quote="Darkforce" data-source="post: 714026" data-attributes="member: 1998"><p>I find that hard to believe - tell me one person who has had a clone die on them.</p><p></p><p>The clones are virtually identical to the original chips. I would be suprised if the Wiikey team have a way to distinguish between an original or cloned chip via firmware. It is simply in the Wiikey's team interests to promote original chips since (obviously) it makes them more money. (BTW if you're wondering how much it costs to make these things you can buy clones from a chinese wholesaler for $1.96 each).</p><p></p><p>The only morsel of evidence to suggest anything otherwise is that apparently <em>'The Wiikey contains a bootcode section that some of the clones did not duplicate. That is why the config disc does not work with those clones. Future builds of the config/update disc will do a checksum on this section of code, so if your chip is a clone the config/update disc won't run.'</em> (<a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=47129&view=findpost&p=599899" target="_blank">xiaNaix</a>). Has anyone with a clone had this happen to them?</p><p></p><p>However this would somewhat contradict the rumours that '<em>WiiKey.cn [...] do not own their own chip fabricating factory. So they outsourced their chip to an OEM factory for production. After these chips are produced they are then sent back to the WiiKey company for putting onto their PCB boards. </em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>What happened was that the OEM factory decided to put some of these WiiKey-developed chips onto their own PCB boards - making them almost like OEM-versions. That's how these chips have different PCB boards but yet their features are the same.</em>' (<a href="http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=47129&view=findpost&p=598002" target="_blank">weet/dealextreme</a>)</p><p></p><p>So who knows. Like I said I would be suprised if Wiikey have a way to distinguish between original and cloned chips, but I guess we won't know until the new firmware is released.</p><p></p><p></p><p>Note: Screenshot of the firmware screen is going the rounds in the <a href="http://www.eurasia.nu/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=4310&forum=88" target="_blank">eurasia forums</a>.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>As for me, I have an original Wiikey and I absolutely couldn't care less about this whole fisaco. I think the whole situation has been blown out of proportion and I'm absolutely sick to death of reading so many idiotic and pathetic comments on the subject. People couldn't just be patient and wait, they just had to whine and bitch how their beloved Wiikey won't play their crappy Japanese games on their PAL consoles, or play their GC games properly because their too cheap to fork out for a modded GC. They expect a company who profits from the sale of a product deemed illegal in most countries to have morals and standards, most of whom don't have the morals to purchase original games themselves. They can't be content for just one moment and can't appreciate how lucky we are to even have such a good solution to playing backup games so early on in the consoles life. They've turned the forum from a place of discussion about games into a place where every other post in a release thread is 'will this work on my PAL machine or brick my Wii'. It's ridiculous, it's pathetic, it's tiresome and I'm fed up with it.</p><p>*sigh* If only I had banning powers... <img src="http://gbatemp.net/vanilla/emoticons/wink2.gif" alt="" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Darkforce, post: 714026, member: 1998"] I find that hard to believe - tell me one person who has had a clone die on them. The clones are virtually identical to the original chips. I would be suprised if the Wiikey team have a way to distinguish between an original or cloned chip via firmware. It is simply in the Wiikey's team interests to promote original chips since (obviously) it makes them more money. (BTW if you're wondering how much it costs to make these things you can buy clones from a chinese wholesaler for $1.96 each). The only morsel of evidence to suggest anything otherwise is that apparently [i]'The Wiikey contains a bootcode section that some of the clones did not duplicate. That is why the config disc does not work with those clones. Future builds of the config/update disc will do a checksum on this section of code, so if your chip is a clone the config/update disc won't run.'[/i] ([url=http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=47129&view=findpost&p=599899]xiaNaix[/url]). Has anyone with a clone had this happen to them? However this would somewhat contradict the rumours that '[i]WiiKey.cn [...] do not own their own chip fabricating factory. So they outsourced their chip to an OEM factory for production. After these chips are produced they are then sent back to the WiiKey company for putting onto their PCB boards. What happened was that the OEM factory decided to put some of these WiiKey-developed chips onto their own PCB boards - making them almost like OEM-versions. That's how these chips have different PCB boards but yet their features are the same.[/i]' ([url=http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=47129&view=findpost&p=598002]weet/dealextreme[/url]) So who knows. Like I said I would be suprised if Wiikey have a way to distinguish between original and cloned chips, but I guess we won't know until the new firmware is released. Note: Screenshot of the firmware screen is going the rounds in the [url=http://www.eurasia.nu/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&topic=4310&forum=88]eurasia forums[/url]. As for me, I have an original Wiikey and I absolutely couldn't care less about this whole fisaco. I think the whole situation has been blown out of proportion and I'm absolutely sick to death of reading so many idiotic and pathetic comments on the subject. People couldn't just be patient and wait, they just had to whine and bitch how their beloved Wiikey won't play their crappy Japanese games on their PAL consoles, or play their GC games properly because their too cheap to fork out for a modded GC. They expect a company who profits from the sale of a product deemed illegal in most countries to have morals and standards, most of whom don't have the morals to purchase original games themselves. They can't be content for just one moment and can't appreciate how lucky we are to even have such a good solution to playing backup games so early on in the consoles life. They've turned the forum from a place of discussion about games into a place where every other post in a release thread is 'will this work on my PAL machine or brick my Wii'. It's ridiculous, it's pathetic, it's tiresome and I'm fed up with it. *sigh* If only I had banning powers... [img]http://gbatemp.net/vanilla/emoticons/wink2.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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