Hardware 'Wiikey' The Countdown has begun....

[Unfortune]

dunno anything about Wiikeys (other than that its a really cool modchip), but I think its cuz some WiiKey3 is coming out.

EDIT:

WAIT, Isn't that how many days until summer is over?? lol.

 

[NeSchn]

WAIT, Isn't that how many days until summer is over?? lol.

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Summer ends on the Autumn Equinox which is September 21st

 

[mr deez]

Having my Wiikey installed years ago cost me £20, and I have NEVER had a SINGLE problem playing ANY game.

Beats softmodding for me.

I bought and installed a Wiikey about a year or two ago.
After installation, my Wii drive was loud when reading both retail and backup discs. Additionally, disc read errors made backups notoriously unreliable to the point of being unplayable. I have consistently had problems with my chip regardless of the media I burn on and regardless of the speeds I burn.

I gave up on backing up my games until I softmodded my Wii, which is easier, cleaner, and more reliable.
I suppose there are two sides to the coin, though.

Sure - I guess I'm the lucky one then!

As well as never having had difficulty running any game I've tried, I've never even seen what a disc read error looks like on the Wii...

 

[Cyan]

tried playing ghostbusters, indy or g-force without gecko os?

Indy is working fine without a gecko, preloader, menu patcher, or what else.
I've got a wiikey1, on 3.2E. just patch 002 manually before burning.
I didn't test the other two games.

unfortunately, it's not working for Wii Sport Resorts yet, but I hope there will be an iso patching method for people with hardmoded console only, I hope hackers won't force us to use usb-loaders and stop develop anything else.

 

[NeSchn]

Having my Wiikey installed years ago cost me £20, and I have NEVER had a SINGLE problem playing ANY game.

Beats softmodding for me.

I bought and installed a Wiikey about a year or two ago.
After installation, my Wii drive was loud when reading both retail and backup discs. Additionally, disc read errors made backups notoriously unreliable to the point of being unplayable. I have consistently had problems with my chip regardless of the media I burn on and regardless of the speeds I burn.

I gave up on backing up my games until I softmodded my Wii, which is easier, cleaner, and more reliable.
I suppose there are two sides to the coin, though.

Sure - I guess I'm the lucky one then!

As well as never having had difficulty running any game I've tried, I've never even seen what a disc read error looks like on the Wii...

You really are lucky, I have the same exact problem as that guy. I don't even use my Wii much anymore because of it :\

 

[Armadillo]

Maybe it'll be a hard wired mod for the d3 drives, so they can have x6 and gc audio fix, rather than the crap ribbon cable ones they have to use now.

 

[rafcor]

I've installed a wiikey 2 a couple months ago, never had problem with any game, including ghostbusters. Right now I'm using wiikey2 (v1.2) and 4.0u, never had a problem, in fact, only once twilight princess gave me an (yes, only one time) reading error, but it was only the first time I played it.
I chosed hard mod because I never had a GC and wanted to play Wind Waker and a couple other game, even if my PC is able to play GC games at 100% of the speed

 

[ddp127]

i think it will be a disc drive replacement, which will be capable of playing backups, originals, imports, and toasting break!

 

[ozguy]

Just over 3 days to go

 

[Satangel]

Just over 3 days to go

Can't wait!
If this has some good features that I like, this baby is mine!

 

[Ossot]

Personally, Hardmod > Softmod. Because it'll always work on every revision and System Menu

I donno. I kind of enjoy the loading speed of USB, and the ease at which I can back games up. No needing to buy a spindle of blanks. I also quite enjoy playing wiiware from other media. Oh and I like being able to have a game use the nand on my sdcard/usb for saved games.

I see your point though. You don't have to worry about "does this game have 002 fix on or off." And that's definitely a cool feature. I personally prefer superior load times, long-lasting media, wiiware from usb, and unlimited nand storage. To each his own though eh.

 

[Jhonyb]

They revealed it already its a chip that allows u to read the games from your SD slot.

I personally have a release date wii with Wiikey 1 in it and its now softmoded and i load everything from a external HDD with Uloader. So i dont see how this new wiikey chip will be better then a softmod.

Maybe saves u a bit of hassle with all the IOS installs from Homebrew Chann, but at any moment Nintendo can release something that will shaft your modchip so i came to the conclusion that having one or another is the same