Hacking Wiinja - Can it boot NTSC-J and NTSC-U?

[Renegade_R]

This question has been asked many times here but no one has seemed to give a straight answer. Now that people have the Wiinja in their Wiis, I want to know whether a NTSC-U console can boot the NTSC-J games. This seems to be an 'advertised' feature of the Wiikey and it may just be a side effect of how these chips works.

So what I basically want to know is that whether anyone with a North American NTSC console with a Wiinja managed to successfully boot a Japanese NTSC game.

 

[WarmWoollySheep]

No, as per xiaNaix of wiinewz.com (sorry for blabbing early but this dude asked!)

http://www.wiinja.com/Foros/viewtopic.php?t=112


Wiikey must be doing something special.

 

[Hooya]

Damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, guess I'm not getting a Wiinja unless they come out with a new revision that does this.

Then again, since I don't have a Wii yet, I must have to wait for a new revision anyway, since anymore I think there are only units being produced that will have an incompatible drivechip with the current modchips.

 

[Renegade_R]

Alright that's all I needed to know...sucks to know too

Hope WiiKey isn't vaporware.

 

[xiaNaix]

I would have thought there would be something that could be easily patched in the ISO to make Japanese games boot on a North American console but I guess not. I even tried editing the region bytes in the disc and file headers in the ISO but no luck. I guess this Wiinja will be coming out in a week or two and a Wiikey going in.

 

[Hooya]

I would have thought there would be something that could be easily patched in the ISO to make Japanese games boot on a North American console but I guess not. I even tried editing the region bytes in the disc and file headers in the ISO but no luck. I guess this Wiinja will be coming out in a week or two and a Wiikey going in.Â

We can't edit Wii ISOs yet since it invalidates the digital signature. GC games didn't have this protection so that's why it could be done on GC games.

 

[lenselijer]

wii images are signed so once you change 1 byte you loose the signature and it wont boot.

thats why we still dont have wii homebrew...

 

[xiaNaix]

The Wiikey coders must have some information on Wii signature then, since they claim they can boot same region backups.

 

[EarthBound]

The Wiikey coders must have some information on Wii signature then, since they claim they can boot same region backups.

Yup =)

foundmy *ships* tomorrow so we will see.

 

[Scorpin200]

yes it does

 

[Hooya]

The Wiikey coders must have some information on Wii signature then, since they claim they can boot same region backups.



Yup =)

foundmy *ships* tomorrow so we will see.

Do we really know anything about Wiikey yet? I mean, even knowing what kind of mod it is? Is it a drive mod? Mobo mod? A real picture maybe would help!

 

[WarmWoollySheep]

Wiikey, from the news I've read, won't be released until late February, and not in anyone's hands until March.

The best option is still: Cyclowiz/Wiinja now, remove it later.