Hacking Wiinja has been cracked

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i agree!

 

[Monkey01]

well the 360 did it via sata cable, so might be a way of doign it like that, that is if the wii has a sata port.

I don't think it does, as SATA Cables are cables for SATA Hard Drives and Wii has no HD's.

Maybe download a sort of patch through the Opera browser?

Who knows. Maybe there's a hole that lets you install stuff through browser. And flash that drive.

The only glitch in Opera didn't let you do any more then crashing the browser, so that will not work either...

QUOTE(Pacote @ Feb 12 2007, 07:28 PM)the only way i see it happening is solding some king of serial cable that will go into your pc and flashing it...

but you wuold still have to solder on the serial port of the drive

That sounds logical... to bad that we still have to solder though...

 

[Scha]

Since we are well into the 20th century i for one think this kind of thing should be standard by now, and the old techniques of soldering and using chip are kind of outdated.

First of all the 20th centry started 107 years ago, we are now in the 21st centry... And in the 21st century there is 21st century protection as well, so you probably need to soldier on a serial cable to flash the DVD fw

 

[111111111]

I don't think it does, as SATA Cables are cables for SATA Hard Drives and Wii has no HD's.

And SATA dvd drives too..

Not that the wii has one of those either.

 

[Niijaooh]

The post is from 02-06-2007...

I hope he isn't talking about the fake hex which is floating around...

 

[_zZz_]

does anyone knows which data interface the wii dvd has? it must be something "standard" no?

 

[Pacote]

The release of the hex is taking too dawn long

 

[niklasnyfiken]

I can't see it being that long before your able to play the VC games for free.

Don't make predictions of stuff you don't understand. For you to play VC games for free, you'd have to crack Nintendo's encryption, which you'll NEVER EVER be able to do, or somehow patch the Wii firmware which so far no-one has been able to do because it too is encrypted. I'm not talking about toy encryption like on the GC, real stuff.

 

[fintendo]

From what I've understood, the Wii doesn't have a standard connection for the DVD drive as opposed to the XBox 360's drive with SATA connecetor. Nintendo is known for their own propietary hardware. At the end of the day I see buying a modchip for Wii the best decision.

 

[GexX2]

I'm not buying a modchip until they lower their prices, a lot. Paying the price for current modchips is stupid as they aren't region free, can't be upgraded (most of them. And wtf is up with the need for an upgrade switch?), and cost ~99 cents to make.

 

[Phunt]

Well if they do it i hope they update the code with some better media detection because at the moment the disc read errors are just a pain in the a$$.

 

[Gangsta_L]

woohoo good news I might flash my wii now

 

[jaxxster]

I'm not buying a modchip until they lower their prices, a lot. Paying the price for current modchips is stupid as they aren't region free, can't be upgraded (most of them. And wtf is up with the need for an upgrade switch?), and cost ~99 cents to make.

Man you're such a tightass. You dont wanna pay for a modchip but you wanna be a pirate? Its like $25 max now for a wiinja, Less than a price of a game.

 

[GexX2]

Its like $60 for a Wiinja. Which isn't at all what I'm looking for in a modchip. Its hardly futureproof, its not region-free (which is important to a lot of people, including me.) and until a modchip comes out that is ~ the $35-$45 range and is region free, has less DRE's, is upgradeable and actually worth it, I'm not getting one.

 

[Veho]

Its like $60 for a Wiinja.

25 Euro is $33.

 

[GexX2]

Its like $60 for a Wiinja.

25 Euro is $33.

Well its $55 in US shops.

And I already said Wiinja isn't what I'm looking for. I might use it if its turned into a drive flash, otherwise, I'm content waiting for a proper modchip.

 

[squall3031]

Some aussie shops are selling wii modchips for AUD$75 and $100.
They can shove those modchips up their !@# !!
I learned my lesson from PS2. No way i'm gonna repeat the same mistake.

 

[iza]

sorry, i'm new to console modding...theres no way to flash it with out soldering? so would it be possible to just touch the cable to the port and flash it? i really dont want to solder anything, but i will if i have too.

 

[Scorpei]

sorry, i'm new to console modding...theres no way to flash it with out soldering? so would it be possible to just touch the cable to the port and flash it? i really dont want to solder anything, but i will if i have too.

. Have you seen how small those points are (TSSP)? There is no way that anyone has THAT steady hands

. Anyway, the whole flashing thing seems strange to me. Flashing the drive can only be done via the TSSP right? If so one will always have to 1) open the wii 2)solder to the points. If so the firmware replacement seems bloody useless to me as you could also simply put a small pic in there with the same code (or at least similar) as the Wiinja/CycloWiz/WiiKey/whatever_drive_mod_you_can_think_of.

 

[jaxxster]

It would be lovely to be able to flash your wiis DVD drive without soldering. Hell i ordered my cyclowiz yesterday i'll be annoyed if they end up finding a way to mod your wii without soldering.