Nintendo Wii tips & tricks, howto's and guides

[miacoy]

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daghan pa diay ni samok2 ang wii... upgrades... semi-bricks and stuffs. sus im planning to buy one unta ds week pero after reading ds nag duha duha nuon ko. sus wa bya gyud koy patience anang ayo2 nya wa sad ko talent ana upgrades and other stuffs. basin maparehos na sako psp 2 weeks ra na gamit kay d sad ko kibaw mo dula sa ako games.
ganahan bya ta ko sa wii pila na gud ko ka months cge tanaw2.... mario ra man sad ako nahan ug kana mga sports nla... batia oi

[cooldude75ph]

New Wii DVD Drive Out - Prevents ALL current modchips

That’s right Big N has released a new revision of there drive which prevents ALL current modchips to date. Looks like Big N really doesn’t want to see those nasty pirates. From where I have read the drive controller chip has been completely removed. The guys over at ModChipSupplier were the first to find out about it. The new drive is called GC2-D3.

What they have done is combine the old D1A and drive controller chip in to one which is now called the GC2-D3, as you can see from the photo there is a big blank space on the PCB where the controller chip used to be.

One of these drives will be on its way to the WiiKey team next week and they will of course do their best to work it out, but from what we can tell it could possibly be a few months or longer before it could be figured out as it’s a totally new way of handling drive function, that’s just our guess and maybe they will work it out faster. This is all speculation of course for now, but we can see the first generation of chips for these drives being a high wire count such as the D2CKey when they were first released. When we know more from the WiiKey team after they have received the drive and had time to access it, we will make a post in this thread to update everyone on the situation.

There is one good bit of news that we were able to confirm, the console that had this new D3 drive was able to have a D2B drive connected to it and functioned as normal, so they did not make changes to the cable system or anything else. This means that even though there will be no chips for these consoles for a little while, it will still be possible to buy a replacement drive or even a replacement drive board and do something with these consoles.

So far we have not heard any other reports of these drives found anywhere else in the world, what was also interesting is it was found in an Australian console with the serial LAH1098xxxxx, there are already consoles out here that are LAH11xxxxxx and are still epoxy D2E, so from what we can gather they have not started rolling these new drives out in the masses yet and maybe these few just slipped out early. I guess we will know for sure in the coming weeks, if we don’t start to see them in the masses it might still be a little while before the rest of the world sees them.

Does this mean higher prices for current modded Wiis?

[wAn_eyE]

So is it safe to upgrade wii through the net?

[cooldude75ph]

So is it safe to upgrade wii through the net?

It is relatively safe but if you're going to upgrade to the latest firmware, it will render most homebrew useless.

[edge827]

daghan pa diay ni samok2 ang wii... upgrades... semi-bricks and stuffs. sus im planning to buy one unta ds week pero after reading ds nag duha duha nuon ko. sus wa bya gyud koy patience anang ayo2 nya wa sad ko talent ana upgrades and other stuffs. basin maparehos na sako psp 2 weeks ra na gamit kay d sad ko kibaw mo dula sa ako games.
ganahan bya ta ko sa wii pila na gud ko ka months cge tanaw2.... mario ra man sad ako nahan ug kana mga sports nla... batia oi

this are the reasons why i sell my wii, for me its so complicated na i'll stick to my ps3 n 360 nalang

[kratos83]

is there a way to convert a japanese WII, to english and can read US games as well?

tnx!

[cooldude75ph]

is there a way to convert a japanese WII, to english and can read US games as well?

tnx!

I already posted weeks ago about how to modify enable Japanese Wii models to have English menus.

Modded Jap Wii can already read NTSC/US and PAL/EUR games. Just read previous posts about my warnings about updating the firmware when using games not targeted at your region.

[kratos83]

pwede magpa modify lang, asa kaha pwede?
hasol man diay..

[dotamer]

bai, nakapalit kog WII diri sa japan, wala may english bai. pwede ni ipaconvert dha sa atoa sa pinas naay mo convert ani para ma english na unya kaduwa tag games nga english...ok raba bai..
pls. help me...

[dotamer]

hmmm........ mura complicated kaayo I own a wii too but the most mod ako gi buhat is to play game cube games ra I hope to find an application na maka add ug dodge soon like what was shown in you tube it was nice

bai asa ta ka pa modified sa WII naa sa SM or AYALA. nakapalit man kog WII diri sa japan, unya lisod man kay wala menu nga english.
possible bani nga makaduwa kog english?ug ma convert japanese to english ang menu?
pls. help me noob pa kaayo ko aning WII...

Thx.