Just wondering if anyone has been brave enough to have the wiikey installed in their Nintendo Wii?? I’m really thinking about getting it done, but I’d cry if something went wrong with the procedure.
Not sure if this is what the wiikey is, buy my wii is modified to play games from any region, and works well.
My inlaw brought his Wii around last week, and it was modded - seemed to play everything just fine, and the bugger had something like 60 games to go along with it. I really have no idea if it was with Wiikey or not, but I’m considereing having mine done as well.
I have WiiKey in mine, but it came that way. Works good. But it precludes on-line play right?
Damn…now I want mine modded! Installing the “wiikey”, allows it to play any game, any region…but I’m still unsure if it precludes online play. Anyone know the answer to that? For those of you who have the Wii modded…can you still go online with it??
Does that mean you can run a US game on a Japanese wii?
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Yes, but good luck buying a US game here. I have found 1. Godfather, which is a surprisingly entertaining game, sorta GTA + Scarface 
And I heard you can only go on line with the Jap Wii in Japan! so even unmoded ones here can’t get on line. Different routing or something.
I have not tested it yet though.
No idea about the online thingy, but I do know where to get the games 
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[quote=“Chicken”]Yes, but good luck buying a US game here. I have found 1. Godfather, which is a surprisingly entertaining game, sorta GTA + Scarface
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Can you not buy copied US Wii games there?
Well. As I said prevoiusly, there are a few. But most of the games you see are in Japaneese.
I just bought a Canadain Wii. Got a good deal at wallmart. So now I have a pre-modified Wii for sale in Taiwan? Anyone want one?
If your Wii is modded, it shouldn’t matter if you play Japanese games with your N.American Wii. Right?? But I guess playing a game that’s not in English would be kind of annoying.
am thinking about getting a Wii. What do i need to know about buying one here, i.e. is there a place that bundles the mod.
I can get one brought over from Canada soon if need be. Any advantage/disadvantage of doing this?
Get a Japanese one and have it modded - it’s cheaper all around. The only negative thing I’ve seen about the Japanese modded ones was from my cousin -in-law. I played around with his a bit. It was mostly fine, but just a little bit flaky here and there - sometimes had to unplug the cord from the back to flash the memory after it hung on a homebrew game, and it wouldn’t keep progress in memory if you swapped out the disc with another and later returned to the game.
Although I haven’t heard about this problem from other folks who have their systems modded, it made me just nervous enough to pass on having mine (US version) done. I’d still like to have it modded, but I’d like to hold back a bit and hear from others who have had it done first.
Still, if I was to buy one here, I would definitely pay and have it modded - there seems to be only a small chance that it would be as flaky as my relative’s was. Everyone else I know that has had it done has had no complaints at all.
BTW Truant, congrats on getting a Wii - you’re going to have some great fun!
I bought a Japanese Wii a couple of weekends ago, and ordered a WiiKey online. I installed it last weekend, and I’ve been playing copied U.S. versions of Zelda: Twilight Princess and Super Paper Mario since.
If you intend to install a WiiKey or any other mod-chip yourself, I suggest that you dismantle your Wii and get a look at the chipset on the DVD drive, first. If you’re lucky enough to have a slightly older Wii, the installation shouldn’t be too difficult. If you’ve got a newer Wii like mine, it’s going to be an enormous pain in the ass.
In order to stop modders, Nintendo has begun clipping three pins off the edge of one of the ICs on the DVD drive. Each of those three pins needs to be connected to the mod chip in order for it to work.
See photos here: farm2.static.flickr.com/1093/846 … 017d_o.jpg
and here: farm2.static.flickr.com/1158/846 … 98b1_o.jpg
(Not my photos, but I’ve got some I could post later, if anyone is interested.)
If you’ve got a Wii with clipped pins, the easy way to mod it is to use a Dremel to grind into the IC until you’ve exposed the copper traces of the three pins you need, and then either reconnect those traces to the circuit board, or connect them directly to your mod chip, as I did. You’ve got to make three connections within a space of about a millimeter, without bridging them.
I would not have attempted it had I known about that before I bought my mod chip.
But I got it to work, and I’m very happy now.