Wiinja – 1st Wii Mod chip January 26, 2007
Team Wiinja has successfully created the first mod chip for the Wii. The chip is able to play back-ups (Wii and GC) by only soldering 5 wires to your Wii. If you fry your Wii in the process, you’re out of luck.
The chip is already for sale and I believe will ship February 1st.
Tests on DVD media are already under way. Tests have shown that burning with speeds of up to 16x works on the following media: Verbatim +R, TDK-R, Imation-R, Emtec 1x-4x -R. Burn unscrambled images just in a normal way. Super Monkey Ball PAL is a bad image, it doesn’t work.
Keep in mind opening up your Wii will void your warranty, so make sure you know what you’re doing.
Two video’s of the chip in action:
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January 26th, 2007 at 12:54 pm
You just beat me to the post.
Anyways I have been trying to look at their site for a while, but it wouldn’t open till about 2 minutes ago.
I’d like to just say that in the Rayman he shows us that this it the hooked up Wii, but we cannot see him insert the disc.
In the second video we see him inserting many discs, but we do not if that Wii is the one hooked up. Oddly enough there is a tape in the VCR, that would be hard to time, but possible.
If this would allow me to play US imports of GC games, that would be fantastic (so I can get my HD on).
I hope there are some people insane enough to risk it so I don’t have to.
January 26th, 2007 at 1:01 pm
Has a fake feeling to me, but what do I know? If it’s real, then sweet… someone try it and post on here bout it.
January 26th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
Yea, I’m definitely too scared to try it myself…
January 26th, 2007 at 8:25 pm
[...] You probably read the Wii Mod Chip post and wondered wether or not it truly was functionable. Well I might have your answer. I just watched a video in which a guy talks about the GC security flaws. He basically explains how the two backdoors function and what can be done with them. He goes on to talk about the Wii, well more mock than talk, but rightfully so. Both backdoors have been issued a quick fix, by one assigning a new password (the old one in lower case) and two removing the serial port but adding a new one. The final question is, is the Wii hacked? What about homebrew? Watch the video to find out. [...]
January 26th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
what does this chip actually do??? plz help
January 26th, 2007 at 9:44 pm
[...] Check out this article on http://wiinintendo.net/2007/01/26/wiinja-1st-wii-mod-chip/ [...]
January 26th, 2007 at 9:49 pm
The chip essentially enables the debugging mode of the drive (the chip is soldered to the drive board, not the main board). In short it tells the drive to go ahead and read any disk, not just Wii and GC disks.
It’s a 5 point solder job, which is amazing because some early chips have been in upwards of 20 different solder points. These points are relatively large, and therefore easy as well.
January 26th, 2007 at 10:05 pm
whatever, i need more proof first and then ill still wait until it can be hacked from a memcard or sd card, i love my psp hacks this way. and i you all love nintendos franchise games then please dont bootleg em. especially zelda
January 26th, 2007 at 10:07 pm
if you love, wii typing takes time you know
January 27th, 2007 at 6:25 am
Lewis, at the moment don’t count on SD Card or changing memory exploits on the Wii. As of now there are only two known ways and by the sounds of it Wiinja must be using backdoor 2. And considering what I saw in the video (look a my post “The Nintendo Inheritance”) the security is so similar to the GCs which had mod chips that I believe it would relatively easy to just alter the chips.
January 27th, 2007 at 6:25 am
And I am not trying to say that this mod chip works, that remains to be truly seen.
January 27th, 2007 at 9:10 am
i read the artical and still dont get it
January 27th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
so this means you could play like ps2 games on the wii?
January 28th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
no it doesn’t wtf, but in the far off future it may b possible.
January 31st, 2007 at 9:08 pm
[...] After the Wiinja modchip, the CycloWiz was announced. MaxConsole was lucky enough to receive one of the modchips and obviously testd it to the fullest. The review states that the modchip is obviously of high quality and that the installation was easy. There’s also a LED to verify that everything is installed correctly. Wii and GameCube backups both worked and because of how the CycloWiz works it is completely invisible to the CPU and therefore it is highly likely that no firmware update will be able to detect it (and therefore disable online abilities or similar). The modchip only supports games from your region, it does not remove the much hated region code on Wii games. GameCube homebrew runs, so you can use GCOS to run other region GameCube discs. Judging by how successful this review was, Wiinja is already slain. Over all it looks like Nintendo should have properly fixed the backdoors I mentioned in an earlier post. And now, not too long after the release, people are going to go insane with illegal copies of games. I, for one, could finally play GameCube imports (I can’t find PAL games that support 480p) and Wii backups. I don’t always play nice with my discs so scratches happen. [...]
February 2nd, 2007 at 9:41 pm
MaxConsole could be doing a promo for the chip thats on sale at their site,. so all info from that should be taken with a bias type of view,.
there is also a chip called Viper,.
February 11th, 2007 at 10:31 am
i heard wii’s ship as of 2007 have a new chip in them, and these mods dont work. i was wondering, does this new chip make the new wii’s better then the first batch graffics wise or speed?
February 22nd, 2007 at 1:25 pm
[...] Wiinja, CycloWiz, Wiip and Wiikey better watch out, cause it seems that this new Wii Modchip “WiiXT” (advertised by it’s makers as the Ultimate Wii Modchip) will be able to play both GC and Wii Homebrew, Games and Backups. And as a most interesting feature, seems like it will be able to play DVD Movies. Some think is a fake, some don’t. [...]
January 3rd, 2009 at 8:30 am
USE HOMEBREW CHANNEL // INSTRUCTABLES.COM SEARCH WII BACKUP