Successfully WiiD my Wii

[Green Giant]

Just go a Wiid modchip the other day, and after a very grueling time on the install, it works.

I was pretty proud of myself on this one mainly cause I thought I broke the wii during the install, but I fixed it.  When soldering on the wires, one wire felt like it was going to break, I accidentally hit the wire, and it pulled off the contact from the wii board.

After this happened, I was  pissed.  Thought it was broken, then after some online research just thought it was unmoddable.

Realized I had one option, to solder directly to the very small chip on the board.  This was by far the smalled thing I have ever tried to solder to.  I ended up stripping the wire out of a telephone cord down to just one single strand, as thin as a human hair.  Slowly tinned it.  Then I spent a very long time trying to attach the one wire to the chip without bridging. 

If you ever have to do this, use a magnifying glass.  I have perfect 20/20, but it is incredibly hard to see if anything is bridging.  Double checked with a razor blade and then covered the thing in hot glue.  This stuff works great as it is not hot enough to damage anything, nonconductive, and holds wires forever. 

I put everything back together with only two extra screws and one extra nut.   

Booted it up, dropped in a backup disc, and the thing actually worked.   

[Hoagie_one]

GRATS.  pin soldering is a pain, but nessesary when you burn a pad off.

[thennomeking]

So do the chips let you play roms yet?  That is the only reason I would mod my wii, well that or some really awesome homebrew.

[Hoagie_one]

you can run all gamecube emulation on it, which covers a lot of different emulators.

[Marky_1979]

So what does this mod do? let you play wii back ups?

[Hoagie_one]

So what does this mod do? let you play wii back ups?

YEs

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=66945.0

[Green Giant]

There is a really easy app out there that lets you play several different roms.  All you do is tell it where your game roms are, and it creates an iso image with the emulator built in.

I haven't had a chance to test this out yet since I think it requires a gamecube controller, but preliminary checks looked good.

It is still early in wii modchip development, but there are already 5 or 6 systems you can emulate with the app I found.  The main thing is support for wii backups of any region.  And assuming Hoagie knows more about gamecube stuff than myself, there are many other emulators for the Wii.

[Hoagie_one]

NES, SNES, Genesis, SMS, TG-16, for sure