First Wii modchip to ship Feb 1st

[lcddream]

You guys worry me.... you can now build a mod chip from scrath and it costs less than 15 bucks!

It requires the same amount of soldering as the store-bought chips, only this one can be re-programmed.

the wiikey can be reprogrammed via dvd...I'm aware of the build your own scenario and was before I ordered the wiikey. I don't know why i didn;t build my own, it just didn't appeal to me. I do so much of my own other stuff, this time I figured I could spoil myself.

I guess I'm just getting tired.

[Howard_Casto]

Well my point was that since none of the wii chips are solderless yet, you are really doing the same amount of work (except you have to plug it into your pc first... big whoop).   There are a lot of do-dads soldered on to the DIY chip, but if you read the how-to they are all optional..... You basically take an off-the shelf chip and program it and solder it on in the exact same manner that you would do a commercial chip. 

Actually I like the this method. It appears that a second hardware hack will be required for wii homebrew and this wya you don't void your warranty.  Also a 1 gig sd card and a usb adaptor is about 50 bucks by itself, so you aren't exactly wasting money on it.