I like my method, well not really like, but I am glad it worked. I guess I don't have a steady hand, reason the trace came off in the first place. I just tinned up the wire and tried to touch the lead for a sec. Eventually it held pretty good and I think the hot glue is the way to go. Even if you managed to attach one of those tiny 30awg wires to the leg, it doesn't have alot to hand on to.
Are yall sure 30 awg is small enough for attaching to one of those legs. I think it would be to big. I just ripped open an old phone cord for the wires to the traces on the board, but that wire was probably three legs wide compared to the Wii chip.
Forget soldering to the pins, the D2B chips with the cut pins are a beast to Mod. You have to file (or very carefully dremel) away the chip casing, and solder to the traces inside the chip itself.
I wish I knew about that when I tried it. I initially thought I broke the thing, then I did some searching and someone suggested wiring to the D2B chip. I did that and it was a beast to mod. I only had to do one wire though, can't imagine all 5.
Just to clarify, I am talking about attaching a wire to this chip. see below