My informal quickie review of Argon modchip + Injectus programmer:
For comparisons sake, my Wii is a US NTSC unit with a D2C dvd drive. The argon modchip is flashed with the latest available firmware at the time of this writing ( 1.8 ) and the console has been completely updated with the latest Nintendo software/ dash updates.
The modchip features great web support via the forums:
http://www.infectus.biz/forum/ Frequent firmware updates. Aforementioned ability to update chip completely via usb programmer.
Compatibility seems to be good. I tried 9 Wii backups that were tested working on another modded Wii system and of the 9, only one the games, Bully, did not load. It froze with a black screen during load and the Wii had to be reset.
All of the games load and play as expected just like retail games except for FMV (full motion video) problems with some titles.
Speaking of web support, this modchip was plagued with freezing and compatibility issues when it came out. It received quite a bit of bashing throughout web forums like these until the frequent firmware updates started hitting. Now compatibility and freezing is not an issue at all. These guys seem to be supporting the chip w/ updates.
Full motion video seems to have a stutter or lag on some Wii games. Most work perfectly. However Super Smash Brothers and Super Mario Galaxy both have excess lag during video play (cutscenes). It is very annoying during the scenes that cant be skipped. Hopefully this can be corrected with a firmware update but for now is a very annoying drawback to the use of this chip.
Every gamecube backup I have tried has worked perfectly. The mod is worth a fair amount to me just to play all of my gamecube games.
Again, I want to give a plug to the guy who modded my system. He can be found via this Xbox Scene thread:
http://forums.xbox-scene.com/index.php?showtopic=333458or he can be emailed at Buzzjockey@netzero.net
The soldering job he did was superb. He received the console on Thursday. Modded it on Friday. Shipped it back to me on Saturday (priority mail) and the console was back in my hands on Monday afternoon. Great turn around time.
I am going back to testing and tuning and trying to work on correcting the lag issues.
Overall I would rate the modchip a 7.5 out of 10 at this point with the rating to go way higher when the FMV problem is corrected.
-D