Monday, August 10, 2009

No More Wii Bricks

By Scott Frank

So you like to modify your Nintendo Wii to use backup games to shield your original games from unwanted scratches. Or maybe, you like to modify your Nintendo Wii for some other wicked cause.

For this article, it beside the point.

The bare essentials, and what we will be talking about, are the repercussions you will have to bear once you attach a mod chip on your Wii's motherboard.

These are the things you have to think about before you decide on modifying your Wii:

- By modding your Wii, you will in effect cancell its guarantee. If your unit is no longer under guarantee , Nintendo tune-up centers still won't admit the same for violating the TOS. Third party tune-up centers that repair Nintendo Wiis are really, really scarce this period in the engine's life cycle, so your selections will be restricted if and when your Wii does explode.

- By modifying your Wii, you will make your machine more prone to dangers of destroying its system. Wring firmware updates, for the console or for the mod chip, will effectively destroy the Wii. A Japanese upgrade on a US console, for instance, will stop the Wii from playing, and there is no solution for this as today.

- By modifying your Wii, you will be tempted to get and burn Wii games which you don't lawfully own. This is in opposition to the regulation. If trapped, you will need to bear a place of trouble.

- By modding your Wii, you will be tempted to get and copy Wii games left and there. You will play so many games. Because you never put in financially or expressively on all of them, you will have less drive when it comes to completing these games. You will not feel full pleasure with your engine.

- By modifying your Wii, you will risk hindering some features of your console in the forthcoming. Remember, to take pleasure in everything the Wii can give, you will need to connect the system to the net. This will permit Nintendo to remotely inspect your console. In the periods to come, they may utilize connectivity to limit the features you can play, much like how Xbox Live has excluded modded Xbox 360s from carrying out online games supported by its network.

Are you set to bear with these results? The reply will eventually determine whether or not modifying your Wii will be the better selection for you. Hence, you had a mod chip attached to your Nintendo Wii's motherboard. You like to run copied games - for some explanation- and you have opted to take the plunge.

Well, I'm not here to ask about your impetus. Let's just think that you have legitimate reasons in using recopies, shall we?

Anyway, having a modded Wii dictates you have more selections with regards to the media you can run. Genuine Wii games, check. Copied Wii games, check. Genuine GameCube games, check. Copied GameCube games, check. Even WiiWare downloadables, check!

Nevertheless, possessing a modded Wii also denotes you have to live with certain disadvantages. Primary of these downbeats, surely , is a void service contract. Mainly, when your Nintendo Wii explodes, you won't be able to forward it to all official tune-up center. And intermediary tune-up centers that fix Wii engines are really, really rare.

The answer: make certain that your Nintendo Wii won't explode, most definitely!

But, having a modded Wii also means that there is a huge likelihood that your console will get bricked . Intentionally or inadvertently, since you joined the Dark Side, you will have to exist with the truth that some state fortification procedures will end the functional condition of your Nintendo Wii.

If you have a US engine, for instance, and you upgrade its firmware with a Japanese DVD (which you won't be able to play unless you modified your Wii, which you accomplished), your Wii will stop playing. There is no solution to this. It will remain bricked for the impending future.

If your Wii is altered with the WiiKey mod chip, identify if you have a WiiKey genuine or a WiiKey double. Copies of initial party Nintendo games often track the attendance of mod chips, and they will stop to load. Mod chips supply their own firmware upgrades to work out such a problem. WiiKey, for instance, has firmware 1.9g to allow the modified system to run Super Mario Galaxy.

Now here's where it becomes dangerous: if you improve your WiiKey firmware the erroneous method, you will ruin the mod chip and the console will fail to run any media.

If you upgrade a WiiKey clone with any WiiKey firmware, you can probably ruin the mod chip too. Some WiiKey replicas aren't manufactured to accommodate genuine WiiKey firmwares.

The remedy: upgrade with maximum prudence.

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