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I’ve been asked whether installing the Homebrew Channel (or Twilight Hack or whatever) will void the warranty on a Wii. I’ve generally said something like “Technically, yes, but I doubt they will enforce that.” This seemed reasonable, given some of the anecdotes I’ve heard — stories of people ruining their drives with a soldering iron and still getting free repair work done under warranty, etc. I’ve also said that if a Wii is bricked (and won’t boot), then they have no way of actually checking to see what is installed on the Wii — and I still believe that to be true, at least most of the time.

I’ll be the first to admit that was wrong, given some recent evidence:

My German’s pretty bad, but I see “…. Softwarehack … EUR 210″. That seems awfully excessive, given that the price of a new Wii is EUR 250, no?

I would write this off as an isolated incident — maybe someone installed some truly awful warezloading hack. However, I was sent the following email through an anonymous remailer last month, and it would seem to support the invoice above:

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D2Sun is releasing a new modchip in the near future, the Sunkey. Currently in the testing phase, it is D2Sun’s take on the new generation of solderless modchips, much like the DriveKey, or the Flatmod.

SunKey

DETAILS:
* plug and play
* support all regions
* support all wiis
* support all games with same region
* support partical games with different region
* support USB update CPLD core and EEPROM firmware,never outday
* 2 LEDs indicate
* support chip ON/OFF

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we here at nintendo-scene will keep you updated as we get more information

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HousePlant has put his NES PC console mod in the B/S/T forums. It is a miniature Windows XP computer put in a NES console case, and supports emulating several classic consoles. Several control inputs are available, such as using your original NES controllers, or syncing Wiimotes via Bluetooth.

From the forums:

I’m selling my NES PC. It’s a fully functional Windows XP computer built into the shell of an original 1980’s NES.

It can emulate near perfection:

Atari
Turbografx 16
Gameboy
Gameboy Advance
NES
SNES
Nintendo 64
Sega Master System
Sega Genesis
Sega CD
Sega 32x
Sega Gamegear
Neo Geo
Most Arcade Machines
Playstation 1

You can plug in NES controllers and use them with any game, sync a wiimote(or 15) and use it as a gamepad or pointer mouse along with all the accessories (guitar hero guitar, nunchuck, classic controller, etc…) all very easily. Or just use the good old fashioned keyboard and mouse combo.

It can be hooked up to any TV or Monitor through either D-sub, S-video, or RCA.
The power led, power button, and reset button all work just as they should.

For more information regarding the NES PC, check out the B/S/T forums!

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Tehskeen is reporting that new Wii’s will be shipping out with epoxy covering the drivechip pins to prevent people from modifying the Wii. It is unclear wether or not the alternate install points on the bottom of the board are also covered but from the initial post reading it does not seem to be.
This will however effect any user that wants to use a Wii-Clip in any new system.

It seems that Nintendo is following Microsoft’s lead and is now covering all new Nintendo Wii DVD-ROM IC chips with some rock solid epoxy on them. This epoxy will prevent most end users from installing a modifcation chip and will leave installations up to the professional installers. Good business for them, bad news for the average joe.

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A few new tutorials have been created on the forum lately. Quite a few of these can only be found on our forums.

For more information on creating Wii backups the standard way, the Creating Wii and Gamecube Backups tutorial is still a good read. A Backup Wii Games to SD card tutorial has also been made by tom35, though it requires an SD Gecko.

Tom has also compiled a list of sicknasty413’s Wiimote and Nunchuk LED modifications into a single thread, which is a good place to start when researching those types of mods. Other Wii modification tutorials can be found in either the Wii Case/Hardware Mods section, or in its child forum known as Wii Remote Hacking.

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D2Pro announces the a new version of the D2Pro is on its way to distributors that is compatible with the newest Wii D2E drive chips.

d2e compatible version of d2pro on its way to distributors - 2008.07.15
A new version of d2pro (identifiable with the blue ‘d2e’ sticker) has now been released and shipments are on their way to distributors. d2e drives have already started to appear in the Japanese market, and it is likely that they will be appearing in other parts of the world soon.

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D2Pro has release another version of their Utility disk to fix some issues with D2Cv2 Chipsets.

Utility Disc v1.4 Released - 2008.06.09
A new version of the Utility Disc has been added to the resources section. The included update will fix the SSBB issue on new d2c-2 chips.

Downloads:
v1.4 Utility (Config/Flash Update) Disc
European Region - bz2 tarball - 89KiB
Japanese Region - bz2 tarball - 88KiB
US Region - bz2 tarball - 89KiB

• d2pro9_utilitydisc_eur_v1.4.iso.tar.bz2 - 88KB
• d2pro9_utilitydisc_jap_v1.4.iso.tar.bz2 - 87KB
• d2pro9_utilitydisc_usa_v1.4.iso.tar.bz2 - 88KB

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The D2Pro Team has released version 1.3 of their Utility Disk

Thanks goes out to Rudster for informing us.

Utility Disc v1.3 Released - 2008.05.29
We have just added the v1.3 Utility disc to the resources section. This disc can be used to configure d2pro and also update the flash to v1.3. If your d2pro is DVD-updatable, you can use this disc. Beta firmware to make d2pro DVD-updatable is also available for download, with an official release scheduled for next week.

Downloads:
v1.3 Utility (Config/Flash Update) Disc
European Region - bz2 tarball - 89KiB
Japanese Region - bz2 tarball - 88KiB
US Region - bz2 tarball - 89KiB

• d2pro9_utilitydisc_eur_v1.3.iso.tar.bz2 - 88KB
• d2pro9_utilitydisc_jap_v1.3.iso.tar.bz2 - 87KB
• d2pro9_utilitydisc_usa_v1.3.iso.tar.bz2 - 88KB

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Sven Peter has updated Sven’s blog with information on the USB status for the Wii.

I’ve (finally) been able to create a patch for libogc today which just got accepted and adds my usb-storage code to it - just wait for the next release or get the CVS version if you know what you are doing. Thanks again to shagkur for some miscellaneous fixes and hints to my code.

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Infectus.biz is reporting that their WASABUS Argon 9 Wire Firmware is finally avaiable

2008-05-13 10.00.35

9 WIRES FIRMWARE ARGON IS FINALLY OUT - VERSION 1.1

INFECTUS TEAM - ARGON SPI - 9 WIRES FIRMWARE 1.1 (13/05/08)
Finally we are back with the correct 9 wires update! (This time full tested with about 15 beta users arround the world)

Download: WASABUS-argon-1.1.zip

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• WASABUS-argon-1.1.zip - 6705KB

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