CycloWiz/Wiinja Not Worth The Cash

[BlueCrab]

I AGREE with "rawfodog" only not so extreme, they are just drive chips firmware updates from nintendo do not affect the drives its common sense people...

Unless of course they can upgrade the drive's firmware. Or, build in some sort of detection for the chips that makes the official firmware refuse to boot.

[zeromission80]

Unless of course they can upgrade the drive's firmware. Or, build in some sort of detection for the chips that makes the official firmware refuse to boot.

Doubt it Nintendo really has never had trouble in the past with piracy, enough to take such a huge stand like that. I mean look at the DS, there are numerous ways to exploit it and the numbers in sales still increase, as do the Wii. People will buy nintendo products always!!! and will always over shadow the hombrew community (us) in financial darkness. If numbers decline then they will attack the hombrew community for fear of lost sales

[Cap'n 1time]

I think the entire thing is a waste of time. I think it will be likely that either software exploits will be found.. It is also possible (given the success of the GC product) that Datel will unleash another product that will allow us to go nuts.
Don't quote me on this, but perhaps due to some of the hardware similarities it wont be to difficult to modify current homebrew SDK's for the GC and turn them into Wii programs (this is not based on anything... just a thought).

It is way too early to suspect a modchip is the only point of entry into the homebrew world on a Wii console. For the time being... these products are a waste of money as they do not allow us to do what we wanted with them... Backing everything up is out of style and piracy never was in style.

[bandit]

I'm getting a chip to review. It should be available Monday

[BlueCrab]

Doubt it Nintendo really has never had trouble in the past with piracy, enough to take such a huge stand like that. I mean look at the DS, there are numerous ways to exploit it and the numbers in sales still increase, as do the Wii. People will buy nintendo products always!!! and will always over shadow the hombrew community (us) in financial darkness. If numbers decline then they will attack the hombrew community for fear of lost sales

But remember, The newer DSes came out with a firmware that blocked the first batch of PassMe devices from working. Proof that Nintendo has somewhat taken a stand in the past.

[surge77]

Im also not buying this modchip ... but it costs 40€ ... the same like 1 Game

At least you can play all Wii games out now for 40€