Mar 05

Wii clip modding wont work on newer wii

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Three months after getting the wii chip and clip for my girlfriends wii, I finally made the time last night to install it.  

I’m currently ill with a whole host of things, and looking at a computer screen for long periods of time makes me ill – so I decided to undertake a fairly simple bit of modding.

I took the wii apart, and to my annoyance found this;

Zoomed in;

Yep, it looks like Nintendo have dumped a whole load of “black stuff” around the very chip that I need to attach the wii-clip to.

Very annoying!  It looks like I’m going to have to use the soft mod technique unless I can find a way around this.  I’ve asked the wii-clip makers for their comments.

2 Responses to “Wii clip modding wont work on newer wii”

  1. Seth Simons Says:
    March 26th, 2009 at 10:15

    that would be called ‘circuit potting’, used by assholes to prevent you from doing what you want, with the hardware you have purchased. Welcome to the new millennium! Conform and spend money for your glorious corporate master, Citizen.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potting_%28electronics%29

  2. Hamlesh Says:
    March 26th, 2009 at 19:12

    Well, it can be removed, with a heat gun and carefully picking it off… but I’m just goind to softmod it using the Zelda bug… at some point…

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