Got my Wii modchipped today
And it's working great. I've tried four "backups" so far, and everyone has worked perfectly.
The chip I went for was the Wiikey. I didn't want to risk fitting it myself so I took my Wii to a computer fair and someone installed it there. This beauty also plays GameCube "backups", although I've not tried any yet.
The chip I went for was the Wiikey. I didn't want to risk fitting it myself so I took my Wii to a computer fair and someone installed it there. This beauty also plays GameCube "backups", although I've not tried any yet.
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Thanks!
Skarpo
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/me looks up what a "Prince Albert" is.
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Well it doesn't take them long does it, It'll be the death of the machine that will. Just like the Dreamcast Ohhhh my!
According to the aforementioned website's legal disclaimer this ought to answer your question:
"... Our products are only intended for playing legitimate backups and homebrew software in territories whose legislations allows this. ..."
Skarpo
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Even though the Wii homebrew scene is in it's infancy, I reckon there'll be a good chance we'll see a Wii speccy emulator at some point.
Looking forward to that!
It's a nice smooth little system ... I really like how compact and innocuous it looks.
Wii! Wee! Waa! Woom!
Skarpwii
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It cost £60, and took about half an hour - they did it there and then. You can buy the chip for about £30 and install it yourself, but I'm not confident enough to do it.
I got it done at Bowlers Computer Fair, Manchester.
Tried my first GC backup this morning, burned to a regular size DVD, worked perfectly.
trading standards would have a field day if they bothered to go there
Ok ... I'm just going to expose my dumbledoreness ... am I to understand that you can just do a direct GC-to-DVD copy of GC games??? *
Skarpo
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*and then use the mod-chip to play them.
Bowlers ain't half as bad as it was a few years ago. Outside there used to be loads of people selling pirated games/MP3s/etc out of suitcases. There's none of that now, since the police raided them a few times.
Inside you'll be hard-pressed now to find a stall selling dodgy software. I'd hardly call it a den of pirates and thieves.
You find a ripped .iso file (image file) of the game. Then use burning software such as imgburn or Nero to burn the iso file to disk. You'll need a chipped console to then play these disks.
Ahhh ... that makes sense ... thanks!
The dreamcast was dead in the water as soon as the clever heads " found a way to play copies " .
Xbox - another great machine that was killed off before its time as microsoft released the 360 due to the low software sales of new xbox games.
When you looked on ebay , all you could see was xbox - special one , with 120 games etc , all dodgy , all modded , all pretty much killing the machine off.
Im sick of people making excuses for illegal activities such as modding / chipping / piracy , its a f*****g disgrace.
F**k pirates full stop.
Are you saying you never pirated speccy games back in the day?
The well organised Industrial Pirates of today make a very good living off software developers backs and brag / boast about what they do , they dont even care about games , its just a way to fund there lifestyles , gangs . terrorists etc have switched from importing hard drugs to pirate merchandise as its more profitable , its illegal and immoral , i see them at every car boot sale and dodgy boozer , especially the dvd Pirates , 3 for a tenner , good as the original etc , dont make me laugh. All thieves and wasters.
Ive got mates up here who brag that they have modded 360's , stacks of copied dvds , modded ds's etc , fantastic , they really help the software / film industry and they get a short answer when they ask do i want my machine manhandled by some pirate - f*** off.
This aint personal either Daren !! not in the slightest , I just detest pirates , i swear , i get so wound up and now theyve " cracked " the wii , which is a smart machine , it just gets on my nerves , i remember the dreamcast getting cracked , 18 months later the commercial software virtually dried up , and its a dead machine , theres no arguement for piracy , is there ?
When anyone mentioning were to find roms of denied spectrum games gets a bollocking or the thread deleted.
also the greatest most popular console ever (the playstation) WAS down to piracy
AND it had the most amount of software legally released for it
Eh? Skarpo wondered how the process of playing GameCube backups works on the Wii. Nothing wrong with that. I did not point him to any locations to get said files. Big difference.
Yeah, sure enough ... but the thing is that he didn't mention anything about ISOs in the first place until I enquired about it. I misunderstood his comment as such that one could just directly copy the GC games without any hassle involved.
I do know about ISOs, I'm not going to play dumb(er than usual).
Skarpo
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I didnt say anyone pointed anyone in the direction of illegal roms , just that you helped him or anyone else who isnt " clued up " on how backup disks / copies can be created.
Its also common knowledge were the forbidden denied roms are , but we cant mention it which is fair enough.
the playstations prolonged lifespan was due to the fact
a) They sold so many consoles as it was so advanced for its time that even if just half the people who owned one bought software fairly regularly then the software still sold well.
b) copying games on the psx didnt become as huge as quickly as the dreamcast did , the psx opened the floodgates for the common knowledge of disc piracy , by the time the dc was out , the pirates were already stating that they would have it cracked asap.
has anyone noticed the timescale is getting shorter from console release to pirated software / modding ?
Sign of the times , everyone wants something for nothing and doesnt care about the consequences.
anyway my ranting aint gonna stop anyone copying games / dvds but i just hope everyone getting their wii's / 360's chipped enjoy shortening the consoles lifespan , the day a console arrived that cant be hacked etc will be a better one.
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Shoot! ... this probably means I'll have the moderators going after me ;-) (just kidding).
Skarpo
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Is this morally less acceptable than when you used to pirate speccy games? I can't see a difference personally.
Your question is too broad ... there is a difference between "wrong" and "illegal" ... and to throw another one in the mix "immoral" ... oooh, another one for the politicians "unethical" ... which do you mean? And I do not really honestly mean that as a question per se.
I do understand where you are going with it though ... I hope that one would try ones best in exhausting all other possibilities in providing for ones family but as a last resort one might have to steal to provide for them no matter what ... I'm not talking about killing here. I would also hope that one would leave an I.O.U. note behind ;-) (may sound like a joke but when theft is involved I would hope the person would try their best to repay in one way or another what was stolen ... no matter how late the repayment may be.)
As it runs linux and has never seen a copied game I don't see anything wrong with that. Nobody has lost a single penny because of me chipping it and I would probably have just waited until I updated my games PC if I didn't have this second use for it, so it would have actually have been a sale lost.
ADJB