A Second Wii Mod Chip Emerges January 30, 2007
Before the Wiinja mod chip even gets a chance to really be confirmed as legit a new mod chip arrives on the scene. Maxconsole.net reports that yesterday (Jan. 29th) they received a new Wii mod chip called the Cyclowiz.
Maxconsole hasn’t reviewed the chip yet but reports that it is to support these features:
-Quicksolder (no wires required)
- Plays Wii Backups
- Plays GC Backups
- Play GC Homebrew
- Play GC Imports (swap needed)
- Built-in Audiofix (GC games using streaming are working flawlessly, no patch needed)
- DVD-R / DVD+R support
- Optional chip disable wire
- Stealth even when chip is enabled
- Multi-purpose LED
Source:
maxconsole.net
Image and list borrowed directly from the source article at Maxconsole.net
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the wii is too new for mods yet. i want it to at least get online play up first, eventually i wii mod.
[...] After the Wiinja modchip, the CycloWiz was announced. MaxConsole was lucky enough to receive one of the modchips and obviously testd it to the fullest. The review states that the modchip is obviously of high quality and that the installation was easy. There’s also a LED to verify that everything is installed correctly. Wii and GameCube backups both worked and because of how the CycloWiz works it is completely invisible to the CPU and therefore it is highly likely that no firmware update will be able to detect it (and therefore disable online abilities or similar). The modchip only supports games from your region, it does not remove the much hated region code on Wii games. GameCube homebrew runs, so you can use GCOS to run other region GameCube discs. Judging by how successful this review was, Wiinja is already slain. Over all it looks like Nintendo should have properly fixed the backdoors I mentioned in an earlier post. And now, not too long after the release, people are going to go insane with illegal copies of games. I, for one, could finally play GameCube imports (I can’t find PAL games that support 480p) and Wii backups. I don’t always play nice with my discs so scratches happen. [...]