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[error404]

Hi there, error404 is back again.
First of all say sorry about my possible English language mistakes. I'm Spanish, but I will try to give my best.

Oh Yeah! A Spanish team, named Ninja Team, has developed the first wii modchip.
Here is general information about wiinja modchip:

-Loads the backups of Wii and Gamecube of your own (proper) region (PAL/NTSC) directly. If your console is PAL, it does not accept NTSC games and vice versa.
-Easy installation * Only 5 Cables to solder *
-Modchip not updatable. (or maybe yes ;P, readme a bit down ;P).

The modchip is already being shelled in some Spanish stores at 39.95 euros, just like
futura-online

The are many ways of making Wii games backups, you can modify the firmware of your DVD to allow make a raw copy, and then convert it to ISO format with a application called unscrambler. Or you can use the rawdump program, that allows to copy discs of Wii and GC with a reader LG of the family GDR, this program continues getting up-to-date. The last version (0.4) eliminates the need to use the DVDInfo and allows rip the discs 5 times more quick, (it will take 2-10 hours to make the dump to the hard drive). You need also to have Net framework 2.0 to run this aplication.

Many Spanish people thinks this mod chip is a kind of PIC EPROM, nearly most 12c508/9, like previous play station one modchips, or smart cards ( piccard), for digital TV hacking. That means maybe we can try to unprotect this modchip. Then take out his source code, and buy a 12c508/9 PIC EPROM for 0,6-2 euros, program it with a pic programmer, ( just like T-20), and that way it will be also updatable ;P

Here are some pics:

(IMG:http://download.elotrolado.net/imagenes/wiininja.jpg)

(IMG:http://images.elotrolado.net/news2/260107162504_1big.jpg)

(IMG:http://www.enregistrersous.com/images/bfd9cd2de9419431e332027d09cd560b.jpg)

I strongly recommend to use the showed below adapter and that you do not sold directly this wiinja modchip or the future home made one ;P ( PIC EPROM), to the cables that are solder to the wii drive board. So we can extract the chip, and put it on the programmer to update its code.

(IMG:http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/4435/zocalomr3.jpg)

Have fun!.

This post has been edited by error404: Jan 27 2007, 12:05 PM

[v8azlin]

Wow.
Thanks so much for this information!
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And just so you know, the term is Solder not Weld. I can understand how the translation can be similar though. No offence intended.


Edit: I vote for a sticky. It's the best Info i've seen on the subject.

This post has been edited by v8azlin: Jan 27 2007, 12:05 PM

[pablot]

wow.. what a ripoff.. €40? jeeez

[twistedsymphony]

QUOTE(pablot @ Jan 27 2007, 08:14 AM)

wow.. what a ripoff.. €40? jeeez

It looks like little more then an MCU, buy one, strip the code and start mass producing your own "cheap mods" with the ninja bios

You could probably make a nice little PCB that looks like a v1.6 and intergrates the socket for a 0 wire quick solder install  

[sicknasty413]

Sounds cool.

A little out of my price range..That's like ~51 USD.

[throwingks]

$51 is cheap for a 1st to market mod chip.

[brandogg]

But not for such a cheap chip itself. There should be clones very soon for about $15 or so, provided the demand is somewhat high.

[compute x]

QUOTE(throwingks @ Jan 27 2007, 11:00 AM)

$51 is cheap for a 1st to market mod chip.

very true!

[gordita37]

QUOTE(brandogg @ Jan 27 2007, 06:53 PM)

But not for such a cheap chip itself. There should be clones very soon for about $15 or so, provided the demand is somewhat high.

rarely do you pay the price for the chip itself or anything like that. Although things are getting much cheaper today. We are paying for the technology not the physical chip *whatever* itself.

[tj85042]

does the chip solder to the mobo or to the dvd drive?

[v8azlin]

DVD Drive, easier to replace if something goes wrong.

[yaazz]

QUOTE(twistedsymphony @ Jan 27 2007, 11:19 AM)

It looks like little more then an MCU, buy one, strip the code and start mass producing your own "cheap mods" with the ninja bios

You could probably make a nice little PCB that looks like a v1.6 and intergrates the socket for a 0 wire quick solder install

 

Its funny, I was thinking the same thing. It will be soo easy to copy this chip, I am going to buy one and try and make my own with their bios:)

[error404]

QUOTE(yaazz @ Jan 28 2007, 05:08 PM)

Its funny, I was thinking the same thing. It will be soo easy to copy this chip, I am going to buy one and try and make my own with their bios:)

Well, since I see you determined to do it, I am going to give to you the desprotection proocess of the modchip in order that you are capable of reading it, and this way clone its bios.   (IMG:style_emoticons/default/happy.gif)  

Here is your manual -->manual  (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)


pd: Good luck! (Post your results)

This post has been edited by error404: Jan 28 2007, 07:34 PM

[telo{+}]

LOL @ twistedsymphony and yaazz

What Error404 is saying to you is:

The PIC's protection is not resettable without clearing the NOPROTECT flag. The only way to do that is a full erase of the chip. I use this protection all the time and to the best of my knowledge it is uncrackable without clearing the rom, or frying the chip. Either way, you are not going to read this thing, but hell, if you do manage to break Microchip's protection you'd be a millionaire (and not by selling wii-chips)

You can read the hashes (sum of all the bytes) on each block.... but it would take years to get the real code out of it. This is required for verifying the contents after writing.

It would be MUCH easier to get an oscilloscope and just see what its doing. That would take me a couple days, but I'm certain someone else will do it, its a no brainer IF this thing works.

[telo{+}]

Meh,

Just re-read nm Error404 doesn't understand whats going on either.

I'm 100% certain if this is real there will be homebrew and clones, but NOT by reading the code on these chips.

This post has been edited by telo{+}: Jan 29 2007, 12:31 AM