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xboxbman

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« on: March 17, 2007, 06:49:00 PM »
I just assembled my Chiip.  I got all the parts from Sayal Electronic, in Mississauga, www.sayal.com for online orders (for my canadian modding brothers out there).  It cost about 15$ for parts.  It took about 3 hours to build, but it works perfectly.  I must say, I am very pleased with this thing.  Anyone planing on buying a modchip for 40$, don't bother.  Build one of these bad boys.
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noob123

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« Reply #1 on: March 18, 2007, 04:26:00 AM »
im planing on building one soon....i just dont wanna brick my wii tring to solder the chip
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xboxbman

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« Reply #2 on: March 18, 2007, 06:35:00 AM »
QUOTE(noob123 @ Mar 18 2007, 06:26 AM) View Post

im planing on building one soon....i just dont wanna brick my wii tring to solder the chip


the spots aren't that bad.  If you can do the d0 on an xbox, there is three points on the wii of similar size.  Just remember to use flux!  I've chipped over a dozen ps2s, so this was easy by comparisson.
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« Reply #3 on: March 18, 2007, 12:17:00 PM »
I can see that they are cheap and work well.  However they are not upgradeable I would imagine.  If you want additional features with the newer updates, you would have to de-solder and re-solder a new chip.
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xboxbman

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« Reply #4 on: March 19, 2007, 05:19:00 AM »
QUOTE(jon_jon @ Mar 18 2007, 02:17 PM) *

I can see that they are cheap and work well.  However they are not upgradeable I would imagine.  If you want additional features with the newer updates, you would have to de-solder and re-solder a new chip.


I have mine hanging out of the back, and it sits in an ic socket, so I can pull it out and reprogram it and not have to resolder it everytime.  They are not currently upgradeable via dvd, but it's in the works.
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FrankDux

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« Reply #5 on: March 29, 2007, 09:59:00 AM »
Dont order from sayal. to expensive.  I orderd from www.futurelec.com cost me with shipping  $23 for enough parts to make 10 chiips. and a programer.  so far I have built the program in under 20 mins. the chiips well that took 2 mins to solder a led, res, and cap.  I have installed most of the units so far and no problems.

nice mod,, kudoos on the firmwares
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tonloc79

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« Reply #6 on: March 29, 2007, 12:46:00 PM »
I dont understand how saving $25 justifies 3 hours of time?
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« Reply #7 on: March 29, 2007, 01:03:00 PM »
QUOTE(tonloc79 @ Mar 29 2007, 02:46 PM) View Post

I dont understand how saving $25 justifies 3 hours of time?

You're on the wrong board, bud.  Many folks here enjoy building things themselves, not for a cost savings, but for the satisfaction of doing it themselves.

And look at the post right above yours...
"$23 for enough parts to make 10 chiips. and a programer. so far I have built the program in under 20 mins. the chiips well that took 2 mins to solder a led, res, and cap."

There's a MUCH bigger savings than $25 on that one.  Each chiip takes a few minutes to construct and program... a couple minutes to save $25+?  Yeah, I'm in.
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« Reply #8 on: March 29, 2007, 01:10:00 PM »
Can any of you explain to me why you went with Chiip over wiifree?  The 12f's are a whole hell of a lot cheaper and more abundant as far as I know...
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Perplexer

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« Reply #9 on: March 29, 2007, 01:06:00 PM »
QUOTE(EverestX @ Mar 29 2007, 03:10 PM) View Post

Can any of you explain to me why you went with Chiip over wiifree?  The 12f's are a whole hell of a lot cheaper and more abundant as far as I know...

Chiip was first, Chiip programmer is cheaper and easier to build, Chiip allows a status LED, Chiip firmware was more mature at the time (and now OpenWii which works on both chip packages).

I've used both.  Chiip with a programmer I built, and WiiFree with a fancy Willem programmer.  I still prefer Chiip.
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EverestX

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« Reply #10 on: March 29, 2007, 01:14:00 PM »
Sounds reasonable enough to me. smile.gif  Thanks.

I'm on Wiifree over here, I have tried Wiiskas, Wiinja v2, and some others, so far I am with Wiifree for the most part, I like the fact that it's constantly being updated, so I get to fiddle around with all sorts of things.
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sebastius

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« Reply #11 on: March 29, 2007, 03:24:00 PM »
Chiip is cool, this is mine (programmer and Chiip in one)
(IMG:http://chiip.descrambler.de/images/4/46/Chiip_bas_proto1.jpg)

But currently it's running OpenWii (www.openwii.org). With the OpenWii for Chiip version 1.3, I get more media compatibility and it seems that Chiip is on a dead track.

OpenWii is currently distributing beta 2.0 which includes on the fly region patching and many more cool new features. Chiip OpenWii compatible .HEX files are expected shortly for the Beta.

Fun part about OpenWii is that it's opensourced every time they release a final. So people can change their personal version to their own likings (IMG:style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

This post has been edited by sebastius: Mar 29 2007, 10:25 PM
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xboxbman

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« Reply #12 on: March 30, 2007, 07:46:00 AM »
QUOTE(FrankDux @ Mar 29 2007, 11:59 AM) View Post

Dont order from sayal. to expensive.  I orderd from www.futurelec.com cost me with shipping  $23 for enough parts to make 10 chiips. and a programer.  so far I have built the program in under 20 mins. the chiips well that took 2 mins to solder a led, res, and cap.  I have installed most of the units so far and no problems.

nice mod,, kudoos on the firmwares


I've since discovered that digi-key.com is much faster at shipping and their prices are decent.
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tonloc79

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« Reply #13 on: March 30, 2007, 10:10:00 AM »
QUOTE(Perplexer @ Mar 29 2007, 08:10 PM) View Post

You're on the wrong board, bud.  Many folks here enjoy building things themselves, not for a cost savings, but for the satisfaction of doing it themselves.

And look at the post right above yours...
"$23 for enough parts to make 10 chiips. and a programer. so far I have built the program in under 20 mins. the chiips well that took 2 mins to solder a led, res, and cap."

There's a MUCH bigger savings than $25 on that one.  Each chiip takes a few minutes to construct and program... a couple minutes to save $25+?  Yeah, I'm in.

I understand doing it for the pleasure but not for saving a buck, bud.
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FrankDux

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« Reply #14 on: April 18, 2007, 09:53:00 AM »
Like everyone says, the savings is a bonus..  building the programmer and chiip is the fun part.  I have rebuilt mine many times and finaly got a look that is both functional and cool looking.


I have since made 10 more chiips all using the newest chiip .09.0 firmware..   I have not used open Wii firmware.. im not sure about this cdsetup thing.. what is that all about.
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