Nintendo Wii Mod Chip Explained

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Have you heard about chips? I think some of you may know about chips, chipped system, mods or modded systems. Each video game system basically has one inside of the system. A chip is a component to make changes to the way a video game console works.

When you bought a video game console in certain country, usually it’s designed by the company to play specific types of disks from its local regions only. Those machines have region codes which are specified by the company. Sometimes the console won’t allow us to play the different game version released from different country. For example the console we bought from US can’t play the game released by Japan or Asia. But with a mod chip, you can customize the games which are bought from other country than the one where you bought your console.

Mod chip is available on Nintendo too. With Nintendo chips you’ll be able to play all Nintendo Wii backup games whether it’s on DVD-R or DVD+R discs. Nintendo Game Cube games, import games, downloaded games are also can be played. It really gets down to installation of the Nintendo Wii Mod chip and the features and functions; and future upgrade options of each Nintendo Wii Mod Chip.

There’re 3 different Nintendo Wii Mod Chip released by Nintendo that we can use on Nintendo Wii, they are:

1. Wiinja Nintendo Wii Mod Chip
2. WiiKey Nintendo Wii Mod Chip
3. CycloWiz Nintendo Wii Mod Chip

The first Nintendo chip released to the market is Wiinja Nintendo Wii Mod Chip. This chip is one of the easiest mod chips to install in Nintendo Wii. But seems like disregarded by many online news sources. This chip enables you to play all Nintendo Wii and Nintendo Game Cube backup games with just a single swap.

The second one is the upgradeable Nintendo Wii Mod Chip. WiiKey Nintendo Wii Mod Chip is made by XenoGC team which is responsible on Game Cube line of mod chips. This chip offers an almost wireless installation and was the first chip that boasted full upgrade capability through DVD-R disc. So you can burn the new firmware updates into DVD and it’ll automatically run and update the chip on your Nintendo Wii.

Lastly and the major advantage of Nintendo chips is CycloWiz Nintendo Wii Mod Chip. This chip does not require you to solder any wires to the Nintendo Wii mainboard which is put this chip different from the other chips.

Overall the features you can get with Nintendo Wii Mod Chip is:

• Supports DVD-R and DVD+R
• Supports multi-disc games
• Direct boot of Nintendo Wii backups
• Boots different region games/backups
• Boots different NTSC region of Nintendo Wii games/backups
• Works in all Nintendo Wii consoles World Wide

Now it’s up to you to decide which Nintendo chips is more suitable for you. Well how about view my other guide on Nintendo Pink.