24th Feb 2009
Modding my Wii
Since Wendy is back I now have a good reason to resume my work on fixing up my Wii. My previously modified Wii wasn’t able to play Mario Galaxy and a couple other newer games, getting this “001 unauthorized hardware detected” warning. I was searching online for Wii modders (or the so-called Mod Chippers, lol) in Vancouver and was prepared to pay $50-$100 for a new mod chip installation, and I found this site which looked pretty pro (at the descriptions, not the site design, lol) I emailed him right away telling him about my case and see if he’s able to fix up my crippled Wii. The guy was surprisingly nice. He asked me a couple questions, telling me that he’s trying to save me a trip out to his place if my mod chip can be updated via DVD. Since he’s nice I decided to actually open up my Wii to check out the brand and model for my mod chip (I had no idea which chip was installed).
I went onto YouTube in hopes of finding a video tutorial on how to disassemble the Wii and wheee I found this really good walk through. I followed the video step by step taking the Wii apart, making sure all the screws wouldn’t go missing, memorizing where each type of screw goes to….etc. There were a whole lot of screws, and a few different types of them too. Luckily I had all the necessary screw drivers like the 3-pointed “Nintendo screwdriver”, and some really small tiny ones for screws on small electronics. It took me about 45 minutes to take the entire thing apart, while trying to stay calm and to not do anything wrong (I didn’t want to snap a wire, drop a screw to the floor and thus losing it…etc).
I was having fun taking everything apart as the video instructed, and actually didn’t realize that I had taken far more parts out than required, lol. The mod chip was actually soldered on the DVD drive which was the first thing I took apart…so I didn’t really have to take the motherboard out even though I ended up doing it. Well, it was fun so who cares (also gave me the rare opportunity to witness everything inside a Wii). I even took the heatsink of the CPU off and sort of looked at it for a bit.
Finally everything was put back together. Gave it a quick test and it still worked like a charm 
After feeling a bit relieved and impressed about how good I was at taking things apart (lol), I started downloading the “Wiikey Updater” which was a DVD image that I need that was suggested by the guy. I downloaded it, burned it onto a DVD, ran it to update the chip and, viola! Mario Galaxy LOADED UP! :):):):):):)
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