How to get US RETAIL copy of Brawl to work on a Wii with Wiikey WITHOUT opening up your Wii.

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How to get US RETAIL copy of Brawl to work on a Wii with Wiikey WITHOUT opening up your Wii.

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XSilvenX

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9. March 2008 @ 20:11

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Some guy posted a workaround on the psx scene forums. Supposedly if you mess up the wiikey via software then the Wii won't detect it and a RETAIL copy of Brawl will work. He says he tried it twice and it works.

- Get any update for the Wiikey 1.9b or 1.9g for example

- When the update is around 50-75% pull the plug on your Wii

- It should screw up the Wiikey and your wii won't be able to read burned discs

- Brawl should work

It's a sort of on/off switch for the Wiikey because if you want to play burned games again all you have to do is use the Wiikey recover and update back to 1.9g and everything should go back to normal...and Brawl won't work..

So recap:

Turn Wiikey off -

Do an update and plug out the console during the update to render the Wiikey's chip software useless. Somehow this affects Brawl's code that allows it to figure out whether your Wii has a modchip or not and the regular US RETAIL Brawl should work..

Turn Wiikey on -

Use your Wiikey recovery cd to fix the Wiikey and re-update it back to it's normal settings with 1.9g and also don't forget to config 1.3 to switch back on whatever you had..

I am 100% sure this works.. Yes it's time consuming as hell but it's really the only thing we have for now..atleast until the Wiikey team releases an update for the Wiikey that somehow circumvents Brawl finding the chip.

What I did exactly... in simple easy to read steps

1. downloaded 1.9b from the Wii firmware updates thread that is stickied to this forum.

2. burned it

3. proceeded with the update as normal then at 70% I plugged out the cable on the back of my Wii..then waited for like 15 seconds (for no reason)

4. When I turned my Wii back on the 1.9b disc couldn't be read so I figured the Wiikey was not working... THIS IS GOOD

5. I popped in Brawl and splish splash BOOM.the "Super Smash Bros Brawl" intro came up.

6. I smiled... and posted this thread.

YAY Now to go and play Brawl. Spread the word everyone!

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binkie7

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9. March 2008 @ 20:16

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Closed - please post that in the Brawl thread -
http://forums.afterdawn.com/thread_view.cfm/618029

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