Hi After soldering wiikey to my wii in june last year and not being able to get the config disc to burn right i gave up until now. please help me. okay so i have downloaded the config 1.2.rar and have extracted the bootdisc.us.iso to my computer. every time i try to burn it the final file size is like 7mb it is never 1.4 what do i do step by step to get that file to burn to a disc so i can at least make sure i soldered my wiikey right. by the way my original discs work fine but when i try those discs i burn it always says disc read error please tell me what to do and what programs and settings to use to burn the config files
First, the more serious problem. If you've never gotten a burned disk to work on your wii then most likely you did not install the wiikey properly. So the config disk wont work anyway. Either check your soldering or take it to someone else to fix. In the meantime you can post pics of your install job here, someone should be able to tell if you at least connected everything properly.
I'll also copy paste the filechop directions from the sticky here. Its really not as hard as it seems to use.
"FILECHOP and GCOS TUTORIAL
It seems that a lot of people lately are having problems burning the iso of the Official Wiikey resources.
For a wii to read a disk, it must be about 1.3gb in size (approx a GC disk) because otherwise the life span of the laser on the DVD drive of your wii will be lowered. however downlaoding 1.5gb off a server can be very tiem consuming and expensive. So the way about it is to use filechop, it increases the file size from abotu 30mb to 1.5Gb by filling the rest with garbage data that cannot be read, however the Wii will read it as it will have about 1.3gb of data on it
So here we go with a short filechop tutorial followed by a GCOS one:
1) Create a folder
2) place the iso you want to burn in that folder (The iso vcan be the 1.9g update file, or the 1.9b recover image, etc.)
3) place filechop.exe in the folder (the filechop.exe file is in the official config.1.3.rar)
3) create a txt file with whatever name you wnat in the folder. The txt file must contain the following text:
filechop.exe imagename 1459978240
Change imagename to the name of the file you are filechopping, for instance bootdisc.us.iso
4) Save the txt file
5) Change the extension of the txt file from txt to bat
6) Double-click the bat file and there you go
7) Burn the image "
okay i opened a folder and put bootdisc.us.iso and filechop.exe in it. then i opened up notepad and put in filechop.exe bootdisc.us 1459978240 and saved it as zzzz. then i changed the extension to .bat and double clicked it and nothing happened.
1. Download 1.3 config file from wiikey.cn
2. Extract into c:\Wiikey (for example)
3. Go to your command prompt and navigate to the 1.9b folder.
(Start/Run and type 'cmd'. Then type 'CD C:\Wiikey'
4. Type 'filechop.exe bootdisc.xx.iso 1459978240'(where xx is your region)press enter.
5. Burn resized image onto DVD-R.If you use DVD+R, make sure your DVD burner is set to book-type DVD-ROM.
What I did was make a Wiikey folder in my c drive. Place the iso and filechop file in Wiikey folder. Changed the name of the iso to bootdisc.xx. XX being the region your using. It then resized it to 1.35 I believe. Burn with ImgBurn at 4x and insert in wii. Good luck, if you still cant get it pm me.
Originally posted by RobertAF: okay i opened a folder and put bootdisc.us.iso and filechop.exe in it. then i opened up notepad and put in filechop.exe bootdisc.us 1459978240 and saved it as zzzz. then i changed the extension to .bat and double clicked it and nothing happened.
I'm guessing you don't have windows showing file extensions. In windows Explorer. Go to Tool -> Folder Options -> the "View" tab -> Uncheck "Hide extensions of known files types"
and if you have that on, its just because bootdisc.us.iso would be the filename, It needs the .iso on the end.
"filechop.exe bootdisc.us.iso 1459978240"
Also if you aren't you might want to use 1.9s firmware and the 1.4 config that is floating around, the 1.3 required you to use the hex version the first time if i remember correctly.
