I was trying to install the Wavebird board inside of my wii on controller slot 1. It took a while, but I got it installed and everything.
So then I go to turn on the console.
I plug it in and the yellow light comes on (I had WiiConnect24 on).
I press the button for it to power up, and the light turns green, and the slot lights blue, then the green led quickly turns red and it powers off completely. It's not booted long enough for video to even output.
This is reproducible.
I suspect I might have shorted the GC slot 1 with too much solder.
In the gamecube version of this mod, you just had to unshort everything and it worked. Will this fix the wii as well?
Or is something else the culprit?
Worse case scenario I'll buy a new wii, but if it's something simple, well, obviously help me before I spent $250 pointlessly.
If I follow you correctly you say you installed the wavebird wireless receiver inside the wii, basically making the wavebird into a truly wireless controller. I have to say that would be a pretty impressive mod if it had worked.
You're probably right in thinking that you have a short somewhere. Since the hardware around the GC ports is very similar to the gamecube itself the same fixes that work on the cube should work on the wii.
Originally posted by penguin98: If I follow you correctly you say you installed the wavebird wireless receiver inside the wii, basically making the wavebird into a truly wireless controller. I have to say that would be a pretty impressive mod if it had worked.
You're probably right in thinking that you have a short somewhere. Since the hardware around the GC ports is very similar to the gamecube itself the same fixes that work on the cube should work on the wii.
Thanks.
I contacted Nintendo, and will try to fix it myself as soon as I buy a solder sucker.
If anyone is interested in the Wavebird console mod for GC or Wii, here are the guides, respectively. Be carful though. This is bat country.
