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NEW WIIKEY UPDATE
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dianogah
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3. September 2007 @ 07:32 |
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has anyone tried it yet? i dont understand why their own website isnt updated with the new v1.9 update.
anyways, here's the info i got from other messageboards:
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| - wiiKey update v1.9b - |
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| "wheres teh update?" |
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| right...first off, we like to apologize for the long wait. we |
| understand that some people have been very upset about it. all |
| we like to say is that the truth is often a bit more complex |
| than what people make up on forums, and **** happens. anyways |
| those that didn't die of accumulated anger... |
| welcome to wicked wiikey update! |
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| so what's new ? |
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| - audiofix fixed o_0 |
| - dual layer support (no bitsetting required) |
| - improved media support (all supported chipsets) |
| - full Gamecube regionfree (no-swap/video setup) |
| - various "smaller" improvements/fixes |
| - workaround for FW 3.0 gameid limitation |
| (existing wkb 1.2 discs will boot again) |
| - "on the fly" settings for gc games (by holding buttons) |
| - toggle audiofix, diskspeed, force NTSC/PAL |
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| Full GC Regionfree |
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| Boots GC imports directly using a small apploader hook to setup |
| the correct video mode. To enable this feature use the new |
| config disc (1.3). Make sure you also enable the basic region |
| feature, thats what gets you through the wii menu in the first |
| place. Unlike a real GC, the NTSC Wii doesnt output PAL50. That |
| means the game may run but theres no picture. PAL60 games will |
| work, however you need to enable it. The common way to bring up |
| the "use PAL60?" dialog on a game is to hold B while booting. |
| Forcing to NTSC may work as well. PAL consoles output NTSC just |
| fine. |
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3. September 2007 @ 07:57 |
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I'll wait for the official download, but thanks for the info.
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3. September 2007 @ 08:01 |
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looks fake to me. that screenshot is very "unprofessional" looking. previous boot discs showed more class. that's just my two cents.
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Jinkazuya
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3. September 2007 @ 09:18 |
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That is real. I just updated mine. And now Naruto 4 of GC is playable. All GC games are fully compatible. Amazing. Everything has improved. If you update to 3.0J...U don't have to worry about anything.
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dianogah
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3. September 2007 @ 09:21 |
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Originally posted by Jinkazuya:
That is real. I just updated mine. And now Naruto 4 of GC is playable. All GC games are fully compatible. Amazing. Everything has improved. If you update to 3.0J...U don't have to worry about anything.
cool. i hope eternal darkness works now.
and also, i really hate that screen with the chick's butt. im all for girl bum, but there's a time and place for it
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xazne273x
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3. September 2007 @ 09:21 |
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i try it out on my NTSC Wii(3.0), i got the update from eurasia.nu, it works perfectly. had updated my wiikey. just have to wait for the new setup disc(1.3+). the only reason y ppl r complain that wiikney site doesnt have the update yet, is that today is a holiday.
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3. September 2007 @ 09:55 |
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From the wiikey website
[08-09-03] Wiikey update 1.9b
A leaked version of the wiikey firmware update is available on several websites. While the leaked firmware is indeed working and has all of the announced features, it does not come with the configuration and recovery discs. A full version will be available from wiikey.cn very soon.
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felixen21
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3. September 2007 @ 10:04 |
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Thats cool.. Finally.. I'd just like to see it making more wii games region free, but region free GC is cool too.. wonder when the final release will be up at their site.. thanks for the post though, I've been waiting a while for this one
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brokendan
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3. September 2007 @ 10:05 |
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where can this be downloaded at? its not on the website.
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3. September 2007 @ 10:09 |
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Originally posted by brokendan:
where can this be downloaded at? its not on the website.
Try reading the thread.
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brokendan
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3. September 2007 @ 10:12 |
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yea i just read back through and finally saw that. thanks. kept over looking it
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dipswich
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3. September 2007 @ 11:35 |
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3. September 2007 @ 13:01 |
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exactly how do you update the wiikey using this update? do you just throw it on a dvd and update? or does it need to be dummied on a dvd? any feedback would be appreciated
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3. September 2007 @ 14:07 |
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never mind i'm a moron "(
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3. September 2007 @ 17:34 |
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I was on maxconsole forums for the leak. Updated my D2A Wii. Naruto GNT 4 Works (using GCOS swap method).
wiikey.cn have left everyone out in the cold so somebody (beta tester) finally posted it. It's NOT fake, it DOES work. I'm a happy importer now. Thanks to all involved (once again) and hopefully the Big N woesn't do anything to rain on the homebrew and import crowd anymore and will let it be.
Nintendo, We just wanna play.
No Reason to Live But We Like it That Way
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Wagz
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3. September 2007 @ 17:36 |
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I have a wii with 3.0U firmware and a wiikey installed. I did the 1.9b firmware update and I can no longer play my burned GC games. The GC games are PAL, and multi-disk ISO's but they were playing fine prior to the firmware update. All wii games worked fine, PAL and NTSC.
Just thought I'd let people know before they update their firmware.
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Jinkazuya
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3. September 2007 @ 19:43 |
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The Burn GC games play fine. My firmware is the semi-bricked 2.2J. I think most of the people have already stated that 3.0 firmware doesn't allow you to boot Multi-games but with someone post something like config disc whatever...don't know the name. You are able to play multi-GC games.
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Wagz
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3. September 2007 @ 21:14 |
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I had no problem playing these games using the GCOS disk on 3.0U, after I updated the wiikey's firmware the wii wouldn't even recognize the disks. I've also found someone in a different forum who has this problem
http://psx-scene.com/forums/wiikey/59122...b-released.html
The way it doesn't even recognize the disks is like region free mode isn't enabled, although I have tried other PAL games for the wii and they work fine. I'm hoping though that there's going to be an option in the v1.3 setup disk that enables region free GC games and that it fixes my problem. Anyways I wouldn't recommend updating the wiikey's firmware until the configuration and recovery disks are released.
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4. September 2007 @ 09:26 |
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same thing happened to me after the updated firmware. I can't read multidisc gc games though. It won't even go to the gcos menu at all. It just says that it is unrecognizable disc.
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4. September 2007 @ 10:09 |
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I cant install the firmware update it says checking flashing then it gives me this message " error update failed please check your connections and try again" what do they mean I got my wii chipped by someone els..
Zubi
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4. September 2007 @ 10:41 |
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Originally posted by zubikhan:
I cant install the firmware update it says checking flashing then it gives me this message " error update failed please check your connections and try again" what do they mean I got my wii chipped by someone els..
You 100% sure you have a wiikey in it, As in have you looked?
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4. September 2007 @ 11:07 |
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mmm i was afraid of this.. im pretty sure thats its wiikey : / i went tot he guys house and he installed it i never really saw it but i did some wiikeys there so... heres the guy's website
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4. September 2007 @ 19:15 |
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Maybe it was a clone Wiikey. I had a chip installed back in March that was suppoed to be a Wiikey. I'm thinking it was cloned now, because I got the same message you did. Also the installer said he stopped using Wiikeys, because he was having problems with them when I brought him another Wii to be modded.
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4. September 2007 @ 21:34 |
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so are you guys who are having problems and updated the wiikey with the new firmware in a PAL region, or have a PAL wii and games, or is it ntsc-u? Also, it seems most people are having problems with the gc games, but they are pal. Anyone try gc games on the new firmware from ntsc?
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Wagz
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5. September 2007 @ 08:06 |
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I've done some reading about the wiikey firmware update, and as far as I can tell it hasn't given anyone a problem with wii games. The problem is isolated to GC games. That being said it's not even really a problem, we just need to wait for the v1.3 setup disk to come out. The readme file for the wiikey update itself says that for full GC region free mode to be enabled we need to enable it with the v1.3 config disk.
"Boots GC imports directly using a small apploader hook to setup the correct video mode. To enable this feature use the new config disc (1.3)."
Someone in a different forum dumped the eeprom from the chip after the wiikey 1.9b update and noted that it now stores 5 bits, when previously it only stored 3 bits. He also flashed the eeprom with all 5 bits enabled and then had no problem with GC games, so we can pretty safely assume that those extra bits are used for the new configuration settings but that since that v1.2 disk only edits 3 bits of memory we're not able to enable all features without the new configuration disk.
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