Wii modchip announced

[rayzorblue]

Thats true plus i remember someone mentioning this in a different thread on here cant remember who sorry, but when you pay 35-40 quid for a game you wanna try and get into it and get the most you can for your cash, and like you say i like to pay for games i know i will like, although it would be nice if you got demo discs occasionally like back in the good old days, or where the DS is concerned if i didnt have to go 50 milesto a smaller city to find a download station

[Harrison]

For those of you worried about the modchip affecting future updates, I would say wait a bit until the mod chips for Wii mature. Early mod chip solutions are never perfect and revisions always appear as issues are discovered.

if they go about it the same as they have for previous systems then it shouldn't be a problem once the chips have been on the market for a while. The best Xbox mod chips can be disabled when going online so that Live cannot detect the system has be modded. And the best PS2 modchips only activate as the system boots a disc when it is needed to bypass the protection code. It then deactivates so it cannot be detected.

But on the whole soft mod solutions (if any exploits are discovered) are more likely to affect network updates, compared to a modchip. Modchips normally have flashable roms so when problems are found you can normally just download an update, burn it to disc and then boot it up in the console and flash the modchip with the newer version that fixes the issues.