CZroe
08-08-2007, 11:35 AM
Many people installing WiiKey clones believe that their chip does not work or was installed correctly due to the fact that you need to run the official WiiKey setup disc and "save settings" before it will load anything other than recorded GCN discs (like the setup disc). This obviously isn't part of the genuine WiiKey installation procedure. Until it is done, it will not even load original Wii or Gamecube games, making it appear to be broken.
The latest Wii system update (3.0) blocks many unauthorized Gamecube discs including homebrew and commercial (Datel) software and this, of course, can cause a problem for people installing WiiKey clones which need to run the homebrew WiiKey setup disc before they will function. Because the firmware was trying to block software like the Action Replay and SD Loader, it doesn't mean that homebrew capability is gone, so the WiiKey team will have no trouble making a new disc, but I would not expect it to allow you to save setting to a clone that did not already have the settings saved like a Genuine WiiKey would. So what do we do? Well, it's already been done. We can thank morp for the updated and working WiiKey setup disc images (http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=72223).
This seemed to me like the WiiKey team's way out of the whole debacle where they don't want to kill clones, but they don't want to update or support them either. By making their next disc only save settings on a chip that previously had the settings to begin with (as all their genuine chips had), they could effectively give the edge back to their reseller partners and begin providing updates that only work with a genuine WiiKey (as far as new installations on updated consoles go). Indeed, they may have been waiting for just such a "blockout" by Nintendo.
I hope this helps those with the original setup disc issue and the new firmware complications.
The latest Wii system update (3.0) blocks many unauthorized Gamecube discs including homebrew and commercial (Datel) software and this, of course, can cause a problem for people installing WiiKey clones which need to run the homebrew WiiKey setup disc before they will function. Because the firmware was trying to block software like the Action Replay and SD Loader, it doesn't mean that homebrew capability is gone, so the WiiKey team will have no trouble making a new disc, but I would not expect it to allow you to save setting to a clone that did not already have the settings saved like a Genuine WiiKey would. So what do we do? Well, it's already been done. We can thank morp for the updated and working WiiKey setup disc images (http://forums.maxconsole.net/showthread.php?t=72223).
This seemed to me like the WiiKey team's way out of the whole debacle where they don't want to kill clones, but they don't want to update or support them either. By making their next disc only save settings on a chip that previously had the settings to begin with (as all their genuine chips had), they could effectively give the edge back to their reseller partners and begin providing updates that only work with a genuine WiiKey (as far as new installations on updated consoles go). Indeed, they may have been waiting for just such a "blockout" by Nintendo.
I hope this helps those with the original setup disc issue and the new firmware complications.