Teamcyclops announces its Wii modchip

Posted Jan 29, 2007 at 11:41AM by QJ Staff Listed in: Wii Tags: TeamCyclops

While we're still speculating on whether Team Ninja's modchip for the Wii is the real deal, in comes this news bit on something equally interesting. Teamcyclops has just announced the upcoming release of its very own mod chip which, much like its Wiinja counterpart, allows the console to play GameCube and Wii backups.

As for the other details surrounding this chip:

Quicksolder (no wires required)
Plays Wii Backups
Plays GC Backups
Play GC Homebrew
Play GC Imports (swap needed)
Built-in Audiofix (GC games using streaming are working flawlessly, no patch needed)
DVD-R / DVD+R support
Optional chip disable wire
Stealth even when chip is enabled
Multi-purpose LED

Further reports say that this chip may be shipping in by next week, though there has not been any news on a set price. The team's site isn't up yet though, so we're going to have to file this under rumor for now. We advise the hopefuls to keep track of this development in case any further news turns up. For now, take you pick on similar announcements in the past...

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# 1st post — Guest 2007-01-29 07:11

1st post, also what are downfalls to this. i heard something about online capeabillity being like, messed

# 2nd — Guest 2007-01-29 07:24

yea but it looks like there is a enable/disable option so that would be good...if the chip screw up something like online play jsut disable it.....also it says its stealth so maybe itlll be all good if this is real

# Too bad... — Guest 2007-01-29 07:34

...you still can't burn your backups (ISO) on DVD.

# ??? — Guest 2007-01-29 07:40

really? i tought the only problem is how to play the backups...

Why shoude it now be posible?

# real! — Guest 2007-01-29 07:41

looking at the picture, there is no way this is fake, i had doubt about the Wiinja too, but this one is for real, so probably Wiinja was real too, they probably had to announce it after Ninja team did, as the way it looks, is was under development for quite a while.

# dangit! — Koru-Kun 2007-01-29 07:58

i don't care about playing backups! I just want to play import Wii titles like Bleach....

# Burning DVD-Backups — Guest 2007-01-29 08:36

I don't know. Of course we've seen some Wiinja Videos showing backup discs being played. But for me backing up a disc is not possible. I can unscramble it to PC of course. But burning is still a mystery.

# No... — Guest 2007-01-29 09:37

Nintendo don't deserve this. The 'backup' you speak of is a 'torrented ISO' is it not? Could you not just look after your games so you don't need backups? Seriously, who would buy an expensive modchip so they don't have to look after their games? It's piracy, I tell you, and Nintendo don't deserve it.

# Nintendo? — Guest 2007-01-29 10:21

You mean the company charging over 60$ for 1 full controller?

# @cX — Guest 2007-01-29 10:26

Man you don't have a clue.

I own Wii Sports an I tell you: The last time I put it in my Wii wouldn't accept it 5 times! No lie! I DID NOT scratch the DVD or anything and I just don't know why it didn't work.

AND YES: People with special LG drives CAN make backups and don't have to download torrents.

SO SHUT UP IDIOT!

# Quicksolder — Guest 2007-01-29 10:55

Anyone know exactly what they mean by quicksolder?

# Quicksolder — Guest 2007-01-29 11:24

its were you get a solder iron and melt it onto the wii

# Speaking first hand — TPot 2007-01-29 12:56

Just so happens that last week my 3 year old son scratched one of our PS2 games beyond use. Doesn't matter how well you look after things - CDs scratch. I would love to back up my games just like my DVDs.

# uhh... what? — Ninkul 2007-01-29 13:36

Where are you comming from with this "looking at the picture" thing? Anyone can make a corporate looking logo, its not hard.

# Quicksolder — Guest 2007-01-29 16:26

I think quicksolder means no soldering required. It looks like it is screwed on to the console board, so all it really needs is for the contacts to be touching to work.

Down side is that the screw might come loose and end up screwing something up.

# Ofcourse you can — Guest 2007-01-29 17:42

Ofcourse you can

the modchip gets the wii to play dvd-r and rw

This WAS the problem and its is what the modchip has fixed

# You get a dvd burner SIMPLE — Guest 2007-01-29 17:43

You get a dvd burner SIMPLE

This modchip makes it play simple dvds

# Quicksolder — Guest 2007-01-29 21:29

Actually quicksolder is where you align the holes with the motherboard and melt solder into them to form the electrical connection. So it is slightly easier than soldering wires, but it is a ***** to remove.

# Multi-region? — Guest 2007-01-29 21:56

I'm guessing this is no better than the Wiinja in that it can only play your own region backups...

# agreed — Guest 2007-01-29 22:49

i agree.. i get chips for backups but also imports

# @Paka — Guest 2007-01-30 00:58

You can play them (as seen in Wiinja Videos).

We already know how to unscramble them on your hard drive.

But still no one knows how they can be burned on DVD.

# Ah, wiseguy — Guest 2007-01-30 05:14

So you tell me HOW TO BURN it.

It's just not that SIMPLE!

# wii — Guest 2007-02-16 21:05

is e-z i did it, burn wii game and modchip wii i use alcahol 120% software now i'm trying modchip PS3

let u know soon

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