Well there has been a fleat of Wii chips released in the past 6-months, and until now we had not found anything worth selling over the wiikey. But now the Wii-Boss is here, The Wii-Boss chip is designed more so for the users that know about firmware’s and are not just the average user who wants a chip installed and leaves it at that. The Wii-Boss is totally upgradeable with any of the major open source firmware’s out there. The Wii Boss has one of the best retail packages we have ever seen, coming with the chip itself, programmer and tri-wing screwdriver all in a very well presented retail box. We have to say that overall presentation of the Wii-Boss is top notch, which means the markers take pride in what they are producing. The price of the Wii-Boss is almost too good to be true, we will go as far to say that we think the Wii Boss is undervalued and a steal for the price. This is only a good thing for end consumers.
The Wii-Boss is for those gamers that are aware of firmware updates and wish to take advantage of updating their chips and using different firmware’s. If you’re a die hard wii fan and know how to use programmers and handle different firmware’s, we think the Wii-Boss will be the chip for you. The Wii Boss guys are also had a hand in re-packing the old GameCube DVD player so that it would work with the Wii. You are able to find a copy of this Wii DVD player on their website. You can be sure when buying the Wii-Boss that you will be able to use all the open source firmware’s out there, and take full advantage of what the open source community has to offer.
“Almost all other conventional and homebrew modchips consist of two parts where the code is held, of which only the smaller EEPROM section of the chip can be changed easily. This EEPROM part of the code is very useful for small pre defined simple on or off selectable 1’s and 0’s and possibly a very small “additional feature” section. For example: Speed setting your chip or enabling multi-zone. However, if you want to update the entire chip, you need to physically remove the chip from the Wii, put it on a programmer, reprogram it, and then reinstall the chip into the Wii. This is not something you want to be doing constantly keep up with new optimized modchip codes for the Nintendo Wii.”
• The Wii-Boss is designed as a ‘quick solder’ chip with an external ribbon cable that can be left inside the machine, taped down on the back of the Wii, or even hidden inside the memory card bay. The Wii Boss chip can be fully programmed inside the machine with any code that supports the 12f629 PIC Microchip.
• The Wii-Boss is also designed to allow external booting off the ribbon cable, therefore protecting the user against ever having to pull the Wii apart ever again if their requirements for a particular style of modchip change. External adapters to make competitor modchips and PC applications like DVD-Tool boot externally have already been designed and will be produced soon after the initial release of the premier product for a very minimal charge. These will likely be included in future kits at no extra charge.
• The Wii-boss even comes packaged with its own RS-232 port external programmer. Software for the programmer is open source and therefore also provided free. The programmer is based on an open source project and therefore could be ‘modded’, theoretically, to be used as a standard RS-232 PIC programmer.
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