Opening Up Your Wii

Things You Need

1: "Nintendo" trywing screwdriver
2: Modeling scalpul
3: Phc/Phillips screwdrivers

now to open it up

Step 1/
Right stand the Wii upright,
open the mem card & controller covers,
pull upwards until they come off,
(careful not to pull to hard it might snap the plastic hinges)
now take out the three screws on the black cover and remove it



Under this cover u will see four screws take them out



Next turn over and take out the batt and the screw covers



And then the five screws under them



Now lay it on its back and take off the screw covers



And take out the screws under them



Step 2/
Now carefully pull off the Wii front and unplug the white little plug
connecting the front to the Wii (You can leave this plugged in, I do)


Now lay it down and pull off the top you will see a silver cover over the drive
just pull it off, it will just come off

And now you should be able to see the drive, take out the screws



Now very carefully lift the drive up and unplug this little plug under the drive



Now you can lay the drive next to the the Wii console ready for hard modding



This is as easy as i could get it, I hope it helps out
Oh and you can see my messy job at installing a modchip, its one i made my self


Here a video guide to help as well

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Modding The Wii

What's needed;
- A good soldering iron -

- Thin wire - (loads of it)

- Tape - (loads of this to)

- 9-pins D-sub connector - (A female and male)

[NOTE] you will need some thing to make a hole in the back of your Wii[NOTE]

now to the guide

first thing to do is open the wii guide and video guide

Now you need to solder the wires to the drive board.
here is a small image witch will show you which points to soldered to.



Once you have soldered them correctly put tape over the points (this will stop any shorting out)

reinstall the drive in the Wii. Be careful though

now the drive is back in the wii and all the wires are in the right place connect the 9 d-sub up

you need to make a hole for the 9 pin d-sub connector here is where i put mine



now solder the wires to the "9 pin d-sub connector"

here is a pic i used to solder the wires to the "9 pin d-sub"

view: (pin side not solder side)

now put it all back together and its reddy to install any wii mod chip to date

here is a layout of the "9 pin d-sub connector" so you can install all you're mod chip/s

view: (pin side not solder side)


installing mod chips via the serial port

port chiip cyclowiz Wiid Wiikey Wiinja Yoasm
1. N/A N/A N/A 3. N/A N/A

2. o. C. C. 6. 6. green

3. I. A. A. 4. 5. blue

4. c. B. B. 5. 7. pink

5. G. G. N/A 1. N/A N/A

6. V. V. VCC. 2. 1. red

7. N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

8. N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

9. N/A N/A GND. N/A 8. N/A

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