so, here are some pics i took for ya, i’m not a pro, and haven’t had time, so, here they are, hurry up cuz you can only download it 10 times
http://rapidshare.com/files/277039803/wiipichars.7z.html

btw, is a 2008 model, the pcb is CPU02 IIRC, and is the kind that you can’t install bootmii as boot2, and when i run it, it was like frozen, and the front buttons didn’t worked…
this one baby has a couple of weeks and where fully bricked (as bricked as it can) to the point the wiimotes don¡t sync anymore (so i guess the bluetooth driver doesn’t load up).
all thanks to the ppl who sold it to me, they made me do a downgrade to 3.2 and it got that way.

here’s my mail if you want some more details or you can give me a hint on how can i recover my nand.

lol (at] nande.com.ar

I think if they were going to do any major changes like pitch size, they’d probably add some bug fixes, which means extensive testing, so they might as well do a die shrink anyway.

Perhaps they wanted to make it harder to solder wires into the vias under the balls (i.e. make it harder to install a mod chip)?

Is there anything on the bottom side of the PCB, or is it just like bypass caps and stuff? I noticed a conspicuous lack of high-frequency bypass caps around those huge Hollywood and Broadway chips.

There is another DVD-ROM revision floating around, dubbed D3-2. It basically looks identical to a D3(D2Nothing) in terms of hardware, but the serial number starts with an “F” rather than an “E”. When a ‘ribbon’ style mod chip is attached, it will play originals from any region, but not any burnt discs. Whether this means they have removed the DVD video calls, or just changed the way they work – I’m not sure. There is an obvious difference in noise coming from the drive when running an original with one of these chips – so it seems they are smart enough to just let originals run as intended. The nasty cIOS style mods also don’t work with it (apparently)… and I suppose DVDx wouldn’t either.

There is more info over at wiinewz – http://wiinewz.com/forums/wii-modchips/96030-d3-2-drive-new-unmoddable-drive.html

with bootmii and the MIKE kernel I can now run Arch Linux on my Wii with the internal wireless working. woot.

So old Wii’s have better hardware than new ones, actually?

I’ve posted about DSi (and even non-gaming stuff) here in the past, and will continue to do so. There’s not much to report — we demonstrated a savegame exploit for DSi-mode a little while ago (which has since been reimplemented by others), but it requires a game I can’t play on my Japanese DSi (oh, the pain of being an early adopter). loopy continues to be the only one who has been able to poke at the system without using a savegame exploit; I had the good fortune of meeting him at DefCon, but I’m still not privy to any of his secrets. Most of the progress right now is being made by scanlime, but it’s quiet, tedious work.

…oh wait…