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ChipD has done a lot of work lately with the actual, physical NAND Flash chip on the Wii, and he just told me about his latest feat — two chips installed in one Wii, with a switch to toggle between them.  More pictures and info after the break.

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There still seems to be some confusion about why we turn our noses up at WAD-manipulation tools, so I think an analogy is in order.  A WAD Installer is like an ISO Loader. Why? WAD files and ISO files are very similar, in fact.  They are container formats (like ZIP files and TAR archives), which […]

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This post is part of a several-part series on fixing a “bricked” Wii: UnBrickMii – Introduction, explanation of a 4-part plan to unbrick any Wii amoxiflash – Part 1, a way to modify the NAND Flash of a bricked Wii Mario-Kart Autopsy 1 and 2 – Part 2, a (partial) analysis of what happens to the filesystem […]

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