Wii Mod-Chip: It Works
- March 5th, 2007
- 18 Comments

I have a confirmation that the CycloWiz — a Wii mod-chip that allows for backup, import, and DVD-/+R compatibility as well as enhanced GameCube compatibility — is real and its fabulous.
A close friend of the CG team installed his CycloWiz this weekend and is currently enjoying the fruits of his soldering job. He said the upgrade was quite easy and he only had an issue cracking open the case because it has Nintendo’s favorite “triangular screws” holding things together.








Dazy (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Interestingly, and sadly, there are links in the support download sections of the CycloWiz website that have been removed, due to “copyright” issues.
YouTube says, “This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by Entertainment Software Association”.
Wolly (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Cyclowiz sucks and lies to their customers (defective chips, slow’s your wii’s dvd drive, not truly upgradeable, etc.)
If you want a real modchip, check out Wiikey
Broo (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I dunno- I just installed a Cyclowiz in my Wii and all of my backups are working fine- just as long as they are NTSC Region 1 discs…
I saw rumor that they are working on a multi-region and PAL/NTSC firmware update- but I guess we will see if that ever happens.
Anonymous
1 year ago
Thank you, Legolas. There are at least 7 commercial mod chips available and three free/open mod chips that can be built by simply programming cheap off the shelf microcontrollers with code that is free to download on the internet. Where have you been?
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Sombrero (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Installed 2 CycloWiz’s this week. Both had great outcomes. Boss was pretty happy. hmm hows that evaluation coming along..
Bought myself a wii finally and will mod my when i get my own chip
BLABAL (Who am I?)
1 year ago
Can you play wii games from japan like bleach or narurto ?
JOSE (Who am I?)
1 year ago
hi
need some infoe reagrding the chip
i want to get one but dont want to damage my system
which chip is best for playing backup games for wii
and who can install the chip for me ?
send email top jnoe187@aol.com
bjesus19 (Who am I?)
1 year ago
They are three mod chip out there.Wiid,Wiikey, and CycloWiz. which is the best for the money.
larrylje
1 year ago
Wolly
March 12th, 2007 at 6:35 pm
Cyclowiz sucks and lies to their customers (defective chips, slow’s your wii’s dvd drive, not truly upgradeable, etc.)
If you want a real modchip, check out Wiikey
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Wiikey also lies.
It claims it has streaming audio fix for Game Cube Games but that is untrue.
Plus their to lazy to inform Wiikey owners of a hard drive failure. Doesn’t take that long to put up something so Wiikey owners know whats going on with the site that was down close to a week.
Then with all the clones out their you will be lucky to even get a real Wiikey,
WiiD will be on top very soon. Just a shame people always recommend the Wiikey because it is so popular. Id rather have a rock solid Modchip like WiiD rather then a popular 1.
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Wii-mod (Who am I?)
1 year ago
I installed the wiikey, and with the set up disc, it allows you to set your Nintendo Wii Region (allowing you to play different region games) for each time you boot up if you want to.
I have not tested it with a Japanese game or anything, but I know it has the option to set the region of your Wii, and it will stay that way until you set it again to a different region. A screenshot of the Wiikey setup disc shows what I mean about setting the region. I think it also (but I am not sure) has an automatic feature, where it will set the wii to the same region that the first disc is, once you power it up.
http://www.ps2cover.com/nintendo-wii-mod-chip-wiikey.shtml
Jason (Who am I?)
1 year ago
wiikey is really good there may be clones around if u want a real one just order right from the wiikey webpage?!? not really that hard… plays all Region games i tested NTSC game super paper mario on my console works fine just becare full make sure your system is on 2.2e before trying to run game on your console or it will breack your machine..also wiikey allowes you to play super NES roms pretty cool feature.i havnt had a problems with mine works fine boots all my homebrew wii games and GC games on 4.7GB dvd, and about the hard drive failur, this may only happen if u do not get your chip installed correctly i advice get i done by a profecional
Jason (Who am I?)
1 year ago
yes about my last comment dont mean to scare you about the breaing of the machine it has nothing to do with the chip, its the game it self it will do that to any console no matter what Region, its just a fault on nintendo’s behalf henc the late release in Australia untill August
OMFG
1 year ago
Jason learn to Spell……
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OMFG Who Made You The Spelling God
1 year ago
Hey OMFG,
Jason was trying to be helpful and actually answering the question. Who died and made you the spelling god? If you want to nit pick, you should learn to use proper grammar. “Spell” should not be used with a capital letter.
Btw, I’m sure what I’m typing is not grammatically correct. So go ahead and nit pick.
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edmundothegreek (Who am I?)
11 months ago
use the free open source wii free it rocks and ive done mine and few friends just programmed my own with my jdm it loads everything
Shane (Who am I?)
6 months ago
Does anyone know if there is a person in or around Reno Nevada who would MOD my Wii, I would pay them to do it.
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5 months ago
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5 months ago
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