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Title: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: phreak97 on December 28, 2008, 07:41:05 PM
i reckon this wii is gone.. :(:( but i dont want to lose my saves or virtual console stuff.. so im thinking of trying to transplant whichever ic's contain all the information for my console. i know which one the 512mb flash memory is, but i dont know if thats all i need.. each console has something which makes it unique so the virtual console games will only work on that console and no other.. i need to put that bit in the new wii too..

anyone know anything about this?
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: l_oliveira on December 29, 2008, 06:53:35 AM
Sadly it's not possible due to:

The said data is kept on the motherboard NAND flash
The NAND flash is encrypted with a unique per console key set
The contents are protected aganist copying. 


To recover them unfortunately you need to repair the console.
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: phreak97 on December 29, 2008, 12:49:45 PM
can i not transplant the whole bit that reads this key set?
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: l_oliveira on December 30, 2008, 12:20:24 PM
No, because they're e-fuses on the Holywood chip :(
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: phreak97 on December 30, 2008, 02:34:38 PM
damn:(

nintendo will replace my wii with a new one for $250 and transfer what data they can, but i dont get to keep the old one..
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: l_oliveira on January 01, 2009, 08:47:31 AM
I think you should go for that as it's the only way for you to recover your online purchases and keep your wii friend list.
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: phreak97 on January 01, 2009, 12:25:09 PM
theyre saying they might also be able to work something out where i keep the old wii, but itll mean buying a wii from somewhere else.
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: l_oliveira on January 01, 2009, 10:24:11 PM
Because data recovery involves extraction of the encryption information, I am pretty sure the wii will have to be repaired prior to the extraction...

There is a diagnosis port on the holywood (GPU and I/O) chip (GPIO) which can be used for that work, but in the very least they really need the holywood chip running to perform the data recovery.
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: phreak97 on January 02, 2009, 11:18:33 AM
yeah, the transfer via serial is just to credit me with the appropriate number of wii points for the games i had downloaded, no real data recovery, but i'd be happy with that. i dont know if theyll do it for me, but i've spoken to someone else who they did it for in the us.
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: l_oliveira on January 04, 2009, 12:33:11 AM
Well .... It's about Nintendo we're talking about. It's all about service, here.
They can retrieve your shopping history easily with your wii's barcode/sticker.
Sadly, kiss your saved game data goodbye ... lol
Title: Re: which wii ic's do i transplant so my new wii thinks it's my old one?
Post by: phreak97 on January 04, 2009, 12:07:31 PM
yeah, i've kinda gotten used to the idea of losing all my saves, there werent any games i was currently playing on wii anyway. shopping history is what i'm after, that's what actually cost me money.
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