New Wii Modchip Enables DVD Playback
February 19th, 2007 Posted in Business, Gear, Hardware, Technology, Wii
There is no shortage of Wii modchips at this point, all claiming to be the best on the market. The newest modchip raises the bar with its promise of DVD playback on the Wii, something Nintendo left out in order to save costs. The creators of the WiiXT modchip claim the chip supports region-free DVD playback on the Wii, in addition to the usual Wii and GameCube backup and homebrew games. Check out some more info on the official site here.
Via Engadget
February 19th, 2007 at 1:10 pm
But can it make toast?
February 19th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
dvd was good………. 5 years ago
February 19th, 2007 at 2:31 pm
ITS FAKE !!!!!
February 19th, 2007 at 7:08 pm
It’s just an addition to being a normal mod-chip. Why not add in something else?
February 20th, 2007 at 3:43 am
Wow the Wii was really fast to crack, at least 360 developers had a year before piracy started hit them.
February 20th, 2007 at 9:46 am
[...] Play DVDs on your Nintendo Wii [...]
February 20th, 2007 at 4:58 pm
That’s probably because Wii is based so closely to Gamecube.
February 20th, 2007 at 9:09 pm
“dvd was good………. 5 years ago”
what the.. ? that makes no sense considering just 3-4 years ago movies were being released just on DVD. No more “Now available on DVD and VHS” Now it’s just DVD. And for certain studios now HD or Blu.
August 12th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
[...] be a priority, as most families already own a DVD player of some kind. Because of this, third party modchips were released to add this kind of feature, but that’s not quite conventional for the [...]