[ModSupplier]

Hey Everyone,

Yesterday we were informed by one of our customers that he was in the possession of a brand new model Wii drive that has had the controller chip removed totally. We have hosted a photo of these new drives on the link below.

Wii GC2-D3 DVD Drive

What they have done is combine the old D1A and drive controller chip in to one which is now called the GC2-D3, as you can see from the photo there is a big blank space on the PCB where the controller chip used to be.

One of these drives will be on its way to the WiiKey team next week and they will of course do their best to work it out, but from what we can tell it could possibly be a few months or longer before it could be figured out as it’s a totally new way of handling drive function, that's just our guess and maybe they will work it out faster. This is all speculation of course for now, but we can see the first generation of chips for these drives being a high wire count such as the D2CKey when they were first released. When we know more from the WiiKey team after they have received the drive and had time to access it, we will make a post in this thread to update everyone on the situation.

There is one good bit of news that we were able to confirm, the console that had this new D3 drive was able to have a D2B drive connected to it and functioned as normal, so they did not make changes to the cable system or anything else. This means that even though there will be no chips for these consoles for a little while, it will still be possible to buy a replacement drive or even a replacement drive board and do something with these consoles.

So far we have not heard any other reports of these drives found anywhere else in the world, what was also interesting is it was found in an Australian console with the serial LAH1098xxxxx, there are already consoles out here that are LAH11xxxxxx and are still epoxy D2E, so from what we can gather they have not started rolling these new drives out in the masses yet and maybe these few just slipped out early. I guess we will know for sure in the coming weeks, if we don’t start to see them in the masses it might still be a little while before the rest of the world sees them.

If we gather any more information on these drives we will be sure to update this post.

[Dark Mod]

I KNEW THE DAY HAS COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY SHAFTED US AGAIN PEOPLE, Well, time to mod the mainboard now people, I'll PM D2sun about it.
HOLY FRUITS!!!!!!!!!and I dreamt that they will do a major change in the wii board.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[unlockmyxbox]

They'll find a way around it. No worries.

[HybridKid]

I think for installers, this has been the moment we've been waiting for in order to end the dry spell in our business. Very interesting, very very interesting!

Someone get a sample to D2Sun quick!

[Dark Mod]

I've PM him already

[wmb88]

well well, big N, this time you maybe smart but putting epoxy is not a good attempt. thanks modsupplier for the info.

[Funkwheat]

Originally Posted by Dark Mod

I KNEW THE DAY HAS COME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEY SHAFTED US AGAIN PEOPLE, Well, time to mod the mainboard now people, I'll PM D2sun about it.
HOLY FRUITS!!!!!!!!!and I dreamt that they will do a major change in the wii board.
WAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

lmao they shafted us???? =x

Aren't we the ones who have been stealing from them for the last couple years? =P

I'm as guilty as anyone, but still. =X lol

[One4All]

Originally Posted by ModSupplier

One of these drives will be on its way to the WiiKey team next week................ but we can see the first generation of chips for these drives being a high wire count such as the D2CKey when they were first released.

Should have sent it to the Wasabi guys instead, wire count would most likely be much lower

[rudster]

The wiikey team will find a way, i mean they always have.
Just hope everything will be figured out before it really starts affecting business.

[djbroli]

i am an original wiikey owner with a D2b, long time. it is amazing to see all the progress up to now. i am sure we will get through this. thanks to all. keep it up.