The WiiKey 2 is the latest chip from the team that brought us the original WiiKey and other great chips such as D2Pro. It looks like they saw there was a lot of cheaper alternatives coming on to the market to the Pro and decided to release a chip to compete with them. The WiiKey v2 has the same feature set as the D2Pro minus the J-Tag upgradability, so far they have proven to be just as stable and high quality. We did think it was a little odd the team release a new chip when Pro is so popular, but by the sounds of it the Actel IC’s used in their production were starting to cost a lot more, and we saw that from the recent price rise, so I guess this is why WiiKey 2 was born. These chips will support all consoles to date including the new D2E chip sets, a 5-wire install for the older model drives such as DMS D2B, and a 6-wire install on the D2C / D2C2 & D2E drives. These chips are perfect for D2B drives with the legs cut, as they don’t use the same points the first versions do.

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Product Link: http://www.volumerate.com/details.vr/sku.60280

Wiikey2 with wii-clip here: http://www.volumerate.com/details.vr/sku.60282 

Los Angeles to Host Video Game Industry Event in June    

Washington, DC – October 22, 2008 – The 2009 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) will take place from June 2-4, 2009, at the Los Angeles Convention Center (LACC), the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) announced today. The expanded E3 will welcome all qualified computer and video game industry audiences, including international and U.S.-based media, analysts, retailers, developers and business partners to preview the latest in interactive entertainment and technology.

“Video games are the fastest growing and most compelling sector of the entertainment industry. And, this upgraded event will reflect the growth, innovation and excitement of our industry,” said Michael D. Gallagher, CEO of the ESA, which represents US computer and video game publishers and organizes the annual event. “The breadth, scope and quality of the changes made to the show will make E3 the must-attend event of the year.”

“The E3 Expo will be the pre-eminent North American gaming show next year. The new, larger event is better for industry leaders and for serious gamers,” commented John Riccitiello, CEO of Electronic Arts.

After conducting both qualitative and quantitative research, ESA officials stated changes were necessary to better meet the needs of both exhibitors and attendees— these changes include increased booth sizes, increased qualified audiences, and an intensified focus on reinforcing the high-octane growth, innovation, and captivating entertainment that are driving the computer and video game industry.

"The video game business will be twice as big in 2009 as it was in 2006 when we had the last real E3 Expo - so get ready for some fireworks!" said Laurent Detoc, president of Ubisoft North America. "The changes made will ensure that the 2009 E3 Expo conveys the best of what makes us proud as entertainment leaders."

ESA also said IDG World Expo, whose principals have operated E3 since its inception in 1995, will produce the event with the ESA.

The event will be open to ESA members and non-members alike. Organizers noted they are expanding the list of companies eligible to participate. Companies involved in console, PC, online, and mobile game publishing and developing, qualified business partners, as well as makers of video game hardware and peripherals can exhibit.

Additional details, including registration, hotel and travel accommodations, and media credentialing, will be forthcoming in the next few weeks and will be available at www.e3expo.com.

The Entertainment Software Association is the U.S. association dedicated to serving the business and public affairs needs of companies publishing interactive games for video game consoles, handheld devices, personal computers, and the Internet. The ESA offers services to interactive entertainment software publishers including a global anti-piracy program, owning the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), business and consumer research, federal and state government relations, First Amendment and intellectual property protection efforts. For more information, please visit www.theESA.com.

VolumeRate.com will going to upload origial Wiikey 2 in the next week, approximately on Oct 25. Pictures will uploads with the actual products.

• Compatible with DMS, D2A, D2B, D2C, D2C-2 and D2E chipsets
• Compatible with all regions, USA, JAP, PAL and KOREA
• Compatible with D2B "cut pin" drives (does not require the cut pins to be connected)
• Fully configurable and updatable via DVD
• Advanced automatic region detection with fallback (works even if a drive is changed to a different region Wii)
• Region override for Wii and Gamecube games
• Direct Boot of Wii original, import, and backup games
• Direct Boot of Gamecube original, import, and backup games
• Direct boot of homebrew in GC mode
• Supports multi-disc games, DVD-R, +R, +RW (no bitsetting required)
• Supports Dual Layer
• Supports factory made 'silvers', even with incorrect header data
• Supports, SMG, SSBB, Mario Kart and other 'problem' titles
• Streaming audio-fix for Gamecube games
• Diskspeed configurable via DVD, with separate settings for different media types
• Recovery mode makes it impossible to brick the chip with a bad flash
• 8Mbit onboard flash for storing data and applications
• Rock solid performance with 3.3V FPGA core and high quality components
• Multifrequency Ringpiece Oscillators (MRO) for optimum performance, even with problem drives
• Onboard status LEDs

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Dear Valued Customers,

Volumerate will taking Mid-Autumn Day off from Sep 13 to Sep 15. The shipment will be back on Sep 16. 

What's Mid-autumn Day?

The Mid-Autumn Festival also known as the Moon Festival, Mooncake Festival, or the August Moon Festival. In Malaysia and Singapore, it is also sometimes referred to as the Lantern Festival, similar in name to a different festival which falls on the fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year) is a popular Asian celebration of abundance and togetherness, dating back over 3,000 years to China's Zhou Dynasty.

The Festival falls on the 15th day of the lunar month 8 in many East Asian lunisolar calendars (usually around mid- or late-September in the Gregorian Calendar), a full moon day that occurs around the time of the Autumn Equinox. At this time, the moon is at its fullest and brightest, marking an ideal time to celebrate the abundance of the summer's harvest. The traditional food of this festival is the moon cake, of which there are many different varieties.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is one of the two most important holidays in the Lunar calendar (the other being the Lunar New Year), and is a legal holiday in several countries. Farmers celebrate the end of the summer harvesting season on this date. Traditionally, on this day, Asian family members and friends will gather to admire the bright mid-autumn harvest moon, and eat moon cakes, star fruit and pomeloes together. It is also common to have barbecues outside under the moon, and to put pomelo rinds on one's head. Brightly lit lanterns are often carried around by children. Together with the celebration, there appear some special customs in different parts of the country, such as burning incense, planting sweet-olive trees, lighting lanterns on towers, and fire dragon dances. Shops selling mooncakes, before the festival, often display pictures of Chang'e, floating to the moon.

IMPORTANT : Before deciding which chip to go for, you need to find out 2 things about what type of wii console you have

1) Find out what type of chipset you have.

2) Next you Need to decide wether you drive has "cut" or "un-cut" pins, about 80% of consoles have "uncut" pins so chances are this is probably what you have and the above table of modchips can be used as a guide to which chip you need, although the below search should give you some sort of indication of wehter your drive pins are cut or not the only true way of finding out is to open up your console and have a look at the chip itself to see if any pins are missing :

THE IMAGE ABOVE SHOWS WHAT A CONSOLE LOOKS LIKE WITH CUT PINS

If you do have pins missing then all is not lost! you can still buy a solderless solution, the D2SUN with V5B wii clip or Wasabi with V5 Clip does not use these pins so you can install either of the chips on any drive no matter what chipset you have!

The WII-CLIP V12 for D2SUN v3.0 looking:

How to adjust the D2SUN V3.0 to work with your WII:

The WII-CLIP V12 for D2SUN v2.0 looking:

After soldered:

Link to our store:  http://www.volumerate.com/details.vr/sku.60235

Lately read an artical for What Do B2B Customers Really Want which gave me some thoughts I'd like to express.

   1. Be personally accountable.
        Don’t pass the buck somebody else in your firm; I want your skin in the game.
  
   2. Understand my business.
        Don’t expect me to answer dozens of questions that you can get answered elsewhere.
  
   3. Be on my side.
        Since I’m risking my career doing business with you, I expect you to represent my best interests.
  
   4. Design the right applications.
        Don’t burden me with features and functions; tell me how your solution will help my business.
  
   5. Be easily accessible.
        If I’m important to you, you’ll answer my email or vmail within minutes, not hours or days.
  
   6. Solve my problems.
        I want you to be thinking about helping my firm, not selling your products.
  
   7. Be creative in responding to my needs.
        If you can’t figure out how to help me, I ‘ll get on the web and find someone who can.

Though above 7 points were the type to B2B, for our business, most of B2C (in DealExtreme) and part of B2B(in VolumeRate, and the direction for VR is B2B finally), we think we should also try to meet these 7 points.

As we always said, we are not finding-excuse type people, but there are a couple of reasons which there is still a long distance for us to go for the customer service, maybe due to the culture difference of the Eestern and Western. Well, what we are doing now is trying to bridge this difference, improve ourselves also improve the quality of our service. Maybe that's the essense, customers are all service-oriented, right?

Submited by Ray Chen

This 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo on VolumeRate.com has proven to be quite effective and cost efficient!  The lack of MagicGate technology should be no concern because it has so little uses.  This product features 4GB (3876 MB) of capacity or close to that; unlike those fake ones, this one does have 4GB.  I personally used it as PSP or camera memory, and so far it has been 100% effective and no failure reported.  However, in one case, the SONY-DSC-H2 Camera user reported that the transfering rate of this memory stick is 100X slower than usual.  I here to confirm that it may not be true as i've tested on different devices for transfering speed including downloading and uploading.  Compared with the Sony 4GB Magic Gate Memory Stick Pro Duo, the downloading speed is about 1/4 slower (which means if Sony Memory Stick = 6 min downloading, then this 4GB memory stick would take about 7 min 30 sec to complete).  However, the uploading speed is the same as Sony 4GB Memory Stick Pro Duo.  I personally recommend this product because it is cheap compared to the Branded ones, and it has almost the same functionality. 

Verdict 8.5/10

product link here: http://www.volumerate.com/detail.vr/sku.60155