It looks like the team will also be supporting the WiiKey 2 with regular firmware updates, the first config disk has already been released and we are sure more will follow when needed. Also the have made it so the chip can’t be bricked by a bad flash, there is a built in recovery mode that will allow you to safely restore the chip in the unlikely event of the power going out during an update or for some reason the flash update just did not complete, in the past this would mean one dead chip, so this feature means customers can no longer kill their WiiKey 2 attempting to update them to the latest firmware. Also they have made a region fall back recovery mode which means if the chip was tested on a PAL unit and then shipped and installed in to a NTSC unit, the chip would fallback and reset to NTSC.

There are a few other low cost chips on the market now, and we hear you saying why should we use WiiKey v2 if we can get a cheaper chip that does the same thing, this is a good question and for some of you the choice for the cheaper solutions might be right for you, they do work and have good stability and can do the job, but one thing some of the cheaper chips do lack is firmware update support, you can be assumed when buying the WiiKey 2 chips that the team will be there to make updates when needed, and even bring handy new features to the chips such as the brick blocker, so for some the cheaper chips will be the solution and for others you may wish to use a chip such as WiiKey 2 which is sitting in the middle on price and function.