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.
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.
Another
unique function the guys have added to the WiiKey 2 is a unique serial
number that is imbedded in the chip and can be checked by using the
config disk, as we all know there is a big problem in the market with
factories & stores producing and selling low cost clones of chips
from this team, the unique serial number is a way you can safely verify
that you have not been sold a clone, we saw with the v1 that in the end
places were even copying the holograms supplied with the chips, so now
on top of having the hologram shipped, each chip has its unique serial
number that you can verify with the team to make sure you were not sold
a cheaper inferior clone of their product.
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.
Our Price:
| Volume | Price |
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1
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$19.16
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2 - 4
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$18.81
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5 - 9
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$18.63
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10 - 19
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$18.10
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20 - 49
|
$18.19
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50 - 99
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$17.92
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100 - 499
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$17.74 |
Product Link: http://www.volumerate.com/details.vr/sku.60280
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