Datel Drive Doctor for Wii does statistics and code injection, requires soldering

Surely the whole point of purchasing a commercial product to run a few homebrew games or activate a few cheat codes is that there's no soldering required: that's not the case with the Datel Drive Doctor for Wii. The $34.95 Drive Doctor is designed to allow Wii owners to connect their console to their PC with a USB 2.0 cable, enabling you to review the internal statistics of the Wii, eventually run homebrew games, and even inject code "into the data stream ... it's fun!" Unfortunately, the press release mentions that it'll require a little soldering of wires in order to get the little box that clips on the back into a working state. Most people won't find that fun, but then again most people wouldn't find the idea of accidentally injecting code that kills their Wii fun either. We're left thinking that this one's strictly for the intermediate or pro hacker, so stay away if your coding and soldering isn't up to scratch. Us mere mortals will wait for something a little more dumb-consumer friendly, thank you very much.

[Via Nintendo Wii Fanboy]

[Dan Elkayam @ May 19th 2007 12:52PM]

Restated opinion from post.

http://www.stupidblognoonereads.com

[DarkFader @ May 19th 2007 1:11PM]

By the time homebrew is enabled, there will be dozens of better products.

[Will @ May 19th 2007 1:57PM]

Sure thing Cody

[LiQuiD_FuSioN @ May 19th 2007 2:46PM]

Willy, do me a favor. Please.. keep it on AG/SC. Okay?

[elies @ May 19th 2007 2:49PM]

Can Anybody ban that idiot form spaming every post in engadget? There is a stupid spam comment on every single post! Poor guy... all he live's for is to wait until there's a new post to quickly post a ad-comment! So sad! Can somebody ban him? It's getting annoying.

[Magallanes @ May 19th 2007 9:38PM]

BAN HIM!!!.

Anyways, to open a wii console is truly a hard task, first those tri-head screws.. At least it's way more easily to open a wii that a DS.

[johnfranks @ May 19th 2007 11:46PM]

everything opens with a dremel!

[Crooky @ May 20th 2007 12:53AM]

This is my case-modding tool of choice:

http://tinyurl.com/ga5j4

[Mr_? @ Jun 14th 2007 1:24PM]

this product does play homebrew and back ups, i know this as i have it installed in my wii.

[Mr_? @ Jul 14th 2007 1:35PM]

flash the firmware from here http://botch.front.ru/ to allow back ups to play

[rcopley @ Nov 19th 2007 4:54PM]

dose the modded firmware allow you to still play retail games?

[Mr_? @ Nov 20th 2007 11:58AM]

Yes the modded firmware still allows you to play retail games