Nintendo has circulated a press release chronicling the latest news in its ongoing battle against piracy. According to the press release, the Hong Kong High Court ordered the raid of facilities owned by Supreme Factory Limited earlier this month at Nintendo's request.

The raid turned up more than 10,000 game copying devices and mod chips used to play pirated Nintendo software. The seized copying devices were used mostly for pirating Nintendo DS games. The mod chips were mostly for use in Nintendo's Wii home video game console.

Documents found at the raid site connected Supreme Factory Limited to French company Divineo SARL. Divineo SARL and its principal, Max Louarn, have also been named in the legal action initiated by Nintendo.

Divineo.cn is offering the Wiikey modchip with Hologram sticker (which ensures it's genuine) for only US$ 25, a big drop from the product's original US$ 36 price.

So what can the Wiikey modchip do? Well, the product has quite a few features aside from the obvious ability of being able to play backups of both your Wii and GC games.

It also allows a direct boot for games locked to a region different from your unit's (Japan/US release) and Wii multi-disk support for games. If you want to know more, check out the complete list of features that the modchip has.

Features:

• Direct boot of wii backups
• Supports all currently available console/drive versions
• Supports D2B chipsets
• Sophisticated (true) update mechanism via DVD (future proof, expect cool features to come)
• Partial support for NTSC region Wii games/backups on PAL consoles
• Boots different region GC games/backups (partially without swapping)
• Supports multi-disc games for BOTH Wii and Gamecube
• Supports DVD-R / true DVD+R and +RW support (no bitsetting required!)
• Improved read settings for recordable media
• Built-in audio fix
• Supports fullsize 4GB discs for gamecube homebrew
• Stealth mode
• 512 byte EEPROM to store configuration
• Quicksolder interface - no wires required
• Unique disc backup application via sdcard
• Compact design, best quality components, rock solid high speed controller
• Professional ESD packing
• Recovery mode - Can recover from a bad flash

If you're interested in picking one up, click on our read link to take you directly to the Divineo.cn site where you can purchase your own Wiikey. If you're planning on picking up more than one, the site offers discounts for mass purchases of the product. Keep checking back here for more deals.

Modchips and console security updates, like the international arms race, is one that never ends. And for a short while, it seemed that chip developers faced another Nintendo hurdle by way of the infamous GC2-D2B model Wii. As we said, "For a short while." Divineo is now accepting pre-orders for a D2B-capable TeamCyclops' modchip for Wii">CycloWiz chip for a price of US$ 39.99, although we'll have to see if this really is the case.

And in other news, we bring an update on the Wiikey mod chip. The dev team has pushed its the release date to between February 16 and 20, and is now capable of running on D2B Wii units. As for the updated specs:

• Direct boot of Wii backups (like originals)
• Direct boot of GC backups (like originals)
• Direct boot of homebrew in GC mode
• Supports all currently available console and drive versions (including the D2B chipset)
• True sophisticated upgradability via DVD/disc (future proof, expect cool features to come)
• Direct boot of different NTSC region Wii games on USA and JAP consoles
• Partial support for different region NTSC games on PAL consoles
• Supports different region GC games (partially without swapping)
• Supports multi-disc games for BOTH Wii and Gamecube
• Supports DVD-R / TRUE DVD+R and +RW support (no bitsetting required)
• Improved read settings for recordable media
• Built-in audio fix (for games using streaming, no patch required)
• Supports full-size 4GB DVD for Gamecube homebrew
• Stealth mode
• 512 byte EEPROM to store configuration
• 4 wires & quick solder interface
• Unique disc backup application via SD-card
• Compact design, best quality components, rock solid high speed controller
• Professional ESD packing

Keep checking back for updates (on price tag perhaps?) on this potential hot-sell, along with any word on the other two chips expected to break the D2B barrier soon, The Wiinja and the Wiip.

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