mikeydavies

What Gasly says about the Warranty is true and if I remember rightly there is 1 wire to solder on the DVD drive from the chip but otherwise it's a clip on and as long as it's done correctly and you look after your machine you'll be fine and your Wii will live well past it's warranty! As for copied games, I have a little experience in it, you will have to get games from your own region but if you have the iso on your desktop ready to be burnt you'll need 2 programs, Wii brickblocker and regrion Frii I think theyre called although I think there's an all in one out there with both programs on! All you do is open region frii and then find your Wii iso and load it in, it should tell you what region it is at the moment and there'll be an area where you can choose which area you want it to change to, choose the right one for your area and click on go and it'll change it! Do pretty much the same thing with the Wii brick blocker by loading the iso in and pressing go, it just stops the updates from the disk as it's from a different area and if you were to run the update it may brick your Wii but this is supposed to stop any updates. But if it does ask to update when you play it then just select no! unless of course it's an original or 1 that's definatly from your area!
If you put in a wrongly burnt disk it'll just show up as currupted orunable to read so what the bloke says about the corrupted disks is bull!
My advice mate is if you want it that badly then just do it! if it's done correctly then he should know how to open the seals etc to try and keep them intact IF you had to return it under warranty but obviously you'd still have to remove the chip 1st! Other than that i'd go for it as i've only heard good reports about the chip and most consoles nowadays live beyond their warranty so there should be no worries there!
I'll try and find the tools you'll need if you decide to burn your own disks and the only place i'll suggest for games is to go look on the torrent boards for what games you want and read the comments from people that have downloaded it 1st and see what they say about it!
Also regarding the soft mods, they can be done quite easily but you'll need a copy of Zelda the twighlight princess and then some free software, save ghames from the net, it's a bit like xbox1 hacking! the only thing with running the backup games is that the games cinematics run at 3X as oposed to the proper disk being 6X but if you can live with that then go here
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and take a look! it's all done through SD card and a few other things but it may be a way to go if you don't fancy losing $120 but it may still void the warranty the site says unless you can revert it all back to normal if it needs to go back for some reason!
hope this cleared your answers up.i'l edit later if I find that all in one, good luck

EDIT:- It looks as though the clip doesn't need soldering after all unless you want to play games from other regions but with the Wii brick blocker and region Frii you won't need that so the mod is a completely solderless 1 unless you want to play backups without using the 2 previous programs when you copy backups to play! As I said though, you might be better off/ ok to use the softmod as there's feature in it that alows you to play games from other regions by going into a menu and choosing and setting a different region to play whatever game you put in!