Wii mod chip maker Wiikey enters Nintendo's next-gen with a cracked Wii U, reverse engineering the system's guts and opening the door for pirated games.

Wiikey, the company that sells mod chips for the Nintendo Wii, said in an update on their website they have successfully reverse-engineered the Wii U drive authentication, ...

ORIGINAL STORY: The group responsible for the first Wii mod chip has claimed to have hacked the Wii U so it can play copied games. "Yes, its real," reads an announcement on the Wiikey website.

A hacker group claims they have designed a modification chip that circumvents security measures on Nintendo's Wii U. In a post on the group's website – which Joystiq has decided against linking ...

Now that the Wii U has been discontinued it's likely to be open season on mods, and one we saw on Reddit is rather interesting in that it sort of makes the GamePad similar to a Switch.