ninja mod

[Technitian3]

You dont have to lift the leg, but as you have a NTSC 'cube you will want to. The ninja modchip defaults to PAL, and without lifting the leg you cannot save your settings. This means every time you fire up your 'cube you will be greeted by a rolling black and white screen. What worked for me was taking a large safety pin and bending the very tip of it over (about the width of the bios leg), then, with the pin hooked under the leg, apply heat (15 watt soldering iron) to the leg and simultaneously pull on the pin (pull parallel to the motherboard, not straight up, as you risk breaking the leg off that way). The pin should slip under the leg, breaking the connection to the board. Once accomplished, gingerly lift the leg a little more and make your connection.