PSA: Brickers Abound

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Just a short Public Service Announcement for our users, particularly the ones who like their Homebrew on Nintendo platforms. The Homebrew community tends to be positive and participating in it is a recipe for a good time, but no group of people is free of bad actors with too much time on their hands. We have reason to believe that in the near future we'll see a lot of suspicious uploads of innocent-looking applications that are actually concealed console brickers and viruses. We came across a disconcerting threat against our site, among others, made by a Wii malware creator.

The safety of our users is our number one priority, so we strongly urge forum-goers to be weary of applications uploaded to the site recently, particularly if they come from relatively new accounts. We apologise for this inconvenience, but sadly there is little we can do besides staying vigilant and dealing swiftly with any and all suspicious content.

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Lmao theres no way anyone is making Wii malware in 2019. It's probably for Switch or something.

Who cares anyway, I hope you all brick your switch so you all can finally put it down and play games that are actually worth a shit rather than generic anime games, the most half assed Nintendo sequels ever, and 5 year old ports that are often worse than the originals.

How dare people play on their preferred platform?! I assume you feel this way about the Vita, right?
 
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Lmao theres no way anyone is making Wii malware in 2019. It's probably for Switch or something.

Who cares anyway, I hope you all brick your switch so you all can finally put it down and play games that are actually worth a shit rather than generic anime games, the most half assed Nintendo sequels ever, and 5 year old ports that are often worse than the originals.
Yea well, i hope your dick gets bricked.
 
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if it's the switch, try checking with nx info. it will tell you if it's safe. plus, verify with nsp verify in case of data corruption, which I've come across several times.
 

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lol xD why go after the wii ... so you are targeting people who still use the wii , but have to hack it and use new files you are uploading (is there anything still being updated for the wii ? lol like just block new files for wii xD ) .... the pool of potential user they are trying to reach is kinda small xD
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Lmao theres no way anyone is making Wii malware in 2019. It's probably for Switch or something.

Who cares anyway, I hope you all brick your switch so you all can finally put it down and play games that are actually worth a shit rather than generic anime games, the most half assed Nintendo sequels ever, and 5 year old ports that are often worse than the originals.

I'm sorry that you're having such a tough time right now, just remember it's not your fault that your parents are fighting, and things will get better at school in time. Hang in there, champ.
 

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Please look and read through the Wii hacking Forum,there are daily Threads and Posts and many questions about Modding the Wii.
Enough "Customers" would I say.:)

Even so, what else is new on the homebrew end of things on the Wii itself? It can play up to the fourth generation of consoles and up to the sixth generation of handhelds (that actually mattered) when it comes to the realm of practicality. All one needs to do is follow old tutorials from the era of YT littered with Unregistered Hypercams, Windows XP, Windows Movie Maker, and this classic theme:



Like, I wouldn't be surprised that new things and improvements have been added to what was there when I used the Wii back in the day, but at the end of the day, the Switch can do everything the Wii can and more, but better! :/

Which is why this is all the more pathetic that someone would write some programs that would brick Wii's that are already probably screaming in pain from all the dust many of the things collected when most people in my generation (and I can speak, because I remember when no one would shut up about the Wii back in 2006-2009 in middle/high school) stopped giving a shit and Call of Duty *insert year here* was the talk of the town. This would be like if I wrote homebrew to brick an NES in 2019! Like, why would you be an asshole to do that just because you can?

To end this post expressing my asking WTF is the point of people writing bricking code for a Wii in 2019 (let alone using a Wii in 2019 IMHO, but I'm typing from a HTPC armed with 16GB of DDR4 RAM, an i7-8700k, and a GTX 1080) on a positive note, Trance 009 Sound System is an awesome song! ;)

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Yea well, i hope your dick gets bricked.

I'm just gonna leave the guy you're replying to's meltdown here:

https://gbatemp.net/entry/why-i-hate-the-switch-and-this-current-era-of-nintendo.16119/

 
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Ladies and gentlemen, we got 'em
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I've noticed that earlier today as well, but I'm not sure that's a good thing. Previously we at least had some insight in terms of the code, now we have nothing. No matter, I don't think it's a serious threat anyway, just one I wanted users to be aware of.
 

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haha i only once Bricked my psp.... that was painful. But brickin my PS3 on ITA let me tell you.... that was a hell of a pain
 

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