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  1. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Is wiikeu is similar to wii wode?

    I think when a developer openly says that they refuse to develop for a system due to the rampant piracy, that's all the proof needed to illustrate that high piracy causes a loss of third party support. The data you're looking for does exist, in multiple different forms. As you put, it's open...
  2. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Is wiikeu is similar to wii wode?

    DS still required a hardware purchase to hack (flashcard), so it doesn't really work for your example... I will concede the point on the Wii -- somehow it managed to continue a good stream of first and third party titles (ignoring the shovelware) even after it became trivially easy to hack...
  3. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Is wiikeu is similar to wii wode?

    Actually, yes, kind of like how the PSP lost third party support (look at the amount of games released over the life of the system vs. other handheld consoles, excluding the abortion that is the Vita -- several developers have specifically stated that they did not localize or release games in...
  4. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Idea: When Wii U is hacked, port a Wii emulator to it for HD Wii gaming

    Quite the contrary. The architecture of the PS3 is absolutely nothing like the PS2, which is why in order to have backwards compatibility, they basically built a separate PS2 inside the PS3 in the launch models. They then polished off a passable software emulator and used that for a generation...
  5. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Wiiu hacked? yes please

    I agree with your overall point, however, Xenoblade Chronicles was an awesome (and very good looking, for Wii) open-world RPG on the Wii. :) So they definitely can make them.
  6. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Just a thought about partitions and the new update

    The good news is that if you hold B to directly enter vWii mode during boot, you don't get the format prompt... That said, as others have mentioned -- there does not appear to be any additional changes in how the WiiU recognizes disks with the latest update.
  7. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking wii menu 3.0 HBC still works

    Smash Stack exploit requires a non-SDHC card. These are usually lower end, lower size, older cards. The only one I have that is non SDHC is a 2GB one from a bunch of years ago. Most new ones are SDHC and will not work for the exploit. My guess is that whoever said that meant to actually say...
  8. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Hacking the WiiU: A Simple Progress Guide

    Not to piggyback on beano311, but he's correct. Not only is it not possible to have a .VHD mounted as a USB drive over a cable coming out of the PC (I looked, could not find an application that would emulate a USB client over USB with a VHD to a USB host), but even if it were, it would...
  9. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Idea: When Wii U is hacked, port a Wii emulator to it for HD Wii gaming

    I dunno, with how nice stuff looks in Dolphin at 1080p, I really would love to see someone hack the WiiU to upscale to 1080p :). WRT the DMCA, I don't disagree at all with the_randomizer or Rydian. DMCA is a piece of trash legislation that is so overblown and mispointed that it may as well...
  10. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Idea: When Wii U is hacked, port a Wii emulator to it for HD Wii gaming

    The PC is already capable of running third party applications -- we're talking about the legality of hacking a Wii in order to make it run third party applications. Modifying the code of Windows to skin it or to modify the tcpip.sys to solve the half-open connection does not "circumvent" access...
  11. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Idea: When Wii U is hacked, port a Wii emulator to it for HD Wii gaming

    Yes and no. You're correct that HBC itself does not circumvent copy protection in any way, as it must be run on an already exploited console and will not exploit the console itself -- however, based on the verbiage of the law, the actual act of using the Smash Stack exploit against the Wii /...
  12. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Idea: When Wii U is hacked, port a Wii emulator to it for HD Wii gaming

    No, they also addressed video game consoles. Quickest link I could find to the outcome: http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/10/dmca-exemptions-rejected/ That said, I'm not saying this because I think they will ever go after people hacking their home consoles or anything, just that...
  13. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Idea: When Wii U is hacked, port a Wii emulator to it for HD Wii gaming

    I thought the recent ruling about DMCA exemptions in late 2012 made 'jailbreaking' home video game consoles illegal again? That alone wouldn't make HBC illegal (as the HBC itself doesn't exploit the system to run unsigned code, instead it relies on one of several exploits to do that for it)...
  14. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Idea: When Wii U is hacked, port a Wii emulator to it for HD Wii gaming

    Surprisingly, many games on the Wii have higher resolution textures than the Wii was capable of displaying or rendering. This is fairly common practice (it also happened a lot on the PS2). You can verify this behavior if you run the games in Dolphin at the higher resolution. Not all games do...
  15. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Gecko OS Game Freeze (Zelda SS)...

    Easy way to test, turn off the codes, see if it still hangs there. ;)
  16. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Idea: When Wii U is hacked, port a Wii emulator to it for HD Wii gaming

    Out of curiosity, wouldn't it be possible to change the internal render resolution to 1080p with a hack of some sort without actually doing an entire emulation layer? I know that this alone would probably cause graphical glitches (it works in Dolphin because they specifically hack / patch...
  17. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking Will you get banned for playing backups online?

    Historically, Nintendo has only banned people who cheat/hack while playing online because they disturb the ecosystem of paying customers. I would expect (but it's just an assumption, as xBASSxMONSTAx mentioned, the possibility exists for them to ban just for online play of backups) that they...
  18. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking vwii ios reinstall

    I don't believe so. The keys.bin generated during the dump is specific to the Wii it has been dumped from and I do not believe they are interchangeable. I do want to stress that if all you did was install d2x using the d2x installer, there's pretty much no way you could have overwritten your...
  19. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking vwii ios reinstall

    Installing d2x should not have overwritten your base 56, 57, or 58 -- it uses those iOS as a base, but installs the modified iOS into 249, 250, and 251 and does not overwrite the base iOS. Re-installing d2x into the 249, 250, and 251 slots should resolve your problems. You would have had to...
  20. n1ckn4m3

    Hacking dios mios can it be installed on vwii

    That's an odd thing to say considering there has not been any announcements relating to homebrew running directly on the WiiU. It was assumed he meant in vWii mode and the answer given was relating to vWii mode. Regardless, the answer is the same. Dios Mios does not work on the WiiU, either...