Time and time again,
Waninkoko’s apps have just been thin wrappers around existing code or tools written by others. His Filesystem Dumper came about when I told him about the GID 0 TMD trick. WAD Installer showed up after I reverse engineered the ES interface and added the relevant functions to libogc. His first DVD warez launcher showed up after the IOS Module Toolkit appeared, to which he added DVDX and some old Gamecube code. And just now, his USB warez launcher appears mysteriously 22 days after a USB2 module for IOS was released.
The only strange part is that it took him all 22 days to get it to work.
All his later apps have included advertisements, and the official
downloads all required signing up for his sponsoring site, which also requires that you sign up for an e-mail spam service. He’s definitely making a pretty penny out of his particular version of the “scene”.
Now, this would ordinarily be just one more episode of
waninkoko hyping up ad-riddled trivial warez-friendly applications built on top of other people’s code and work. However, some interesting things happened. He hyped up the release date of the video on his
blog, and the mass amount of page reloads around the time caused his sponsoring site to go down. They also claim that there was a DDoS attack involved. I followed this hilarious situation on the ElOtroLado forums, and correctly predicted that the hyped app would be a USB warez launcher before it was revealed. Of course, he is once again being revered as a scene god by those who don’t know any better.
It seems the comments on that
blog post have been removed, or what else I was remembering is posted elsewhere. I'll continue searching. But I do specifically remember that he was violating GPL and not crediting those who wrote the original code that he has used.
Edit #2:
Taken from
http://gbatemp.net/t182539-waninkoko-prepa...are-updater-4-2
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poppy11 said:
BBking83 said:
Dr_Hack said:
and why does bootmii dosent respond when i use my wiimote ? i cant press anything
You need a GameCube controller.
Or use the buttons on the wii console itself - power button to cycle through the options, reset button to select.
Just wanted to say thanks to Waninkoko for releasing this firmware updater so quickly. It's a shame that Marcan is
slagging him off yet again over at Slashdot, spreading FUD that Microsoft themselves would be proud of:
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Piracy utilities do nasty stuff to your system all the time, they're buggy, and they brick lots of people's Wiis. I'm talking about safety-critical bugs here.
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Loaders, besides typically illegal (they like to ship around chunks of IOS), are very dodgy and unreliable. System modification is required to install loaders, so it's an inherently risky activity. About 50% of the reports of permanent bricks I get from people are due to using
Waninkoko's stuff. Stay far away, he never learned what that 'int' thing before function prototypes is for.
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Waninkoko has repeatedly violated licenses and stolen code from others (first me, then bushing, then kwiirk with the USB stuff, as well as lots of other random bits and pieces) all while doing an insignificant amount of research and actual work himself, and he is sponsored by a website associated with modchip sales, has worked for modchip manufacturers, and adds advertisement banners to all of his tools. In fact, his first release of game-loading tools came about as a way to hit the modchip guys he worked for back because he felt they weren't paying him enough. One of his tools (a completely useless sort of survey he came up with, which he asked everyone to run) actually went as far as to open up the Opera browser on the Wii (if it was installed) to his sponsor's site.
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USB loading or any kind of "backup loading" is not supported by the Wiibrew community because 90% of its users are massive pirates. If you want to legitimately use games you own from USB, you're on your own. Fair warning: most of the software involved is crappy, unstable, and/or dangerous.
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I've yet to hear any report of a Wii being bricked by the HackMii installer (or any other prior versions, including the old standalone Homebrew Channel installer). So far, as far as we know, 100% of the Wiis bricked via "homebrew" have in fact been bricked via either dodgy piracy tools (the people behind them seem to go for insta-releasing to become famous, instead of actually doing that old thing called QA and Testing and doing things like checking error codes)
Marcan, thanks for your work, but I think it'ss time for you to take a big cup of STFU.
