Hacking Did you brick your Wii with Paper Mario?

[kdanarch]

In short... nintendo doesn't care if you install a chip.
They make a lot of money on their consoles. So what if you brick one? Another 150 bucks pure profit in nintendo's wallet.

Who they're attacking are those pirates in china who are selling pre-chipped Wiis and SELLING backups in retail stores.

Copyright? Copyright is a blanket concept. It's all about revenue theft. The RIAA didn't go after napster because they felt that it was "wrong."
They sued because they saw it as thousands of people stealing their revenues.



No concept can be owned, because even if it's lost forever, it will be rediscovered.

 

[DiNo29]

ouch, 5% yes, 10% if you take out the unconcerned answers, that's a lot !

 

[cdmoore74]

Unless you use ebay, where they're about the same price

Nice one.

 

[Timmy!!&]

I didn't brick my Wii, but that was pure luck.

I installed the update that apperently came with SPM, and it played just fine. The next day, a new update was availeble through wifi, so I downloaded that one too. SPM worked still fine for me. After all of this, I read the forum... Thank god I have no problems, but I'm sorry for all you others guys out there

 

[Tomobobo]

Did users with NTSC-U consoles have to update too, if they hadn't updated ever?

 

[Deleted User]

I guess the lesson learned here is ... play your own region games.

Like ... even if you keep the Wii updated all the time ... just imagine ... you burn a game of a different region ... and you THINK you have the latest firmware ... when in fact, they JUST released a new upgrade while you were burning your disc ... and then you try out the game ... and BAM. Or maybe future games will update it no matter what. I'm not going to take any risks ... or at least, I'll let others take the risks first.

 

[Opium]

For the people who's console bricked have you ever updated your Wii via the internet before?

Has it ever been updated by any other games?

 

[adgloride]

Or buy a PS3

Why bother buying a PS3, a bricked wii is miles more useful.

 

[dsbomb]

I had 2.1U in the US and SPM didn't want to update or anything.

 

[koentje3]

why not just disconnect from the internet while playing SPM?

 

[Dwaalspoor98]

Guess I'm also a lucky one...

Leeched Super Paper Mario straight away from the moment after it was released and I did update my firmware on my PAL Wii from the SPM DVD, but I didn't/don't have any problems

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[XxTRIFORCExX]

why not just disconnect from the internet while playing SPM?

I believe the update is on the DVD.

 

[Scoobos]

In short... nintendo doesn't care if you install a chip.

Seriously, when is this sort of belief going to stop. We have to admit it guys, whilst chipping your Wii is a legally contentious issue - reproducing copyrighted games with a street value of £40 GBP is very much illegal and Nintendo sure as hell care.

"But they dont do anything to stop us".
Massive misconception, the community performs wonders to circumnavigate the security and if Nintendo did want to release a console - which uses a common format media - to be "secure" it would not be cost effective. Additionally, the console would take a hell of a lot more R&D and development time and cost.

Cost effectiveness is what Nintendo cares about, copied via the internet or sold by a Chinese pirate, it both means the same to them - lost revenue for them and their partners (3rd party developers).

Lets just stop kidding ourselves of any different hey, as its going too far.

I am a bit upset to hear this taken 1 step further where people will put shopkeepers out of money, by replacing broken Wii's with a store bought - thats one step further than piracy (which the law generally ignores for personal use) into Fraud and deliberate pre-meditated theft.

 

[moshii]

In short... nintendo doesn't care if you install a chip.

I'm pretty sure they do.. you should read up about the security measures in Nintendo's consoles maybe? You know that Nintendo logo on the original GB? Well that's in the cart and has to be there for the GB to boot the cart, so before a certain court case even homebrew was illegal... Nintendo cares and can be pretty clever about it.

 

[moley]

I keep mine updated I just wish they would send me update messages at a normal hour rather then 2-3 in the morning which always wakes me up.

 

[kdanarch]

I keep mine updated I just wish they would send me update messages at a normal hour rather then 2-3 in the morning which always wakes me up.

How? With the blue glow?

 

[directive0]

In short... nintendo doesn't care if you install a chip.


Seriously, when is this sort of belief going to stop. We have to admit it guys, whilst chipping your Wii is a legally contentious issue - reproducing copyrighted games with a street value of £40 GBP is very much illegal and Nintendo sure as hell care.

"But they dont do anything to stop us".
Massive misconception, the community performs wonders to circumnavigate the security and if Nintendo did want to release a console - which uses a common format media - to be "secure" it would not be cost effective. Additionally, the console would take a hell of a lot more R&D and development time and cost.

Cost effectiveness is what Nintendo cares about, copied via the internet or sold by a Chinese pirate, it both means the same to them - lost revenue for them and their partners (3rd party developers).

Lets just stop kidding ourselves of any different hey, as its going too far.

I am a bit upset to hear this taken 1 step further where people will put shopkeepers out of money, by replacing broken Wii's with a store bought - thats one step further than piracy (which the law generally ignores for personal use) into Fraud and deliberate pre-meditated theft.

I have to concur, well said. Yeah I use unlicensed copies of games, but I am aware of what I'm doing and I will face the consequences and take responsibility for my actions, I harbor no illusions over what I'm doing. Its somewhat immature to get involved in this scene, act without thinking and possibly damage your licensed property, only to try and have it replaced via legitimate means. Personally I don't care if you're doing it, but you should be completely honest with yourself as to what you are doing and how it reflects on you. I've damaged personal property before when doing something outside of my defined user agreement, and I pitched it and bought a new one with my hard earned money at a complete loss to myself. Its the very least a responsible adult can do.

 

[Ben_j]

I wasn't home when SPM was released so I couldn't download the game before the bricked Wii stories came out. Yet my Wii firmware is always up to date

 

[DGSystems]

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[rogerramjet]

I have SPM at home, would it be ok to play it if I have 2.2E?

My pal Wii with Wiikey and firmware 2.2e runs fine with no problems mate. You post on smb?