jinxvorheeze1 said:
After watching the rise of the Wii Homebrew scene, I can tell you without a doubt that CIOSCORP is the most dangerous thing that has come to the Wii. That's not to say that it isn't a fantastic breakthrough, but this is the type of project that needed to be created over a private chat. In an IRC or private message board. Kids don't read warnings. They see the newest thing, and they go for it. They don't think about the consequences and they sure as hell don't think about stuff like breaking their friends Wii. They get the newest hack and they install it because they want to prove something, or think it's impressive to people that they can install a program made by someone else. These are not people you know. These are not people you can necessarily trust. We all hope that people would be honest, but I have seen far too many liars in this scene to feel safe going by what someone else has said. Don't be a hermit, try new things, that's fine. But don't trust for a second that anyone can or will help you. So if you don't have the means to help yourself in the situation that something goes wrong, then maybe you should step back and think whether or not what you have is good enough. If you can install a channel that runs backup games just fine, then why on earth would you want to install something that has so many risks, that you know almost nothing about, for no gain other than you don't have to click start on a channel? This is a development project, for people who wish to use this project, and it's idea's to make the Wii better for people like you.
As IronMask said, I have the means to replace a broken Wii. I have a spare, I know what to do in the event of a brick. But do you? Can you afford another $250 Wii? Can you fix the one you have if you break it. Don't be too foolish, there's some things that even Starfall can't save you from, and when that time come's the only person to blame will be your self.
I agree but for a different reason.
One of the measures of a good "hack" is the size of the footprints you leave behind. The best hacks provide great functionality while making as few changes to the native system as possible (like getting admin priveleges on a system without being detectable by the "real" admins).
With CIOSCorp you are
fundamentally and
extensively altering the native system. As I pointed out before you are using a single .APP file to replace at least four
different shared .APP files in the IOS titles. There is most likely a reason that those four shared .APP files are different. And that's just for the IOS titles 28 and higher. For the IOS tiles from 9-22 you are
completely replacing the IOS title with a single instance of a patched (higher version) IOS title. Add to that the fact that nearly every IOS title on your system is now fakesigned and at least one of the .APP files in each IOS has a different hash than the original.
No one really knows what effect this will have on the system in the future. I admit that it's very possible that this will have no adverse effects at all, but no one really knows.
This is not something I would choose to install. I think the idea was very cool and I totally understand hardcore "tinkerers" messing around with it, but I
shudder at the thought of widespread installation of this hack.
