Has there been any development on the modding scene about flashing the Wii with a different firmware? So for example what stops us from flashing a Japanese Wii to US or PAL, I would assume that there are no hardware differences since that would rise up manufacturing costs for Nintendo and also at first I thought that the consoles come with "read-only" firmware chips but since the firmware gets updates that doesn't seem to be the case. I ran across some websites where it's been mentioned that there are dumps of the firmware but that its not possible to see yet which sectors represent what (firmware, saves, etc.) or do anything useful with them. Also someone mentioned recently that the newly discovered maintenance mode might have opened some new backdoors for modding and homebrew scene.
Just post if u got any ideas or comments on this topic!
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