Daco said:
bullcrap. a game can be patched. it just depends on how the game was designed
The Wii, in the way it was designed, has no way to persistently patch games.
any game can download updates from a server and patch itself, remember PSO for GC? it did the same.
Activision patches their games aswell if they just download a patch or a whole main.dol I don't know.
Also there is a function in the SDK to get the Wii's MAC.
Here my friend, you are wrong.
Games can of course download stuff from the web, but the Wii does still not have any infrastructure for keeping patches persistent. Remember Wii games are on disks, not installed on NAND. (This excludes WiiWare titles of course, which nintendo actually updates from time to time.)
How do you suggest they save the new dols? You can't force the game to download a new dol on every launch. A normal sized game dol would use up a few hundred blocks of precious NAND space. Or otherwise have the game say: "an sd card is required for running this game ...". No, that's not feasible.
Also, I quote a marcan rant from a while back:
QUOTE(http://hackmii.com/2009/02/why-the-wii-will-never-get-any-better/)