Hacking Official Wii backup disc

[sanchoquo]

You think there is only one disc?
That would be slowing down the process terribly

Yeah your correct but surely one technician would notice his disc was missing?

 

[FAST6191]

Damn, this beats the time I found a copy of corel photo (about version 2 or 3) in an old drive.

Fake or real?
I have no idea how many repair shops there are for nintendo but assuming one for each country (state/province too?) they operate that is several hundred right there and having been in repair shops you normally have more than one bench with each bench kitted out.
Either way pressed discs will happen ( http://www.shoutfile.com/v/FD2pyEAg/How_its_made_CD_pressing ) and silk screening is part of that.

Even for fairly sensitive stuff places I have been tend prefer the fire and forget approach as opposed to a password and the recent homebrew bit would indicate Nintendo do not care all that much about security. Likewise look at the actual stuff done for a pandora's battery.

Backup versus repair disc. Given my VAIO a couple of years back needed a "recoery" disc to be burnt off I do not think it too much of a stretch.

Screenshot: I have had stuff that runs my consoles through my monitors for years and TV capture cards are not exactly new. It is a good point though but as the original people appear to be at least somewhat clued up as to this sort of thing.....

Leaving discs in the drive? How many surgery stories of people with stuff left behind? Now think that your average repairman probably does it day in day out in a rather boring workshop, perhaps shift work or "helpful" types interfere.

The only minor problem for this sort of thing I can see is it could drive stuff "underground" like happens/happened with xbox homebrew depending on how useful this is.

 

[Railgun]

sounds cool!
this is main page material!

 

[MiloFoxburr]

sounds cool!
this is main page material!

It is if it's real, pointless if it's fake

 

[Harsky]

Damn, this beats the time I found a copy of corel photo (about version 2 or 3) in an old drive.

Fake or real?
I have no idea how many repair shops there are for nintendo but assuming one for each country (state/province too?) they operate that is several hundred right there and having been in repair shops you normally have more than one bench with each bench kitted out.
Either way pressed discs will happen ( http://www.shoutfile.com/v/FD2pyEAg/How_its_made_CD_pressing ) and silk screening is part of that.

Even for fairly sensitive stuff places I have been tend prefer the fire and forget approach as opposed to a password and the recent homebrew bit would indicate Nintendo do not care all that much about security. Likewise look at the actual stuff done for a pandora's battery.

Backup versus repair disc. Given my VAIO a couple of years back needed a "recoery" disc to be burnt off I do not think it too much of a stretch.

Screenshot: I have had stuff that runs my consoles through my monitors for years and TV capture cards are not exactly new. It is a good point though but as the original people appear to be at least somewhat clued up as to this sort of thing.....

Leaving discs in the drive? How many surgery stories of people with stuff left behind? Now think that your average repairman probably does it day in day out in a rather boring workshop, perhaps shift work or "helpful" types interfere.

The only minor problem for this sort of thing I can see is it could drive stuff "underground" like happens/happened with xbox homebrew depending on how useful this is.

You reminded me of the story of how I went to the Isle of Skye with a family friend to help out with a house being built (well, more an assistant to him) and I left his 5 million candle power torch in the attic... oh was he pleased....

Anyways, worser things have popped up on the GBA front news page. Remember when someone claimed to have made a DVD player homebrew for the Wii? That was front news material... for a week before it turned out he never delivered.

 

[1337Nemo]

Since i worked for a computer store last year (i know its different, but you will get my point), sometimes you just lay down the backup disc (windows, acronis, linux live etc) somewhere if you have a lot of work (which they do, console are defective all the time). And we had it before that customers brought us back a arconis backup (we never used orignals DVDs because of this) and i guess there are customers who just took them ..

on the other hand, i think nintendo repair services arent done by one person. Like:
1 person checks the wii to locate the problem (software or hardware, etc)
2. has to change the wii, gets the old one, takes a new one, looks at old one, copy VC games, saves, miis whatever, put it on new one (the hardest work)
3. person checks if everything is ok (like backups, vc games, DVDs IN THE DRIVE, SD CARD !)

maybe they werre in a hurry and just sent it back fast?

Nobody knows, but i think its real, but wont help us much .. if this guy really has it, he could post more about it, test things out etc.. he gets a lot of offers for geckos, lg drives etc.. and since the wiininja team has one, too (they tell so), and they have the knowledge to backup games and "do more with the wii", i think its useless...

but lets wait and get brawl first, play it for a year and then come back and ask whatever happend to this dvd

 

[RBix]

So what exactly can one do with this disc?

Simplest guess would be to unbrick a wii.

 

[Hit]

So what exactly can one do with this disc?

Simplest guess would be to unbrick a wii.

Nah, it wouldn't be able to run this if the wii was bricked
I think it is to do some tests after the wii is unbricked

 

[superrob]

and in that pictrue is writen: Ignore protection.
Maybe we could use that feature to make software modchips!!!

 

[Killakae]

wow... i hope this is true... it'll be interesting to see what Ignore Verification does

 

[Bob Loblaw]

I think it's real. I've heard the yellow copy is for PAL systems. The Pink for NTSC.

 

[Killakae]

but the guys holding a pink disc and his product id is: RVL-001 (EUR)

 

[Hit]

I think it's real. I've heard the yellow copy is for PAL systems. The Pink for NTSC.

But it says the wii is Europian
Tough the guy said there was some ID on the disk with USA
Weird

 

[coolbho3000]

"Install dev certs" == "install SDK software??????"

 

[CockroachMan]

I'm curious about the "ignore verification" thing..

Could this make software mod possible?

 

[coolbho3000]

I'm curious about the "ignore verification" thing..

Could this make software mod possible?

Don't get too excited, the Wii will have to be modded to run the [burned] disc in the first place.

 

[superrob]

Thats what im thinking about too.

 

[Jademalo]

With regards to VC, all you can do is change the id of a game on the sd card to match your wiiid.

Very Very handy.

 

[apd]

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[OrcMonkey©]

cool I will really want free vrtual console games