asher said:might sound rude dude but mind your own business its not like you need to educate an old nintendo scene i think everyone here knows the risk with our r4s and our wiikeys
coolbho3000 said:I believe the Wii has an identifying mark deeper than the Wii ID and friend code - for example, the serial number, that is accessible by Nintendo.
Sotoro said:http://wii.waninkoko.info/
A wad uninstaller is out, which can delete the ripped vc games completly (channel, ticket..).
No. People dumped the filesystem using homebrew tools, nobody has cracked the SD copied VC games.Fission said:The fact that the VC games can be saved to SD is basically an invite to mess with them.
Which is probably what happened.
Edwii said:OK SO Iv done about an hour of skimming about the dangers of putting on VC games on the wii via .wad
so to save a little time i am wondering, its basically safe for my wii to install, used them, then when needed to go online for an update or something to that effect to run the new wad remover to remove the VC games i installed and will leave no trace? and their by leaving me undetected?
yeah that maybe true to a certain extent but i have also been telling my mates to mod there consoles how great free games are and guess what they did it to.mkill said:true, if piracy really hurts ninty they would be serious about stopping it, think about it if you copy a game, that you wouldn't be able to afford, and wouldn't have played anyway, you are probably talking to some friends about it, let say you tell 5 people about the game, then ninty already saved $$$ on marketing, its called viral networking. And its better and cheaper than any other way of marketing.
I know for sure that I got at least a hand full of friends that I can tell that "this game/hardware i really great, you should buy it!" and they do. and thats all down to the trust and credibility (TPB lingo: credulence) that your friends have in you. thats 1000x stronger than any ninty commercial.
Even some countries receive minimum marketing campaigns from ninty, In Denmark, there have only been 3 nintendo wii related tv commercials by now, one for the wii, one for mario galaxy and one for mario kart wii, this is not just because Denmark i such a little crappy country, but because its cheaper to let the "experienced gamers" tell the rest of the public about their new console/videogame.
If we are the experienced gamers, and there are no way of running backups, ninty sales would drop, from total lack of interest from experienced gamers whom is telling people about their games, we are their hype.
I pushed all my friends and family into buying wiis and many off them unmodded. thats exactly what ninty wants from the "experienced gamers".
I doesn't matter if a game is purchased or copied, as long as the hype around it is big enough, the product will sell for a much longer period to a broader audience with less $$$ spend on marketing.
rauthelegendary said:So aslong as you don't enter the Wii shop (or use the uninstaller before you do) Nintendo can't see it, right?
So if I play Mario kart online or enter the Mii channel and download mii's they won't see it?
Or can they see it whenever you do something online?
But still it's safer to stay offline. I chose to install them, simply because everything works now. I keep checking the forums and when there's news about certain things that don't work after a new update I just don't do the update... maybe this will result in the fact that I can't play certain new games anymore but there will probably be a workaround and, to be honest, if I look at what I can play right now:wii2wii said:Well, enable online or not does not stop Nintendo from detecting. They can put detection routing in system firmware, such as ticket validation during system menu, and disable or ban whatever they like when validation fails. The issue is leaving traces of invalid tickets in the NAND that nintendo can detect offline.
berlinka said:to be honest, if I look at what I can play right now:
- All the Wii titles (US or EU) and most GC titles
- Metroid Prime Corruption
- Super Mario Galaxy
- SSBB on DL DVD-R
- Mario Kart
- and right now Wii Fit.
+ all those new VC-games
Thinking of the last, it's just incredible what folks manage to pull off on this machine! I have much faith in the Wii Scene and I expect when there's an update that disables stuff, they'll probably find ways to solve those problems.
Hardcore Gamer said:Edwii said:OK SO Iv done about an hour of skimming about the dangers of putting on VC games on the wii via .wad
so to save a little time i am wondering, its basically safe for my wii to install, used them, then when needed to go online for an update or something to that effect to run the new wad remover to remove the VC games i installed and will leave no trace? and their by leaving me undetected?
All we know is that the uninstaller removes the vc game, the ticket and your save game. We just need to know if installing a vc game leaves any other traces. As far as we know it doesn't but who can tell?