Hacking The Wii, officially hacked

[DiNo29]

... Works on pal ?

 

[Opium]

Just got back to the civilised world today and saw this news. Bloody awesome work! Wii homebrew is slowly but surely on the way. This is excellent. Great work to all involved.

 

[imgod22222]

Where were you Opium? Living in a bomb shelter for fear of the Y2K bug shooting nukes all over the world?

 

[feddon]

Well im not for downloading wii games and hence i dont have a ModChip, but im also against being charged for games i already own (VC) if this hack leads in the future to some modchip free emus then im happy.

 

[InfernoZeus]

Theres nothing wrong with Homebrew either. And what about games that aren't released in our region?

 

[WarioIta]

great work! is there any information about the person who made that? I'd like to talk with him about the wii sdk. I think he used a standard ppc codewarrior; because codewarrior is needed and nobody has released it.

 

[Beware]

It will be very nice to see how this develops. WiiBoss, Tri-Wing, JDM Programmer and Flex Cable=Best $10 I ever spent.

 

[Knolli]

i just hope that i fnally can use my classic controller for nes and snes-emulators, cuz virtual console titles are expensive and the cube controller sucks for 2d-games

 

[jaxxster]

weird we havent seen much else about this recently....i thought we'd at least see a proof of concept or something.

 

[InfernoZeus]

There was meant to be 10min talk two days after this occurred, but they didn't show up for some reason :S There was an interview with the guy, and he released a couple of details.

We don't really need proof of concept. The fact that he showed it at a hacking conference is good enough. He wouldn't show it if he couldn't actually do it.

In the interview, he said it only worked 30mins before hand, so they are probably trying to make sure its possible to reproduce, and trying to get other information using the same hack.

 

[arctic_flame]

Actually, every Homebrew attempt starts with a proof of concept that people can run on their own machines.

I would be happy to see a proof of concept released.

 

[sabatino]

is there any more news???

 

[FAST6191]

There was an interview over at tehskeen (mentioned already but here is a link):
http://www.tehskeen.com/forums/showthread.php?t=5996
There is supposedly a chip in the works but the only news is the same thing rehashed:
http://psx-scene.com/forums/nintendo-news/...iihomebrew.html
http://www.mywii.com.au/NewsDetail.aspx?id=1335
edit: GBATemp link: http://gbatemp.net/index.php?showtopic=71008
The feature list to save a visit, some of it seems quite extensive for such a short period of time having elapsed. Of course the first Wii chips were treated with similar scepticism.

Run Stuff and new apps in WII MODE
DVD playback with no additional software
Option to remove dupe wii channels
Application included to totally change the channels menu layout, colour etc (real themes)
App to link wii via usb and gamecube memcard slot to send homebrew code direct to the wii (additional hardware needed)
No audio fix needed
Option to bypass required firmware updates and run CERTAIN games in detection mode (ignores features in games that need firmware update and still excute, may lead to odd graphic corruption or wrong music being played ingame)
Streamer wii (concept app which will require additional hardware, allows video and much more to be streamed wirelessly back and forth to the wii, includes function to read game in wii and transfer wirelessly to a ready to burn iso file on your pc)

 

[pelago]

Are there any 'proper' hacker forums, like xboxhacker.net, that people like bushing might hang out in? I was wondering if this stuff was getting discussed by real techies somewhere.

 

[arctic_flame]

#wiihack?

 

[InfernoZeus]

What server?

 

[sabatino]

efnet

so this mod doesn't work on a drive chip???

 

[InfernoZeus]

'this mod' requires a drive chip to work apparently. Very little is known about 'this mod' though.