Hacking Whatever happened to the Wii U Key?

[Dungeonseeker]

I was seconds away from pre ordering one when they announced they were close to release but decided to wait for the release, glad I did because they went totally silent shortly afterwards.

Anybody got any idea what happened to the thing? They showed videos of it working so it must have existed in prototype form.

 

[Subtle Demise]

I don't think they ever got it working well enough for a public release.

 

[LysergCooltyp]

Their exploit got patched out from what i remember and they couldn't find a new one in time and abandoned the whole thing.

 

[VinsCool]

They promised vaporware. Nothing to see here. If it was legit, it would have been out for a very long time.

 

[Kafluke]

I was seconds away from pre ordering one when they announced they were close to release but decided to wait for the release, glad I did because they went totally silent shortly afterwards.

Anybody got any idea what happened to the thing? They showed videos of it working so it must have existed in prototype form.

I did pre order it. I literally waited for over a year and eventually just got store credit.

 

[markehmus]

I did pre order it. I literally waited for over a year and eventually just got store credit.

nice ... they just kept my $ , cant believe i fell for modchip central crap again

WiiKeyU pre-orders! Post yours!

 

[Kafluke]

nice ... they just kept my $ , cant believe i fell for modchip central crap again

WiiKeyU pre-orders! Post yours!

Mod chip central was actual very helpful to me. They had my pre-order on file and gave me credit.

 

[markehmus]

even so , credit ?

should have gotten the money back , that's ridiculous.

 

[Kafluke]

even so , credit ?

should have gotten the money back , that's ridiculous.

Yeah, it wasn't cheap. Over a 100bucks if I remember.

 

[markehmus]

Yeah, it wasn't cheap. Over a 100bucks if I remember.

$131.15

modchip central is some goof ball in his basement just reselling off the internet i bet.

because this is the second time he ripped me off ... last time was with a flatmii chip for wii.

but i dont think the other posters are correct, they chip is drive attached so i doubt it would be patched out.

i bet there was just conflict of interests with the manufacturers producing them

 

[fatsquirrel]

GOD NOT THIS SHIT AGAIN

 

[Keylogger]

I have preordered one

 

[metaljay]

I have preordered one

you bumped a 4 year old thread - why?

 

[E1ite007]

you bumped a 4 year old thread - why?

And for a drive emulator, that never released publicly.

 

[DinohScene]

I must say I honestly forgot about the Wii u key thing.
That being said, I'm still waiting for the Xode to come out, also never saw the light of day.

But yeh, necrobumping is a bad idea in general.
Tho on occasion, it can be a good thing to remind us about certain hardware in the past like this.

 

[The Real Jdbye]

I was seconds away from pre ordering one when they announced they were close to release but decided to wait for the release, glad I did because they went totally silent shortly afterwards.

Anybody got any idea what happened to the thing? They showed videos of it working so it must have existed in prototype form.

I don't know if this is true or not, but what I heard was that the chip required users to dump the console unique drive key from their own console in order to work, which required a software exploit that would have made the chip redundant in the first place. Since that wouldn't be a very sellable product, and they couldn't figure out a way around that, they just gave up.