Hacking Wii BIOS Dumped?

[Louse76]

A friend sent me a link with pictures of a modchip installed on the Wii that allowed the Firmware to be dumped.

Anyone else seen this?

Link

More info later, I've gotta run!

BTW, images load slowly, I'll see if I can host them later maybe...

 

[hanman]

hmmm....this is from a pretty reliable group...

 

[Louse76]

You saw it here first!

 

[dsbomb]

Well, actually, I saw it on TehSkeen earlier today. It's certainly a good step forward in hacking news.

 

[hanman]

yeah, looks like tehskeen cites wiinewz as the source, where alonetrio first posted the news.

this is the first step toward real wii homebrew

assuming someone actually releases the BIOS, or duplicates the experiment, that is.

 

[lagman]

This means homebrew doesn´t it?

EDIT: Thanks hanman.

 

[richardo]

Think so, eventually!

The initial teaser that wab released seems to show plain text readable filenames and such - perhaps this suggests its not even encrypted or signed in any way and modifying/reverse engineering could be just around the corner?

 

[pandas0nic]

i saw this earlier today also, but its not the BIOS, its the Nand Flash thats been dumped right, which is where the vc games and save games are stored i believe, its still a step forward tho, and will hopefuly lead to decrypting the VC.

 

[Louse76]

A friend of mine who told me about this initially told me that they had the full file hosted there initially but then took it down.

I'll see what I can do to get it from him (he already offered, I should have gotten it but was busy at work) and then post it here.

 

[hanman]

i saw this earlier today also, but its not the BIOS, its the Nand Flash thats been dumped right, which is where the vc games and save games are stored i believe, its still a step forward tho, and will hopefuly lead to decrypting the VC.

you mean this is the 512MB built in storage? well, that's not nearly as impressive, but could still be useful.

i suppose it could be MORE than the 512MB for saves and channels. perhaps the html files bricked PAL wiis claim not to be able to locate are there as well...

 

[pandas0nic]

yes correct its the 512mb internal storage otherwsie known as the Nand Flash, and yeah i agree its not quite the 'BIOS Dumped?' news originaly stated

, but its gonna prove usefull for learning more and hackers

 

[pandas0nic]

a far better news source for reporting this and most things is:

http://www.tehskeen.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4529

and as mentioned the possibilty of finding an exploit through this to run unsigned code is very exciting indeed.

 

[niklasnyfiken]

The files are probably encrypted on the NAND flash so it's going to be a bitch reverse engineering them.

 

[WarmWoollySheep]

That's awesome, can't wait until people start decrypting.

 

[Louse76]

Why isn't this on the front page already?

Inquiring minds want to know!

 

[adgloride]

i saw this earlier today also, but its not the BIOS, its the Nand Flash thats been dumped right, which is where the vc games and save games are stored i believe, its still a step forward tho, and will hopefuly lead to decrypting the VC.

Maybe if they dumped the nand flash with the VC games already on, maybe VC games will work on any wii.

 

[outphase]

Why isn't this on the front page already?

Inquiring minds want to know!

I can only imagine that most of the GBATemp fanbase would consist of people asking "Now, someone [else] make this useful"

Just having drivechips have people asking about PS1 emulators and VC hacks.

 

[shtonkalot]

Check this out.
Seems DarkFader is on the case now too!

Link goes to TehSkeen news page, the first picture seems interesting..

 

[jaxxster]

good to see the scene moving along nicely. Hopefully by the end of summer we'll see a nice real modchip that allows dvd playback, full region free, VC games and homebrew!

 

[adgloride]

Some really interesting news is starting to happen with the wii. I can see nintendo not expecting anyone to dump the nand flash and none of it being encrypted. I can see the wii being the next xbox 1. A hackers dream. Lets just hope they get some sort of media centre running on the wii