nice forward thinking, gives us a chance to use the exploit for it's full potential, lets hope we hear more news soon, i don't want this to be another Four Horsemen situation...

 

Okay, let me state this loud and clear, since that's the only thing that seems to work here. This is the abridged version of Delroth's post.

THIS EXPLOIT IS COMPLETELY USELESS FOR PIRACY AND HOMEBREW ALIKE. YOU WILL NEVER USE IT ON YOUR WII U FOR ANYTHING UNLESS YOU ARE A DEVELOPER LIKE THE AUTHOR. THE EXPLOIT DOESN'T BREAK ANY SECURITY THAT WASN'T ALREADY BROKEN AND USELESS.

 

It serves precisely three purposes:

1. It paves the way for a different exploit which, while ALSO not breaking anything not broken, and ALSO being useless for homebrew/piracy, makes it slightly easier to analyze the rest of the system once you do break it using yet another completely unrelated exploit.
2. It's cute and cool. We're hackers, we like breaking things even if it's useless. We also like laughing at Nintendo because they clearly didn't intend for this to happen, even though it's rendered moot by other flaws in the system.
3. Unfortunately, it also gives harryoke an excuse to post more utter nonsense and a completely fake gamepad photo that has nothing to do with any of this.

In other words, it allows MarioNumber1 to say he dumped the boot rom (good job!), and if he implements the HRESET exploit, and if he implements an undisclosed, completely unrelated, much more complex Wii U mode exploit, then he will have a slightly easier/more convenient time reverse engineering the rest of the system. It's not even a make-or-break thing, just a slight convenience.

Really, we did it because number 2.

And yes, Nintendo can't fix this on existing consoles, but even if they fix it on newer ones it's completely fucking irrelevant because only a single person in the world has to use this exploit once, ever, and after that it's completely and utterly useless for every purpose, period. The only purpose of this exploit is to learn more about how the console works.

 

The thousands of Wii U owners jump in joy.

 

I bought Super Mario 3d World, Zelda WWHD, Super Mario WiiU and Ducktales Remastered. Got the games I like and want. And for you "Backup Loaders" Most of the games you would want to "backup" are available for download on the Eshop, You could have bought them already "backed up" for you.

I still consider only wanting ports or emulation as basically just wanting piracy in my mind.

I'd rather they just found a way for Gamepad/3 cores working in Vwii if possible and not even have the options available for backups in WiiU mode.

 

I think people are mistaking the image on the gamepad with homebrew. It's easy to display an image on the gamepad, it's called the web browser. That image was just supposed to be a fancy presentation, it wasn't an example.

 

You know, I don't expect console homebrew to look good in the future. All the good hackers are leaving the console space because there's better things to do, and the lowering difficulty of piracy along with the riding difficulty of homebrew just pushes them away. So that only leaves the non-hackers left. And they'll just let everything fall into disarray and cause a "dark age" of console hacking because they have little experience.

Not to mention the people who feed on the knowledge gained from hacking, like The Cutting Room Floor. They'll just get left for dead.

 

Well this is cool.

 

Did you guys somehow not see this post????

 

What would keep Nintendo in business is selling their games at $30 at launch and their systems for less than $200. As they stand they are far too overpriced for their content (or lack thereof). It's laughable that a 2.5D DK sidescroller 20 years later is going for $60.

They spend so freaking little on production that what's killing them is greed.