This is kinda sad. A hack will come for every system eventually, but for the Wii U is not beneficial at this point in time. I'll support Nintendo in any case.

 

Please no.

 

It's about time there's good progress coming along.

 

That's right, but what I meant was the aspect of the WiiU itself being hacked; not being exposed to piracy.

 

Because console power doesn't equal game fun. Fucking duh.

For the Wii, the Wii didn't get many of games because it was underpowered. They would run bad and look worse on the Wii. Even the games that did get ported to the Wii look worse, lack game modes, etc.

 

Modchips just change the data being fed to the system. If the system won't run unsigned code or boot out-of-region games (and check+execute is in the same timeframe), then it doesn't matter how you feed it to the system, the system will reject it.

 

Actually that is how modchips work. Practically every system was hardmodded before any software exploits started being found. Modchips usually lead to exploits being found in software. As people take WiiKey's documentation and reverse it we will see more competition with more features maybe even homebrew loading by finding a bug in the signing of games that allows non official nintendo software to be loaded through the drive emulation. As the collective data expends so do opportunities to better more efficient hacking methods.

You have to take the cons with the pros and while piracy is a con any extra information is good information.

 

I want to see/hear about dumped disc drive firmware. Also, the nand being read (eMMC actually). I want to say I was told eMMC is encrypted with AES+HMAC but am not sure.

 

Interesting to ask the maker of WiikeyU, to be honest. Lets see what they were able to get. If they were they able to get? Might it help homebrew?

 

http://gbatemp.net/threads/rumor-wiikeÜ.347139/page-2#post-4626949