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Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the playing-with-your-own-toys dept.

arbourp writes to mention that hackers Michael Steil and Felix Domke have demonstrated a way to hack the Wii that makes running homebrew code much easier. "The hack advances the possibility of running homebrew code with access to full system resources on the device, not just programs that Nintendo has sanctioned. Such games might be developed to run from a DVD drive, at least in theory. No such games are available as yet and Nintendo may respond by attempting to revoke compromised encryption keys. However history shows such countermeasures are likely to ultimately prove futile."

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  1. hint hint by User+956 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games

    And the majority of these homebrew games look like retail games, except they're free.

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  2. HMm by moogied · · Score: 1, Funny

    Does this mean that lorena bobbit runs nintendo now? With all this "Wii Hacking"...

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  3. Re:Star wars entry point by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    and you can use your wii-mote as god intended

    You do know that Steve Jobs has nothing to do with Nintendo, right?

  4. USB. by headkase · · Score: 4, Funny

    The most useful thing that could be done with this is to allow emulation of discs from a USB harddrive. That way I could put my originals away for protection. Yeah, that's it.

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  5. Re:Star wars entry point by everphilski · · Score: 3, Funny

    you can use your wii-mote as god intended

    To play Sudoku in the snow?