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Nintendo Blocks Homebrew Installation
ElementC writes "Sometime yesterday Nintendo uploaded the latest Wii system update. This update quietly patches a few bugs that allowed the installation of both homebrew and warez apps. Currently installed apps such as the Homebrew Channel and the video DVD library, DVDX, are reportedly not affected. Those not installing this update are blocked out of the Wii Shop channel and in the future may be blocked out of certain games. Team Twiizers cracked the last update within about eight hours. They're already on the case. Readers familiar with the architecture of the Wii will find the list of currently discovered changes interesting."
You know too much.
"Most people, I think, don't even know what a rootkit is, so why should they care about it?"
...press "Submit" prematurely, leaving the entire /crowd in the agony of suspense?
Well played, well played.
Welcome to the Panopticon. Used to be a prison, now it's your home.
Honesty, why bother? I have not seen any Wii homebrew stuff compelling enough to risk bricking my Wii. I am not an expert on this, but here is my take: you can add the following applications:
* Pirated stuff (WiiWare, virtual console, Wii game copies). I am not into piracy at all. I believe in paying for the stuff that I use. Not interested
So if you use the homebrew firmware on the Wii, you can raid ships on the high seas? Let me be the first to say "Arrr".
Are you by chance Sicilian?
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
Stick that wiimote in your assholes, faggot WEE owners!
You should have got a Playstation 3, the TRUE winner :P
What's the point of the anal wiimote installation? To simulate the expense of buying one? Looking for a lil sympathy?
"I like to lick butts!" by MobileTatsu-NJG (#32700246) (Score:5, Informative)
Damn, who pissed in your Cheerios?
You are all a bunch of idots.
You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.
If you believe everything you read, you'd better not read. - Japanese proverb
So ... is there something absolutely fantastic which I'm missing out on?
Well, you can install Ocarina and spam infinite blue shells in MarioKart Wii wifi...
Tomato wedge sperm darts that are Republican.
You know too much.
No, he just read the script to National Treasure 3: The Unix Bible
[Fuck Beta]
o0t!
Candlejack? Who the hell is Can
from the way his post ends, i'd say knew too much...
do not read this line twice.
Maybe he just couldn't write more of that. That happens to me when I have an idea and want to post about it but while writing it I start to see that it was pretty dumb so I submit whatever it's in there to get it off my head.
This post starts to feel like that too. Or maybe it's just
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Ahh but what if they had anticipated the fix, pre-emptively beat them, and then feigned ignorance for a few days to make the companies think that they had outsmarted the hackers.
Clearly, they would have a dizzying intellect.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!