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We already heard about ripped copies of Super Mario Galaxy making it onto the 'net, and now some silly person is showing off his Super Mario Galaxy backup running on his consumer Wii.

The video maker goes out of his way to show that this copied disc is actually playing, even stopping to eject the copy to show its effect on the game. We get it -- it works!

He's still not as cool as the GameStop employees that we've talked to who just took the kiosk copy of the game home and played it to their hearts' content. Even cooler are the people who will actually wait a few weeks to purchase a real copy to add this fine game to their collections. 

And guess what, backup guy -- I saw your Mii, and I'm telling!


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Turtule Soup's Avatar
Turtule Soup at 10/28/2007 15:32
Dale North is a tattle tale! lol jk
Pepillou2's Avatar
Pepillou2 at 10/28/2007 15:34
orly? how come i haven't seen the video?
pix/vid or didn't happen
Namelessted's Avatar
Namelessted at 10/28/2007 16:08
i wants to play galaxy.
king3vbo's Avatar
king3vbo at 10/28/2007 16:09
How did he do that? Cuz I want to play Galaxy now
DynamicSheep's Avatar
DynamicSheep at 10/28/2007 16:09
modchip?
Cheeburga's Avatar
Cheeburga at 10/28/2007 16:11
:o
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 10/28/2007 16:13
His mii seriously looks EXACTLY like mine... which is freaky.
Dale North's Avatar
Dale North at 10/28/2007 16:18
is that really your friend code?
they're 16 digits!
Pepillou2's Avatar
Pepillou2 at 10/28/2007 16:24
it wasnt loading... nm
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Rainbowblack at 10/28/2007 16:28
Damn i have too many games to play ATM to warrant a SMG purchase

I have until Mass Effect to beat

PSP - Disgaea, FFT (And how can i NOT grab the ISO of manhunt 2 this tuesday?)

360: HL episodes 1+2 and I'm not quite sick of Halo 3 either

PS2: ICO , I'm trying really hard to finish this up this weekend

SMG will surely have to wait until after the holidays
FuriousGeorge's Avatar
FuriousGeorge at 10/28/2007 16:38
of course..... he has an xbox
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braulio09 at 10/28/2007 16:39
yup...i played it...only works in some modchips though. nintendo seems to have put some protection on the disks

also, from what i heard, the demo disks don't work in normal wiis either, so the GameStop employees haven't played it outside work
TheToiletDuck's Avatar
TheToiletDuck at 10/28/2007 16:42
He really should be playing Zack and Wiki
maxio098ui's Avatar
maxio098ui at 10/28/2007 16:59
pirates are cooler
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ZekeThePlumber at 10/28/2007 17:02
That's cool and all, but current-gen modding doesn't seem to be really worth the risk of getting dicked over by a brick-inducing firmware upgrade, unless of course you're using an R4...

I'll wait till mid-November like the rest of us.
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corneliuscack at 10/28/2007 17:38
needs moar victorious boxers:revolution
Reeper's Avatar
Reeper at 10/28/2007 17:55
Needs more Gears of War Wii™
Holyetheline's Avatar
Holyetheline at 10/28/2007 18:33
I just keep coming back to this and thinking "I wish I could play it too!"

Soon, I will... November soon.
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slapme7times at 10/28/2007 18:35
galaxy is such a good looking game... almost makes me forgive nintendo for creating the wii...
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Hiltz at 10/28/2007 18:47
It goes to show that Nintendo isn't just relying on hardware innovation for game design but also software innovation.
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DrShotgunMD at 10/28/2007 18:53
If you don't want people pirating your games, fucking release them already. I would totally pirate this if i knew how to get around Nintendo's new copy protection. It's not that I won't shell over $50 dollers for the game. If it were in a store where i could purchase it in, i would. But unless I pirate it, I have to wait a whole 2 weeks to play a game thats ALREADY FINISHED. This isnt the only case, both Assasins Creed and Mass Effect have gone gold. Why is it taking a whole damn month for us to get our hands on it? I'm tired of this tactical releasing of games bullshit just go get a slot in the holdiay season.

Heck, even the stores hold on to theses fuckers for a week or two before we can buy them. I'm one of the lucky few who found a store that sells games when the get them, so I was able to buy some great games like Guitar Hero III and Halo 3 a week before they "came out". When I went online, the only other people playing were either other lucky people who got their hands on the game first (Alot of people in the UK, some pre-order mix up i think) or, guess who? MOTHERFUCKING PIRATES. Me and a whole bunch of Pirates were able to finish Halo on legendary before the fucking game was even released to the public. Just because Microsoft had a huge fapfest over their hyped-up marketing to get us to salivate over a game which wasn't anything like what they market to us in the first place. I dont remember being the holy savior being captured by a brute like they showed in the commercials.

Pirates FTW, until they sell the games when they're finished, and not a whole month after its finished and they are done mindfucking us with shitty marketing.
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Zero Iscariot at 10/28/2007 18:57
Friggin' Hand Banana ova there... he said "ta-night, you" Heh... tonight, you... whaddya think that means? tonight, you?
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Hamsizzla at 10/28/2007 19:00
I just dont get it...why is he playing a wii on an HD?
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RJG at 10/28/2007 19:51
Can someone please explain why Europe gets the game on the 16th but Australia has to wait until the 29th?

Does it takes time to convert it to all those other languages, and then another fortnight to remove all those languages for release in an English only speaking country?
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Cowboy TTop at 10/28/2007 19:59
RJG, might have to do with Australia being a larger country and thus needs a larger allocation of SMG. I hear what you are saying though, the ever expanding europe is what holds up a lot of games, but Mario games don't have that much to translate anyway.

Have patience people, not long to go now.

SMG does looks awesome, so much so that I might ask for a Wii for xmas.
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Orionsaint at 10/28/2007 20:39
you've never seen a movie like this. can you spot paris hilton in this trailer?

Repo! The Genetic Opera
JJ Rage's Avatar
JJ Rage at 10/28/2007 21:01
I caught that dude's reflection at the beginning of the video, and I'd pretty sure he ain't wearing pants.
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Scape at 10/28/2007 21:07
With the incredible amount of games out right now, waiting a few weeks for Galaxy really isn't a big deal...
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generaldane at 10/28/2007 21:19
This is the only game that matters to me for the rest of the year
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Giant Reggie at 10/28/2007 22:39
Is Galaxy running on a modchiped Wii??!?
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bleep at 10/28/2007 23:37
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CCGames Mike at 10/28/2007 23:40
god i hate this guy so much i can feel it in my BALLS. that's how much anger and jealousy I feel right now...
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 10/29/2007 00:18
If you're thinking about modding your Wii because you can't wait two more weeks to play Galaxy, you need to up your ritalin dosage.
DrShotgunMD's Avatar
DrShotgunMD at 10/29/2007 00:22
No. If the game is done, we should be able to buy it.

End of story.
Giant Reggie's Avatar
Giant Reggie at 10/29/2007 00:23
That shit is running on a modchiped Wii. Galaxy backup is running on a D2CKEY modchip and is real. It’s confirmed HERE . Google found this. <_<

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bleep at 10/29/2007 00:58
no Im not talking about piracy... (I know that piracy killed the Dreamcast) Im just talking about GALAXY in General!!!!! w00T~~~
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XeroxMe at 10/29/2007 02:58
Wow I have the same TV as him. Too bad I can't play SMG on mine :(
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 10/29/2007 05:11
@ DrShotgunMD:

Just because a game has gone gold, it doesn't mean it's ready for consumers that minute. It just means the master disc is ready to start production. They still have to manufacture hundreds of thousands of discs, create the packaging for them, box them up, ship them to retailers, et cetra. If you think this all happens instantaneously, you live in a fantasy world. Getting Galaxy out to a couple of hundred retail stores is a much different thing that getting it into the hands of every single Wii customer who wants one.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar
Mxyzptlk at 10/29/2007 05:13
@ DrShotgunMD:

Just because a game has gone gold, it doesn't mean it's ready for consumers that minute. It just means the master disc is ready to start production. They still have to manufacture hundreds of thousands of discs, create the packaging for them, box them up, ship them to retailers, et cetra. If you think this all happens instantaneously, you live in a fantasy world. Getting Galaxy out to a couple of hundred retail stores is a much different thing that getting it into the hands of every single Wii customer who wants one.
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JamesSorensen at 10/29/2007 09:39
some chips work some don't with new protection... funny thing is upgradable chips already updating and beating new protection before it hits retail...

good stuff
amalgamut00's Avatar
amalgamut00 at 10/29/2007 09:50
I'm telling
DrShotgunMD's Avatar
DrShotgunMD at 10/29/2007 14:48
@Mxyzpltk

If you think that it takes more than a week to get a game through the production stage after its gone gold, then YOU are living in a fantasy world. A whole month to "create packaging"? Yea, im sure it takes a while to make all those dvd cases and cardboard boxes.... I'm not some idiot who thinks that as soon as a game is done, its gonna magically pop on the store shelf. But it shouldn't take a whole month for us to get our hands on a game, especially if those few hundred stores already have a finished copy of the game a month before. I live in Manhattan, where not only does almost all of our games get shipped from the west coast, but everything has to be transported from off the island. You would think we'd be one of the last ones to get a game(in the USA at least.) but no, stores have the games on hold before its release, sometimes whole weeks before. If this weren't the case, then those Bioshock discs wouldn't be able to be sold 2 weeks early at TRU now would they?
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