At a German hackers event called 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress, some crafty/smart/nerdy types have just demonstrated what seems to be a Wii hack with full hardware access.
Through their voodoo, they were able to find encryption and decryption keys by doing full memory dumps at runtime over a custom serial interface. This allowed them to run their own code. They hope to use this "in" to provide native Wii homebrew access in the future.
Here is a (non-embeddable) YouTube video directly from the hacker event. If you're anything like me, you won't understand anything that anyone is saying in it. The audience applause in the end is pretty impressive, though.
Wait, why are we hacking Wii consoles?
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2:21 PM on 12.28.2007
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this is some innovative hardware. if the powers that be won't innovate, we will. kudos to the hackers, and i can't wait to see some really exciting wii homebrew!
Honestly, the stolen game usage vs. the homebrew games ratio is bad. The illegal shit that comes from it far outweighs the indie games that come from this.
Because this allows Johnny Lee the creative freedom he needs to blow our minds.
Did these guys ever figure out what that slot was for on the bottom of my NES?
Or how to hook up a 2nd controller on my TG16??
I've been living in Asia for the past 3 years. I bought my 360 in Bangkok, Thailand and it's hard to find a console that isn't modded. Games, home copied and burnt onto DLDVD-Rs were around $4 each, which I thought was insane...until I moved to Ch1na.
Here, the games are about 80 cents each, factory printed (back is silver without a print line, unlike the blue DVD-r ones in Bangkok). One funny thing is, the first bootleg of Assassins Creed that was distributed was faulty, I can't imagine how many people bought it.
Wii's are modded here, too.
Admittadly this could open up the market for easier piracy Dreamcast was too easy to play bootlegs. The only nice thing about that though was I was able to play several awesome imports(which were not bootlegs) with the same swap disk that some people used to play burns. I personally hope somebody comes up with a way to circumvent the region code on wii as there is occationally a import game worth having that either will be super delayed in the US or not released at all.
I'm hoping someone like these guys figures out how to circumvent the PS3's hypervisor.
Also that German dude reminded me of my Calc II teacher. Not a bad thing, but this guy's missing the Hitler mustache the Calc prof had.
thats what this means.
not like there is anything worse burning for it though
Freak yes. Although all of his hacks to date have been limited only to the remote, I can't imagine what he would be capable of with the console.