Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games

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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[User 956]

Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games

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

HMm

[moogied]

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

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[Anonymous Coward]

and you can use your wii-mote as god intended

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

USB.

[headkase]

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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[everphilski]

you can use your wii-mote as god intended

To play Sudoku in the snow?