Nintendo Penalizing Homebrew Users? 95
An anonymous reader writes "Bricked your Wii? Not only will Nintendo charge you for the repair, they will now add an additional fee if they detect any homebrew software. 'Should Nintendo have to pay to repair hacked Wiis under warranty? Maybe not, but they have no (moral) right to gouge customers out of spite for having the HBC installed. This actually poses a technical dilemma for us with BootMii. As currently designed, BootMii looks for an SD card when you boot your Wii, and if it finds the card and the right file, it will execute that file. Otherwise, there's no way to tell it's installed.'"
This would be like (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Obvious Fake (Score:2, Funny)
It's not a "hacked wii fee", it was obviously a higher repair cost since the Wii was hacked.
RTFA and you'll notice they say that they will charge 180-210 euro for repairs on hacked Wiis even though it's not the normal fee.
Seems like they understood it was risky legal waters as well but wanted to go that way anyway. But yes, imho it's the owners console and the owner should be free to do what the fuck he or she want to do with it. Imho it's ok to charge for a repair during the warranty period if the hack have led to the problem (I hate retards which like fail moding their consoles and then return them because they are "broken", fuck them.)
If the Nintendo warranty is more generous than their minimal legal requirements I guess they can say that you don't get the additional coverage on a hacked console but charging more just because it has other software on it?
Windows 7 upgrade, $50, $200 if you have firefox installed? ..
I am rather attatched to my Wii.... (Score:3, Funny)
Bricked your Wii?
I would not take bricks to my Wii. It's too painful to even contemplate!
Take bricks to your own Wii...out of my sight!
Re:Is it so hard to understand? (Score:1, Funny)
Wait a minute. You mean changing the motherboard and hard drive on my Dell system voided the warranty??? In what twisted world does that make sense? I'm guessing the water cooling system and overclocking is going to annoy them as well? They really need to post these conditions in bigger print on the box so people that don't read user agreements will know what voids warranties.
Re:Sorry, no deal (Score:5, Funny)
Really? Seriously?
A lot of people say that (and I hate MS as much as anybody), but if I was offered even the insult of $1,000,000 USD to install Windows 7 .............. I have a feeling that there will be a few machines with Windows 7 on it.
Then I would hire a few dozen Japanese hotties with pig-tails and school girl outfits to do all of my actual work on other machines and I would just have to *suffer* through it. At least when I get pissed off at the Windows 7 machine when it starts screwing up (inevitably of course) I can have a bunch of my "employees" come in sucking lollipops to give me my "tech support".
Ohhhhh, and I am sure some of that $$$$ will be used to buy several well placed poles in my office......
Babelfish to the rescue (Score:2, Funny)
My softwarehack is full of eels.
Re:You doubt. Never a good sign (Score:5, Funny)
Thought so, it's nowhere near long enough.
Re:This would be like (Score:5, Funny)
Yeah, but if you've install Ubuntu on a separate partition on your Zune:
1) Congrats
2) Why?