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Notes from inside your Wii

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Entries from May 2008

Parental Controls

May 15th, 2008 · 11 Comments

I just wrote a quick little tool to obtain Parental Control password reset codes without having to call Nintendo. Bushing found the code inside the system menu, and I converted it into a PSP script (Python Server Pages) which you can use on-line. You’ll find it here It should be of use for those who […]

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Anatomy of a Mario-Kart Brick, pt 2

May 13th, 2008 · 11 Comments

Work with the Homebrew Channel has taken more time than I’d hoped — but I don’t want to lose momentum, so let’s press forward here, too. In a comment in my previous post, Galtor correctly picked up the path I was planning to go down, based on the files I linked to at the end. […]

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Autopsy of a Mario-Kart brick (part 1)

May 8th, 2008 · 61 Comments

I have a “bitch” Wii — a Wii that I use specifically for testing out NAND flash hacks.  I bought it on eBay, and it came with a broken drive — not a modchip disaster, but an actual launch-day Wii with an expired warranty.  It had never been connected to the network, and had only […]

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