Comments on: June 16 Wii update

By: [Màj] Twilight Hack déjà de retour… | GenerationWii : entrez dans le jeu

Mon, 23 Jun 2008 15:53:24 +0000

[...] aura fallu environ trois jours pour que les hackers de HackMii décryptent le nouveau code de la mise à jour 3.3 de la Wii qui empêche d’effectuer le [...]

By: Anonymous coward

Anonymous coward — Mon, 23 Jun 2008 10:06:47 +0000

They take months to test it because they don’t want to brick every Wii connected to the Internet. Pretty obvious, really.

By: T34P075

T34P075 — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 07:41:02 +0000

I am always entertained by the fact that it takes Ninty months to implement a patch and us days to get around it. Sometimes I wonder seriously ws hy they bother. Ninty sells more Wiis to hackers, who will get around the updates quickly anyways. It’s really like a big game of cat and mouse, where the cat can never quite catch the mouse…

By: pipeline

pipeline — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:51:08 +0000

Has anyone try TH beta 1?

By: ZiggyTheHamster

ZiggyTheHamster — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:03:27 +0000

@Kevin:
The update is checking how long each field is, and I’m guessing the fields are extra-long for the program code, so changing it to change something else in the file isn’t going to work.

Apparently, what does work is that the Wii save file archives can contain files with the same name. And the firmware doesn’t check more than just the first (or last?) file of the same name. But TP doesn’t care. I think.

It’s something like that. There’s another post where bushing goes over the technicals.

@Everyone Else:
Seriously, if you’re waiting for the update to play your warezed games, then just stop bugging them. That’s not why they discovered the hack in the first place.

By: Kevin Snyder

Kevin Snyder — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 18:34:43 +0000

Now, I’m no programmer or developer that could write a workaround for this, but I’m curious: would a simple workaround be to change the characters of a different variable in the savedata?

Please don’t flame me, I’m not that good with all this stuff…

By: Frosty's

Frosty's — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 15:14:01 +0000

Check out the Startrek game, I has already chrashed multiple times (freezing my system)

Without even doing anything special.

This game reeks of bad programming and could possibly be used for exploits

By: LeGuiLloTe

LeGuiLloTe — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 12:07:17 +0000

I just want to say that even though piracy is a bad way for accessing games, and that is bad for big N, I’m not gonna pay extra cash for games which I already paid when I bought the cartridges years ago.
Nintendo had a good idea with VC, but I’m not a vintage dumb!!
I know that homebrew is not only VC, but that’s the way I concern about it.

Go Bushing, Go bushing, GO!

By: 332546253

332546253 — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:05:13 +0000

@northbayjoe:

Nope, the updated Twilight Hack for the 3.3 firmware update is not yet available. Keep following the blog, as I’m guessing that there will be a new entry when they do release it.

By: ZiggyTheHamster

ZiggyTheHamster — Sat, 21 Jun 2008 05:09:52 +0000

Maybe. But still. Piracy isn’t helping .