Comments on: Twilight Hack source code

By: ghost

ghost — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 17:51:53 +0000

I don’t understand why Team Twizzers says Twilight Hack won’t work on v4.0, when I got it to work on a v4.0u. Can anyone explain that?

By: IDWMaster

IDWMaster — Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:43:34 +0000

Another useful exploit that I believe I may have discovered is one in the Internet Channel. It seems that when rendering a large image and then resizing it within the HTML Canvas element causes the browser to stop responding. I had to hold down the power button for four seconds on my Wii to turn it off again. The Wii remote wouldn’t even turn off (when pressing and holding the power button on the remote)! This may allow for code to be executed directly from the Internet channel, and would be rather difficult for Nintendo to patch. This only took a 155 KB PNG image file, and it was a 1276 by 892 image file.

By: Segher

Segher — Sat, 30 May 2009 20:26:09 +0000

@tmkhank2

I bet even on mswindows you can find a web browser that allows you to click around on the gitweb page a bit; there are links to help and stuff. If you cannot figure that out, there is Google. If you cannot figure _that_ out, try http://tinyurl.com/gittegittegit

You could also try the “snapshot” link on the gitweb page, but I suppose you won’t know how to handle a tarball either…

By: tmkhank2

tmkhank2 — Fri, 29 May 2009 22:08:18 +0000

how do you download off git. i have a windows

By: master5o1

master5o1 — Thu, 28 May 2009 10:52:12 +0000

>>Is the reason for not releasing source code because it would assist Nintendo in preventing these things from working in the future? Or is the reason more to do with preventing people from exploiting these hacks for piracy purposes.

Both, as seen on the Team Twiizers page on WiiBrew wiki.

By: John_K

John_K — Thu, 28 May 2009 00:55:19 +0000

@Suigintou: We are currently not planning on releasing the HomeBrew Channel source code.

@pentolino: We are currently not planning on releasing the “ceiling cat” source code.

We are planning to release an example project that executes on the PPC and talks to MINI.

By: emailtoid.net/i/08cdb0b7/…

emailtoid.net/i/08cdb0b7/… — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:11:39 +0000

It would be great if more source code would be released, such as that for Homebrew Channel, and BootMii. However, I’m beginning to think that there may be more than just selfish motives preventing that from happening.

Is the reason for not releasing source code because it would assist Nintendo in preventing these things from working in the future? (The fact that the Twilight Hack source is released after it has been rendered useless would seem to support this) Or is the reason more to do with preventing people from exploiting these hacks for piracy purposes.

Anyway, in summary, it would be cool to know definatively why Team Twiizers don’t normally release source code. It’s not like there’s a profit motive — you don’t sell this software. Releasing source code would not deprive you of money. So why not do it?

I, for one, would love to see more software open-sourced.

By: Alex McKee

Alex McKee — Wed, 27 May 2009 22:03:08 +0000

Would it be possible to create an exploit out of a mii, and put it on the Wiimote over bluetooth? Has this been considered? I’m pretty sure you can change the name of said mii with a variety of currently available tools.

By: kevind23

kevind23 — Wed, 27 May 2009 14:45:09 +0000

Thank you!

By: pentolino

pentolino — Wed, 27 May 2009 09:10:34 +0000

Thanks bushing for the reply; I’ll wait for “ceiling cat” sources (or your next release of course) to go on with my experiments