I’ve had a few people ask about this — the way that I found out what titles had been updated was using Marcan’s nifty tool, wiimpersonator:
http://wii.marcansoft.com/wiimpersonator/reports/
It’s a collection of Python scripts that attempt to emulate an actual Wii’s update check process, and then generates reports to show what changed, eg. 20080617-030018.log and 20080617-040048.log.
It’s pretty neat; I’d say it’s the spiritual descendent of e.g. roto’s http://mozy.org/wii/old/index.html
7 responses so far ↓
1 Rsrockerz // Jun 17, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Nice, how will this help though?
2 tehnoir // Jun 17, 2008 at 10:31 pm
@Rsrockerz:
See also: bushing’s previous post.
3 victory144 // Jun 18, 2008 at 7:34 am
Good job
4 WB3000 // Jun 19, 2008 at 8:26 am
Nice, I knew you were already doing this but it’s cool to see how automated it is.
5 Chris // Jun 19, 2008 at 11:22 am
rhoo, this the smart
very good idea indeed, it’s like a nintendo spy, our own nintendo channel 😉
6 Aaron // Jun 19, 2008 at 7:03 pm
So forgive me if I’m missing something obvious, but if we’re able to make a program that impersonates a Wii to the Nintendo server, why can’t we make a program that impersonates the Nintendo server to a Wii? Then we could just make a fake “system update” with our own code, and not have to bother looking for exploits in somebody else’s.
7 Michael // Jun 22, 2008 at 5:11 am
@Aaron: I’m pretty sure all System Updates are cryptographically signed by Nintendo, and that all connections to the update server are made by SSL. So it would be impossible to do that.
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