Wow, time does fly. More than a year ago, on October 23rd, 2008, Nintendo finally released an update that fixed the strncmp (fakesigning) exploit in all forks of IOS. This disabled any direct methods to install unofficial content on all updated Wii consoles. At the time, version beta9 of The Homebrew Channel had been in […]
Entries from January 2010
The STM Release Exploit
January 27th, 2010 · 22 Comments
Tags: Wii
The weird and wonderful CIC
January 17th, 2010 · 29 Comments
I have been spending some time on reverse engineering the Nintendo CIC ROMs. The CIC is the “lockout” chip in NES/SNES/N64 cartridges, used to get an iron grip on the market prevent people from copying games. It was manufactured by Sharp and is likely one of their old “one-chip microcomputers”, used in calculators and TV […]
Tags: Other consoles
lostscrews
January 16th, 2010 · 6 Comments
One thing CCC shows me every year is how amazing it can be when you get a bunch of random hackers (who have never met each other) into a room, and you start bouncing ideas off each other. I’ve tried to create a similar environment here (on this blog), on IRC, and to a lesser […]
Tags: Wii