HackMii

Just a brief note, since I haven’t written in a while —

Yes, Marcan has shifted his attention to things non-Wii related. I can hardly blame him; the only reason any of us do what we do is because we find it fun, so when it stops being fun — what’s the point? He’s still around, if you know where to look, and I hope that once we release BootMii, we’ll see some neat projects emerge from it.

Yes, BootMii is still alive; I still can’t promise a release date, but most of the code has been written and we’re now to the point of testing it out and adding some polish. It’s been installed on about 12 Wiis so far and nobody’s been bricked; I hope that we can release a “public beta” within the next couple of weeks. (In this case, “public beta” will mean “we’ve tested this out quite a bit and are fairly confident that you won’t regret trying it, but not everything is finished and we can’t make too many promises). I would expect those of you who have older Wiis (i.e. those who have a vulnerable boot1) to have an easier time installing it, but we intend to eventually add support for as many of your Wiis as possible.

Anyway, here’s a sneak peek at what it will look like:

I’m translating the previous post for the benefit of our Spanish readers.

Una y otra vez, las aplicaciones de Waninkoko no han sido mas que simples interfaces implementads sobre código existente o herramientas de otros. Su FS Dumper salió cuando le comenté lo del truco del TMD con GID 0. El WAD Installer salió después de que yo reversé las funciones de ES y las agregué a libogc. Su primer cargador de warez DVD apareció después de que saliera el toolkit de módulos de IOS, al cual añadió DVDX y algo de código DI viejo de GameCube. Y just ahora, el cargador USB de warez aparece misteriosamente 22 días después de que salga el módulo USB2 para IOS.

Lo raro es que haya tardado los 22 días en conseguir que funcione.
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Warning: rant and drama ahead. If you’re not into that sort of thing, feel free to skip over the following.

Time and time again, Waninkoko’s apps have just been thin wrappers around existing code or tools written by others. His Filesystem Dumper came about when I told him about the GID 0 TMD trick. WAD Installer showed up after I reverse engineered the ES interface and added the relevant functions to libogc. His first DVD warez launcher showed up after the IOS Module Toolkit appeared, to which he added DVDX and some old Gamecube code. And just now, his USB warez launcher appears mysteriously 22 days after a USB2 module for IOS was released.

The only strange part is that it took him all 22 days to get it to work.
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