HackMii

(Note: this is a continuation of http://hackmii.com/2008/06/factory/)

Last week, I bought two brand-new Wiis (the first new ones I’ve ever owned!) and dumped their NAND Flash filesystems before powering them on for the first time.  I was able to recover some interesting info (although nothing earth-shattering).

The two Wiis: [Read more →]

It’s been a few days, so I’m just going to post some brief notes on what I’ve been working on lately.

• Twilight Hack:  Marcan did a great job of putting together a nice new release that works with System Menu 3.3: Twilight Hack v0.1beta1.  It seems to work well; we have some initial reports that some SD cards don’t work with it, giving a “error -1 reading boot.elf”.  I’ve found at least two different problems that can cause that, so expect a small update soon — in the mean time, reformatting the card often fixes it.
• Updates:  No new updates, as seen on Marcan’s Wiimpersonator.  I would not expect this to last; Nintendo will probably release a fixed version of their anti-TP hack code which will not be nearly so easy to defeat.   For those of you who updated to 3.3, take that as a warning and just don’t update next time.  We’re working on a long-term solution.
• Korean Wii:  We believe that the new Korean Wiis have a new common key, and we won’t be able to use our tweezer attack to recover it.  I’d like to take a look at one and see what other avenues of attack there may be.  If anyone knows how I can buy one of these and get it shipped to the US, please let me know. 
• Forum:  I must confess to the fact that I didn’t even know there was a Wiibrew Forum until recently, but the admins there have put a lot of work into spiffing the place up recently.  I think we can turn this into a good resource to take the place of some of the discussion that doesn’t really belong on a wiki, so please drop by and bring your quality questions with you.
• UnbrickMii / Factory — both of these have updates which deserve their own article.  Stay tuned. 

If you try to install The Homebrew Channel beta8 with version 3.3 of the system menu, you’ll get a message that looks like this:

As we have tested The Homebrew Channel with this new system menu, continuing installation at this point is safe. Please make sure you check with the usual sites to make sure any future updates are still compatible with The Homebrew Channel. This only applies to the System Menu 3.3, shown in the message as v22 <region>.