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On firmware patching, risk and responsibility

April 10th, 2008 · 14 Comments

When Nintendo “accidentally” released IOS37 on their update servers last month, they may have only been trying to intimidate Datel into not making more copies of their Freeloader; we may never know.  The effect, however, went far beyond that, and in a strange direction. No, this little chunk of code appeared on our Wiis, and […]

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Wii System Software: a guided tour

April 10th, 2008 · 5 Comments

I’d like to start talking about the Wii system architecture, including its possibilities, challenges, and limitations.  In order to do that, I think it best for me to start by talking about how the Wii software is structured and how software is run.  (As always, for more information on the subject, please see the Wiibrew Wiki.) […]

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