Wii Homebrew Sites Supporting Piracy ? - The Back Up Loader is Bad for Homebrew

[wraggster]

Nintendo are known to get pissy with warez on their consoles, they are actively doing a worldwide stance against the r4 flash cart and sadly homebrew will be affected, ive recently read articles claiming that sites who log all the games pirated do damage to the Homebrew Community, im not naming the sites to start scene wars and yes they probably do some damage but these sites arent really considered Homebrew anyway and they risk Nintendos wrath that really is up to them, but today we have seen sites posting videos of a backup loader that promises to massive damage to the Wii Homebrew Scene a scene that has made massive strides with some great emulators on the horizon with most of the consoles we love emulated on the system. The posting of the videos and the way that piracy is embraced hurts the scene again and yes we risk Nintendo coming after homebrew sites infact in some ways it may serve them right but if they do it could drag the whole community in, im not sure about other sites but i dont know of any who could fight against the likes of Nintendo.

Now i know that most likely 99% of people pirate in some form or another but this could give the main companies just what they want to nail the homebrew scene down.

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[att]

its not all about piracy.. it also would alow people to play games that arn't avaliable on the wii such as guitarhero1-2-rock the 80's ^-^

[ChaoticanarchyX]

Ah yes, but karma is a bitch. Look at all the companies starting to go after nintendo.... and im pretty sure, as long as your not pirating games, Nintendo cant do anything to you. Once you own a console you can do with it as you please as long as your not making money off of it, and last i knew homebrew doesnt make a cent.....

[Eviltaco64]

I dont think I've ever made Nintendo lose money. I downloaded most of my old NES/SNES roms during the late N64 - Early Gamecube era, and a lot of my N64 roms before the Wii came out.
Still, I own/owned all of the above systems except Wii.

[rememberthe8bit]

this could give the main companies just what they want to nail the homebrew scene down.

Because companies are good at stopping homebrew. If Nintendo puts out a firmware update that blocks this, I'll just not upgrade. It's not like I even care about the Wii aside from a few games that wouldn't even require a new firmware version...

[brakken]

This cracks me up. This is coming from someone who promotes Nintendo DS flash carts on his site, among other "applications" that could be used for piracy.

[Mat03111984]

ye i think this is pretty stupid. homebrew has never been affected by piracy. not on the xbox,ps2,psp,ds,gba. im pretty sure every console other than the ps3 has been hacked to pirate games. even the 64 with that blank cartridge u plug in. the psp has had the biggest battle. and ok homebrew wasnt on some of the older machines bt where homebrew can exist. it does.

yes they might send out a update to kill homebrew, bt the hackers always win. they have never not. theres always a new exploit to be found.

now all we need is for the ps3 to be hacked. it might start selling then.

Piracy sells consoles, just not games :>

[NoQuarter]

really? this game of 1up has never been won by the companies... ever!!!
Somebody name 1 completely effective anti homebrew or piracy measure from a company,oh and good luck...

[jamotto]

Somebody name 1 completely effective anti homebrew or piracy measure from a company,oh and good luck...

Lenslok

[Baboon]

Tell me what the diference is by supporting this new wii software hack when already this site fully supports everything that Dark Alex does on the psp (fully unlocked system, play any unsigned code, iso compressors, iso loader, umd dumpers etc etc), plus this site also supports wii and 360 modchips etc?

Something smells of hypocarcy on here. :rofl: