Piracy Sadly Hits the Virtual Console

[____anders____]

i don't understand where this moral high ground is coming from .. all of sudden everyone is anti piracy , i mean take this guy in the post above me , you have a D2CKey which has nothing to do with homebrew , so you what , look at it ? .. you have an R4 , lemme guess you own all the roms on it .. even this site and others , you have no problem posting that article about PSN games being hacked but oh noes some 20 year old game on the VC is way to far .. you all have emulators with 1000's of PIRATED games but oh noes not the VC!! ..

well, i bought the d2ckey because i wanted to play Super Smash Bros Brawl, i don't see why you think that's wrong, i bought SSBB so don't flame me for that, but i also enjoy homebrew VERY much, and i don't want to stop playing it just because some idiot comes an releases a thing like that..

and the R4.. guess what, i really enjoy piracy too cus i haven't seen ANY DS game in my town, so thats the reason i bought it..

don't flame me, it's not me who released the sh!t.

think before you flame a guy you don't know what he's doing!
idiot..

[DPyro]

Meh, I just won't update my firmware. Not like too many interesting games will be released now. Also, whats stopping someone from creating a custom firmware?

[____anders____]

Meh, I just won't update my firmware. Not like too many interesting games will be released now. Also, whats stopping someone from creating a custom firmware?

i won't update either, i will read about the firmware update "changelog" somewhere on the internet though (probably here )
a custom firmware would be cool though, but damn i would have butterflies when i should install it

my guess of a custom firmware would make use of the NAND dumper somehow, so we can edit the data and then flash it to the wii from SD card or DVD.
probably the same as the official firmware with added cooleness, like iso loader (it's bound to happen with a CFW) and built-in emulators and games and other cool stuff

[kingslime80]

Oh, come on now. You think the Big N hasn't taught of people creating Custom Firmware? You can probably kiss your on-line gameplay goodbye if that happens. You start ****ing around with their ability to make a buck off the VC and you slowly force them out of business. They have the most sought after console currently on the market, but that never kept a company from filing for Chapter 11. Personally, I will not even emulate games I can get on the VC due to that. They go under and where are the rest of us? Stuck with another advanced Gamecube. I'm not pretending to have any "Moral High Ground", but there's a point where you have to stop, and ripping the company off directly is where I draw the line. Sure, custom firmware might be cool, but that counts as ripping them off directly, as does moving VC games, though they should have a program in place for people who need to buy a new wii for any reason. ISOs are a grey aria depending on how many people do it, but if you're not going to put a MOD chip in your system, you shouldn't touch the Firmware. Let's try NOT to put Nintendo out of business here, shall we?

[DPyro]

Online gameplay on Wii? Who gives a damn? They have severely gimped the online in all of their products, and it doesn't even work very well. Try playing a game of SSBB online and tell me you enjoy it.

[kingslime80]

That doesn't mean there won't be better on-line play in the future. I for one would rather have the option weather or not to use it and not play with it then want to play on-line and not be able to. I also know I'm not the only one. I'd rather have a nerfed game then a nerfed system.

[____anders____]

yeah, it should've been like, picking servers or something like that, and if anyone ever makes a CFW for the wii i meant online play like Xlink kai for xbox, cus it's pretty good, at least for being free..

the only bad thing about xlink kai is:
1. not so many players .
2. pretty hard to set up, but once you have done that, just play, and it gets 100 times easier if you have Xbox Media Center..

[SSaxdude]

I don't think will have much, if any, effect on the Wii. There's already emulators for Wii. Piracy of Wii games has been around for some time, yet Wii sales are very good.

[DimensionT]

I don't think will have much, if any, effect on the Wii. There's already emulators for Wii. Piracy of Wii games has been around for some time, yet Wii sales are very good.

Pirates are much more inclined to torrent a game and stick it on their Wii then going through setting up the Twilight hack to boot emulators.

[kingslime80]

I don't think will have much, if any, effect on the Wii. There's already emulators for Wii. Piracy of Wii games has been around for some time, yet Wii sales are very good.

While that IS true, I was more thinking the home-made firmware updates will only brick people's wiis and is not any better then a Mod Chip, maybe not even that good. There are things we'd all like to see implimented, but this isn't the way to go about it.