Wii Easily Hackable?

**dmauro** · November 21st, 2006, 19:19

I tried putting saves for Twilight Princess and Wii Sports onto my SD card, but I cannot view them with my PC. I double checked to make sure hidden files are set to visible, and still nothing. Any idea why I can't see them?

**abeisgreat** · November 21st, 2006, 19:32

uhm, no when i put my sd in my pc they where in my private folder, do you see that folder?

**dmauro** · November 22nd, 2006, 05:48

No. The only folder showing up is Misc, which I think is something the camera put on there.

**Heran_Bago** · November 22nd, 2006, 11:28

Yes, you can back up virtual console channels and game saves to an SD card.
A Virtual Console "channel" is the Emulator and the ROM image bundled together and encrypted, with IDs on the end.

The encrypted files will only boot on your Wii. You know hte whole process off spending Wii points? And it's recorded on your Wii so you can keep downloading them?

Guess what. It's a secure system. Just because you have a binary file doesn't mean you can suddenly run your own homebrew. Good luck brute-force cracking that encryption.

I'm sure the first thing you did when you got your content.bin file was open it up in a hex editor right? Then you should know exactly what I'm talking about.
Aside from the IDs on the file at the end, the encryption is different every time. Compare your VC file with a friends'.

Jesus Christ someone tell me that they're doing something technical rather than going "hmm there's a SD card slot this thing's going to get hacked soo easy!" I doubt anyone here can even program for it.

**Dax420** · November 22nd, 2006, 18:20

Originally Posted by Heran_Bago

Jesus Christ someone tell me that they're doing something technical rather than going "hmm there's a SD card slot this thing's going to get hacked soo easy!" I doubt anyone here can even program for it.

Wow someone is in a bad mood this morning....

The first thing *I* did was copy a save to the SD card and open it up with a hex editor too.

That is the OBVIOUS fist thing anyone will do. I bet you dollars to doughnuts that there will be a game (probably 3rd party) where the load save file function isn't protected from buffer overflow where copying a save file to the SD, editing it with a HEX editor to remove the contents from inside the wrapper and pasting in a boot loader will result in remote code execution on the Wii.

I don't see you contributing anything useful, so STFU.

And your comment about I doubt anyone here can program for it, is stupid. Its a PPC processor. It will run GC-Linux if you were able to get it to boot from the optical drive. All we need to do is get a stack overflow to start executing unsigned code from the optical drive. If we can use the SD card saves to do that, then so be it.

**abeisgreat** · November 22nd, 2006, 20:07

Really Heran_Bago we may not be geniuses but we can probaly hack a wii, so if you arent going to contribute then leave this thread!

**Junixx** · November 22nd, 2006, 23:33

Hm..wonder if a tiff exploit would be possible such as with the PSP

**abeisgreat** · November 23rd, 2006, 04:06

could be

**skater9269** · November 23rd, 2006, 05:37

there are plenty of hacking oppertunities but since the wii is updatable and also since nintendo is selling roms and emus VC there will be a sytem update to block any homebrew im sure but then itll turn out like the psp. also no there is no way that there can be a tiff exploit with out the abillity to view tiff files which as of now seems to be unincluded in the firmware for the wii.