Nintendo Crack Down on Legal Homebrew

***wraggster*** · August 8th, 2007, 17:52

PeterM a respected coder in the PSP scene has today posted news on our Wii-News site that the latest system update for the Nintendo Wii has stopped the SD Media Launcher from working.

A sad moment when legal homebrew is attacked.

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**Pilot_51** · August 8th, 2007, 18:10

If illegal copies of anything could be used with that, I can't blame them. Otherwise, if it only ran homebrew and they stopped it from working on purpose, then I guess I can blame them.

**Xiofire** · August 8th, 2007, 18:13

Im gonna guess that NES/SNES/Megadrive could be run through this SD Media Loader? Posed a treat to Virtual Console Sales perhaps? Only real reason i can see Nintendo taking such action. Money.
-Xiofire

**PeterM** · August 8th, 2007, 18:32

I could be on for a triple whammy of news posts tonight if Wraggy twigs that there's an open beta of Quake for the GameCube available for download now...
http://code.google.com/p/quake-gamecube/

**atani** · August 8th, 2007, 18:35

Yes, this device did have the potential to take revenue away from Nintendo for the Virtual Console titles. Unfortunately this also prevents people like myself from testing/releasing anything for the Wii/GC without purchasing a dev kit from them. With their current restrictions on who they will sell a kit to it makes it very hard to obtain. I can qualify for all but one of their restrictions, the problem for me is that I work out of a home office. They specifically state that a home office is against their rules. That said, I could easily rent space for a non-home office from my father-in-law but it would be less secure than my home office.

Maybe in some time I will end up with a dev kit, until then I will keep working on the PC and then tinker with the NDS/DC for my games.

Mike

**waco13** · August 8th, 2007, 19:05

Any way to rent the non-home space long enough to qualify then drop it later once you get what you want? Or rent the space and work from home anyway? Not sure how it works, I don't think they would use spy tactics to make sure you comply 24/7.

**mcdougall57** · August 8th, 2007, 19:16

i just dont think theyre too happy with the snes, nes and megadrive being emulated coz they want you to buy their games from the virtual console

**PeterM** · August 8th, 2007, 19:31

I'd have been more inclined to buy VC games if they actually worked on my TV set.

**atani** · August 8th, 2007, 19:57

Originally Posted by waco13

Any way to rent the non-home space long enough to qualify then drop it later once you get what you want? Or rent the space and work from home anyway? Not sure how it works, I don't think they would use spy tactics to make sure you comply 24/7.

I could probably get the space for free if I ask about it. The bigger problem is that they do actively check on their licensed developers to some extent.

At this point though, I will keep with what is going now and if they do release their rumored "homebrew" channel then I will certainly participate in that.

Mike