Nintendo Wii fully hacked for native homebrew

***wraggster*** · December 28th, 2007, 23:48

More on the subject this time via engadget

The homebrew scene hasn't gotten a whole lot accomplished with this latest round of home consoles -- which isn't surprising given the difficulty of the task and lack of incentives to succeed. Especially with the PS3 shipping with Linux compatibility, the Wii boasting VLC, and the 360 being such a chore to hack and keep hacked, there's really not much of a point. The Wii was compromised pretty early on to be able to play burned discs and GameCube homebrew such as Linux, but until now Nintendo has managed to isolate Wii hardware such as the extra horsepower of the console and wireless connectivity from hackers. But the walls are coming down. Some hackers from Germany have just showed off their fully hacked Wii at the 24th Annual Chaos Communication Congress. Nothing fancy is running yet, all they've achieved so far is a proof of concept that they've bypassed the Wii's protection with some encryption codes they swiped from the Wii's memory. Apparently a bootable Linux DVD is on the way, and we can't wait to see what homebrew coders manage to pull off with that Wiimote pointed where it belongs.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=H5YB1Mmx7E4

**souLLy** · December 29th, 2007, 00:19

Amazing news, I can't wait to see what comes from this, will we soon be able to softmod our wiis? will we be able to run emulators? will we have scummvm on the wii? will we have a nice dvd video player released? Beautiful.

**ICE** · December 29th, 2007, 00:25

Native homebrew without modification? Thats incredible.

**CoinCollector** · December 29th, 2007, 00:38

Originally Posted by souLLy

will we have scummvm on the wii?

Oh man, that would be SO awesome! The Wii Remote would work so well with the Wii Remote!

I'm so happy because I just got Lego Star Wars for Christmas! This is working out so well!

But I kinda' got the impression that the exploit wasn't through Lego Star Wars, but that it was just the temporary game they were using.

**ICE** · December 29th, 2007, 01:23

Why does no one care!?!

**NoQuarter** · December 29th, 2007, 01:36

Wow,I might get a wii now.I don't really care about getting online with it,that's what I have my ps3 for.

**Homerun** · December 29th, 2007, 03:12

Hello region free wiis soon :O

**bah** · December 29th, 2007, 06:26

I dont know how much power it takes to do, but I want games that make use of something like this on the actual wii:

2 sensor bars (one on your head, one in front of the tv) and 2 wii-motes (one in your hand n the other in front of the TV) = Head tracking + wii=mote control (he does it at the end).

There has to be ways to take advantage of that, I cant believe something similar hasn't been done on consoles before.